Executing Your Legacy: A Skill Set Of Follow Through

Enclosed are some images from a recent Penn State University football game, prior the 2020 restrictions.

Which got me thinking... in the metaphoric of standing on a wide open field and your standing in your wide open life. The game has a running clock and so do our lives, minute by minute?

Welcome To Legacy Planning where you receive all the coaching support you need to execute on the softer side of your legacy.

It's one thing to have a great skill set around planning, while in the metaphoric locker room.

You and your coach, or trusted advisors, can talk about a myriad of things.

You can even invent in new metrics as to how you will score points in and with your legacy.

It may not be financial returns but rather who you need to be to manifest what you want to create and who you need to grow into to make your vision happen. Or which of your core values you need to call to the forefront. Financial returns may be the byproduct but in your locker room, it may not be your KPI (key performance indicators).

Come game day or execution time, how are you letting the opposition win?

In this context, we are defining the other team as both influences outside of you as well as your internal landscape. There will be the naysayers, envious people, narcissists and sociopaths that you don't want to even be in the same room with.

And, there is also your own evolving internal landscape that likes to fall back into familiar habits, moods and ways of being but...

It's just wrong what fear and apathy are doing to the execution of your life's legacy.

Think of all the distractions - like the snipers in the photographs on the roofline - how many outside influences, or people in your past, will you give your power and consent to in pulling you down? You may not notice them at first glance but no matter their presence, you need to focus on your game compared to their goals. In other words, don't make what doesn't need to be a distraction a talking point in your head about why you can't create and execute your legacy strategies.

Perhaps the strategies around the softer side of your legacy planning is aligning your core values with your week's activities, in allowing more meaning and fulfillment to be called forth.

Perhaps it is disclosing to all of your relationships what it is you value and envision, compared to hiding it in fear of their judgement or criticism.

Perhaps it is owning up to your potential in the courage of self-responsibility compared to accepting the easy way out.

By not allowing the other team to defeat your metaphoric game, what becomes possible?

In other words, what do the many quarterbacks on the field and not knowing their game plan allow for your awareness and ability to trust yourself ?

[Insight: Some professional football players have talked about the connection with a higher power working through them come game day.]

Execution in and with your legacy is similar to exercise - you not only feel great but also empowered when you are in "the zone" or after a workout where you have pushed yourself to get up and above your comfort zone.

When you have gotten in touch with what you are capable of ...

Taking action with anything, especially that which is new or different, stretches you and is rarely easy at first.

In the line between defining and developing to actual execution of your legacy's plan, it's important to strategize in the locker room but come game time, there's a different set of confidence muscles that come in moving the football to win with your vision.

Bottom Line: Build your skill sets and mental muscles around executing your bigger picture.