#22 Living Your Legend

hey guys this is Greg Denning and you are in the school of awesome sauce where I share with you Amazing Stories and strategies to help you live an extraordinary

[Music] life hey hey my friends welcome to another episode and seriously thanks thanks for listening I know there's there's so many things you could do and be doing and man I appreciate it I love it um and I feel honored and blessed and this is like this is my calling and my mission and my purpose to just share something as often as I can through any medium I can like any way I can just to inspire people to think differently to um just say hey what do I want to do with my life how do I want to live and and change things up and like keep going like cheer people on to to improve their lives and and to keep growing and learning and achieving and just literally just we can all live extraordinary lives that's the most wonderful and exciting news there is that that every one of us can live an extraordinary life we can make choices about our happiness and our health and our relationships and the things we choose to do with our lives man it's so exciting I love this stuff I love this stuff and today we're going to talk about like like literally just making this happen the big the big picture and the big why of like really making this happen and not not just talking about it and not so on one side not talking about not doing anything but on the other side not just this huge grandiose event but this journey the journey we go on and I want to I want to frame it up um in In Living your Legend is what I want to call it and that's that that that phrase comes from the book um by Paulo Quello called The Alchemist and I hope you've read that book if you haven't you like you need to read it you'll love it it's a great book and if you have read it I want to invite you to reread it uh that's one of that for me this is one of the classics that you can read and reread and and it's it's past it's like 25 25th edition or something just the thing's amazing and sold tens of millions of copies and um I love I love mentoring from it coaching from it I love rereading it I love the inspiration that I get from it every time I go back to it because he just illustrates the principes so well in inside of a fictional story about pursuing our Legend um and and to each of us it's different that's that's what's beautiful too is like your Legend and my Legend they're going to be different um and each person has their own unique Legend this thing that they were born to do right the song they were born to sing and something that just lights them up you lights that fire inside of us uh but but in that in that it's all different there's always common denominators for all of us about how to like how to actually make it happen and how it makes us feel and the challenges and obstacles we're all going to face and I'm I'm not going to do any spoilers here in the book but he walks through and it's just so brilliant how he just he captures every uh every principle and idea and lesson uh for each of us to pursue our own Legend and so I I want to ask today and talk about this I ask you what's your Legend what is it what's your Legend now a few of you listening right now are like I got this who I know what it is and and you're stoked about it and you you know right you have this knowing and and so my message to you is okay what are you doing about it day in and day out and you know as I you guys I coach people I do group coaching I do one-onone coaching I speak often um as I'm doing that like I all the time people are like w life gets in the way and I just got busy and or I don't know what to do or you just get going and and another big one is like well I'm just I'm just you know work I'm working all the time I'm studying all the time I'm just going and going just just paying the bills and taking care of the things and I you guys I get it oh I get it I been I seven children and and I'm a voracious learner and uh husband and father and friend and you know mentor and speaker and disciple and all these different things right and and I get it but every day you and I must take at least one step even some days they're going to be baby steps some days they should be huge leaps but every day without fail you and I must take a step on the Journey of living our Legend because I think I think it was John Wayne said even if you're on the right track you get run over if you just sit there you can't and some of us slide backwards and some of us sit there for years and we liter literally miss out on opportunities to move towards living our Legend So we got to move all right so let's let's go back and and get this Foundation the why of it right like what is your Legend and if if you're asking that some people get we get stuck in the the paralysis like I don't know and so they don't do anything and but you can always and I love I love teaching this when I'm when I'm coaching and mentoring like whoa wait hold on wait a minute like even if you don't know like your your mission right now is to find out and even while you're finding out while you're searching while you're seeking to know like what is what is my thing what is my Legend there's never any reason to sit still um in well sit still in the fact I don't want to be misunderstood here sit still in like not doing anything not taking action we should definitely have some Stillness in our lives and we should definitely make time to be still and to listen uh to our hearts and our souls and our minds and and be still in our minds but what I'm talking about there's no reason to ever just be sitting there not doing anything because any growth any Improvement in your life brings the tide remember remember I talked about this right where the tide your personal growth your personal development like brings the tide and the tide comes in lifts All Ships it helps it always you're always making a step in the right direction when you're improving yourself when you're trying to learn and grow and make improvements so we should be taking action every day and I I want to emphasize and reemphasize and I'll do it again and [Music] again that at the end of our Lives we're we're really going to regret the things the extraordinary things that we wanted to do and knew we should have done but didn't and if you read books on you know the like the top five regrets of the dying and if you talk to people who have worked with those who who pass away and if you read books about you know things that books are written on people's deathbeds and and I've done all this and I've talked to this and and my friends U my friends that they're um kind of final care nurses and they take care of people who are have a chronic illness that are dying and they you know comforting them but they they talk they talk and and they're sharing their thoughts