When you live your life, you leave behind a trail of footprints. Some of those footprints will fade quickly as do footprints in sand and others will endure as a lasting legacy of how your life's energy created a different world.
In Plato's Dialogues: Apology, Socrates is quoted as saying; "The unexamined life is not worth living." This statement is not meant to diminish life but rather to elevate critical examination of the life that one is living.
Creating and Living Your Legacy means that you have chosen to focus the creative energies of your life and to find meaning through inner and outer exploration. The five principles are all needed to some degree. Your focal point, what you have chosen to create, and your path may be shared with others but in total, they are uniquely yours.
My understanding of legacy comes from working with leaders and creators at the ends of their careers where the unimportant battles of winning or being right no longer interested or sustained them. When the end of a career or life is tangible and the days or weeks left become finite, the search for meaning and the desire to leave something of value grow in importance.
The other specifc area of study and interest for me is wisdom. The title of the blog plays off the famous quote by Mark Twain, "Common sense is uncommon." and this study of and search for wisdom.
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for seekers of meaning and creators of legacy
Legacy: actively creating and living in support of personal legacy
The five ingredients for actively creating your legacy are:
1) Personal Vision (a chosen focal point for your creative energy)
2) Spiritual Path (affirming your values each day and informing your actions)
3) Financial Independence (building resources to fund your life over time)
4) Appropriate Technology (use technology to connect with resources and people)
5) Learning Skills (develop the skills to teach yourself things that no one else can teach you)
1) Personal Vision (a chosen focal point for your creative energy)
2) Spiritual Path (affirming your values each day and informing your actions)
3) Financial Independence (building resources to fund your life over time)
4) Appropriate Technology (use technology to connect with resources and people)
5) Learning Skills (develop the skills to teach yourself things that no one else can teach you)
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