I was barely three pages into the massive tome of family history that I’d borrowed to fill in some of the more remote branches of my family tree when it hit me:
For decades and centuries, we relied on newspaper, certificates of birth and marriage and death to record the impact of one person on the world. Now, with the advent of YouTube and blogging and the internet, it’s much harder to be forgotten and to make a true impact.
I love watching episodes of “Who do you think you are?” because they always delve a little deeper than Uncle Henry born in 1932 or the distant cousin who died during the Gold Rush. It’s all about the stories you uncover, the images from the past and the miracle of history and luck that made you who you are today.
If someone tracked the history of your business, 100 years from now, would it be a footnote in the margins or an origin story that inspires and impacts the world?