Leave A Legacy

Chris Widener is an exceptional young man who in recent years has really taken the personal development world by storm. I have included here on of his top articles which contains Chris's thoughts and perspectives on our responsibilities to the forthcoming generations. I hope you all enjoy this.

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Lock In Your Legacy

You, my friend, are going to die.

What? What kind of motivational tool is that? Real inspiring!

In fact, it is. Our mortality may perhaps be the ultimate inspiration and motivation! If we lived on this earth eternally, we could be procrastinators extraordinaire! We would never have to get anything done because there would always be tomorrow. But alas, we pass on and all we leave are the memories and the lives of others we affected while we were here. Sounds gloomy? In actuality, it is exciting! You see, this gives us purpose (and a deadline, pun intended).

We can choose how we will live on in the hearts and memories of others. We do this by purposing to live lives NOW that make change happen in ourselves, and those around us.

What kind of legacy will you leave? How will your family and friends remember you? How will you leave your descendants in the following areas? Give some thought to them and make some changes. In doing so, you will begin to lock in your legacy.

Emotionally: Have you ever stepped back and asked yourself how you treat other people and how that effects them emotionally. I have four children, all under ten years of age. I am acutely aware that they are being shaped emotionally by how I treat them and teach them how to deal with the world. I am especially aware of this from my own background. I can directly trace my emotional shortcomings to the emotional coolness I felt from my own family. Are you raising emotionally healthy kids who are both independent as well as interdependent? Are you helping your spouse to grow emotionally? Give this some serious thought.

Spiritually: In my mind, the "God" question is the most important. You know, I often hear people say that they are just going to let their kids "figure it out on their own." These same people will show them how to shoot a basketball, trade stocks, and build a tree house, all simply temporal issues, but leave the answers to the biggest question up in the air! Now I am not advocating cramming anything down their throats, just taking the time to helping them find their way. Are you helping and encouraging those around you to find their spiritual life? Are you living an authentic spiritual life that will be your legacy? Give some serious thought to this.

Physically: Now I know what you are thinking: I can't change my genes. They got what they got and they'll have to live with it. To a certain extent this is true. I am 5'11 for the rest of my life. I will never be 6 foot, and neither will my kids. What I am talking about though, is to be examples of taking our physical health seriously. The statistics prove that whatever bad habits you have, your kids are likely to do them as well. Why? Because you are their example. This is why I work to stay physically fit. I work out. I lift weights. I eat right (most of the time - I am a sucker for Breyer's Vanilla Bean Ice Cream). I don't smoke. I want to leave a legacy of health behind for my kids. True, they can still go astray, but I will do my best to give them a good example to follow. Give this some serious thought.

Financially: There are two primary ways you can leave a financial legacy. First, teach your loved ones about how to handle money (some of you may need to learn yourself first). There are just so many good books on the subject, there is no excuse for not knowing how to handle money. Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a good book to start with, or perhaps The Millionaire Next Door. These will teach you the basics. Secondly, you can leave an inheritance. Now let me be clear on this. This does not have to be after you die. In fact, the more you have, the more I believe you ought to give away while you are alive.

Let's face it, the older you get, the less need you have for money once the basics are taken care of. It always cracks me up that by the time you can afford a big house, your kids are gone and you don't need one! Turn the money over early so you can watch the joy of your loved ones spending, investing and giving it! This is of course predicated upon the assumption that you have first taught them how to handle it. If you have, then you should give it away while you're alive so you can enjoy seeing your legacy in action! Give your financial inheritance some serious thought.

Relationally: What kind of legacy will you leave in regard to how people you know interact relationally with others. When people look at how you interact with others, will they be better off if they develop the same relational habits? Will your legacy be one of love, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and forgiveness? As you live this life, you will see that your legacy grows after you in those you influence day by day. Give the idea of influencing others relationally some serious thought.

Intellectually: I don't know about you, but I want to challenge people to deeper intellectual thought. In a day and age of People Magazine mentalities, we need people who will challenge us to think deeper. Are you doing anything that will challenge your sphere of influence to intellectual gains? Will those left after you are gone, say that you made them think thoughts they hadn't before? That you challenged them to be smarter? Give this issue some serious thought.

Functionally: Functionally? Yep. It's a catchall word. It is how they function. It is all of the above, rolled into one. How will those you influence actually function? This is to a great degree how you function. Are you well rounded? Are you balanced? Do you keep the main things the main things? Is your life functioning well? Make it your goal to live a balanced, functional life so you can leave a legacy of such. Give your life function some serious thought.

I ended each paragraph with a challenge to think seriously about each. These aren't issues we will solve immediately. They take a lifetime to build and they will ebb and flow. But as you diligently pursue staying on top of them all, you will be locking in that legacy you desire to leave behind!

About The Author:

Chris Widener is a popular speaker and writer as well as the President of Made for Success, a company helping individuals and organizations turn their potential into performance, succeed in every area of their lives and achieve their dreams.

To see Chris "live" at the upcoming Jim Rohn Weekend Event as he speaks on the subject of Secrets of Influence go to http://Chris-Widener.InspiresYOU.com/ or call 800-929-0434.

