Legacy
Today’s theme for me from the first day of meetings this week in Cayman.
I started with an early meeting with a client who plans to move to their next exciting career opportunity after years in their current position. Their context for their work with me in their current role as their sounding board and coach has now shifted to helping them leave a strong legacy.
I then met with an inspiring individual who supports individuals and families to create financial freedom, creating space and choice for them. This then creates a financial legacy for families as well as space to choose where they will direct their energy when they are ready to step away from their careers, their businesses.
After that, I had an impromptu and serendipitous meeting with someone who left a strong legacy from their work in Cayman and is now simply enjoying their family in retirement. They are currently in cayman seeing some of their globally spread grandchildren. We met in a coffee shop and reminisced a little going back nearly twenty years. At that time they were principal of the school my children attended and they had a brave vision of expansion for the school.
That school is now nearly double the enrolment it was at the start of that journey. I played my own small part in supporting developing a financial strategy. that saw major construction expansion over the next decade or so That legacy is both visible daily in the buildings of the school, as well as creating an impact on society as more and more of the students have extended their education and moved on to their own adult lives, careers, families and, later, their own legacies.
In just over a week it will be thirty years since I moved to Cayman. It has me musing on my own legacy from all of those decades, as well as what legacy I might wish to leave from the next decades of my life.
Legacy. What might yours be? What choices will and can you make that will impact your future legacy?