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ISSN
1943-8133
Volume 2010-02, Issue 2
February 23, 2010
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Welcome
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Greetings!
This is a crazy time of year. The weather doesn't know what
season it is. Dead of winter in some places - but not where
it needs to be. Trying to be spring in the southland (here in
North America) but still quite cold. Hmmmm. Can you
say global climate change? What we know for sure is that
change is afoot. Always - change is the only constant.
Sometimes they come in surprising or even shocking ways, and ways
we don't want. So exercising how we'd like life to change - for
the better - is such a privilege.
So what changes will you consciously make this year? Changes
will happen - we can explore
and develop the ones we want. If
you're getting restless in your life or work, maybe now's the time to
start exploring. And if life hands you lemons - how will you
create lemonade from them? There are always gifts available in even the
most challenging of changes. We explore these ideas in this issue.
Speaking of changes - here's a great way to begin your exploration.
We're excited and putting the finishing touches on our
upcoming 7 Steps to Creating Your
Legacy
program, and hope you'll be among the participants! Details below, but
it begins again on March 10, runs for 8 Wednesdays, includes two
additional group coaching calls, individual private coaching and a
truly comprehensive set of materials you can build on. And
special pricing through Febuary 25. So check it out today.
And come join us. It could really be a life-changer
for you!
Cheers,
Dolly
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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past
or present
are certain to miss the future."
~ John F. Kennedy
"Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are
for what you could become."
~ Unknown
"Change always comes bearing gifts."
~ Price Pritchett
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Your Epic Legacy
By Eliza Crouch
 These days, I’ve been fascinated with the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and on Whistler Mountain in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. I love the pageantry of the elegant and inspiring opening ceremonies, filled with rich Olympic history and traditions — particularly the moving way Canada fully included and honored the First Nations people from the four corners of their country. The closing ceremony will probably be just as glorious but with that sense of accomplishment, perhaps joyous relief and definitely celebration! Magic seems to happen within these symbolic brackets of time and epic activity.
 During the sixteen days of the Olympics, we get to witness brilliant athletic excellence with each and every athlete who participates in his and her specific sport. As I watch and listen to the athletes, I’m impressed with their personalities, how they speak and conduct themselves. It’s fascinating to think about who chooses which sport, why they love it so much and what it takes for them to train and achieve world class level. Sometimes I chuckle thinking about specific athletes trading places. Imagine Shaun White, the double gold medalist for snowboard half pipe, in a Vera Wang costume competing in men’s figure skating. Perhaps it makes more sense to think about the graceful ice dancers in a bobsled or navigating moguls with aerial acrobatic flips. Ha! Well you get the picture... there’s a perfect activity for everyone.
But I wonder about all the other Olympians, too. Each has an untold story; some may never be there again. Those men and women teach us about many things: choice, focus, commitment, pain, persistence, pacing, stress and injuries, plus the downright grit, determination and plain hard work. They choose, they are inspired, they push and sometimes they are driven.
 Getting there, even without winning an Olympic medal is a rare accomplishment: a hard-earned personal legacy. One that benefits many: through inspiration of younger athletes who will carry on their work, viewers and others who appreciate health and good sport, and even the long-standing tradition of international peace, friendship and goodwill that is the games. To build that legacy, the successful athletes are rarely, if ever, alone on their journey ... they have resources and the support of family, friends, coaches, choreographers, business managers, agents, and more.
All of the athletes and likely many of the supporting cast, will one-day find themselves at mid-career. They’ll be looking beyond the choices that come with the transition from peak physical performance to enduring growth, progress, and some other form of sustainable fulfillment. They will have the experience and resources to choose different life activities. Some may start their own business, become educators or mentors. Others may create partnerships for social enterprise or establish philanthropic organizations. Most will create a more lasting legacy project well beyond their younger years as an elite athlete. All life is movement. And everyone can be an athlete for life: contributing your talents and smarts in your own ways. Luckily, you can always learn, find your passion, make great new choices, and move from wherever you are now toward the creation of something beneficial to leave for the world, whatever that might be. When approached consciously, asking questions, gathering resources, and building a team — that may well be a meaningful and magnificent legacy.
So pause...celebrate all your efforts and victories so far. Then ask yourself what is the unique, memorable legacy (maybe more than one?) you will consciously create that lasts for generations to come? What will you feel proud of in your own closing ceremony? If you need additional support along the way to discover it or build it, we’re here! Just ask us!
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Litigation and the Power
of Good
Litigation almost never brings up the thought of
‘good’ for most people. And rightly
so. In my experience, it is mostly the lawyers who
win. Even the prevailing party goes through the wringer to
get to their ‘victory’ as this story illustrates.
 This story is about the Phoummarath family legacy. As a
lawyer, it does my heart a lot of good to see something so positive
arise from what was a tragic situation. In death, this might
be called Jack’s legacy. But what the family did
fits out broader perspective of creating a living legacy, particularly
for the lives of many others it will help — which was
undoubtedly their very conscious intention. The Phoummarath family
members created an amazing project during their lifetime and can see it
go forward long after they have disengaged from the project.
Because likely they will disengage from it — they may have
already — even if they will never disconnect from the
underlying circumstances.
