Tonight Allison and I went with our friend’s Neil and Andrea to the wake for our friend Meghan’s Mom. A real testament to the legacy of a person and their character can often be seen not in the money they made but in the people whose lives they touched. We arrived to see a line stretching across the parking lot at 6:45pm. We saw the family at 9:45pm when we saw the family. Certainly Meghan’s mom, Nancy, touched many, many lives.
Steven Covey’s second habit for highly effective people is “Begin With the End in Mind”. I can’t quite remember what Covey said in the book (I need to re-read the 7 Habits soon) but I can say that as we drove home my mind went right to that chapter title. To me this means that you should think about your own wake and funeral.
Who will be there and what will they say about you? Will they spend 3 hours in line to pay their respect because they know you, your children, your grandchildren? You have a role to play in all of that and I think that the more you give back of your time, talent and to some extent treasure you leave a legacy that is very rich. Clearly Nancy left a very rich legacy.
You Will Have Good Luck And Overcome Many Hardships
Apparently hardship is the word of the week. This is the second hardship fortune that I’ve gotten. Yesterday it was about God helping me with hardships and today it is about luck. Maybe just sticking to something and working hard will help me get through hardships. For the most part I don’t (knock on wood) have very many hardships. I have issues that are happening around me that are causing some stress in my life. Namely living where we do and my job.
We live in a condo above my parents. This is good and bad. Good because we get help with babysitting duties, bad because we get additional parenting. This has caused tensions and of course not very good communication. Something that is a hardship but again could be worse.
The other is my job. I’m bored with it. The job is a good one but I dislike what I do, I thought this would be better overall but I’m not happy. I get to be home more which is great. I’m taking care of my self more and being more healthy, which is great. I’m just bored and I just don’t get my boss. I’m pretty stuck where I am in this group for the next 18 months. So I’ll just suck it up. So maybe with good luck I can overcome this and move to something else that is better.
So, what are hardships that you are in need of overcoming?
