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Live Your Legend
Find Your Passion & Begin to Find & Do Work You Love
Once we have our foundation, we’re ready to follow the steps that get results. Here’s your roadmap…
2. How to Take the First Step (and figure out what the hell the first step is!)
The most important step of all is the first one. With that comes momentum. Then comes serendipity. Let’s start at the beginning…
If I had to name one things that’s been responsible for the massive growth and success for our community and business here at Live
Your Legend, it is my willingness to be real and tell it like it is. I’ve had thousands of you thank me for that. Here’s how to get started…
1. Getting Real: 33 Honest Personal Stories, Fears & Facts You Don’t Know About Me
2. Vulnerability 101: How to Build Rapport with Absolutely Anyone
3. Full Disclosure: 12 Reasons You Probably Shouldn’t Be An Entrepreneur (The story no one tells)
4. My Public Apology & What to Do When Things Go Massively Wrong
5. How to Live a Life of Purpose + 5 Uncommon Tips to Genuinely Connect With Everyone You Meet
4. Understanding Your Fears, Realizing What's Actually at Risk of Not Changing & Making it Fun
1. Never Fail Again: 13 Ways to Turn Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance
2. Rejection Therapy: How to Build Overnight Courage or Guarantee Failure
3. The Most Dangerous (& Unfounded) Risk of Attempting to Do Work You Love
4. How to Get Unstuck: 5 Practical Tips to Move Forward Even When You Don’t Know How (+ a 6-Month Review)
5. The 3-Step Process to Never Let Fear Stop You Again
6. 10 Ways to Do Your Own Impossible Daily
7. The Dirty Little Secrets About Failure
8. 7 Surprising Breakthroughs From Moving Through (Instead of Away From) Discomfort
9. The Ticket to Ultimate Freedom: YOU!
10. Gratitude Guide: 25-ish Questions to Help you Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude
5. Making Difficult Decisions: Should I Quit, What do Do Before I Quit, How to Live Your Legend While Working at Your Current Job
Immediately jumping ship is rarely the smart thing to do. There’s plenty you can (and should do) to prepare before you have to drop
everything and run…
6. Discovering Your Untapped Motivation & Seeing the Proof of What’s Possible
The more people we can see others doing the seemingly impossible, the more it becomes normal. We have to ‘brainwash the
impossible’.
1. From Doctor & Lawyer to Musician & Revolutionary: Making Extreme Career Transitions & Why It’s Never Too Late
2. You Can Have a Bigger Impact than You Think
3. How to Stop Failing (or How to Live a Dream)
4. How to Build a Passion Business While Supporting a Family of 8 (the post to kill excuses)
5. The Magic of Attempting the Impossible
6. A Brief Guide to Disproving Human Limits
7. The Most Valuable Lesson Learned from Running My First 50-Mile Ultramarathon
8. 10 Surprising Case Studies of Ordinary People Doing the Impossible
9. 10 More Case Studies of Normal People Doing the Extraordinary
10. How to Change Careers long before Quitting Your Job: The 18 Most Inspiring LYL Transitions of 2013
11. The 9 Most Inspiring Transitions of 2012
7. Build Your Own Practical Results-Driven Education & Become Your Own Teacher of What Actually Matters
Don’t get me started on the number of flaws and misdirection baked into much of the world’s education system. It’s on each of us to
craft our own practical education for learning and pursing the things that are actually useful, practical and have a good chance of
leading to our life’s work. Here’s your map…
1. How Business School Killed the Entrepreneur (and some worthy alternatives)
2. How Formal Education Killed the Passionate Career (+ A Practical Guide for Students, Parents & Lifelong Learners)
3. The Birth of Self-Guided Education (the only real option left)
4. The 27 Principles to Teaching Yourself Anything (aka The Self-Guided Education Manifesto + PDF download)
5. The 32 Lessons that Made All the Difference in 2011 (& some I might not want to repeat)
6. The 5 Books I Reread Every Year (or How to Read Less)
7. How Complacency Killed the College Graduate (& the American Dream) + What YOU Can Do
8. The Death of Job Security & How to Raise Yourself (and Your Child) to Be an Entrepreneur
9. Designing Your Practical Masters Degree: 12 Apprenticeships with 12 Businesses in 12 Months
10. My 68 Most Powerful & Painful Business & Personal Lessons of 2013 (+ Costa Rica Photo Essay)
11. The Best 6 Free Tools for Speed Reading Anything 2-3x Faster Online
12. 7 Quick Steps to Finishing a Non-Fiction Book in Half the Time While Retaining Twice as Much
13. 4 Simple Steps to Unlock & Leverage Your Hidden Expertise (Without Going Back to School!)
