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ISSN
1943-8133
Volume 2009-07, Issue 2
July 28,
2009
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Welcome to our newest readers,
and thanks to those of you who forward The Legacy Journal to your
family, friends and colleagues. We certainly are a growing
group of kindred spirits who want to make the world little better for
having been here. Read more (and comment) at our new blog: Creating
Legacy Network!
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Greetings,
 Well,
July marks the height of summer in my home in the Florida Keys: hot
days, light breezes and clear warm water to play in. My
legacy focus on protecting wild places was recently enhanced by a
strong merger between environmental advocates – a wedding that is! I
had the pleasure of marrying my sweetheart Robert, with our toes
planted firmly in the sand at the edge of a place we both love, and
serve – the area of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
(FKNMS) encompassing the Key West National Wildlife Refuge.
Robert’s work with FKNMS is focused on education and outreach, and
support for underwater marine research and protection activities for
this national treasure and its important ocean ecosystems. My
work as board chair of the Sanctuary Friends Foundation of the Florida
Keys (join us on Facebook!) is
to help direct that membership organization and its resources in the
preservation, restoration and sustainable use of the FKNMS.
Working on that board has been a volunteer labor of love that also
gives me the continuing opportunity to grow in my understanding of
nonprofit management and operations, and practice my business and
strategic marketing development coaching and consulting skills in a
hands-on way for a socially beneficial purpose. And it had a
very unanticipated benefit – meeting the love of my life! If I’m any
example at all, the miracles available from consciously choosing to
focus on creating your legacy are truly amazing! I recommend
it …
Cheers,
Dolly
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Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A
journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
-- Confucius
“But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go
to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are
not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn
more…. We are trying to persuade people that no human has yet
grasped 1% of what can be known about spiritual realities. So we are
encouraging people to start using the same methods of science that have
been so productive in other areas, in order to discover spiritual
realities.”
— Sir John Templeton
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE THAT LASTS
Previous articles explored how great legacies are inspired, thoughtful,
heart-filled, beneficial, touching and meaningful. We’ve
discussed how being generous, wise and creative – powerful human
attributes we can each nurture and develop – endows a legacy with those
same characteristics. Creating from that place, you can bring a once
intangible legacy idea to fruition – something that produces positive
and tangible results. Those results have
recognizable and reproducible characteristics as well:
GREAT LEGACIES ARE WORKABLE. A great legacy accomplishes
something – generally a socially beneficial purpose. A great
legacy incorporates important values into its vision and mission, and
it delivers great value to someone or something.
Consequently, it works
to bring about its intended results.
And the effort that goes into making that happen is good work or even
great work, not just hard work. Yes, there often perspiration
involved in the expenditure of energy, for the “doing” of it.
But, it is the sort of work often experienced as being in a flow state
where the passage of time may not be noticed, rather than toiling in a
way that the hands of the clock seem to move backwards. And the results
are measureable – quantitatively and qualitatively, not just measured
in net profit.
Doing the work of creating a living legacy involves the efforts of
others – including the need to properly coordinate professional
advisors. The work of making the legacy operational may also
involve volunteers and sometimes the beneficiaries of the effort
themselves. Developing a workable legacy is a great training
ground for children and grandchildren to come to understand the broader
purposes of wealth, to learn to create meaning as well as money, to
give back in exchange for what they’ve gotten, and to learn to be
grateful and appreciative for what they have that others may
lack. All of that adds to making a legacy truly
workable.
GREAT LEGACIES ARE SYSTEMATIC. Building a legacy has definite
steps. They are steps others have taken. Their path and
successes have left clues, and give you a roadmap to follow. You don’t
have to reinvent the wheel, even with a new or novel idea.
There are both structures already developed – derived from estate,
financial and business planning – and methods to develop recurring
steps or processes for smooth operations that are known and time
tested. Basic business and marketing development principles
are likely applicable whatever form your legacy takes to be sure lasts
for generations.
The key is to develop whatever you create, what is done and how it is
done, into something that others can easily repeat – so you can pass
the activities on to others, short-term, and ultimately
long-term. As the applicable steps to making your legacy
operational are discovered, designed and taken, they can be documented
so others can replicate them in ongoing fashion. That not
only allows others to get involved, but also the scale of the project
to be replicated and even expand. As it expands, you will likely want
to give others the opportunity to revise methods of operation or
service/product delivery. That is inherent in any system,
that it be self-correcting so it improves over time.
For example, this principle caused a revolution in the auto industry
most everyone will recognize. Edwards Deming worked with
Japan after World War II to improve design, product quality, service
and testing – particularly with car makers there. He helped turn a
statement of ridicule (“made in Japan”) into the preferred brands of
car worldwide coming from their factories.
