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Thoughts on leaving a legacy after actor Mike Haggerty recently passed away.

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What’s your legacy?

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J Pombo. Live. This Here’s Mike Haggerty is an actor that just passed away. I believe he was 67.

If you’re a fan of television and movies, you’ve probably seen him whether you recognize them or not. pretty popular character actor just really had a whole lot of roles.

I specifically remember I’m from the late 80s and 90s, just in a number of movies and TV shows, it seems like he had all the TV shows at one time, and had some reoccurring characters on a number of sitcoms and stuff.

He was a comedic actor. That was kind of his main area of coverage that just passed away. And it’s one of those situations I don’t normally take on heavy topics like this, but I want to hit on it.

For some reason, it means more to me that this isn’t somebody that people are going to be having huge media, blitzes about his death, and what it means and what an impact he had on everybody.

He was a guy that a lot of us knew to an extent just from him playing different characters, on TV and in movies. No major difference other than that, in most of our lives, and the people that know him, obviously, they’re going to have a different perspective.

So it brought in my mind just seeing somebody like this. That’s famous, but not Uber famous, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you his name, but I could tell his face and his voice.

He was always one of those guys that I enjoyed seeing and doing things because he did it, he did a pretty good job but what is your impact gonna be?

What legacy are you leaving behind and why?

And this is a topic that gets brought up a lot. A lot of people say, you know, what do you want your children and your grandchildren to say about you and all that. And I think that’s important, to an extent.

I think it’s more important, what you leave with people, whether they recognize it came from you or not, it’s what you’ve passed on. Because, at least in my case, I don’t care if I’m remembered or not, that isn’t as important to me. As in, did I guess you’d say bring more beauty into the world, rather than more, more of the opposite more darkness, I guess you could say.

And did I was able to pass that on to the people that knew me or beyond, it was able to make an impact in the way that I know is possible that I’ve seen other people make impacts.

Not that that’s my life goal but in terms of legacy, that’s how I consider it is what got passed on, not what gets remembered about how I looked or how I talked, or that I was some special person.

I think that’s all the type of things that we get involved in while we’re here. And we get, you know, the ego gratification that comes from that but in reality, I think that what really matters is what you’re able to pass along.

What you’re able to wake people up to and if there’s a few people that think happily about me after I’m gone because of that. Great. But it’s not.

For me, it’s not the goal. But it’s a heavy topic that most of us don’t talk about very often once in a while it gets brought up when a famous person passes when are really famous where people are really caught up with that personality.

I think we’ve even discussed it here before, when when really famous people pass on? Yeah, I did. We did.

We talked about Betty White and people like that, where people really have this emotional impact. And I thought it was more important to pay attention to somebody that didn’t necessarily create that emotional impact.

I’m not saying whether he was a good person or a bad person I didn’t know the guy in his his popular impact is not going to be overwhelming that we can’t see past the fact that this is a person that was alive and now he’s gone.

So what’s left and what’s going to be left from you and doesn’t matter whether you get any credit or not, doesn’t matter.

People visit your tombstone after you’re gone. I don’t know. For me, it doesn’t matter that much at this point in my life. Life, maybe that’ll change but I’d love to hear your perspective.

So leave a comment wherever you’re watching or listening to this. How does this tie into business because this is kind of business topic that we cover here, I’m a Business Investor. So that’s kind of what we go over here.

And I think it has a lot to do with business because so much of what people do in business, especially in your later years, has to do with legacy has to do with less about you and more about children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and nephews, nieces, friends that you have that you know are going to outlive you. It’s about the world you leave behind, and the lessons you pass on.

That’s what means most to me when it comes to legacy but how about you, I’d love to hear what you think about this stuff. I think it’s a good thing to talk about once in a while because it’s all in the back of our minds.

We don’t verbalize it as often as we should. I think besides that heavy topic, I have a book that’s much lighter in terms of concepts. These are strategies that anybody can use in their business, or to be able to push any type of idea out there into the world. And what is getting in the way between you and the people you’re looking to reach. It’s all in here, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, it’s how to be competition proof.

And that includes a competition of well attention because all of us need a certain amount of attention, to be able to get our ideas out there or someone else’s ideas that we’re promoting or what have you.

So go check out this book, you can go pick up a copy, it’s relatively inexpensive over on Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com, or any place that you buy books.

I don’t want to exclude anybody and my books found in most of those places, especially online stores, or you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

There’ll be a digital copy, but you can at least download it and read it wherever you are able to read digital books. That’s all I got for tonight. We’ll be back tomorrow.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.