How Will You Be Remembered?: The Definitive Guide to Creating and Sharing your Life Stories - Softcover

Lucy, Robb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0994031726 ISBN 13: 9780994031723

Publisher: Engage Communications Inc., 2017

Synopsis

If you were asked "How Will You be Remembered?", what story would you want told? Millions of people are learning about their ancestry from DNA tests. What ancient blood flows in us? Where did our ancestors come from? We may discover our origins, but we won't hear our ancestors' stories.We'll learn little about them. Now, to the future. Your descendants will be just as curious about the past as you are now. You can give them an enduring gift - stories abouty our life, your family's life, and the legacies you created. Decades from now, your stories (shared in print, audio or video) will live on. Your descendants will smile and say "Thank you. We're proud to know who you were and where we came from." Says Jack Canfield, Co-Author of TheSuccess Principles™ and ChickenSoup for the Soul®:"Robb Lucy is re-defining what a legacy story is. It's a great read that will leave you inspired." And know this: your legacies and their stories have nothing to do with money or the end of your days. They're about connection, meaning and joy - now! A master story finder and teller, journalist, author and producer, Robb Lucy, writes in a humorous, intimate and non-preachy way as he explains how to create hundreds of personal stories to share with others. Lucy is passionate about sharing this message: "Don't let your legacy stories disappear!" How Will You be Remembered? is for anyone who has asked: Will I be remembered? Are my stories worth telling? Do I want to leave a mark and enjoy it now? With wit, logic and clarity, Lucy shows how to create legacies and their stories that will enrich your life and the lives of those around you. How Will You be Remembered? With love today... and with admiration in the future. "... a must-read for anyone seeking to live a more fulfilling life." -- Boe Workman, CEO Communications, AARP "I couldn't believe how it caught my interest. Easy to read, great stories, a terrific book."-- Wilf Wilkinson, Past President, Rotary International "The book is fantastic... even more influential for my 20-year-old. Legacies at his stage are powerful."-- Ted Singeris, VP Client Relationship, Sun Life Financial Robb Lucy is a writer, producer, story-finder and story-teller who began his career as a journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before forming his media production company. He spent 25 years on the local, national and international boards of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and helped develop non-profits in literacy, sports history, prostate cancer awareness and for his local Search and Rescue team. More at createmylegacy.com

About this title

About the Author

Robb Lucy, known as The Legacy Coach, has always liked adventure. While studying English, business and journalism in university, he sailed the Pacific,and then spent time as a fisherman on the Indian Ocean. He's climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and other mountains, kayaked many miles of the Pacific coast, and followed muskox along the shores of the Beaufort Sea.
 
A natural communicator, Robb is an author, producer and connector. He was a journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before forming his own company, producing mixed media for corporations and governments around the world, as well as educational content for thousands of elementary classrooms in North America, Britain and Australia
 
Robb spent 25 years on the local, national and international boards of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and continues to help develop non-profits in sports history, cancer awareness and his local search and rescue team.
 
How will you be remembered? Robb knows the legacies you create will give connections, happiness and a more purposeful life. Learn how to create those legacies... and that's how you'll be remembered.

Review

A FOREWORD/CLARION REVIEW
 
How Will You be Remembered?
The Definitive Guide to Creating and Sharing Your Life Stories         By: Robb Lucy
 
This book brings the lofty idea of legacies down to earth, showing that even seemingly small actions can have lasting effects.
 
How Will You Be Remembered? is a motivational manual for the boomer generation. With a journalist's talent for clarifying an often-misread subject, Robb Lucy demonstrates how legacies come in many forms and sizes, all with the aim of finding deeper significance, connection, and joy in the present while still considering the future.
 
The book enthusiastically re-frames the most common idea of a legacy. Wealth left behind in estate plans becomes less critical than rewarding alternatives, including recording family stories and passing down personal values, which are both achievable while one is still alive.

Emphasis on how legacies are for everyone, and not only for influential individuals, results in a call to consider unique ways to better one's community, and in some instances, the world.
 
Lists, brainstorming exercises, examples, and personal insights gather around a few core principles to jump start the process.
 
The bullet-point approach is well measured and is punctuated by apt quotations, including lyrics by Bob Dylan, proverbs from several cultures, and brief selections from famous authors that crystallize the urgency to make a difference while there is still time. 
All of these enrich the topic, placing legacies within a broad context that spans history.
 
A section on religions, high lighting the many variations of the Golden Rule, also strengthens the view that there exists a profound human need to consider others.
 
Chapters provide a convincing, step-by-step guide toward self-discovery. Black-and-white illustrations of a mountaintop guru also infuse the topic with humor. One of the strongest sections offers snapshots of adults who have found their niche. 
 
Whether engaging in a neighborhood beautification project or turning adversity into a chance to inspire others, these individuals bring the lofty idea of legacies down to earth, showing that even seemingly small actions can have lasting effects. 
 
Another section on charities and foundations provides useful thoughts for those who prefer to create legacies in partnership with established organizations. A general overview, which purposefully leaves out detailed financial advice, is enough to point readers in the right direction. 
 
How Will You be Remembered? presents an uplifting view of the good that can be accomplished when people turn their focus outward. Like a lively seminar, the ideas drawn here encourage and challenge, repeat and build on each other to press the belief that every voice has a singular note to add to the larger symphony.
 
Reviewed by KAREN RIGBY
Disclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. The author of this book provided free copies of the book to have his book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Foreword Reviews and Clarion Review make no guarantee that the author will receive a positive review.Foreword Magazine, Inc. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.

Edition details

• Publisher: Engage Communications Inc.
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0994031726
• ISBN 13: 9780994031723
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 250