Tick Tock….Tick….Tock. You have today- what are you going to do with it?
Unlike Alfred Nobel, your obituary and legacy are not yet written. You can write them today. Are you familiar with Alfred Nobel? In 1888 Alfred’s brother passed away. The local newspaper, mistaking Alfred for his brother, printed his obituary instead; a rather unflattering obituary.
Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite. His legacy, according to the newspaper, was as “The Merchant of Death” and he was blamed for the loss of thousands of lives. Can you imagine reading your own obituary and seeing your legacy as someone evil? I don’t want to.
Well, Alfred made this experience a defining moment in his life and vowed to change, to create a more positive legacy when he actually did pass away. He took his enormous fortune and left most of it to establish the Nobel Prizes. You have heard of those right; the prizes awarded to those who contribute the “greatest benefit on mankind” in the fields of peace, chemistry, physics, economics, literature and medicine?
While you may not have been able to identify the inventor of dynamite you have certainly heard of the Nobel Prize. It appears that Alfred Nobel was successful in his attempts to change his legacy. You, like Alfred Nobel, have the opportunity to change your legacy. You have today to rewrite your history.
I call this living forward.
We all have things in our past that we regret, mistakes that we have made, but what is important today is that you move forward. Who you were and who you are pales in comparison to who you can become (tweet that). So what are you going to do to make that change? Do you have dreams, goals, and aspirations you aspire to? You control your destiny, you control your legacy.
Question: What are you doing today to “Live Forward”? How are you writing your legacy?
