W.I.N. Wednesday: Your actions today will echo beyond your time.

In the Dare to Be Great leadership workshops I facilitate we discuss the concept of Be a Good Ancestorfrom the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, as chronicled in the book Legacy: 15 Lessons in Leadership by James Kerr. The last lines of the quote I share are, “Our actions today will echo beyond our time. They are our legacy.”

The following quote from Dr. Andrew Huberman, a professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at the Stanford School of Medicine and the host of the hugely popular Huberman Lab podcast, reinforces the message from the All Blacks regarding being a Good Ancestor.

“A lot of people get snagged on thoughts & feelings in their mind. It weighs them down. Remember: your nervous system, indeed you, leave no fossil record except your speech and actions. Thoughts & feelings matter (to varying degrees) but actions are your only legacy.”

Dr. Andrew Huberman

There are a lot of people “talking” on social media. Some are actively self-promoting, and some are actively running down and criticizing others, often to promote their ideas, programs and philosophies.

“Worry not who knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.”

Confucius

Instead of putting your efforts into endless self-promotion, put them into being worth knowing. Put them into learning, growing and the endless journey of small, incremental, daily improvements.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Instead of being the critic, seek to be the “Man (or woman) in the Arena” that Theodore Roosevelt wrote about. Let your actions speak for themselves. Let your actions be your legacy.

What’s Important Now? Your actions today will echo beyond your time. They are your legacy. Act accordingly.

Take care.

Brian Willis

www.lifesmostpowerfulquestion.com. 

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