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ISSN
1943-8133
Volume 2009-08, Issue 2
August 25, 2009
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Hello to our newest
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Well, I’ll warn you right up front that this issue is a bit
of a rant by
me. Typically, striving to be a positive Pollyanna looking on
the bright side, the lawyer in me can get riled up and angry when
I’m concerned. I guess that makes me human. But lately
there’s more and more to be concerned about. And it seems
especially there are too few real
leaders among elected representatives to advocate a strong message on
behalf of the
people, or more specifically the planet and future
generations.
Sure, change can be hard. (It can also be interesting, fun,
innovative and important!!) But it irks me to see support for
the status quo simply
to maintain vested interests for the sake of profit, without examining
it to make sure it is the correct course, especially long term. And
waste, greed, oppression, exploitation, and
destruction of perfectly good, useful or beautiful things in the world
sometimes just get to me and push me over the top. I have to
stop watching major media, I guess, but this also serves to remind me
how many important things there are to do and build in the world that
can inspire people’s creativity and constructive sense of
purpose, passion and productivity.
I do try to err on the side of channeling that darker emotion into
something productive and constructive. So, hopefully I’ve
done
some of that in this issue. too.
In our Feature Article, I’ve blended my own legacy interests
in preserving the natural world with the
elements of consciously creating a living legacy. Sprinkled in are some
legacy stories that provide examples from that arena. I hope
they inspire you to take
action this week to create something new – or just take a
step toward it. Watch or read and learn something, and then
at least communicate your concerns and ideas for solutions to
someone. Beyond that, consider what you might build to help
address those concerns and create solutions that may well be your own
legacy. That’s a longer term focus, but may well be
one of the best choices you make in your life.
Oh, lest I forget, I have two openings for individual coaching starting
in September. It would be a pleasure to hear from you
if you think you might be ready to focus on
one, or a combination of the following areas:
- Real
Leverage: Strategic Small Business
Marketing and Operational Systems Design;
- Professional
Transformation: Improving
Personal Effectiveness, Making a Career Transition, Succession
& Exit Planning, Retirement Life and Work Design; or
- Creating
Legacy: Developing Your Own
Project, Corporate Responsibility Program or Social Enterprise design
to Make a Difference Now and Last for Generations
In October we will launching the 7 Steps to Creating Your
Legacy
program. More to come on that! See the preview
schedule below.
Helping you change the world, by changing your own life and work for
the better so you can leave a positive mark, is what I love to do most.
Just imagine what you could do if you had customized personal
assistance to design, gather resources and build something important to
you …
Cheers,
Dolly
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Every
man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism
or
in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
-
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vision
is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
-
Jonathan Swift
If
stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
-
Will Rogers
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OVERCOMING ARTIST ENVY
– PART TWO
In our Feature Article this issue, we deepen the notion of the living
and
creative nature of legacy, and incorporate some legacy stories as
examples. Last issue, I described my artist envy and how I
got over it by first realizing that my own creative abilities may lie
somewhere outside the visual arts realm – but are creative
abilities nonetheless. If you missed it, you can read it
here.
While we’re still on the subject of the arts as the
structural foundation for legacy projects, here are a few more examples
of creative artistic endeavors that meet the three basic criteria for
being legacy projects – they are authentic expressions, seek
to add value and do something good in the world, and have a
business-like foundation that allows them to be sustainable and endure.
High on my list of favorite visual artistic media are movies (a catch
all term that includes film, video, and digital forms) because they can
be fun, and truly give me an opportunity to suspend current reality and
for a short time step into another – and often learn
something about myself, the world, or both. They are
experiential, can be exceptionally emotional (but then I cry at a good
heart-touching commercial), stimulate my sense of empathy, and deepen
my understanding about some subject. They have the ability to carry
important messages, and move others to involvement and
action. All are important legacy qualities.
Many powerful legacies in the form of documentary movies are at the
website www.FreeDocumentaries.org.