and feelings and their regrets and they're they want to give advice and my one friend she she works with hospice and she says you know she goes over there and and the and the people are like look you you go go Live Your Dreams go do those extraordinary things with your families go make that happen right and those are the kind that's the kind of advice and they're not they're not talking they're not saying oh man sure wish I'd spent another day at the office or you I'm so glad I just did nothing no no nobody ever is like man I'm glad I didn't you know pursue my dreams and goals and my mission and my Legend I I you know I none of that stuff right right when we get to the end of our Lives we're going to be grateful that we pursued our Legend and we're going to feel some deep remorse about not doing it and so and you guys this isn't this isn't like to there this isn't a guilt trip or anything I'm I'm trying to inspire you here I'm trying to remind you about what matters because don't you understand like it how many of you can relate to this that you get up in the morning you have this list of all these things you have to do and while you're doing your list other things get added to your list right and you feel like you're drowning already and people keep handing you things to hold above the water and so it's just go go go go go and and it's busy it's crazy and the end day you're like dang I I I just was taking care of all these urgent things and uh all these things that well some of them are important but some of them are just just you got there things you're doing right and at the end of the day if if you and I if we stop and ask ourselves at the end of the day did I live my Legend today did I do you know the awesome things the important things the the non-negotiable things that often times like man no I didn't right and it doesn't have to be huge in scale but it needs to be huge in priority and actually making it happen and so like in the so we every month we do our live training in the school of awesome sauce um coaching program and man if you guys aren't in that you need to get in that it is awesome and we start out with our epic life planner and literally go through I created this planner to really make sure that we're on Target because we you know we can all like do time management and energy management which is awesome and we can all be more efficient and more effective in how we use our time and what we're working on but we have to have this epic Vision right of the legend like what what are you leaving behind what what Mark uh are you making like what difference are you making what impact are you having like what's the legend of your life what's the story of your life what what's going to be that thing that you'll you'll be remembered for oh man interesting I came across this quote just recently somebody said we all experience two deaths um the first death is when we actually die you know when our body dies and the second death is when the last person um you know the last person on Earth speaks of us or you know it's the last time somebody remembers us that's your second death and I was like whoa what an idea right what an idea and then you know you live your legend by pursuing and doing things that are are memorable obviously in a good way here we're not we're not promoting anything ridiculous um but when you're Remembered in a good way for the impact you had for the things you did and man can we can we all think of just incredible people that will be remembered for hundreds of years and people we still are talking about you know the the great authors and the great thinkers I mean Shakespeare's and an easy obvious example that so many hundreds of years later were still talking about him still sharing his ideas I think of uh Frederick Douglas and William wilburforce and um you know Gandhi and Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King and then menus and Confucius and sedara and I mean we we wow we just go on and on and on here but people who lived their Legend and they had an impact and it doesn't have to be you know huge Global like some of those examples but it's your own Journey okay and Frank right um we were just over on our World War II Expedition um and Frank and the ten boms and from the book The Hiding Place and um you know wow we came AC you guys we came across so many extraordinary stories over there there was one we were in Prague there was a guy a British guy who had gone into Prague to visit a friend and he was going to go on a ski trip to Switzerland and it was like right before the Nazi invasion and he's like I got to do something about this and so he cancelled he canceled his ski trip and he single-handedly helped all these Jewish children Escape and he contacted tons of families and people and he arranged all the stuff to transport them out and he ended up I think it was somewhere around 700 children that he was able to you know with his funds and his resources and all his efforts he was able to get out of Poland before The Invasion he saved their lives and um most of their parents perished in the wars and many of them in aitz and the guy didn't tell anybody he L didn't tell anybody and it was like toward the end of his life somehow somebody found out that what he had done and like you know brought the guy like brought him to the light and like do you know what this guy did and then he you know everyone acknowledged that his heroism it was awesome I mean that's that's an example and and there's so many others of just living living your Legend and we have to pursue that and so as you know in this in the school of ausome house training and I go live in there all the time tons of resources you guys is literally the nuggets the truth the principles the motivation we need each day the reminders of what matters and how to actually do it and how to how to actually then you know fill out your epic life planner and then implement it of getting this huge goal right and I I've taught you about the dumb goals I came up with an acronym years ago for dumb because we hear about smart goals right they need to be specific and meaningful and attainable and relevant and time bound and that's true but smart goals are to help you get things done but usually they're not inspiring enough or motivating enough or big enough to to light your fire to help you live your Legend and so the dumb goals those are kind of like your legendary goals and dumb the acronym dumb stands for demanding unrealistic meaningful and bold and these are the ones that intimidate you these are the goals that are so big that you can't achieve them as you currently are they're so big you literally have to grow you have to become a better person before you're going to be able to achieve that goal whoa those are awesome right and they're both exciting and intimidating they make you