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Meditation - Your Route To Peace

A few years ago if someone had asked me whether or not I would consider using meditation as part of my daily routine I would have laughed. Who was I to need meditation? After all I had TV Programmes to watch, Playstations to play, Music to listen to, Magazines to read, Friends to chatter with and everything else under the sun. I didn't need meditation. Or so I thought. At that time I looked upon meditation as something cranky, something that perhaps took place at a commune or some other barren location. No, I live in the modern world with loads of gagdets and gizmos, why on earth would I even consider trying something as ludicrous as closing my eyes and just relaxing. Well, that was my previous viewpoint and one that I held until I reached a point when things weren't going to well in my life and I needed a solution.

At this point in time I had begun to ask some serious questions about my life. I had entered the phase that I now like to call " The Searching Phase". I started to read some Personal Development books and listened to a couple of tapes. These showed me techniques and solutions that I could implement in my life to get it going in the direction that I wanted it to. However, there was still an absense of peace. It was not until my mum gave me a Meditation CD that I began to feel a sense of peace and happiness about my life.

I can still remember my first meditation. I started listening to the soothing music and imagined the glorious white light filling my body and radiating peace and healing. I felt a numbness, a sort of immunity to any bad feelings and a magical tingling feel all over my skin. I was no longer attached to the material world and its limitations and felt at one with my spirit. I experienced more relaxation, sense of belonging and peace in my soul than in any other time in my life.

If for any reason at all you are experiencing stress, anxiety, worry, fear, over-whelment you must meditate. This is the cure, the path, the way to peace. When you start your life will change in ways beyond what you could possibly have imagined.

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Look This Is Love - A Poem By Rumi

Here is a beautiful poem from the 13th Century poet Rumi. Even hundreds of years since his passing away Rumi's words are able to move the heart and touch the soul.
I hope you enjoy this.

Oh, if a tree could wander
and move with foot and wings!
It would not suffer the axe blows
and not the pain of saws!
For would the sun not wander
away in every night ?
How could at ev?ry morning
the world be lighted up?
And if the ocean?s water
would not rise to the sky,
How would the plants be quickened
by streams and gentle rain?
The drop that left its homeland,
the sea, and then returned ?
It found an oyster waiting
and grew into a pearl.
Did Yusaf not leave his father,
in grief and tears and despair?
Did he not, by such a journey,
gain kingdom and fortune wide?
Did not the Prophet travel
to far Medina, friend?
And there he found a new kingdom
and ruled a hundred lands.
You lack a foot to travel?
Then journey into yourself!
And like a mine of rubies
receive the sunbeams? print!
Out of yourself ? such a journey
will lead you to your self,
It leads to transformation
of dust into pure gold!


Look! This is Love - Poems of Rumi

Wow! The power of words! What a momentous poem with such feeling and emotion flowing through every line.

Kenny Lindsay

Goals For FUN & ADVENTURE !!!

One of the greatest personal development speakers in the world today is undoubtedly Vic Johnson. Vic is a great believer in the power of goals and has written many tremendous pieces around this subject. I've decided to let you all read this iarticle written by Vic which is a fascinating story about an inspring man and an even more inspiring life.
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Goal Setting Secrets of the Real Life Indiana Jones


Remember when you were 15? Can you recall some of the dreams you had then? How many have you accomplished?

My reflection on that is what attracted me so strongly to the story of John Goddard, of whom the LA Times called, "The real life Indiana Jones," and one of his expeditions, "the most amazing adventure of this generation."

When he was 15, Goddard was inspired to create a list of 127 “life goals” (he called it “My Life List”). By his last count, the young seventy-something has accomplished 111 of these PLUS 400 others he set along the way!!

Here’s just a few of the ones he’s reached:

He’s climbed many of the world’s major peaks including the Matterhorn, Ararat, Kilimanjaro, Fiji, Rainier and the Grand Tetons.

He followed Marco Polo’s route through all of the Middle East, Asia and China.

He’s run a mile in five minutes, broad jumped 15 feet, high jumped five feet and performed 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups.

He was the first person to explore the 4200-mile length of the world's longest river, the Nile. (It was the number one goal of the 15-year-old Goddard and the one the Times called “the most amazing adventure of this generation.”). He has also been down the Amazon, Congo and others.

John has been to 122 countries, lived with 260 different tribal groups, explored the underwater reefs of Florida, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the Red Sea, and more.

He has flown 40 different types of aircraft and still holds civilian air records; has read the Bible cover to cover and learned to speak French, Spanish and Arabic.

The last two on his original list included marrying and having children (he has six) and living to see the 21st Century, which he has done in style.

And I’m just getting started. But I think you get the point.

More than just one of the greatest adventurers the world has ever known, Goddard is an incredibly wise person, as this quote of his demonstrates: "If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out."

How did John Goddard manage to live such an incredible life of achievement? Two simple, easily duplicatable “secrets:” He chose BIG dreams and he WROTE THEM DOWN.

