Eternal Impact

Leave legacy… how megalomaniac can one get! Legacy, I think is something that industrialists and leaders leave behind. Wealth and a popular last name. but then I’m assured it is beyond that

Legacy essentially is a gift of money or other personal property that’s granted by the terms of a will. It is usually substantial and needs to be managed well. In the broader sense it can be carried over.

Leaving a legacy is about more than money or material possessions.

A legacy can be the sum of what our lives have taught us, or how we make others feel about themselves.

Think about what matters to you most, and why it might me important to leave it behind.

Maybe I should have written about this earlier in the month, August is the month for us to think about what is the legacy we would like to leave behind.  This is something that we are totally passionate about and money is not a consideration

Legacy is what we leave behind.

It could be accomplishment even something so personal as bringing up resilient children,

Any act that impacts people’s life. Sharing resources. Anything. Let us imagine our last day of life, people visiting us because they know we are on our out. soon they will be at the funeral talking about you in your absence that is your legacy.

Maybe it is about money, property maybe it is about being a touchstone person that changes life for ever.

The point of a legacy is to leave a footprint. A kind of immortality.  To create something beyond or greater than yourself. This is something that we bequeath or something we do without expecting ROI.

In that sense the notes Tina (Rani Mukherji) of KKHH or Maya of Bodyguard leave behind is not memoir that is a legacy for their progeny  it is call to action deed.

Its not just another project it is built over years, with dedication and till you can contribute to it, it allows us to leave a mark that celebrated for ever.

Maybe a good place to start from is what exactly legacy means to us personally. Quite often we believe that we have the ability to leave the world a better place than how we found it.  to figure how big a legacy we would like to leave behind it might be a good idea, to check the legacy that the world leaders, our old professors, neighbours, parents have left behind.

A good place to being this journey would understanding the true purpose of our lives.  And that would be looking at our values, our beliefs, what is important to us. If there is one thing, we can personally do to improve the world, what is it. the answers to this would actually give us a space beyond financial wealth.

knowing how you want to be remembered gives clarity to how you should live.  Being clear of our purpose gives us the way of being.

The corner stone of the legacy we leave would be to look within. We think of the superficial strengths, but just take a moment and see what is it that you can really give, what is that people come to you seeking. That would be the core strength. Once they tap your strength what does that give them?

Then there are topics that we are very passionate about. We could contribute to it.

When are doing inner work, often in the clinic we ask our patients to state the resolution they seek in a single sentence. When it comes to legacy maybe we should write our non-negotiables in a single sentence that would weed out all the extra’s and we would directly get to the centre.

This also works as our mission statement.

There might be things we have to change in our space to work and live our legacy. There might be people we require to who can help. Lot of people say working with someone who has done it will show a way forward. But to me it is my journey and if I have impacted people to embrace themselves scars and trophies then that is a legacy left behind. Each of us just need to find our zone of abundance that automatically will allow us to find our zone of abundance.

If you are curious to find your zone of abundance do link on Aatmayana for a conversation.

This post is written for The Blogchatter Half Marathon.