What you leave behind
Making mistakes isn’t the issue. Staying blind is.
Every day, people live by convictions they later discover weren’t true to who they are.
That’s not the problem. That’s “just” life.
The problem begins when we never challenged those convictions — when we got stuck, certain, and comfortable.
Life isn’t about being right.
It’s about moving thoughts, words, emotions, and actions — all the way through.
Disconnected
This runs deeper than personal identity.
It shapes how we lead, how we build, how we treat others, and how we interpret meaning – our perspective.
We start to believe our value rises or falls with our results.
But success or failure says nothing about worth — not when you dare to see yourself as more than your performance.
Not spiritual in the traditional sense.
But in the sense that every time you exit something —
a meeting, a room, a family, a life —
you leave something behind.
And what you leave behind starts living its own life.
So ask yourself:
Are you proud of what follows you – what you leave behind?
There’s something more valuable
You might read this and think: He’s a strange guy, Christian Campbell.
Or maybe it resonates.
Either way — this was written for a reason.
Because again and again, I meet people who are fulfilled not because they were always right — but because they chose what kind of trace they wanted to leave behind.
They cared about the impression, the energy, and sometimes even the love they imprinted on others.
It’s never the brilliant plan
I’ve spoken with people on their deathbeds.
With high-performing executives.
With people living so-called ordinary lives.
And in the end — when it’s just the two of us in the room, no masks —
it’s never the brilliant business plan we talk about.
It’s never their personal achievements that spark light in their eyes.
It’s what they left behind.
And how that shaped the lives — and companies — that followed.
So This Is For You
This was written to leave you with something.
Something both life and work have taught me is essential:
You always leave something.
The only question is what.
EN 
DA