The One Thing That Will Put Your Stamp on 2015
Click to view this video and then write one sentence on the stamp you are going to make on this world, this year.
Digital Stamp = Digital Footprints + Shadows.
Digital Footprints: What you share online about yourself.
Digital Shadows: What others share about you online.
It’s helpful to write down what you want the most important people in your life to say about you at your funeral. From this exercise, you will notice you aren’t writing down accomplishments (fastest, smartest, best), but more profound concepts—how did your presence uplift others? We no longer have to wait for our funeral to hear what people are saying about us. We know what people are posting about us.
Click here to take a look at the many resources we have in our digital leadership institute to help you create your digital stamp. This is a great exercise to start the year off with. Making your goals and digital stamp public helps you to achieve them and stick with them so comment on this post to share you digital stamp and tweet it with the hashtag #digitalstamp.
My Life Stamp
As a youth with little a plan,
My dad oft asked,
“What footprints are you going to leave in the sand?”
It meant little then,
But with time,
This became a motivating line.
If up to me,
What will be,
My ultimate legacy?
A legacy for me,
It would seem,
A far off, lofty dream.
After all, who am I?
I’m just average,
Somewhat shy.
Then I realized something you see,
It is up to me,
My ultimate legacy.
Social media, search,
Mobile, and more,
Leave digital footprints on the floor.
Digital shadows,
If you will,
Following all that I fulfill.
My grandchildren and great grandchildren,
What will they see and think of me?
What is my digital legacy?
Will they see that I pursued my dream,
Or that I settled,
For something in-between?
That I lived a life doing things l loved,
Or one filled with,
Should of, could of?
Digital footprints remain for all time,
So I can’t commit,
The ultimate crime.
What is that crime, you say?
It is, of course,
Not seizing the day.
Yes, before I die,
I’d rather fail,
Than not even try,
I will reach for the sky,
Laugh,
And cry.
I’ll cry from joy not sorrow,
Because I lived for today
And planned for tomorrow.
My legacy,
You see,
Is truly up to me.
That’s my view,
But, now I ask,
What will you do?
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