Everyday Legacy: Lessons for Living With Purpose, Right Now

by Codi Shewan

Overview

What if your legacy isn’t what you leave behind, but something you create, every day of your life?

What if you started acting the way you want to be remembered—right now—and shared your unique gifts with the world? In Everyday Legacy, Codi Shewan inspires readers to redefine how they live and embrace the idea of living—not leaving—a legacy. His message is simple, yet powerful: In each moment, you have the ability to change yourself and those around you, in profound ways.

This book is for anyone who wants to rethink their own legacy and start living it now. Everyday Legacy shares vital lessons for living, informed by Shewan’s experiences as a funeral director who developed a deep understanding of the reality of death. From tales of unexpected friendship as a young volunteer in palliative care to what he learned through his estranged father’s funeral, Everyday Legacy shows us what it means to be deeply human, undeniably mortal—and how to choose a life that matters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989025994
Publisher:	Page Two Books, Inc.
Publication date:	02/18/2020
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,022,083
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

“A legacy is something you live, not what you leave behind.” So believes Codi Shewan, who spent two decades working in the death-care profession, until in 2014 he leapt from an executive position in corporate funeral services to the entrepreneurial world. As a consultant and speaker, he’s on a mission to redefine “legacy” as something that you personify, each day of your life: you can realize the power of your own positive influence while you’re still here. He is also the founder of From Strangers To Family, an experience which helps people feel connected, in an often disconnected world.

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Preface

Everyday Legacy is about drawing on experience through story and finding the relatable context that helps steer you more powerfully and purposefully towards your true self. It's about helping you to live the characteristics and values that are important to you so that you're proud of what you're giving the world while you're still alive.

This is not a step-by-step “how to live your legacy” book. It’s a book meant to inspire conversations between you and yourself, first and foremost. To inspire you to live the way you want to be remembered after death. Every single person is unique. Your stories are unique. Your values and virtues are unique. Whoever you are, and whatever your story, I believe this book will change everything you think you know about legacy. Forever. And maybe – just maybe, like Elizabeth, it might change your life.

After a career spent staring death in the face every single day, I realize it hasn't taught me anything about dying. It has, however, taught me everything I know about living.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Story of Our Lives 1

1 The Sticker Book | Finding Connection 9

2 Living Your Everyday Legacy | Leaving the World Better 15

3 Where Lessons Live | The Power of Listening 29

4 Meeting BOB | Uncovering What Matters 37

5 Echoes OF Regret | Choices about Now 49

6 Mortality | Perspective and Living with Purpose 57

7 Tea With The Queen | Above All Else, Love 67

8 Pause | Time to Create Meaning 75

9 Ashram | Allowing for the Unexpected 85

10 Ego | Tapping Into Grace 107

11 Where You Meet Yourself | Discovering the Real You 119

12 Finger Snap People | A Community of Kindness 127

13 Shoulder TAPS | Being Lazy to Tune In 139

Conclusion | The Beginning 151

Acknowledgments 157

Editorial Reviews

This is a book that will change the way you live your life. Everyday Legacy is something you can read over and over, and get something new from it every single time—there are so many bits of wisdom that I was constantly highlighting the pages and nodding my head in agreement. Reading it made me reconsider the way I think and make choices, so that I am personally living the legacy I want to leave. Codi Shewan has hit a home run, and I can’t wait to see all the lives he will change with his book. Everyone needs to hear this message, and live by it.
—Chris Ruden, Motivational Speaker and Season 1 Competitor on Titan Games with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Limb Different/Amputee

I put Everyday Legacy down and thought: “how on earth did a book that told me to think about my death get me so excited to go out and live?” But that’s what it did, and that’s why you should read it.
—Drew Dudley, Internationally bestselling author of This is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters

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