The Legacy Drawing Board

Congratulations to the Class of 2024 and your parents.  Now is the time to write your story and design your legacy.  This applies to the graduates and their parents.  Listen for encouragement as both of your begin new chapters of your stories.  

The playground or sandlot is the laboratory, workshop, and studio for children in developing their innovation, leadership, and decision-making skills.  When they lose access and adults structure their playtime, this interference impacts their maturation as adults.  This deters them from writing their own stories and confides them to penning the sequel to their parents' stories.  No story, no legacy.  

We associate boredom and waste with meetings.  The key to better meetings is better design through storytelling.  One of the most important meetings for legacy building is with your past and future selves.  Listen to arrange this meeting to align vision with execution and to ensure you are on the path to building the legacy you want.    

There is a distinct and powerful difference between designing and planning.  This applies to meetings, weddings, your future, and your legacy.  Listen to find out how to shift your perspective from planning to designing.  This shift will enrich your outlook and yield fruit of your choosing.  

Leadership lesson are not limited to the workplace or classroom.  Daily life provides us with ample opportunities to grow our leadership skills.  The original Toy Story had many moments of leadership lessons.  I discuss how you can discuss these with your children to help them with their leadership growth.  

Bar mitzvah.  Quincenera.  Graduations.  Weddings.  How we celebrate the milestones of life is a reflection of our legacies.  When we celebrate with others, we strengthen the bonds of community.  Post-pandemic life calls us to renew our sense of communal purpose by reaching out and sharing our voices with encouragement and compassion.  

Steve Jobs was an innovator, an entrepreneur, and a visionary.  He ran Apple, NeXT and Pixar.  His legacy is defined by his storytelling abilities and how he placed technology in the hands of people in order that they can tell their stories.  

Courage is not a singular act, but a process of overcoming fear.  It is the sacrifice of personal comfort to address the needs of others.  It is road not often traveled, but the one guided by your True North.  Is courage building a foundation of your legacy?   

In this episode, I interview Dr. Julie Allen to hear her transition from employee to entrepreneur.  She has built a direct primary care service that specializes in house calls.  This endeavor is rooted in her desire to express her voice as a musician and an actress.   Her website is Personalizedurgentcare.com.   

Morris Change founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) at the age of 55.  TSMC's market cap value is $620 billion.  It is never too late to heed your entrepreneurial voice.  In fact, later may be better because of the accumulation of experience and growth of wisdom.