What Will Your Legacy Be?

Recently, I have had the privilege of working with a number of individuals seeking self-awareness and teams delivering self-awareness and awareness of those they work with. Awareness of the strengths of your team mates as well as the areas in which they may not be so strong is an integral part of utilising shared synergies and constructive conflict to achieve, both for the individual and the team.

On a more personal note, I have also been reminded of how our self-awareness, or lack thereof, affects outcomes in our personal life. Yet, the reality is, how aware you are or not, will affect every area of your life.

There are a number of tools you can use to ‘profile your personality’. A little bug bear I have, is that there are a number of tools which will put you into one of four boxes. I was recently reminded there is one tool that gives us 16 boxes to label our personality. That is, actually, a tool I am quite fond of. Yet, we are so much more complex than one of four boxes and the latest findings in neuroscience are telling us much more about ourselves.

And that is the main gist of this article. The complexity of who we really are. Some of us are fortunate to have received education or development which assists us in our self-awareness. Others who do not receive this formal development, more than likely have life experiences which they should learn from and evolve. Yet there are many people who get to the end of their lives and seemingly have not learned and leave a disappointing legacy, both in their working life and personal.

So the questions I leave you with are, how well do you know yourself and what is the impact you are leaving on those around you in all areas of your life? What do you want your legacy to be?