Leaving A Legacy At Work & In Your Personal Life

Leaving A Legacy

How Important Is It For You To Make A Difference At Work And In The World?

Leaving a legacy is more than just making sure your family is well taken care of after your death. Peter Strople said, “Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people.” Whether at home, at work or in your community, your legacy is something that you write every day.

Leaving a Legacy: Will You Be Remembered As One Who Made The Workplace And The World Better?

Legacy is about leaving a lasting impression. If you’re a long-term member of your organization, or work with one, chances are there are a handful of legends from the past–former employees–who left a lasting legacy of their time there. They were memorable, either because they were extremely competent and well-liked, or they were the other extreme — a toxic legacy of negativity. Most would prefer to be remembered as the former.

How Will Your Friends, Family And Colleagues Remember You?

Is the world and your workplace a better place because you’re in it? Or, will you silently retire into oblivion, with hardly anyone noticing. Will people who know you smile at the mention of your name when you’re no longer around? What did you leave in the people you spent time with?

Is it Too Late to Change My Legacy?

If you’re even contemplating this question, the answer is a resounding no! If you’ve messed some things up, don’t believe that it is too late to decide to make a change! Even if you’re nearing the end of your career, with focused determination, you can make a change to enhance the legacy you want to leave. You’ve heard stories of high-schoolers or university students who struggled academically, socially or behaviorally only to turn things around and be rewarded for their success. Is it time for you to spend your remaining years focusing on your personal Turnaround Achievement Award?.

How Do You WANT to Be Remembered?

Perhaps being remembered in a particular way is not that important to you. You’re not doing life and work for the accolades, but for your own sense of satisfaction. If you could make a positive difference in the life or career of one or two people, that’s all the fulfillment you need. In Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, generativity is the seventh of eight stages. It occurs between the ages of 45 and 60. Generativity is “making your mark” on the world by caring for others as well as creating and accomplishing things that make the world a better place. If you want to excel in this stage, you’ll be great at making commitments to others, developing relationships, mentoring others and contributing to the next generation. The alternative is stagnation, the failure to find a way to contribute, resulting in disconnectedness. Some characteristics of stagnation include self-centredness and no interest in improving oneself or anyone else. This could result in worsened health, a shorter life, lower quality relationships and a decreased life satisfaction.

How Personal Development Coaching Can Help

Personal development coaching can get you back on track by helping you to create a personal development plan that clearly defines your legacy goals and how to implement them within your personal timelines.

Define your personal legacy

Your legacy is unique to you. Your gifts and talents meshed with your years of experience are resulting in someone like no other.

Uncover what’s important to you

Whether you want to finesse your legacy or work toward creating a better one, coaching can help you gain clarity on what’s important to you (values), what you’re great at (mission) and what you want to do with it (vision).

Who will benefit from your legacy?

If you truly want to defeat stagnation and embrace generativity instead, you need to think about who stands to gain from the legacy you leave behind. Will your co-workers gain from your mentorship, or is it a community or certain age group you feel drawn toward helping? Either way, creating a legacy is less about you and more about who gains from your lifetime of experiences.

Often, fewer than 12 sessions is all you need to accomplish your goal of creating your lasting legacy.

How Important Is It For You To Make A Difference At Work And In The World?

Leaving a Legacy: Will You Be Remembered As One Who Made The Workplace And The World Better?

How Will Your Friends, Family And Colleagues Remember You?

Is it Too Late to Change My Legacy?

How Do You WANT to Be Remembered?

How Personal Development Coaching Can Help

Often, fewer than 12 sessions is all you need to accomplish your goal of creating your lasting legacy.

Learn more about personal development coaching
A personal development coach will help you explore and define your professional career-related goals. Through gaining clarity on your personal values, mission and vision, and how they align with your current work situation, you will discover a personal career path to pursue or the legacy you wish to leave behind. Learn more about what career coaching can do for you (here)

Want Help Now? Contact Me For A Consultation To Explore Working Together
You’re welcome to book a Discovery Call on my calendar. This is informal and absolutely free of any obligation whatsoever. It’s an opportunity to get to know one another so I can gain an understanding of where you are and where you’d like to be. If you’re not quite ready, please feel free to reach out by email with any questions, or give me a call.

Often, fewer than 12 sessions is all you need to accomplish your goal of creating your lasting legacy.

Often, fewer than 12 sessions is all you need to accomplish your
goal of creating your lasting legacy.

Learn more about personal development coaching

A personal development coach will help you explore and define your professional career-related goals. Through gaining clarity on your personal values, mission and vision, and how they align with your current work situation, you will discover a personal career path to pursue or the legacy you wish to leave behind. Learn more about what career coaching can do for you here

Want Help Now? Contact Me For A Consultation To Explore Working Together

You’re welcome to book a Discovery Call on my calendar. This is informal and absolutely free of any obligation whatsoever. It’s an opportunity to get to know one another so I can gain an understanding of where you are and where you’d like to be. If you’re not quite ready, please feel free to reach out by email with any questions, or give me a call.