Your Legacy - What Will You Leave Behind?

We all begin life at GO, and all roads lead to a final rendezvous; the difference is what we do en route. Paths chosen, actions taken, and a host of decisions made lead ultimately to a unique legacy.

It's non-negotiable: You will leave a legacy. The question is not whether you'll leave a legacy but what legacy you will leave.

Your legacy comprises both ends and means. Is winning really winning when you are ashamed of how victory came? The means by which you move through your life provide the working platform that supports your goals. Style, courtesy, honesty, respect-these are the qualities that make for an inspiring legacy. The way you live your life has an effect on how you are remembered. How can the ends of your efforts be respected if the means make you want to blush in embarrassment?

Thinking of your legacy is like starting anything new. You are either gung-ho or baffled. To break through the legacy blocks, close your eyes and envision the outcome of a successful life- our successful life. What do you see? What do you hear? Who are you with? How do you feel?

This picture may start a bit fuzzy, but stick with it. Contemplation brings clarity, and when the picture is in focus, study what you see-your legacy.

As you age, the clock and calendar force you to make a move. Time does not permit dallying with options. Your goals must be clear, responsibilities fulfilled, intentions and actions honorable. You must decide: If not this way, there is no other way. Otherwise, kiss the legacy you envision goodbye.

You can dodge the questions for quite some time. Why am I here? What will I leave behind? But, eventually, we all reach our own philosophical puberty and realize that these questions call for-in fact, demand-answers. To arrive at the point that you think seriously about your legacy, you must first reach a level of reality and commitment that represents an eternity to follow.

Retire into yourself and think. The wonderful part of considering your legacy is the clarity it brings to daily decisions. Each decision moves you closer to or further from your legacy. Your legacy offers advice on how to live in the present in order to be remembered well when you are gone.

Make this life of yours into a work of art. Your legacy is a self-portrait, the signature of your life's presence. It will be summed up in a few words-let those words be good and true. Remember, they will talk about you when you are gone.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark, signifies it!

So what legacy awaits you? When you take your final bow, who will you be? How will you enter eternity? Will you be just a footnote in history? Every day the plot thickens, the cement hardens, the mystery deepens. Live to answer and honor these questions, because when it comes to your legacy, everything counts!

Notable Facts

A single reading will start you moving toward your objectives. A second reading will help you maintain your focus until you reach those goals. A third reading, perhaps a year from now, will make you smile as you recognize the truths you learned and were able to apply to your life.

You were made to climb, not crawl.
You were designed to fly, not fall.
You can swim and not sink.
Go ahead, read and succeed!

RULES FOR SUCCESS

1. They Key Decision... Start Now!
2. Get ready... Opportunity Ahead.
3. All it takes... just do your best today.
4. Others will help you succeed.
5. Life is a whole season... not one game.
6. Replace all negatives with positives.
7. Concentrate on small improvements.
8. Make pleasant memories Along The way.
9. You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
10. Most wins are by small margins.
11. Luck has very little to do with success.
12. Many opportunities come from new friends.
13. Do not share everything with others.
14. Do not watch the news...Make the news.
15. Learn life's Dangerous lessons from others.
16. Positive action always brings positive results.
17. All major success is a joint Effort.
18.Generosity is both right and rewarding.
19. Life picks on Everyone...Do not take it personally.
20. Be world class... Strive for Quality.
21. Don't count on changing other people.
22. Retain or regain your integrity
23. Get what you want by A-S-K-I-N-G.
24. Life is often unfair,Succeed Anyway.
25. Spoil your employers whether they deserve it or not.
26. All good things start small.
27. All Decisions are not equal.
28. Start from where you are now.
29. Some Decisions are best made only once.
30. You do not have to feel good to do good.

Curled from RULES FOR SUCCESS by Mamie McCullough

INSPIRATIONAL INSIGHTS FOR THE FRONTLINE LEADER

1. A good leader not only knows where he is going, but he can inspire others to go with him.
2. A true leader is a model for his followers.
3. Great leaders never desire but to serve.
4. Leadership has very little to do with what you do and is fundamentally a matter of becoming who you are.
5. Leaders are simply people who dare to be themselves and are able to express themselves fully.
6. You become a leader when you decide not to be a copy but an original.
7. We are all capable of leadership by design, but we cannot lead correctly and effectively unless we are led by His Spirit.
8. Leadership is the ability of one person to influence others.
9. Leadership is first being, then doing.
10. A title and position do not guarantee performance and productivity.
11. Leadership is impossible without a guiding vision and a purpose that generates passion for accomplishment.
12. The purest form of leadership is influence through inspiration.
13. Inspiration is the opposite of intimidation and is absent of manipulation.
14. An important ingredient of the leadership function is the ability to draw the best out of other people.
15. Real qualities of leadership are to be found in those who are willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their whole-hearted obedience.
16. Good leaders employ others, great leaders deploy themselves and others.
17. You were born to lead but you must become a leader, just as one may be born a male but must become a man.
18. A leader is one who leads others to leadership.
19. The essence of becoming a leader is knowing and becoming yourself.
20. True leaders learn from others, but they are not made by nor become others.

Curled from: MYLES MUNROE ON LEADERSHIP
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SECRETS OF SUCCESS

If you wish to be successful - Study Success
If you wish to be wise - Study wisdom
Anything you wish to be, Study it
Learn to work harder on yourself, than on your job
Information and ideas are simply the major keys to success

1. Make your own life the important study, eliminate the negative. Confront the errors in योर own life.

2. Learn from the mistakes of others.
- Read the books and listen to the cassettes of successful leaders.
- Read or listen to something inspirational at least 30 minutes a day.
- Good food and good words are needed to survive.
- Invest in your own self
- The best money spent is the money invested in your own self education.
- Let your library show that you are a serious student.
- Get a book on law.
- Keep a journal, don't trust your memory.
- If you hear something inspirational, write it down.

3. Legacies to leave behind
- Take a lot of pictures, a picture is worth more than a thousand words.
- Your Library. Get books about wealth and also books that will make you grow.
- Keep journals.