Indeed, the site itself is an interesting legacy project.
Based on my interest in environmental issues like conservation,
preservation, clean air and water, I found one film particularly
fascinating. While watching, my initial take was that it was
a spoof – sort of a Saturday Night Live approach to climate
change: “this can’t be for real!” But I
watched, listened and learned.
The particular movie I refer to is called “Global
Dimming.”
Produced by BBC Horizon, it is about the decline of sunlight reaching
the Earth. It explores the theory that air pollution is shielding the
oceans and the planet from the full warming power of the Sun
– citing evidence that this phenomenon has been the cause of
severe droughts in sub-Saharan Africa due to rainfall
disruption. Even beyond that, though, the film reveals that
the speed at which the Earth’s climate is changing has been
underestimated – since global dimming is slowing it
down. This is a real dilemma that causes one to consider how
much
more significant climate change may be. Theoretically, our
efforts to clean up the air from particulate pollution may actually
speed up anticipated warming, and affect the other shifts in climate
patterns we’ve begun seeing.
Climate
change is unknown to some and seems controversial to those who
haven't studied the science. For an increasing number, though, there is
no question it is
happening and has the potential to make life on earth for future
generations much different and much more difficult than the norms of
the industrial age have led us to believe is natural and
sustainable. No longer is the issue ‘global
warming’ – but a combination of significant shifts
in weather
patterns, sea level changes, ocean acidification and other issues that
result from our persistent burning of fossil fuels and the release of
numerous greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere (that the ocean is
trying to modify, to the detriment of that food chain).
The subject of climate change incorporates
important concepts like
passing the day of peak oil – when availability of fossil
fuels to extract from the earth is starting to decline. And with the
idea that pulling all that stored carbon out of the earth,
back to the surface and into our atmosphere is doing more and more
harm.
Add
in the need to produce clean, renewable alternative
energy sources that can provide similar quantities of work. Include the
dire, long-standing need to get back in
tune with nature’s own rhythms and production cycles as
elements of some form of ethical and ecological economics –
incorporating values for not just production or physical capital, but
also natural, human and social capitals. Right there you have
a wide range of focus for possible legacy level projects that can take
any number of forms and will be like works of art. (The
concepts of ecological economics are nicely presented by the Gund Institute for
Ecological Economics at The University of Vermont).
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Note: On
the question of what to do about any of this, consider
the legislation currently before the U.S. Congress dealing with climate
change. What each of us can do is learn more and ask our
representatives to create meaningful law that benefits people and not
special interests. Better yet, demand it. A list of important
items to
include in that law was compiled by Jim Hansen, himself an actual
rocket scientist – someone who I’m sure knows a lot
more about all this
than I (and most people, including our legislators) do. You
can read
his views here,
and use them to write something to your congressional representatives.
Or read
his letter to the President and
First Lady from earlier this
year.
Need
more info? Go to 350.org.
Currently proposed environmental legislation was passed by the House,
and now makes its way to the Senate. Here are links to find
where to write your representatives in the Senate
and House
so you can let them know your recommendations.
For
those who still question whether climate change is real and whether
we all should be doing anything about it, I have a couple other
favorite little legacy level movies. The first is the
production of Leo Murray, a Generation Y leader and
social entrepreneur, whose movie is called Wake
Up, Freak Out (then get a grip).
It is a great explanation of the issues. The other
is a very simple, home-produced video posted on YouTube as its enduring
infrastructure, provocatively entitled “The
Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See”.
It provides a nice analysis for and answer to the ‘so what?,
I don’t know, what if it’s not happening? and I
don’t believe it’ responses to climate change.
Such artists with the courage to tell stories like Food Inc.
(featured last issue), Global
Dimming, Wake Up Freak Out, and Terrifying Video are creating important
legacies that have the power to positively significantly impact a large
number of people – with their underlying purpose of helping
to prevent harm by promoting change through education. Of
course, then there are the issues of what can be done and who can do
it.
