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Your Legacy is Now - Life is Not a Search for Meaning from Others -- It's the Creation of Meaning for Yourself (Hardcover)
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Your Legacy is Now - Life is Not a Search for Meaning from Others -- It's the Creation of Meaning for Yourself (Hardcover)
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For over 30 years Alan Weiss has consulted, coached, and advised
everyone from Fortune 500 executives, state governors, non-profit
directors, and entrepreneurs to athletes, entertainers, and beauty
pageant contestants. That's quite an assortment of people, and they
run into the thousands. Most of them have had what we
euphemistically call "means," and some of them have had a lot more
than that. Others have been aspiring and with more ends in sight
than means on hand. Alan Weiss states: I've dealt with esteem
(low), narcissism (high), family problems, leadership dysfunctions,
insecurities, addictions, and ethical quandaries. And I've talked
with them through the coronavirus crisis. But don't get the wrong
idea. About 95% of these people have been well-meaning, honest (to
the best of their knowledge), and interested in becoming a better
person and better professional. Otherwise, they wouldn't be talking
to me. I found the equivalent of the "runner's wall" in their
journeys, where they must break through the pain and the obstacles
and then can keep going with renewed energy and spirit. But runners
know how far they must go after the breakthrough, be it another
half lap or another five miles. There is a finish line. I've found
that people in all positions, even after the "breakthrough," don't
know where they are in the race, let alone where the finish line
is. They do not know what meaning is for them. They may have money
in the bank, good relationships, the admiration of others, and the
love of their dogs. But they have no metrics for "What now?" They
believe that at the end of life there is a tallying, some
metaphysical accountant who totals up their contributions, deducts
their bad acts, and creates the (hopefully positive) difference.
That difference, they believe, is their "legacy." But the thought
that legacy arrives at the end of life is as ridiculous as someone
who decides to sell a business and tries to increase its valuation
the day prior. Legacy is now. Legacy is daily. Every day we create
the next page in our lives, but the question becomes who is writing
it and what's being written. Is someone else creating our legacy?
Or are we, ourselves, simply writing the same page repeatedly? Or
do we leave it blank? Our organic, living legacy is marred and
squeezed by huge normative pressures. There is a "threshold" point,
at which one's beliefs and values are overridden by immense peer
pressure. Our metrics are forced to change. In an age of social
media, biased press, and bullying, we've come to a point where our
legacy, ironically, is almost out of our hands. Yet our "meaning" -
our creation of meaning and not a search for some illusive alchemy
- creates worth and impact for us and all those with whom we
interact.
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