Legacy of Peace

The legacy we leave to our family is important.  Many also live a life whose legacy will change the world. 
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday October 7, 2011 to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the three women "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."

Challenges Create Legacies

In our lives we face challenges. Whether those challenges are personal or business, financial or health, ongoing or one offs, they are forming our experiences and therefore our legacies. Now, we can choose not to view our challenges as building blocks of our personal destiny. When we do, we fail to take control of the challenges and therefore allow the challenges to take control of us. When we take control of the challenge, we are facing our reality and molding it to our best advantage.

You would not sit back and allow the failure of your car brakes while driving on the speedway to take you in any direction. Instead you would take control of the steering wheel and direct the vehicle to the safest stop you could maneuver, averting a life or death situation. So when presented with a situation that is a challenge, take the steering wheel of that challenge and maneuver it to your best advantage.

Nothing is happenstance and everything is for a reason. Those who have learned the most from their challenges have been creators of amazing destinies for us to learn from and grow. What is your legacy? How are you preserving that legacy for generational prosperity?

Contact us at http://www.ythlaw.com/ . It is the legacy you have created that we seek to protect and preserve.

Car Bombing in Times Square

I was taking my daughter to her Tennis practice on Sunday when she asked, out of the blue it seemed, whether there was war. She is just turning 9 so her world perspective is limited to family news discussions and of course current events at school. But, whether there is war or even whether we are at war and with whom is quite a complex topic to have with a 9 year old as we are rushing in to make it on time for tennis. And, she is actually waiting for my response. So I quickly say what any loving mother would, "Ask your dad".

She dashes on to the court and I flee back to the car to see how many errands I can possibly accomplish in less than an hour. Then I hear about the car bombing in Times Square. Did my daughter hear this story before I did? Does she have a sixth sense? Whether those responsible for this bombing are part of a larger network that goes beyond our borders or not, this act of violence clearly gives reasons to pause and ask "Are we at war and with whom"?

What is our collective legacy to the next generation? Will it be of war or will it be of peace? Leave your comments here or contact us at www.ythlaw.com