What Will You Leave Behind?

As part of my entrepreneurial growth, I created meaningful relationships with CEOs. Some became clients.  Others were sounding boards for my clients and myself.  Through those relationships, I have been able to explore and transform leadership at its highest level.  In that mix of CEOs, some were running companies, while others were retired. One of the amazing conversations with retired CEOs of Fortune 500s is their desire to contribute.  Like all people who contribute, they seek some level of self-interest.  That self-interest can be summed up in one word

You Can’t Go Back

Yesterday is gone.  No matter what you do January 1st, 2001 will not come back.  It doesn’t exist and neither does tomorrow.  To lament over actions you took or didn’t take will not change what actually happened in the past.  Yet, so many people live with regrets that create emotional paralysis.  They live with the philosophy of ‘if I could have, should have, wish I had, etc.’.  To my knowledge, no one has been given the