Sunday, January 22, 2017

TOW #16: Live Your Legacy Now by Barbara Greenspan Shaiman

Live Your Legacy Now by Barbara Greenspan Shaiman is a book that was written to to strive to inspire people to make meaning in their life. To do so, she adds anecdotes of different people that followed through with her step by step system. Using multiple anecdotes she is able to prove to her audience that many people have used her system and ‘lived their legacy.’ Inspiring her audience with different people’s stories, she shows people that everyone in different situations and conditions can be inspired to moving forward and make a change.

She includes quotes by different people regarding her idea for making a change. Alluding to different people she helps prove her purpose by using famous people to show her audience that many people would agree with her idea of living your legacy and everyone deserves a chance to do so. She also provides guiding questions to help the reader in their process of figuring out how to indeed ‘live their legacy.’ She provides pages of questions to help her audience discover how they can live their legacy and move forward with their passion and succeed in something that is meaning and powerful to them. The questions also allow her audience to branch out into other means of ‘living’ by guiding them to move forward in other locations and other people.

Shaiman also provides graphs to illustrate her ideas, steps, and meanings behind all of her ideas, motives, and descriptions. Giving her audience a visual, she is able to connect to the more visual-spatial audience members to ‘show’ them how the effects of her ideas and show how they follow a logical order.

Ultimately, Shaiman inspires her audience through anecdotes, graphs/visuals, and quotes to show her audience how making a change and moving forward is not impossible and her book describes how they can do so in 10 simple steps.

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