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1. Find Your Passion & Begin to Find & Do Work You Love
Once we have our foundation, we’re ready to follow the steps that get results. Here’s your roadmap…
The most important step of all is the first one. With that comes momentum. Then comes serendipity. Let’s start at the beginning…
If I had to name one things that’s been responsible for the massive growth and success for our community and business here at Live
Your Legend, it is my willingness to be real and tell it like it is. I’ve had thousands of you thank me for that. Here’s how to get started…
1. Getting Real: 33 Honest Personal Stories, Fears & Facts You Don’t Know About Me
2. Vulnerability 101: How to Build Rapport with Absolutely Anyone
3. Full Disclosure: 12 Reasons You Probably Shouldn’t Be An Entrepreneur (The story no one tells)
4. My Public Apology & What to Do When Things Go Massively Wrong
5. How to Live a Life of Purpose + 5 Uncommon Tips to Genuinely Connect With Everyone You Meet
4. Understanding Your Fears, Realizing What's Actually at Risk of Not Changing & Making it Fun
1. Never Fail Again: 13 Ways to Turn Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance
2. Rejection Therapy: How to Build Overnight Courage or Guarantee Failure
3. The Most Dangerous (& Unfounded) Risk of Attempting to Do Work You Love
4. How to Get Unstuck: 5 Practical Tips to Move Forward Even When You Don’t Know How (+ a 6-Month Review)
5. The 3-Step Process to Never Let Fear Stop You Again
6. 10 Ways to Do Your Own Impossible Daily
7. The Dirty Little Secrets About Failure
8. 7 Surprising Breakthroughs From Moving Through (Instead of Away From) Discomfort
9. The Ticket to Ultimate Freedom: YOU!
10. Gratitude Guide: 25-ish Questions to Help you Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude
5. Making Difficult Decisions: Should I Quit, What do Do Before I Quit, How to Live Your Legend While Working at Your Current Job
Immediately jumping ship is rarely the smart thing to do. There’s plenty you can (and should do) to prepare before you have to drop
everything and run…
The more people we can see others doing the seemingly impossible, the more it becomes normal. We have to ‘brainwash the
impossible’.
1. From Doctor & Lawyer to Musician & Revolutionary: Making Extreme Career Transitions & Why It’s Never Too Late
2. You Can Have a Bigger Impact than You Think
3. How to Stop Failing (or How to Live a Dream)
4. How to Build a Passion Business While Supporting a Family of 8 (the post to kill excuses)
5. The Magic of Attempting the Impossible
6. A Brief Guide to Disproving Human Limits
7. The Most Valuable Lesson Learned from Running My First 50-Mile Ultramarathon
8. 10 Surprising Case Studies of Ordinary People Doing the Impossible
9. 10 More Case Studies of Normal People Doing the Extraordinary
10. How to Change Careers long before Quitting Your Job: The 18 Most Inspiring LYL Transitions of 2013
11. The 9 Most Inspiring Transitions of 2012
7. Build Your Own Practical Results-Driven Education & Become Your Own Teacher of What Actually Matters
Don’t get me started on the number of flaws and misdirection baked into much of the world’s education system. It’s on each of us to
craft our own practical education for learning and pursing the things that are actually useful, practical and have a good chance of
leading to our life’s work. Here’s your map…
1. How Business School Killed the Entrepreneur (and some worthy alternatives)
2. How Formal Education Killed the Passionate Career (+ A Practical Guide for Students, Parents & Lifelong Learners)
3. The Birth of Self-Guided Education (the only real option left)
4. The 27 Principles to Teaching Yourself Anything (aka The Self-Guided Education Manifesto + PDF download)
5. The 32 Lessons that Made All the Difference in 2011 (& some I might not want to repeat)
6. The 5 Books I Reread Every Year (or How to Read Less)
7. How Complacency Killed the College Graduate (& the American Dream) + What YOU Can Do
8. The Death of Job Security & How to Raise Yourself (and Your Child) to Be an Entrepreneur
9. Designing Your Practical Masters Degree: 12 Apprenticeships with 12 Businesses in 12 Months
10. My 68 Most Powerful & Painful Business & Personal Lessons of 2013 (+ Costa Rica Photo Essay)
11. The Best 6 Free Tools for Speed Reading Anything 2-3x Faster Online
12. 7 Quick Steps to Finishing a Non-Fiction Book in Half the Time While Retaining Twice as Much
13. 4 Simple Steps to Unlock & Leverage Your Hidden Expertise (Without Going Back to School!)
