Being that this is a business themed website, you’d expect this article to discuss leave-behinds, business cards, and other forms of marketing communication to leave an impression with someone. I was thinking on a much larger scale.

We Will Rock You by Queen was recorded 30 years ago. Charlotte’s Web was first published 55 years ago. The Wizard of Oz was released 68 years ago, originally written 107 years ago.

For the majority of our readers, all were created years and decades before they were born, and they’ve listened, read, and watched each of them several, dozens, or hundreds of times.

While some may consider those examples businesses or products, I see them as significant contributions to millions of people’s lives. Sure, there are greedy labels and studios at the helm of those creative works now, but they weren’t created with that intent.

You may not have the pipes of Freddy Mercury, or the emotion of Judy Garland, but you do have the opportunity to leave your mark in a unique way.

Maybe you write a book, a song, a screenplay, a poem, a letter, a script.

Maybe you create a charity, push a bill, protest for a cause, refuse to move.

Maybe you perform for the crowd, or at a hospital, or on the internet.

Maybe you paint a picture, snap a photo, plant a tree.

There can and always will be only one Rosa Parks, one Andy Warhol, one Annie Leibovitz, one John Lennon, etc…

But every day is a new opportunity to create something to remember you by. Each and every action can benefit someone else in a significant way. That next blog post or customer service issue could be an opportunity to change a person’s life.

Take the things you enjoy doing and create something that will influence or affect an entire community, nation, niche, family. Think about how what you do each day can make the world better in some way and have someone Google your name 50 years from now.

No regrets.

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