Morning Motivator - Start Building Your Legacy Today

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."
- Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011

Yesterday, a great innovator and business mastermind lost his battle to cancer. Mr. Steve Jobs did not change the world, he just made it more interesting and fun by creating simplicity in an industry that revels in complication.

I just recently became an "Apple person" buying an iPad and MacBook Pro. Since then, I get it. What I also get is that no matter how amazing you are in your life, there are a few truths that cannot be undone.

God does not spare those with genius. Often they appear to be given a shorter lifetime or face greater challenges. Money cannot buy health. $1 Billion cannot buy cancers mercy. Legacy is built in relationships. You are remembered for how you bettered the lives of others, rarely for the amount of wealth you have amassed.

2 DEGREE SUCCESS STEP: What will your legacy be? Where will you stand in life's Top 100 list of people who mattered?

You do not have to be Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein to make the list. I suggest to you that Oprah is not the worlds most influential person, nor is Brett Favre. They are watched by many but are not able to directly influence individuals in a meaningful way, such as you are.

Sometimes being "known and successful", as it is commonly defined, is nothing more than meaningless fame. A credit in a film that no one remembers or the winner of a sales award only 10 people care about.

What if you changed your community? What if you helped people LEARN to do more and be better? What if your legacy was one of meaningful inspiration and effective change?

Some may disagree that Steve Jobs was that...and I would suggest you look at the world around and see how many people design for use and simplicity in a complicated world.

Thank you Steve Jobs. Your technology has not changed the world, but the way you went about it just might.

Cheers,

Zach

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