If you insist on leaving your mark on the world, make sure that mark is not a scar…
There’s a lot of talk in the self help/entrepreneur world about constantly ‘bettering yourself’ or ‘leaving a legacy’ and ‘making a contribution’ in the world…
We can conflate that to be something BIG that we need to do, yet we have the simplest solution at our fingertips – behaving like a decent human being.
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
This is worth considering instead: Leave love, hope, joy, a spark, encouragement, goodness…
You can do this today and everyday. Then as Anne Lamott says, people might write and talk warmly about you!
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