Living Your Legacy NOW

People often talk about "leaving a legacy". According to dictionary.com a legacy is defined as
"anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor: the legacy of ancient Rome." Phrasing it that way makes it sound like something you get to when you get everything else done. I can envision hundreds of people with hundreds and thousands of reasons why they can't do it right now. "I need to get some money so I can start a foundation", "I will do it when I get famous", "I don't have time right now,", I'll do it when I retire", "I have to figure out my life's purpose first" and I'm sure the list goes on and on.


Recently on of my favorite monks spoke of karma at our Sunday service. He was giving a wonderful talk and right in the middle he defined karma as our thoughts, speech and action working together. This was a pivotal moment for me. In the past I had thought about karma as good or bad but never simply as karma. I also relished the simplicity in this definition of living. Isn't living simply a string of thoughts, words and actions woven together in different patterns to create the unique fabric of our lives?


After sitting with this for a few days another thought dropped into my consciousness; legacy and karma seem to me to beautifully complement each other. From this conclusion a wonderfully simple and inspiring idea emerged, the idea that our legacy is simply our thoughts, speech and action, NOW. Mean it's living and breathing in us every day. It is not something you can get to later, or squash.


5 Ways to Live Your Legacy NOW...

1. Be a role model
2. Uncover your vision
3. Define your priorities, core values and what is truly important to you - "Take Back Control of Your Life"
4. Ask yourself if you are proud of what you did, said and thought each day
5. Live your life as if every element of it was being projected onto a huge billboard that everyone could see
6. Set clear boundaries and raise your standards
7. Smile and acknowledge your waitress
8. Cut out busy work, simplify and make room to grow into your own wonderfulness
9. Stop getting in the way of your true life's purpose and keeping your wonderful gifts a secret, share them
10. Value your time

I encourage you this month to embrace your legacy and start living it now. Take responsibility for today and enjoy be present. Have a wonderful month and as always if you would like to explore coaching as a tool to living your intentional and exceptional life now contact me to set up a free test drive.

"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do"

Elvis Presley