Welcome to Life in First Person, a blog dedicated to helping you to discover, shape, and live your legacy—personally and professionally. Whether you’re searching for help to unravel what lives at your personal core or need to hone or uncover what resides at your business or company’s heart (and it better have one!), consider this your home and educational hotspring. Just as personal and business lives overlap, this blog will serve you through a panorama of perspectives, perscriptions, and philosophies. Our heart, body, mind, and soul are connected, and all the aspects of our lives are too, no matter how we may attempt to separate or compartmentalize them.

Let me know what resonates most with you, what you find least helpful (and I’ll toss it out the window), and what you crave more of. I’m here to help you grow and to ponder and process things in new ways so you can benefit personally and professionally. You’ll also be regularly treated to guest posts from a variety of experts and savvy souls.

Every person and every company is living a story that develops into a legacy. Before you or your company can identify, embrace, and utilize your unique, best legacy, you must live your life in first person. What does living life in first person mean? Assume (an element of) control. Examine if your activities match what you say your priorities are; realign if necessary. Consider your purpose; are you fulfilling it? Is your life, your business, your “legacy in progress” what you want it to be?

Life presents us with challenges (and sometimes nasty problems), but each of us has one life on this earth. We can’t meander through life believing that someone else is responsible for us, our happiness, our fulfillment, our “success.” We must live life in the first person position of “I”—not in an entitled, selfish way of always looking inward, not caring about others, but in assuming responsibility…and in understanding that we humans are all interconnected, no matter how we may attempt to separate or compartmentalize. How can you—your talents, your passions, your company—help others while you’re embracing and enjoying life? Ah, and there’s the rub: A legacy always include others. How will you impact your children? Your family? Your friends? Your company? Your community? You don’t have to change the world to leave your mark; you need only to touch one person. Who will you touch, and what impression will you make?

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Need some guidance to discover, claim, create, or hone your legacy? Do you need a “realignment” so that your life matches what you say your priorities are? Do you want to make certain you’re fulfilling your God-given purpose in this world? If so, I am honored to help through a Legacy Statement session. The process is gently aggressive and simply profound. We will talk through a series of questions that runs the gamut of lighthearted to thought-provoking.

Your responses are composed into a draft statement, and soon after we reconvene to see what other potent remnants have bubbled up from your memories and dreams. From there, you have your Legacy Statement, which serves not as a document set in stone but as a fluid and evolving manifesto for your daily life. One-on-one Legacy Statement sessions last eighty minutes and are conducted by telephone. The fee is $300 and includes a beautifully designed written copy of your statement suitable for framing—or taping to your bathroom mirror as a daily reminder.

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