There’s no power at all in small dreams. When the dream isn’t big enough, it’s too easy to give in to the obstacles that appear in our life. It’s very difficult to maintain the persistence that all great achievement requires when the dream is small or ordinary.

Harland Sanders was 65-years-old, with little more than a $105 Social Security payment in his pocket, when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken. He is said to have been rejected by over 1,000 banks before he became successful. If he hadn’t had a big dream his self-esteem could never have withstood such rejection.

One of the biggest dreamers in the world is Mark Victor Hansen. Working with his partner, Jack Canfield, their idea was rejected by 140 book publishers as “unsellable.” Today, their Chicken Soup series includes more than 70 titles that have sold more than 90 million copies in 39 languages. Mark says, “The more goals you set - the more goals you get. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results. ”

Not only must your dreaming and goal setting be big, but it must be in writing. Brian Tracy says that this act alone increases your odds of success by 1000%! Like many people, I’d heard that I should write my goals down, but like most people, I rarely did. Looking at Brian’s formula another way, the failure to write your goals and dreams down means that you’ve got less than a 1-in-10 chance of succeeding. Can it be any wonder then that most people don’t live their dreams?

Who knows where your life can go after it is driven by life goals. You may find yourself landing on the moon someday, which happens to be one of the few original dreams that John Goddard hasn’t realized.

Whatever you dreams may be, when you're doing your goal setting, make them BIG and WRITE THEM DOWN! Don’t be like the chap in this poem that Napoleon Hill included in the original edition of Think and Grow Rich:

"I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid."


Copyright © 2004 Vic Johnson

Vic Johnson is a popular motivational speaker, author and Internet Infopreneur who has created some of the most visited personal development sites on the Web. His flagship site AsAManThinketh.net has given away over 200,000 eBook copies of James Allen’s classic. He is co-author of "Goals 2004," and "Goals 2005" which are found at http://www.Goals2005.com

I hope you have all got something out of this story and can remember to have a bit of FUN and ADVENTURE in your life.

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A Simple Story

This is one of my favourite Personal Development stories. I like it so much because of its simplicity and the concept of the story always makes me laugh and it stops me taking myself so seriously. That is something we could all definitely do with from time to time!

The story begins with a traveller in India who comes across an old Sage. The man asks the sage, "Why is it that I am always so stressed in my life? It just seems as though my life is one never-ending problem with countless to-do lists and never a moments peace. I am so exasperated with it all and I really can't find a solution."

The sage then replied in a calm all-knowing manner,"There is a very simple solution to this problem. Basically, if you do have control over a situation then you can control it and so you have nothing to worry about. On the other hand if you do not have control over a certain situation then you can not control it and so do not need to worry about it. So, basically you have no problems."

The traveller almost burst out laughing at the simplicity of the fable because he truly realised its value. He had been taking things and blowing them out of all proportion and had also been trying to control everything rather than just letting it flow naturally. He thanked the sage and headed off on his travels with a new sense of calm surrounding him. In the future whenever he felt a bit low, exasperated, frustrated and stressed he always remembered this story with a wry smile and found that he started to feel better right away as he realised not to take himself so seriously and that he doesn't have anything that needs to be worried about!

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I Am Delighted To Announce.....

Hi everyone! I am delighted to announce to you all that I will be launching a new Personal Development Course which will be launched in March 2007. This will be a powerful course on Self-Development, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Health, Wealth, Success, Happiness and so much more. There will be alot of original material aswell as some of the greatest teachings from Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra and many more all condensed into one of the most complete Personal Growth Resources ever created.

Looking forward to it? I sure am and I can't wait to see the profound impact this will have on people's lives. The name of this project will be.....

The Official No Mountain Too High Personal Development Course

I am going to be working very hard on this project and hope it will be worth the wait. Roll on March 2007!

Kenny Lindsay

Personal Development - Why It Is A Must

Personal development is a MUST for everyone. This is because we have to grow, expand and become the best that we possibly can. There are so many negative images on television, in the newspapers, videogames, etc in the modern world that one of the few ways we can counter-balance this negativity is through immersing ourselves in the field on self-development.

Another reason is that personal development can get you onto the fast-track in whatever endeavour you are currently pursuing because you will learn from the mistakes that these people themselves made. The beauty of this is that you do not have to make these same mistakes. This can save you so much time and that is something we definitely all could do with.

Personally, I absolutely love snuggling up in bed with a great book from Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Dennis Waitley, Chris Widener, Deepak Chopra or Wayne Dyer. It is an enriching experience and fills me with positivity, belief, ambition. Alot of these authors I have spent so much time reading that I feel that I actually know them now. That is what the gift of Personal Development can do for you. "Where can I get this gift from?", you may ask yourself. Simple! Go to a library or a reputable bookstore and start by reading just one book written by any of the above author's. Then you will find yourself being drawn in by the magic and the power of their words and then you will find yourself making the natural progression from one great piece of work onto the next great piece of work. Then it won't be long before you start to think "Wow!" my life is so much better than it used to be. How did that happen? Because as Jim Rohn always says " You got better!"

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