Start Building Your Legacy from Now
--Robin Sharma
Someone once said that the first fifty years of life are dedicated to building one's legitimacy while the last fifty are devoted to building one's legacy. How true. So many of us spend the first half of our lives striving for achievement and struggling to gain respect. Once we have this legitimacy, whether it comes in the form of prestige or material possessions, we soon realize that something is missing. We then spend the remaining years of our lives trying to do what we should have done from the beginning: create a legacy. There is a poem from Sanskrit translated and it is read simply as follows.
``Spring has past, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that I meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.'' These words were written by a man whose heart was filled with regret over a life half lived. Rather than singing the great song he was destined to sing, he spent his days preparing and waiting until things were just right before he acted – ``stringing and unstringing his instruments,'' in his words. Sadly the time never came.
The time to start building your legacy is today, not ten years from today when you ``have more time,'' because we both know that time will never arrive. Reflect on what it is you want to create in your life and, more importantly, what gift you wish to leave the world when you are no longer here. Greatness comes from beginning something that never ends with you.
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