Those circumstances involved a tragic event with the loss of their son
Jack. In exchange — hardly an even exchange for the
loss — they received a litigation settlement. Large
sums of money obtained in this way or through a life insurance award or
an inheritance can provide a sum that may be used for a financial-only
type legacy, like a scholarship or similar project to honor a loved
one.
Or you can go a step further and develop a very personal project
intended to benefit a large number of people in a smaller
way. That is what the Phoummarath family did.
The family brought a legal action against the Lambda Phi Epsilon
fraternity at the University of Texas (UT) in 1985 as a result of an
horrific situation. They received a $4.2 million settlement
award in the case for the death of their son, Jack, from alcohol
poisoning as a result of a fraternity initiation ritual. In
an effort to make a positive difference from a devastating experience,
the family used a portion of the video produced for the trial (which
included images from Jack’s actual hazing incident) to help
tell the story. The litigation settlement money was used to
develop a film and to fund an educational effort among colleges about
binge drinking and hazing.
 The result is called Enough Is Enough
— which can be viewed online at http://www.inmemoryofjack.com/ — by
clicking on the “educational video” link.
As part of that effort, the family has also created an $8-10 thousand
per year scholarship at UT in Jack’s name to enable a student
to attend the school and serve in the role of planning, organizing and
promoting a hazing/binge drinking educational program on
campus. Even without the scholarship, the production of the
film and website where it can be accessed is an amazingly important
contribution that supports life. The film may not win an
Oscar, but exceeds that award in adding value.
What might have been only a traditional financial only legacy in the
form of a financial scholarship, with some vision and foresight has
become a life-saving educational effort intended to prevent others from
having Jack’s experience — or the experience the
family continues to live with. It also allows one lucky
student per year not only to receive assistance with educational costs,
but the opportunity to take on a leadership role in delivering an
important message that can save lives.
With the right attitude and a conscious view toward making things
better, it is amazing what can be accomplished even from the worst
circumstances.
Where could you be more creative in taking a difficult situation and
turning it into something positive — to, as the
Beatle’s sang “take a sad
song, and make
it better”?
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Email
us 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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IT'S
BACK AND YOU'RE
INVITED!
7 STEPS TO CREATING YOUR
LEGACY
Starting
March 10, our comprehensive program returns. And you can take
advantage of special pricing until February 25 - you only have a couple
of days left!
Click
here to find out more.
Create your own personal legacy blueprint! It may be a life-changing
process for you ... here's what the 7 Steps program includes:
- Weekly
calls covering Step One ~ Create the Vision; Step Two ~ Gather the
Resources; Step Three ~ Design the Plan; Step Four ~ Develop the
Infrastructure; Step Five ~ Build on your Foundation; Step Six ~ Build
the Bridge to your future; and Step Seven ~ Harvest the Rewards and
Keep It Going.
- During
the program you’ll get two additional group coaching and
Q&A calls to help accelerate your progress. We conclude with an
Eighth call to sum up – and to discuss what’s next!
- Each
week you will get digital handouts to read and checklists to help guide
your personal creative process, all accessible on a participant-only
online resource page. You can review them there, or download
them to print or read off-line. And if you can't make some of
the live calls, no worries. You will get a recording of each call so
you can listen to it again at your leisure.
- By
the end of the program, you’ll have a blueprint for your
living legacy – that that you’ll have already begun
implementing.
Imagine: 6 months from now finding yourself focused and actually moving
in a different direction. You have created a new sense of passion,
living with purpose, doing something you know you came here to do,
making a real difference, receiving appreciation for it, and feeling
really great about it ... isn’t that result worth your
investment?
Register
for the program
before February 25 for special pricing; registration closes March 5.
CREATING LEGACY STUDIO CALLS POSTPONED FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH
We
are going underground for the month of March so there will be no fr.ree
open Creating
Legacy Studio coaching sessions this month. Plans are to unveil a new
format. Stay posted! We'll update you in a separate
announcement.
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 Dolly M. Garlo, RN, JD, PCC, Editor
of the Legacy Journal is the Founder & Creative Partner of Creating
Legacy™ - a program devoted to empowering business owners and
entrepreneurially minded professionals make their positive impact in
the world - with joy and meaning. For 30 + years she has
supported clients in many different arenas - healthcare, law and
business. Her current focus is helping clients with business and
strategic marketing design, social enterprise development, professional
career transition, and leadership for enlightened business owners and
social entrepreneurs.
 Eliza Crouch, RPT, PA-C, CPCC, is
Creating Legacy's Development Partner, a life coach and community
developer with a background in physical therapy, primary care, surgery
and rehabilitation medicine. After 25 years of experience
developing client-focused, team medicine models to deliver healthcare
services, she began using coaching skills and models to enhance and
improve client-family-healthcare provider interaction. She now works
with teens, young adults, physicians, emerging and established leaders
in diverse professions and organizations, with a strong interest in
enhancing intergenerational collaboration.
Is it time for you to design your work and create an exceptional
life so both 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
fulfilled and grateful? We believe these are the keys to true,
lasting satisfaction
and happiness from which you can also "make a positive difference that
lasts for generations."
And we look forward to getting to know you.
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If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: Dolly@CreatingLegacy.com.
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