The Beginner's Guide to Live Your Legend

A path begins by walking

“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.” 

-Chin-Ning Chu

LiveYourLegend is dedicated to you and your freedom. To finding the work you love doing and using it to put your dent in the world.

As Chin-Ning says, every one of us has our own path to pursue. I could not agree more. I started this site because I was so taken back by the template the world was trying to shove me in. I knew a better way must exist.

I didn’t want to do something just because it had been done that way before. So I didn’t.

It took a few trips around the world and some unforgettable experiences and business pursuits, but it’s finally clear.

I’m here to help you discover what lights you on fire. Life is meant to be lived on your terms, doing things that matter. This is a place to start so let’s do it.

If you’re a new visitor there is a lot to sort through (100′s of posts in fact). So let this be your beginner’s guide to life on your terms. (For more about me and this adventure head over to the About Page.)

Another awesome start is by joining the community and checking out the Epic Work Toolkit - a gift to anyone who subscribes to free weekly email updates. You’ll get a 70-page eBook and all kinds of other good stuff to help you do work that matters. That will keep you busy for a while. You can do that below:

The best way to get through all this is knocking off a few posts at a time. Don’t do it all at once.

So why don’t we start where people have found the most value?

Most Action-Provoking Posts:

*Note: the side bar, directly to the right, has a dynamic list of the most popular posts too.

1. How Business School Killed the Entrepreneur (and some worthy alternatives)
2. Rule #1: Surround Yourself with Passionate People
3. Does What You’re Doing Actually Matter (+ Free Workbook)
4. On Modeling the Impossible and How to Do Anything
5. Guarantee the World Will Buy Your Offer: A 5-Step Process
6. A Killer Lesson from My Workout with Tim Ferriss: Why Most Conversations Suck + A Challenge for You
7. 72 Hacks and Beliefs to Live and Work on Your Terms
8. 10 Must Do’s to Create a Kick Ass Business on Your Terms: The Down and Dirty from Dinner with Leo Babauta of Zen Habits
9. Do Something Impossible
10. The Science of Creating the Perfect Mentor
11. From Tim Ferriss & Warren Buffett to Tony Robbins & Seth Godin: How to Create World-Class Relationships
12. How to Stop Failing (or How to Live a Dream)
13. The Myth of the 4-Hour Work Week
14. How to Hate Your Job (or 16 Things Not to Do)
15. The Beginner’s Guide to Enjoying a Job Your Hate
16. 11 Quick Actions You Can Do Today to Successfully Start Doing Work You Love (or Anything)
17. 25 Unmissable Lessons from My Weekend with Warren Buffett
18. 11 Steps to Insane Focus: Do More of What Matters
19. The Beginner’s Guide to Being Congruent
20. Experiments in Removing Stress (or 16 Ways to Live Longer)
21. The Most Dangerous Word in The World
22. 7 Ways to Find Your Path through World Travel
23. The Magic of Attempting the Impossible
24. The Art of Slowing Down: 12 Simple Steps
25. Quadruple Your Productivity and Enjoy a Little Life
26. 7 Quick Steps to Finishing a Non-Fiction Book in Half the Time While Retaining Twice as Much
27. Living the 80/20 Life: 5 Ways to Achieve More with Less

My Articles Around the Web:

Since I got started, I’ve had the opportunity to write articles for some amazing people, websites and companies all over the world. You can check the latest out below and the whole updated list is here.

Good Life Zen – 6 Hacks to Make Fitness Goals Reality
Matthew Ferry – Audio Interview of Scott Dinsmore on Matthew Ferry Player’s Coach
Zen Habits - How to Summit Life’s Everyday Mountains
Tiny Buddha – The Beginner’s Guide to Simple Daily Happiness
On Startups – Commit To Your Core: 9 Reasons Why Every Entrepreneur Should Outsource
Tiny Buddha – Discovering Happiness through Purpose in 3 Natural Steps
Escaping the 9 To 5 – Your Time Is Worth More than You Think: Why Outsourcing Is a Must
Elance – How One Man Elanced His Way to Life on His Terms
Big Girl Branding – Be Your Own Most Valuable Brand and Sell Yourself to Anyone: 13 Steps
Illuminated Mind - How to Find Life-Changing Opportunity in the Worst Situation
Think Simple Now - Find Peace in a Busy Life
Elance - 12 Tips for Outsourcing Your Business to the Next Level in Today’s Economy
Change Your Thoughts - Finding Short Time Fulfilment Whilst Keeping The Long Term Vision
Write To Done - 12 Life Lessons from Warren Buffett to Becoming a More Compassionate Writer
Write To Done - Become a Book Review Ninja: 10 Steps to Mastery
Good Life Zen - The Power of Solitude: Taking Time to Reset
Make It Happen - The Ultimate Secret to Always Winning in Life
Live Bold and Bloom - Make ‘No’ Your Best Motivator
So there’s the juice. I hope you enjoyed it and if you didn’t, I promise the best is yet to come.

Everything Else:

Now that you’ve spent a month getting through the best of the best. In case that’s still not enough, here’s a full list of all the archives.

About Scott- The Very Short Version:

I’m a die-hard adventurer, life-experimenter, writer, personal freedom coach and value investor, in search of the extraordinary. I am crazy committed to discovering your (and my) own path to personal freedom and living life on your terms by helping you find and do work you LOVE. I do this through my coaching, writing and simply living life at the limit (or just over it). I’m 29, live in San Francisco, am recently married to my college sweetheart and I get out and explore the world as much as absolutely possible.

On my way up Mt. Shasta

If you want more on me, the longer version can be found on the about scott page.

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Here’s to the adventure!