The Legacy Drawing Board

Have you designed breathing space into your legacy?  Have you taken the steps to ensure that your voice invites and does not dominate others?  Without space, nothing grows.  Listen to this episode to breath space into your legacy and watch it flourish.  

Hesed encompasses much more than lovingkindness.  It is a start to touching others with compassion, grace, and mercy.  Bring people together and ensure relationships endure by practicing hesed in your thoughts, words, and deeds.  

Sometimes, we choose to take a different path in life.  Other times, circumstances dictate we turn away from our intended destination.  However, we continue to journey.  In this episode, I interview journalist turned physician Dr. Leslie Tamura.  From her story, we see the importance in focusing on your vision while pursuing different missions to achieve purpose in your legacy.  

Are you preparing an adult child to leave home?  For college?  Joining the military?  Getting married?  How have you prepared for this pivotal moment for the both of you?  Listen to this episode with your children as I discuss how your respective legacies are at a crossroads.  Invest the time now to ensure that your legacies strengthen each other's and that your paths will meet again.  

How do you define leadership?  What is the story that you want tell with your leadership?  I discuss the essence of leadership and its power to tell your legacy story through relationship validation.  

How you spend your free time away from work and home sends a strong message about your vision, mission, and purpose.  This episode discuss how volunteering is a powerful avenue for leadership development, mentorship, and legacy building.  

Enhance your storytelling abilities by writing more.   Touch those near and those in the future with the written word that is powered by your voice, your vision, and your legacy.  

What is your decision-making process and how does it relate to defining meaning for your work?  In this episode, I reference Bruce Feiler's The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World to examine why meaning matters to our legacy and our work.  

Your legacy requires clarity of vision, mission, and purpose.  Listen to this episode to understand how these components of your legacy are interconnected and the work required to establish them.  

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's Storytelling with Data helps us improve our presentations with slides.  We can draw lessons from this book in designing and building a clearer more impactful legacy.  Listen to improve your storytelling and to enhance your legacy building.