In his 1982 book Out Of
The Crisis, Deming aptly noted: “The supposition
is prevalent the world over that there would be no problems in
production or service if only our production workers would do their
jobs in the way that they were taught. Pleasant dreams. The workers are
handicapped by the system, and the system belongs to the
management.” Hence the importance of both leadership and
systems development: when they are well designed with self-correcting
mechanisms built in, people can produce good work at a level of quality
that is designed into
the process and methods.
This is what supports the principle that:
GREAT LEGACIES ARE ENDURING. They start with an idea and as
it takes on mass, it grows. You build a network around you,
and others who are moved by it want to be involved, too. It
develops exponentially. The money needed to build it appears, either
because you can contribute it or because funding is available from
others – or both. Professional services needed to expand the
project are identified (and may even be contributed).
The project takes shape, and each aspect of it is developed with an
identifiable and replicable method – a system that others can learn,
teach to yet others, and correct along the way as may be
needed. Your legacy begins to take on a life of its
own. Other people show up to help operate it and carry it on,
allowing you to let go. You can step away, knowing it will
continue as designed, to accomplish its defined mission and create a
benefit for the intended recipients that can last for generations to
come.
Templates, and tons of existing resources, exist to help you create
your legacy. Starting with only your passion, your good and beneficial
idea can be developed using time-tested structures and methods that
allow you to get it started, involve others in a systematic way, stay
involved as long as you like and then step aside to allow it to
continue to make a positive enduring difference in the world.
Is there a great idea and some good work you want to drop into this
template? The journey begins with a single step …
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It’s Good For You
Research shows that approaching
life from a spirit of giving and focus on making a contribution has
positive health impacts including improved life-satisfaction, physical
and mental health and even living longer. A great legacy
created by Sir John Marks Templeton serves to demonstrate – and
perpetuate – these benefits. 
The name makes him sound like British royalty, and he was created a
Knights Bachelor in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts. He
was born in the state of Tennessee in the U.S., but lived most of his
life in the Bahamas, and is probably best known as the Chartered
Financial Analyst who became a billionaire by pioneering the use of
globally diversified mutual funds – through his now numerous Templeton
Funds for investors.
Beyond his work, however, Templeton’s great interest was in
spirituality, and he built a great legacy based on it. In
1972, he established the Templeton Prize to honor individuals who make
“an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension,
whether through insight, discovery, or practical works” as stated on the organization’s website. He
called recipients “entrepreneurs of the spirit,” and the first prize
was given in 1973 to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who received $85,000
for her charities. Based on sound management, the prize has grown to
around $1.6 million annually.
To administer the prize, in 1987 Templeton established the John
Templeton Foundation. It now awards around sixty million
dollars every year to institutions and people for spiritual and
scientific activities that explore values such as the nature of love,
gratitude, forgiveness, and creativity – in an effort to reconcile
science and religion without diminishing either. The
Foundation made the prize and other grant-making activities
sustainable, and though Templeton passed from this earth in 2008, his
legacy is still very much alive.
In 2001, the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love was
founded with a grant from the foundation. It studies
unselfish love and the benefits of giving back. The
institute’s most recent report “It’s
Good to be Good 2009: Health and the Generous Heart” is
available on the site. The report details that developing a
generous way of being and then doing or giving from that state indeed
has benefits for the giver.
I mention Templeton not to emphasize what someone with billions can do
– most people readily get that, but think they cannot do something
similar. Maybe not at the same scale, but you can do
something that will be as important for the recipient of your efforts.
Rather, I provide this example to show how one person, during his
lifetime, used his career and his wealth to really address the things
he was passionate about. I also provide the example to
demonstrate that there are funds available for all kinds of great
projects to benefit people and the planet. Creating legacy is
not just about disseminating wealth, but about your authentic interest
and willingness to act from there. That’s the foundation from which all great legacies are built.
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Email
me about someone you know who is living or building a
legacy. We’d love to feature their story. Maybe
it’s you?!
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29, 2009 -- 10a PT / 11a MT / noon CT / 1p ET
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Why must
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- It’s
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- If
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 Dolly
M. Garlo, RN, JD, PCC is the founder and president of Thrive!!®
Inc. and
Creating Legacy™. It is a company devoted to empowering business owners
and entrepreneurially minded professionals make their positive impact
in the world – with joy and meaning.
For
30 + years
Dolly has supported clients in many different arenas –
healthcare, law and business. While she’s currently best
known
for her expertise in business development and professional career
transition, her clients, members of Generation G (for generosity!)
share that her biggest impact comes from her philosophy.
That
philosophy is to design your work and create an exceptional life by
making sure that all your actions reflect your personal integrity and
values, greatest level of wellness, highest and best contribution, and
individual sense of abundance – for which you can feel
exceedingly grateful. These, Dolly says, are the keys to true, lasting
satisfaction and happiness from which you can also “make a
positive difference that lasts for generations.”
You
can learn more about Dolly and her programs, presentations and products
at CreatingLegacy.com and AllThrive.com.
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Legacy Journal newsletter is written by Dolly M.
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If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: Dolly@CreatingLegacy.com.
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