8. Building Your Brand and Creating a Movement
You are your own most powerful brand. It’s on you to position it in a way the world can understand – and maybe even build a
movement or revolution around it…
1. How An Average Person Becomes Famous: The Path from Ordinary to Extraordinary (in 2 sacred steps)
2. Behind the Curtain: The 3-Step System to Becoming a Highly-Paid Expert
3. On Modeling the Impossible and How to Do Anything
4. How to Lead a Revolution: 8 Underused Tactics to Build a Massively Loyal Following
5. The Fully-Exposed Live Your Legend Case Study & Biz Teardown: 18 Steps to Turn Your Idea into a Global Revolution
6. Simon Sinek Shares the #1 Business Principle that Changes Everything (Video Interview)
9. How to Stop Being Terrified of Public Speaking, Learn to Speak Like a Pro and Give a TEDx Talk that Goes Viral
There’s probably no more powerful skill for influencing behavior, inspiring change and building credibility than being able to confidently
deliver a live talk from the stage. This is the roadmap our founder used to give a TEDx that’s gotten over 8 million views…
1. How to Get Invited to Speak at TEDx (and get 40,147 views in 5 days)
2. 3 Rules to Giving a TEDx Talk that Gets Over 1 Million Views (My Fave Case Studies, Interviews & Tools Included)
3. How to Become a Main Stage TED Speaker: Interview with TED Content Director Kelly Stoetzel
4. How to Speak Like a Pro: 25 In-depth Interviews with the World’s Leading Experts on Speaking, Influence & Building it into a Thriving
Business
About
Articles
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Courses
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Free Discovery Pack
WHAT’S YOUR CHALLENGE?
1. Find Your Passion & Begin to Find & Do Work You Love
Once we have our foundation, we’re ready to follow the steps that get results. Here’s your roadmap…
The most important step of all is the first one. With that comes momentum. Then comes serendipity. Let’s start at the beginning…
If I had to name one things that’s been responsible for the massive growth and success for our community and business here at Live
Your Legend, it is my willingness to be real and tell it like it is. I’ve had thousands of you thank me for that. Here’s how to get started…
1. Getting Real: 33 Honest Personal Stories, Fears & Facts You Don’t Know About Me
2. Vulnerability 101: How to Build Rapport with Absolutely Anyone
3. Full Disclosure: 12 Reasons You Probably Shouldn’t Be An Entrepreneur (The story no one tells)
4. My Public Apology & What to Do When Things Go Massively Wrong
5. How to Live a Life of Purpose + 5 Uncommon Tips to Genuinely Connect With Everyone You Meet
4. Understanding Your Fears, Realizing What's Actually at Risk of Not Changing & Making it Fun
1. Never Fail Again: 13 Ways to Turn Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance
2. Rejection Therapy: How to Build Overnight Courage or Guarantee Failure
3. The Most Dangerous (& Unfounded) Risk of Attempting to Do Work You Love
4. How to Get Unstuck: 5 Practical Tips to Move Forward Even When You Don’t Know How (+ a 6-Month Review)
5. The 3-Step Process to Never Let Fear Stop You Again
6. 10 Ways to Do Your Own Impossible Daily
7. The Dirty Little Secrets About Failure
8. 7 Surprising Breakthroughs From Moving Through (Instead of Away From) Discomfort
