This is an IHeart podcast.

It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary show is on the air. When we're all dead and gone, which we will be, the work we did will leave the most lasting impression.

Those are deeds, not accomplishments.

We will live on through other people.

To what extent did we invest in them?

To start with our own spouses,

certainly our own children, but other people's children.

Did we inspire them?

We engage them.

We motivate them.

Did we make them better?

Did we give them a higher calling?

Because that's how you live on that's how movements live on

there's a great book called good to great by jim collins and when i elected a city council six

months in everybody wanted me to go to their kids bar mitzvah or to church or to the funeral

or to the wedding.

And I couldn't possibly do it all.

And people were angry at me.

I supported you and you need to be at my event.

Well, you find out they don't really care about you being at the event.

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