All of life deserves to be remembered. It's in the remembering that we find meaning and purpose for where we've been and where we're going. Where perspective and courage become companions for the days ahead. Where hope and grace grow through the promise of a better tomorrow. And it's in this promise that we find space for our legacy to thrive, even during the difficult and untimely challenges that threaten to upset our best laid plans for the future. If we can see the promise, then we can continue to move forward. We can dig deep and press through the hardships. We can cling to the hope-filled confirmations along the way and rest assured that our labor will not be in vain. When I wrote my legacy mission statement over 20 years ago, it wasn't something I woke up one day and Continue Reading
Build Your Legacy With Hopefulness Check-Points
Hopefulness is not a given. It’s something that must be nurtured and cultivated, especially in terms of how we live out our life plan and build our legacy. A committment to hopefulness makes all the difference between giving up or pressing on when difficult circumstances become a threat to successfully living out our life plan. Realizing the potential for any plan to get derailed allows us to put measures in place which give us staying power, strength for the long haul and perspective for the difficult times. These measures also create ways for us to keep fear and depression at bay and focus our attention on moving forward instead of getting stuck in the present or the past. Put simply, hopefulness is the anticipation of a greater tomorrow. One of the best ways to Continue Reading