Your resume lists jobs and titles. Your legacy is how you treated people and whether you tried to improve their lives. An obituary that only mentions achievements misses the deeper story of who you actually were.
An obituary can list every job, every award, every gift, and still miss the point. Here's the difference. Achievements are the resume, the jobs, the titles, the dates. Legacy is the character, the meaning, and the good someone tried to do. A fuller story shows how someone treated people, what values guided them, and how they tried to make things better for others. Here's a perspective to consider from Thriving by Rand Selig. If your obituary were written today, would it show only what you achieved, or also who you tried to be and how you helped make life better for others? So let that question stay with you. Subscribe and hit the bell for more perspectives from Thriving by Rand Selig.
