Your Contribution

This is the culmination of your journey, the wisdom you embody, the impact you make, and the legacy you leave behind. At your best, you live as a sage and steward, shaping what outlives you and guiding others with your hard-won wisdom. In the in-between, you procrastinate, waiting for the “right time,” hoarding your gifts instead of offering them. At your lowest, you turn inward and selfish, chasing hollow success or leaving behind harm instead of good.

⇡ The Sage & Steward: Impact & Legacy⇡

Embodies wisdom, mastery, and stewardship, passing on a legacy.

Questions & Problems: What wisdom must I share? What am I leaving behind?
What wisdom, influence, and gifts will outlive me? How do I steward what I’ve built?

Types of Stories: Legacy stories, elder wisdom, mentors, guides, visionary sagas, culture-shaping myths, leadership arcs.

  • Gandalf — guiding the fellowship.

  • Yoda — teaching the next generation.

  • King Solomon — stewarding wisdom.

  • Mufasa — legacy of kingship.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. — a vision larger than his life, shaping generations.

  • Maya Angelou — a life’s work of words, wisdom, and beauty.

  • Mr. Miyagi (Karate Kid) — passing wisdom to the next generation.

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg — reshaping law and justice across a lifetime.

  • The Apostle Paul — letters outliving him, shaping a movement.

Themes: mastery, guidance, stewardship, legacy.
Great for: leaders, mentors, elders, visionaries, those shaping future generations.

|| The Procrastinator: Unfinished Business ||

Holds wisdom or gifts but delays, circling without finishing.

Questions & Problems:

  • What am I waiting for?

  • Why do I never finish?

  • How do I move from almost to done?

Types of Stories & Examples:

  • Delay, missed-opportunity tales.

  • The Miser (Aesop) — hoards gold, never spends.

  • Sleeping Beauty’s kingdom — frozen in time.

  • Kafka’s unfinished manuscripts.

Themes: delay, neglect, unfinished work.
Great for: those who stall, delay, or keep waiting for “someday.”

⇣ The Self-Server: Corruption & Regret⇣

Uses gifts selfishly, chasing hollow success or fleeting rewards.

Questions & Problems:

  • Who am I serving — myself or others?

  • Why do I crave validation more than impact?

  • What do I truly leave behind?

Types of Stories & Examples:

  • Vanity, selfishness, wasted-legacy tales.

  • King Midas — gold over relationships.

  • Narcissus — consumed by self-image.

  • Grasshopper (Aesop) — short-sighted pleasure.

  • The Pied Piper (dark side) — gifts twisted to revenge.

Themes: vanity, hollow legacy, selfish gain.
Great for: those chasing appearances, neglecting deeper meaning.