#36 Legacy Over Achievement

Well, there's never a boat.

you know, my name or the statue or something like that, like, oh, he's such a great person.

It's more about the world that I'm leaving behind to leave it better than I arrived.

And that's for future generations, not just for my children, but for everyone else's children.

And I think that's the legacy.

If you know that you have done everything in your life to just constantly try to change things for the better, I think that's the legacy that not to be remembered by, but you know yourself that you've done.

Beautiful.

I have a saying, you know, that thought of what's...

Is the way that I am living my life and doing my work, is it on balance going to be helpful to the world? It's always a question I have.

And my particular take on that is to do with consciousness.

You know, my level of consciousness, the quality of my consciousness, I feel makes a big difference to the contribution that I make.

in the moment but also in terms of legacy in terms of long term and I've had a number of really lovely conversations with people I'd worked with years and years ago you know and then I talked to them 10 20 30 years later and they're doing things in their business or in their community which is it's them doing it.

I can't take any credit for what they're doing, but the fact that they worked with me helped them to get more conscious of what their true direction was and more conscious of what their best contribution is and helps them to access the potential within them to be able to do that.

And to me, that's part of my legacy.

I was chatting to a man the other day who I worked with years and years ago when he was a senior exec in a business.

Now he's retired.

in this little village in the middle of nowhere.

And everyone was a bit annoyed about the council and the way things were being managed.

And he went, fine, I'll join the council.

He just joined the council.

And now he's completely changed the culture in the entire council.

They've got Dark Skies initiative implemented, which is a real triumph and very, very good for people.

And he's just changed the way they do everything in really subtle ways.

This was a man who, when I first met him, was a troubleshooter.

You'd send him in to kick everybody around and get them to be sensible.