You don’t need a statue. Being the neighbor everyone trusts with their spare key is a legacy too.

Trust is the most concentrated form of reputation there is, and it gets built entirely out of small reliable acts. Being the person others feel safe handing something to means years of turning up, not losing things, and saying true sentences. No monument records it, and the whole street knows.

Do the small dependable thing this week for someone nearby: take in the delivery, return the tool, say when you will be back and be back then. Keep the promises that are too minor to matter. That is the entire method, repeated.