Ever thought about what your story, what it will be in the future? If it were a book how would it read? Knowing your own story, would you read it? Well your life is kind of like a book and regardless of your age the sooner it becomes interesting the greater the chance that someone will want to remember you
In a previous blog titled “You are the Author, Write Well” I asked the question if you ever wondered what was between the dates on the tombstones in the cemetery’s, that dash in many cases fills 70-80 years of ones life, there must be a story there, it is just question of whether it is filled with adventures of success or of sorrow about all the missed opportunities. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
In Launching a Leadership Revolution the authors Brady and Woodward write, Legacy results from understanding our purpose in the bigger picture of our destiny and living it to the fullest. What we have and what we are given are not as important as what we can contribute and what we leave behind. What did we accomplish? What did we contribute? What did our life mean? How will we be remembered? Who will care? When the funeral is over and the relatives are back at the reception eating potato salad on rickety tables what will they be saying?
Life is short, Marcus Aurelius said, “Do not live as though you have a thousand years.” So I ask you beginning with what Stephen Covey call the discussion “Beginning with the end in mind.” How will you begin to shape your story?
In a previous blog titled “You are the Author, Write Well” I asked the question if you ever wondered what was between the dates on the tombstones in the cemetery’s, that dash in many cases fills 70-80 years of ones life, there must be a story there, it is just question of whether it is filled with adventures of success or of sorrow about all the missed opportunities. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
In Launching a Leadership Revolution the authors Brady and Woodward write, Legacy results from understanding our purpose in the bigger picture of our destiny and living it to the fullest. What we have and what we are given are not as important as what we can contribute and what we leave behind. What did we accomplish? What did we contribute? What did our life mean? How will we be remembered? Who will care? When the funeral is over and the relatives are back at the reception eating potato salad on rickety tables what will they be saying?
Life is short, Marcus Aurelius said, “Do not live as though you have a thousand years.” So I ask you beginning with what Stephen Covey call the discussion “Beginning with the end in mind.” How will you begin to shape your story?
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