Legacy via Tom Peters

• June 18, 2008

100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money

by Tom Peters
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Consider this a variation on a debate in the Tom Peters Weblog over the number of priorities a person can have. Well, I’m settling it.

One!

Here’s the deal. It’s 5 a.m. (09.28.2004) as I write. I have a day crammed full of miscellaneous (that dreaded word!) activities ahead, ending with a flight from Boston/Logan to London/Heathrow. But the…THE…Pressing Question is: WHAT WILL (in One Sentence) THE LEGACY OF THIS DAY HAVE BEEN FOR TP?

Yes, I believe a Single Day can have as much of a “legacy” as a lifetime. In fact that had better be the case! Why? Because the day…stretching out before me…filled (at the moment) with limitless opportunities…is…ALL I HAVE!

Right?

Just another day?

Hardly!

THIS IS IT!

All those things…grand and mundane…I want to do with my life will either be abetted or thwarted or put off or ignored in the course of…THIS ONE, UNFURLING DAY.

So: What (One Sentence) will Today’s Legacy be…for You?