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Leave your Legacy!

Aug 21, 2018 | 10:47 AM

Contributed by Stephanie Staples at Your Life Unlimited

August is Leave Your Legacy month. I don’t know how it came about or what the history of it is but I like it!

Not to get depressing but we ain’t gonna be around forever. We may have decades, years, months – who knows? Using a month as a cue to prod us to think about what we want to leave behind is a good idea in my books.

What do you think of when you think of legacy? My first thought goes to a rich couple leaving their estate to a foundation of some sort and who would in turn have a building named after them or some such grandiose thing.

Of course, that’s a small piece of the pie. A legacy, your legacy, is bigger than that – it’s a piece of you that is left in the hearts and minds of those you leave behind. It cannot be spent or used up – it’s a permanent fixture, an imprint that builds on the foundation of those who have left their legacy with you.

The bar is held high then. What do we want to leave with our children, our friends, our families? It’s more than how we want them to remember us – it’s the combined impact and influence of all we have contributed and all that we were to them during our life.