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ABOUT LIVE YOUR LEGEND
Hey Guys – Welcome to an amazing time of the year!
For those of you new to our community, Live Your Legend is a community and movement dedicated to changing the world by helping people find work that genuinely excites them – and build a career around making the impact only you can.
The majority of the Live Your Legend tools and community resources are totally free to the public, and this workbook is only one of the many tools in our Passionate Work Toolkit. Along the journey we’ve also created a career course, Live Off Your Passion, as well as How to Connect With Anyone, designed to help you build genuine connections with the people who can change everything.
We look forward to this being just the beginning. We’re in your corner however you need us.
Here’s to taking 2016 by storm!
~ The Live Your Legend Team
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Guidance:
This was created to help you take action to make 2016 your best year yet. Use the following questions to get crystal clear on your vision, goals and the actions required to make them happen. The key is to keep it simple, actionable and exciting.
Clear your calendar, get out your journal and let’s get to work. Be sure to print this out so you can put pen to paper. Then take it to a coffee shop or park
– WITHOUT an Internet connection or a time limit – and let the awesomeness begin.
Every magnificent accomplishment, discovery or transformation started with the decision to make a change and follow up with tiny steps each day. Over time that commitment will move mountains.
Let’s get to it!
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“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” ~ Michelangelo
STEP ONE
Reflect! Review What Made Last Year
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
Take stock of what you’ve accomplished and what you’re proud of. Also think through the low points of the year and what you don’t want to repeat.
Use these questions to guide you:
1. What are you most proud of in the last year?
2. If there were a newspaper headline describing this past year for you, what would it say?
3. What unfinished business did you want to resolve before the year’s end, and when will you do it? (Ex: lingering relationships, apologies, goals yet to achieve, etc.)
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4. When were you most excited about life in this past year? What were you doing? Who were you with?
5. Looking back, what would you have done differently in 2015?
6. What new dream for yourself did you achieve?
7. Where did you let fear hold you back from a goal you had?
8. What was boring to you this year that you hope to change for next year?
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9. What new and inspiring people did you meet in the last year? Who do you want to get closer with in the year to come? Remember, you are the average of the five people you spend most time with. Choose wisely!
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STEP TWO
Define Your Areas of Attention
“If you have built castles in the sky, let not your dreams go to waste. Just build the foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
List the core areas of your life where you want to get results. Examples include: Health, Continued Learning, Helping Others, Marriage, Business. The more creative you can get with your naming, the more committed you’ll be (i.e. Expand the Mind instead of Continued Learning). Anything goes.
Don’t list any more than 8 (ideally fewer). The point here is to nail the areas in your life that matter and have fun with it.
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STEP THREE
Define Resolutions and Habits
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
Before we start thinking through our massive goals, it’s good to start with general themes of improvement or change you want to work on. We see them as habits or resolutions. These differ from goals in the sense that goals are things you eventually accomplish or check off your list. Habits are things you want to adopt as a part of your life going forward. Some examples of habits we’ve focused on include: being early, scheduling less, slowing down, spending less time on email, simplifying/ decluttering, single-tasking or getting more sleep.
Our friend Leo Babauta of ZenHabits.net has a really effective and simple approach to changing habits - It’s best to focus on a max of one new habit or resolution at a time (ideally no more than one a month). If we do that one thing for a month straight, it will likely become a part of our routine. The good news is that for the super ambitious, this still allows for 12 new habits a year! Although, we’d recommend fewer.
List up to 12 habits or resolutions you’d like to focus on for the New Year:
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STEP FOUR
Create a Core Goal in Each Area of Attention
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” ~ Napoleon Hill
Now it’s time to think big. These goals don’t have to be massive, but that certainly makes it more fun. They just have to be meaningful to you. It’s not necessary to pick something for every single category, but we encourage you to do so or you risk sacrificing parts of your life that matter. Balance is key.
List 1-3 goals per Area of Attention:
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STEP FIVE
Get Specific!
Define What You Really Want
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. “ ~ T. S. Eliot
It’s not enough to say, “I want to be healthier” or “I want to make more money”. Goals must be quantifiable and measurable. And you need to be in control of whether they happen. You can’t control whether you actually lose 10 pounds, but you can control what you eat and how often you exercise, which usually leads to losing the weight. Define exactly what you want. If you want to write a book, then how many words a day can you commit to?
If you don’t know the rules of the game, then how could you ever expect to win?
List the quantifiable outcomes and the specifics of each goal.
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STEP SIX
Get Leverage
Find a Compelling and Emotional Reason Why
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Leverage can come from one of two places. You can focus on the wonderful things you’ll experience if you complete your goal (i.e. happiness, personal freedom, finding the love of your life). Or you can focus on the awful things that might happen if you don’t (i.e. loneliness, a heart attack, bankruptcy). Positive or negative, discover what will make it an absolute must to accomplish your goal. It’s like the father who couldn’t quit smoking until his six-year-old daughter walked into his home office one morning and said, “Daddy, I don’t want you to die before I’m 10.” He never smoked again. That’s leverage.
What massive reason can you find for making your goal a must? It could be fitting into your wedding dress or being sure you’re alive to teach your grandson math. It’s your call. Just be sure there is major emotion behind it.
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