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Legacy A powerful life tool

"The concept of legacy is a powerful life tool for all ages and a catalyst for social change." - Susan V. Bosak

legacy
ˈlɛɡəsi/
noun: an amount of money or property left to someone in a will.

"Legacy is not bound by age or time served. Legacy represents your body of work at each stage of your career as you establish the foundational building blocks and accumulate the required wisdom to contribute to growth, innovation and opportunity both in and outside of the workplace. Your legacy grows with each new experience, with each previously untested idea and bold ideal that you are courageous enough to deploy, and each time you inspire others to see something through to fruition." - Glenn Llopis

The dictionary define Legacy as a gift or a bequest, that is handed down, endowed or conveyed from one person to another. It is something descendible one comes into possession of that is transmitted, inherited or received from a predecessor. It is to cause or allow something originating from an ancestral source to spread between people or provide something freely and naturally.

Legacy is more about sharing what you have learned, not just what you have earned, and bequeathing values over valuables, as material wealth is only a small fraction of your legacy. A more holistic definition of legacy is when you are genuinely grounded in offering yourself and making a meaningful, lasting and energizing contribution to humanity by serving a cause greater than your own. The requirements of a legacy are that you embrace your uniqueness, passionately immersing your whole self into life so that your gift will be to all and that you take responsibility to ensure that it will have a life beyond that of you, its creator, outliving and outlasting your time on earth.

NB: If you desire to live a great legacy, I recommend you read and practice the principles in the books "The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People" The Eight Habits From Effectiveness to Greatness" by Stephen Covey, "Becoming a Person of Influence" by John Calvin Maxwell and any other related books.

A legacy is something that is handed down from one period of time to another period of time. A legacy can be counted in later times as a good thing or a bad thing. Legacy is about life and living. It is about learning from the past, living in the present, and building for the future.

Legacies are, more or less, what we remember about a person or a country. What an individual or a country does today might, in the future, be regarded as being important enough to be thought of as a memorable legacy from the 21st Century.

Legacy is fundamental to what it is to be human. Research shows that without a sense of working to create a legacy, adults lose meaning in their life. Exploring the idea of legacy offers a glimpse not only into human relationships and building strong communities, but also the human spirit.

Legacy is a similar concept as inheritance and heritage. It is something we inherit from past generations and pass to our future generations. Usually heritage refers to material and economical inheritance, while legacy refers to immaterial and cultural inheritance.

The giving and receiving of legacies can evoke, all at once, the entire spectrum of basic human emotions: hope, longing, regret, anxiety, fear, dread, jealousy, bitterness, rage, a sense of failure, a sense of accomplishment, pride, contentment, joy, gratitude, humility, love. When you start thinking about legacies, no matter what your age or state of health, you take stock of your possessions, and also of your accomplishments and disappointments. You take stock of what you have learned from what you have done in the past, what you are doing now, and what you still hope to do. With varying levels of awareness, individuals also inevitably reflect on the people, work, ideas, commitments, and social institutions that have given their lives shape and meaning.

From a purely practical standpoint, if you do not pass on your life experience by leaving a legacy, the wisdom you have gained through decades of difficult learning will disappear as your physical body wears out.

A legacy may take many forms – children, grandchildren, a business, an ideal, a book, a community, a home, some piece of ourselves. Our legacy naturally intrigues us. It is perfectly understandable that we would want to know how the world will remember us after we are gone. How many of us will be surprised? How many of us are living our lives so that our legacy reflects all that we truly hold most near and dear? How many of us are living with integrity and courage?

When software source code is reused in new software development, the old code is often called legacy code.


References:

1. Wikipedia
2. WHAT IS LEGACY? by Susan V. Bosak
Chair, Legacy Project
3. What is Legacy? by Meridianlifedesign
4. Five Ways A Legacy-Driven Mindset Will Define Your Leadership by Glenn Llopis

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Started by: Prodigy on Oct 26, 2015

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