9. The Ticket to Ultimate Freedom: YOU!
10. Gratitude Guide: 25-ish Questions to Help you Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude
5. Making Difficult Decisions: Should I Quit, What do Do Before I Quit, How to Live Your Legend While Working at Your Current Job
Immediately jumping ship is rarely the smart thing to do. There’s plenty you can (and should do) to prepare before you have to drop
everything and run…
The more people we can see others doing the seemingly impossible, the more it becomes normal. We have to ‘brainwash the
impossible’.
1. From Doctor & Lawyer to Musician & Revolutionary: Making Extreme Career Transitions & Why It’s Never Too Late
2. You Can Have a Bigger Impact than You Think
3. How to Stop Failing (or How to Live a Dream)
4. How to Build a Passion Business While Supporting a Family of 8 (the post to kill excuses)
5. The Magic of Attempting the Impossible
6. A Brief Guide to Disproving Human Limits
7. The Most Valuable Lesson Learned from Running My First 50-Mile Ultramarathon
8. 10 Surprising Case Studies of Ordinary People Doing the Impossible
9. 10 More Case Studies of Normal People Doing the Extraordinary
10. How to Change Careers long before Quitting Your Job: The 18 Most Inspiring LYL Transitions of 2013
11. The 9 Most Inspiring Transitions of 2012
7. Build Your Own Practical Results-Driven Education & Become Your Own Teacher of What Actually Matters
Don’t get me started on the number of flaws and misdirection baked into much of the world’s education system. It’s on each of us to
craft our own practical education for learning and pursing the things that are actually useful, practical and have a good chance of
leading to our life’s work. Here’s your map…
1. How Business School Killed the Entrepreneur (and some worthy alternatives)
2. How Formal Education Killed the Passionate Career (+ A Practical Guide for Students, Parents & Lifelong Learners)
3. The Birth of Self-Guided Education (the only real option left)
4. The 27 Principles to Teaching Yourself Anything (aka The Self-Guided Education Manifesto + PDF download)
5. The 32 Lessons that Made All the Difference in 2011 (& some I might not want to repeat)
6. The 5 Books I Reread Every Year (or How to Read Less)
7. How Complacency Killed the College Graduate (& the American Dream) + What YOU Can Do
8. The Death of Job Security & How to Raise Yourself (and Your Child) to Be an Entrepreneur
9. Designing Your Practical Masters Degree: 12 Apprenticeships with 12 Businesses in 12 Months
10. My 68 Most Powerful & Painful Business & Personal Lessons of 2013 (+ Costa Rica Photo Essay)
11. The Best 6 Free Tools for Speed Reading Anything 2-3x Faster Online
12. 7 Quick Steps to Finishing a Non-Fiction Book in Half the Time While Retaining Twice as Much
13. 4 Simple Steps to Unlock & Leverage Your Hidden Expertise (Without Going Back to School!)
