Most often, when we think about our legacies, if we stop to think about them at all, we're looking many years into the future. This can be particularly true as we think about the businesses we're building or the plans we're helping our clients make for the future. We wonder about the big stuff we can do that will have a huge impact on others. (Maybe even when we're no longer in this world.) That long-term thinking can keep us from taking action on living with purpose and focusing on making a difference on a daily basis.

 

In this episode, I dial the idea of leaving a legacy back as I share the concept of "witness marks." They're small legacies we can leave everyday as we live to serve others in our work and in our personal lives. They can be tools for living more intentionally. For being the truest versions of ourselves. And for transforming our lives and the lives of those around us.

 

Show highlights include:

 

[01:03] Financial advisors as legacy makers and builders

[02:45] What do "witness marks," grandfather clocks and restoring cars have in common?

[09:10] How Truest Fans leave daily legacies through smiles and kind words 

[11:24] The impact of a keychain made with plastic beads and strings of yarn