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…

 

  1. What Day of The Week Do Most Heart Attacks Occur?
  2. The 15 Rules of OUR Revolution (Are You In or Are You Out?)
  3. The Passionate Work Framework: 3 Rare Requirements that Make Passionate Work Possible
  4. The 4 Required and Necessary Steps to Discover Your Passion + Our Latest Course: 21 Days to Discover Your Passion!
  5. 5 Debilitating Myths About Discovering Your Passion
  6. 57 Living Legends Expose The Moment that Defined their Passion
  7. 11 Quick Actions You Can Do Today to Successfully Start Doing Work You Love (or Anything)
  8. The 14 Most Powerful TED Talks for Disruptive Career Change & Making a Difference
  9. Become a Writer, Transform Your Career, Change the World + Video Tutorial: How to Start a Blog in Under 10 Minutes w/ Zero Tech Experience
  10. The Most Powerful Career Speech of All Time!
  11. 27 Questions to Find Your Passion Workbook (free Download)
  12. A 5-Minute Hack to Finding Your Life’s Work
  13. The World’s Most Powerful Question for Finding Your Life’s Work
  14. Simon Sinek Shares the #1 Business Principle that Changes Everything (Video Interview) 
  15. Our Most Challenging Choice: 6 Steps to Ensure You Don’t Pick the Wrong Path
  16. How Living Legends Ensure Success: Do this Daily & Guarantee You’ll Do Work You Love 
  17. Do You Have Permission To Live Your Greatest Life?

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…

 

  1. What to Do When the Next Step Feels Impossible
  2. Are You Cultivating and Pursuing The Spark?
  3. Are You Scared or Are You Just Selfish?
  4. Serendipity 101: How I Create Luck (take this ONE golden step)
  5. Asking the One Question that Most Are Too Afraid (or Unconscious) to Confront
  6. Why Competition is Meaningless (and How Your ‘Competitors’ are Actually Your Best Teachers)
  7. The 10 Secrets to Maintaining Momentum and Finding Clarity

3. How to Build the Confidence to Be Authentic & Stop Lying to Everyone!

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…

 

  1. How to Hate Your Job (or 16 Things Not to Do)
  2. The Top 15 Reasons We Don’t Quit the Jobs We Hate:  What is YOUR #1 Excuse?
  3. The Beginner’s Guide to Enjoying a Job You Hate
  4. Does What You’re Doing Actually Matter? (+ free workbook)
  5. Do You Want to Be Your Boss? (or How to Know When It’s Time to Quit…)
  6. How to Fund a Passion: 5 Not So Obvious Ways Anyone Can Make an Extra $1,000 a Month
  7. How Business School Killed the Entrepreneur (and some worthy alternatives)
  8. The Death of Job Security & How to Raise Yourself (and Your Child) to Be an Entrepreneur
  9. The One Thing You Must Do the Moment You Quit or Get Fired (Purpose Finding 101)
  10. How to Live Your Legend WITHOUT Quitting Your Day Job (& 1 free book for each of you – seriously)
  11. Take the 5-Minute “Should I Quit” Test
  12. The Myth of ‘Choosing the Right Path’: The Live Your Legend Backstory
  13. Door #1 or Door #2? The Decision that Could Haunt You Forever…

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!)

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…

 

  1. 4 Steps to Crafting, Testing & Perfecting Your ‘Everyday’ Elevator Pitch
  2. Tell Your Kick-Ass Story and Influence the World
  3. The Power of Influence: 6 Tools to Get Anyone to Do Anything
  4. 4 Ways To Be A More Effective & Ethical Influencer: Interview With Best-Selling Author Robert Cialdini
  5. Power Negotiating Crash Course: A Few Tricks that Can Save You A Fortune In Minutes
  6. Power Negotiating Top 5 Tools from the Expert: An Interview with Roger Dawson

13. Firing Toxic Friends and How to Surround Yourself with the World-Changing People Who Make Failure Impossible

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…

 

  1. The 31 Habits of the World’s Best Connectors
  2. Mastering The Art of Social Facilitation: The Only Truly Instantaneous Performance Hack
  3. Firing Toxic Friends & What To Do If Your Community Won’t Support Your ‘Crazy’ Ideas
  4. Rule #1 for Getting Mentors, Leaders & Businesses to Want to Work with You
  5. How to Add Real Value to Very Successful People (even if you have ‘nothing’ to offer)
  6. 5 Ways to Use the Internet to Build Real Connections with Impossible to Reach People
  7. 5 Steps to Find & Befriend Your ‘Dream Connections’: Deciding Who You Actually Want In Your Corner
  8. The Science of Creating the Perfect Mentor: A 9-Step Process
  9. The $100k Question: How to Ask for & Get What You Want
  10. Converting Enemies into Friends: How to Work (Well) with the Most Difficult People
  11. Tapping Brilliance: The Ultimate Mastermind Workbook is Live! (Download your totally free 56-page guide)
  12. 32 Ways to Easily Make New Friends at Live Events (& how an introvert met 70 people in 12 hours)
  13. A Beginner’s Guide to Anti-Networking: 13 Tools & Articles for Building Real Relationships

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

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