Your Life Your Legacy

"Create your legacy offers a simple formula--LGGC (pronounced Legacy, a formula for creating and leaving a lasting legacy). Topics include shifting life, accepting oneself and others, having unconditional love, being honest, balancing work and relationships, being truly present, being generous, and cultivating gratitude. Create your legacy seeks to help the reader visualize and make conscious life decisions."--Page 4 of cover.

A proud, empowering introduction to African American history that celebrates and honors enslaved ancestors Your story begins in Africa. Your African ancestors defied the odds and survived 400 years of slavery in America and passed down an extraordinary legacy to you. Beginning in Africa before 1619, Your Legacy presents an unprecedentedly accessible, empowering, and proud introduction to African American history for children. While your ancestors’ freedom was taken from them, their spirit was not; this book celebrates their accomplishments, acknowledges their sacrifices, and defines how they are remembered—and how their stories should be taught.

Craft a meaningful life story! A written legacy of your life--one that encompasses experiences, lessons learned, failures and triumphs--is a gift your family and friends will cherish for years to come. Writing this story may seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Writing Your Legacy is a step-by-step guide to chronicling a life story that reflects your true self. Through a series of 35 guided themes, as well as supplementary exercises, you'll explore milestones, relationships, career paths, and major choices, and leave an eloquent record of your life for future generations. You'll also learn how to: • Become the hero of your story • Employ vibrant sensory details • Discover your unique voice • Dig up memories from your childhood and teen years • Overcome writer's block, address common fears, and stay motivated • Prepare your story for publication Writing your life story can grant you insight and clarity, help you heal past wounds, and serve as a treasured account you'll be proud to share. Your story deserves to be told. Capture the spirit of your life with Writing Your Legacy.

Your Legacy is a practical blueprint for intentionally building a life that encourages others. Leadership expert David Hodge guides you in understanding what a legacy includes and coaches you on how to create your own. He writes with warmth as he highlights a biblical model of leadership and shares real-life examples of influence. With reflection questions and exercises to help you take the next step, Your Legacy provides the tools you need to impact future generations and glorify God, while bringing joy into your own life! David Hodge is founder and president of Anchor Leadership and has spent decades equipping thousands of leaders at organizations across the United States, including Chick-fil-A, the U.S. Air Force, and the Salvation Army.

Learn to live a truly exceptional life with the help of author, speaker, and performance coach Ben Newman. In Leave YOUR Legacy, you will see firsthand how to drive impact by changing your perspective and connecting to your life’s purpose. Newman shows you how to be your best self with this touching story that clearly illuminates the steps needed to create major change in your life by following the ups and downs of the protagonist, Pierce. Join Pierce on his journey to greatness—from the humble beginnings of enacting change and resisting old behaviors to the reframing of his thoughts and actions and eventually understanding his legacy. Experience for yourself the ripple effect of leaving YOUR legacy. Pierce’s story will inspire you to go do great things. And, as you strive for excellence, you will inspire excellence in others. Are you ready to unleash your full potential? It’s time to uncover your drive, your passion, and your purpose—leave YOUR legacy.

In a world where racism, violence, illness, and poverty can feel so overwhelming that we often close our eyesand our heartsto the suffering around us, we may not believe we have the power to change things. As Barbara Greenspan Shaiman shows us in Live Your Legacy Now!, this simply isnt so. This part memoir and part how-to guide provides the tools and strategies to help you create meaningful change in your own life as well as in the lives of others. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Shaiman shares stories from her family history and over thirty years of her own life experience as a successful educator, business woman, and social entrepreneur to inspire and guide you to create a vision and plan for initiating a personal legacy. Shaiman details her effective ten-step approach by helping you: Identify your core values, interests, and skills Reflect on how you can use these assets to create meaningful projects that make a difference locally or globally Share these experiences with family, colleagues, and friends to create cultures of caring at home, at work, and in your community Live Your Legacy Now! provides a simple formula to help people of all ages and backgrounds live richer, more meaningful lives by creating projects for personal growth and social change.

For those who want to leave behind a legacy, this thoughtful book gives important keys to knowing God in a personal way, keeping one's word, being a person of integrity, laughing at life, living worry free, and making priorities a priority.

This is an indispensable guide for leaders who want to leave a lasting legacy on their organization by leaving a positive culture that benefits all. Leading business coach Dr. Andrew Thorn's work unfolds an entirely new perspective on legacy and invites the reader to shift his or her thinking from goals to aspirations, from balance to focus, from results to commitments, from achieving to becoming, and from outcomes to actions. Including the instructive and inspiring stories of leaders working on legacy issues while improving their organizations, this book contains transformative action steps and prescriptive exercises that will improve your company and your life. Practical, strategic, and full of invaluable wisdom, Leading with Your Legacy in Mind can be the beginning of your path to harmonizing your professional life and your personal life. It's about focusing on the right things in both aspects of your life--the only true way to live and lead with purpose and create a legacy to be proud of. Learn how to create the most meaning in both your personal and professional domains by reframing: Passion into purpose Change into growth Goals into aspirations Balance into focus Listening into hearing Ambition into meaning You're a natural leader. Leading is about making positive change in lives and organizations. You already take it seriously; taking it personally is the next step. The key to lasting leadership--and a life well lived--is simpler than you think. PRAISE FOR LEADING WITH YOUR LEGACY IN MIND "Andrew Thorn is a friend and my personal coach . . . He has helped me keep what really matters in my life in focus. [He] has helped me have a better life, both at work and at home. He can do the same for you." -- From the Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There "Andrew Thorn brings inspiring insights and deep truths to examine the single most important life question: finding your life purpose. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to discover why meaning truly matters." -- Richard Leider, bestselling author of Repacking Your Bags and The Power of Purpose "I am fascinated by this book. Leading with Your Legacy in Mind contains many deep lessons, but what particularly stood out for me were the suggestions that a leader should consider focusing on being a servant leader--in other words, being a blessing to others." -- Ivor D. Solomon, Vice President, Global Total Rewards, Levi Strauss & Co. "For most of us, busy with work, family, and life in general, we are filling our days with just being and doing. This book reminds us that we should always be thinking about the future and what our impact will be--that will guide us and ultimately allow us to achieve our lasting legacy." -- Lisa Toth, CFO, InterDealer Trading Solutions "As a woman in an executive role, I found this book to be an enlightening and rewarding read. I can carry its lessons and questions into all areas of my life." -- Farrell Gertmenian-Foley, Executive Director & Vice President, Texas Jacobson Aviation "Leading with Your Legacy in Mind will be instrumental in helping me to influence and encourage those around me to cultivate their own legacy." -- Bradford T. Harris, Vice President, Southwest Gas Corporation