What does it mean to live your legacy?

Welcome to Creative on Purpose, a show sharing insights and inspiration about the art of encore living. Define the difference only you can make in the second half of life and craft it into a fulfilling endeavor that helps you build identity, forge meaning, and make things better. I'm Scott Perry, Encore Life Coach and Chief Difference Maker at Creative on Purpose. Today is a Best of the Blog episode, bite-sized broadcasts that share principles and practices to help you see, step into, stay in, and share your power to make a difference doing work that matters with people you care about. Today we continue this series by answering the question, what does it mean to live your legacy? Ready? Let's go. What does it mean to live your legacy? When things work out how you planned, it's easy to assume it's due to your genius and good planning. When things don't, it's easy to blame others or fate for conspiring against you. The truth is, there are never guaranteed outcomes. This is especially true for creative approaches to embracing uncertainty and navigating adversity in meaningful work. There's simply too much beyond your control. Significance and purpose are found through worthwhile efforts, not in their outcomes. Do your work on purpose, with integrity, and for a reason. You begin to live your legacy by letting go of old stories about yourself that no longer serve you. This opens the door for better effort and fulfillment. To live your legacy is to accept what is and set aspiration for what's next. Acceptance of what's now isn't passive resignation. Life doesn't happen to you, life happens through you. Your only responsibility is to put forth your best effort. Legacy isn't the money and monuments you leave behind. Legacy is living fully and well, no matter what fate delivers. Legacy is the difference you make now. It's who you are and what you do to make things better today. That's what it means to live your legacy. Your legacy. This is on offer if you lean in and level up in the endeavor you're meant for now. Are you ready to get going with the difference only you can make and start living your legacy? Let's go. Thanks for tuning in. We appreciate you lending us some of your valuable time and attention and hope today's broadcast motivates you to take a bolder step into possibility, developing your potential and living your legacy. To keep go-go going with principles and practices like the ones shared in today's episode, visit creativeonpurpose.com and sign up for our weekly newsletter. If you're watching where you can leave a comment, please share a question, lesson, or takeaway from this conversation. If you're listening to this as a podcast, please leave a 5-star review. Now, take the insight and inspiration from today's show and start flying higher in the difference only you can make. It's time to to be creative on purpose.