8. Building Your Brand and Creating a Movement
You are your own most powerful brand. It’s on you to position it in a way the world can understand – and maybe even build a
movement or revolution around it…
1. How An Average Person Becomes Famous: The Path from Ordinary to Extraordinary (in 2 sacred steps)
2. Behind the Curtain: The 3-Step System to Becoming a Highly-Paid Expert
3. On Modeling the Impossible and How to Do Anything
4. How to Lead a Revolution: 8 Underused Tactics to Build a Massively Loyal Following
5. The Fully-Exposed Live Your Legend Case Study & Biz Teardown: 18 Steps to Turn Your Idea into a Global Revolution
6. Simon Sinek Shares the #1 Business Principle that Changes Everything (Video Interview)
9. How to Stop Being Terrified of Public Speaking, Learn to Speak Like a Pro and Give a TEDx Talk that Goes Viral
There’s probably no more powerful skill for influencing behavior, inspiring change and building credibility than being able to confidently
deliver a live talk from the stage. This is the roadmap our founder used to give a TEDx that’s gotten over 8 million views…
1. How to Get Invited to Speak at TEDx (and get 40,147 views in 5 days)
2. 3 Rules to Giving a TEDx Talk that Gets Over 1 Million Views (My Fave Case Studies, Interviews & Tools Included)
3. How to Become a Main Stage TED Speaker: Interview with TED Content Director Kelly Stoetzel
4. How to Speak Like a Pro: 25 In-depth Interviews with the World’s Leading Experts on Speaking, Influence & Building it into a Thriving
Business
10. How to Get People to Actually Listen & Build a Massive Following Around Your Idea
Having the right audience can change everything. Here’s how I went about building mine…
1. The 3-Step Formula I Used to Get 10,000 Subscribers in 15 Months (the last web traffic guide you’ll ever need)
2. With the Right Audience, You Can Do Anything: The 4 Pillars to Building a Massive Online Following + 4 Ways to Fail
3. The 10 Laws Behind Every Million-Dollar Website (That You’re Probably NOT Following)
11. How to Build Your Idea into a Successful Six-Figure Blog, Website and Online Business
Today’s online tools tremendous leverage for share helping people on a much larger global scale, and getting paid really good money
for it. Here’s how I did it…
1. 10ish Entrepreneurial Possibilities I Can’t Believe Even Exist (for You & Me)
2. How to Make an Extra $1,000 Per Month From Your Strengths, Talents and Expertise
3. The 4 Pillars to Starting a Blog or Online Business that Actually Matters (& grow it by 160x in 2 years)
4. How Live Your Legend Makes Money (full details & actual #’s included)
5. The 13 Truths to Converting a Passion into an Irresistible (& Massively Profitable) Online Offer
6. Guarantee the World Will Buy Your Offer: A 5-Step Process
7. Curing Your Superhero Syndrome: 3 Steps to Building a Successful Virtual Team (& Scalable Business)
8. The Final (and most crucial) Single Step to Profiting from Your Blog (hint: it has nothing to do with the web)
9. How to Fund a Passion: 5 Not-So-Obvious Ways Anyone Can Make an Extra $1,000 a Month
10. How $62.90 Turned into a Six-Figure Business (The birth of the $100 startup)
11. 10 Proven Actions You Can Take Today to Start Making Money from Your Passion Tomorrow (seriously, tomorrow)
12. The Myth of Passive Income & The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Online Business (do you agree?)
13. How to Make Your First $1,000 from Your Passions & Talents in Under 3 Months – Guaranteed
12. How to Get Over Your Fear of Selling and Learn The Way of the No-Pressure Ethical Influencer
It’s impossible to live your legend if you’re not willing to sell. The key is finding a way to sell that feels good and makes the other side
want to do more business with you. Here’s a start…
I believe changing environments is the first step of any type of meaningful transition. It’s also the last. The right friends will transform
who you are. So this should round out today’s framework…
14. Becoming Amazingly Productive and Figuring Out How to Create the Time to Accomplish All of Your Goals
And in case you’re having trouble figuring out how to find the extra time, especially while you might be juggling a full-time job or even
fuller-time family, here are my top tools. I use them constantly…
1. 11 Steps to Insane Focus: Do More of What Matters
2. My (Kinda Weird) Daily Routine & Creativity Rituals
3. How Richard Branson Started Over 400 Companies: The most powerful productivity (& confidence) hack of all time
4. The Day the World Came Together + Download Our Free 2014 Goal Setting & Action Workbook!
5. How I Plan My Week (My 5-Step Process + free workbook download)
6. Living the 80/20 Life: 5 Ways to Achieve More with Less
7. Quadruple Your Productivity and Enjoy a Little Life: 8 Steps to Getting Things Done
8. Productivity Part 1: The Single Most Important Thing to do to be Massively Productive (aka Get More Sh*t Done)!
9. Productivity Part 2: 10 Practical Tips to Maximize Productivity (aka Get More Sh*t Done!)
10. The Power of Balancing The 3 C’s: Consuming, Creating and Connecting