What Will Your Legacy Be?
President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, was recently quoted as saying "never waste the opportunity that a crisis brings to the table." Leaders during earlier world crises challenged us to come together with strength and conviction to lift ourselves up along with helping our fellow world citizens who are in need.
This recession is our generation's "BIG bump in the road". As Emanuel suggests, it offers the opportunity to reassess our direction, what's truly important for each of our life's and how we can get there. We can be another "Great Generation" if each of us carefully weighing the choices before us. The challenges are greatest for those who have suffered the loss of a job, a home, health and a good amount of retirement investments. Yet for those of you who have more resources intact, you can seize the moment and chose meaningfully steps to help those around you get through this time with less distress.
Seize the Moment
"When people speak of the powerful feelings that motivate them to give back, I hear a common story about deep alignment of personal convictions with community purpose. Applying ones knowledge and skills becomes irresistible, and there's a sense of acute purpose that stretches far beyond one's individual interests. It's a kind of energy and being, a certain slant of light that for me is the meaning of philanthropy."
Peter Karoof, founder The Philanthropy Institute and
2006 Purpose Prize Winner*,