– My first thoughts to which are: all manner of things and
each one of us, respectively. Why not you?
Back to my original artist envy reflection, though, I realized that in
pursuing my own legacy efforts
– I am more like an artist than I realized. The
formation of a nature preserve where, to date, over 3,000 newly planted
trees are growing, and helping others with my Creating Legacy focused
work, are my own forms of artistry. I am creating or helping
to
create authentic endeavors no one else can do exactly the same way,
that add value and make a difference, and can be fashioned in ways to
make them sustainable and enduring. Maybe you are, too
– or could be in a different, bigger or more significant
way
...
Humans have the unique capacity to manifest something from nothing
– to take a thought or idea and turn it into something
tangible. It can benefit others who access or take part in
it. That is the essence of creativity, and such
‘works of art’ can take many forms. Maybe
there’s a way for you to overcome your own artist envy?
In what medium can you apply your creative abilities to fashion a
legacy work of art?
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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UPCOMING TELEPROGRAM!
We have two more free preview calls scheduled prior to our legacy
development program “7 Steps to Creating Your
Legacy” set to launch in October. The
preview:
Why Women Professionals and Business Owners Must Create A Legacy
Why must they? Essentially,
because they can.
And for at least three reasons:
- It’s
time that successful women take a bigger lead in making positive change
- If
you've had the freedom and education that allows you to serve as a
professional or own a business, you are in a privileged minority of
people with access to the necessary resources, and
- It
may well be the most fulfilling thing you’ve ever
done.
Mark
your calendar and register! Our final two upcoming previews
are:
Thursday,
September 17, 2009 and
Tuesday,
September 22, 2009
Each will be held at 10a PT / 11a MT / noon CT / 1p ET - delivered by
teleconference so you can participate from the comfort of wherever you
happen to be! Click
here
for more information and to register to participate.
Look forward to hearing you on the call!
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the last few months, I have covered the 14
Principal Elements of Great Legacies
in The Legacy Journal (the bi-monthly ezine). Whether you
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The
14
Principal Elements of Great Legacies
can be grasped and mastered by anyone,
and developed in your own unique way. What are the sparks
that inspire you - that stir inside you when you take the time to
entertain them? What are your good ideas, the ones you consider sharing
with others - but might be a bit shy to admit?
Sign up to receive the 14
Principal Elements of Great Legacies
here.
It will jump start your thinking and give you great ideas on
how to start creating your own legacy.
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I
like to let you know about colleagues who are doing interesting
things. Here are some fabulous products and services of
others that you may find helpful:
KEEP IT SIMPLE!
Have you discovered Simple-ology yet?
Developed by genius Mark Joyner (4 time #1 bestselling author, highly
decorated former U.S. Army intelligence agent, and Internet business
pioneer), it is a, well yes, simple and easy to use 15 minute a day
practice. It's called Simple-ology
101 "The Simple Science of Getting What You Want."
Used by CEO's, Olympians, Work-At-Home-Moms, Artists, Entrepreneurs and
close to 398,000 others including yours truly, you can access it
through the link above at no charge to you. We are honored to
feature and recommend all their great products.
WRITE AND CHANGE THE WORLD
Might your legacy be in the form of a book? Have you ever
said: “Someday I’m going to write that
book.”
Do you or does someone you know have a book buried deep inside, longing
to come out and serve the world? If you (1) don’t know where
to begin, (2) are stuck in the middle, (3) can’t quite get it
finished (4) or don’t know what to do next …
Here’s your chance to learn from a pair of super-successful,
published authors and masterful teachers of the book writing process,
start to finish. My colleagues Lynne Klippel and Christine
Kloser have teamed up on an exciting program appropriately called: Get
Your Book Done. They are holding a free preview call on September 1,
2009 – click here
to access the info about it and sign up!
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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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