nervous but they're the ones that are legendary like they're part of living your Legend and man oh are you guys feeling this I hope you get excited about this hope you get fired up like what's what's the thing I'm going to do now some of you are going to tie this to like the work you do in life and I hope I hope all of you as a minimum I hope you do work that you enjoy and work that you're good at that you feel like you're you know using your god-given talents and gifts and abilities and your creativeness and your Innovation and your resources and energy incitement like you get up excited to work on your task I hope as a minimum I hope you're doing that and as an ideal you're doing work that you just absolutely love and geek out on and like you're so passionate about it you're like this is the thing I was born to do I love this stuff now some of you will pursue a legend that's has nothing to do with money or income or anything and that's great that's fine um and you're just like you're like that's my thing I'm I'm gonna rescue horses or I'm going to work with you know exotic animals or I'm going to work with uh orphans or I'm going to do some some some kind of social work or or maybe it's art maybe you're just going to carve beautiful things or paint beautiful things maybe it's you're going to create music or just play Beautiful music and maybe you're just gonna you're going to teach people because that's your thing you just want to teach and Inspire other people to live great lives you want to work in reforming education

or maybe you maybe you're Legend and this is awesome and any of you is a parent ought to be part of your Legend is just to raise great kids right to raise wonderful children to be the best spouse and the best parent you can be and that has to be if you if you're going look if you're going to have children that has to be part of your legend that has to be part of your Legend is being a superb parent like we man you got to make that a priority and be legendary as a parent for your kids right not for other people to see not for any award but that your kid says oh yeah my parents are legendary to me they're awesome and that's your thing and and again like your Legend can be so many things your your dream your passion your goals it can maybe you want to be a great

Adventurer the biggest thing you guys is just like uh this quote I came across we were in the Trinity Library which is now one of my new favorite places on Earth and we came across this quote I'm I think hold don't hold me to this I think it was Oscar wild maybe n maybe it wasn't I don't remember who said it but they said oh it might it might have been Jonathan Swift I'm killing now you guys um but he did say live every day that you're alive I think it was Jonathan Swift live every day of your life and I saw the quote and I walked past and I was like oh okay that's good and then I was like well wait oh man no I get it like he's saying look so many of us we're we're going on we we're alive but we're not really living and he's saying look you have to live every day that you're alive right not just exist not just be there but live every day that you're alive like make that day count and so my of course my challenge is make today count do something today and do something every day like I mentioned at the beginning every day that takes a step on your journey of living your Legend every day no exceptions even if they're baby steps before you go to bed you learn something that changes your life or improves your life right before you go to bed you you take action to share something if you have a message to share with the world right every day you do something that moves you in the direction of your Legend we have to Live While We're Alive instead of just

existing too many of us are like walking zombies man where the lights are on but no one's home and you know why we don't feel alive you know why so many good people are just going through the motions of life it's because they're not pursuing their Legend now some of you are going well how I how do I afford it how do I actually do that like I have to I have to go to my job I have to do this I have to pay the bills I mean how do I do this and and I and I get it we've been there like and in my own Journey you guys from being being homeless and on my own at a young age as a teenager to pursuing my Legend of building the life I want with an extraordinary marriage and amazing kiddos and and taking them now and living our life dream which includes tons of travel and humanitarian efforts like and then and then helping other people live their extraordinary life and have those kind of incredible experiences and by the way I I hope you're coming with me on one of my Adventures the next one's in July for Mongolia and you need to come with us to Mongolia right like whoa to get over there and have these transformational experiences that just change you and on every trip I lead we talk about living your Legend and we give you tools we have discussions you have experiences and insights like to just blow your mind and you you come home different Fact one of the participants that um came off our World War II Expedition recently she she sent a message and was like hey this is easily the most extraordinary epic thing I've ever done in my life like hands down the best experience of my life and I hope you guys come on adventure with us you can you can learn more about our adventures on worldschool academy.com it's worldschool academy.com and join us for an adventure like you have to do this and if you don't come with us like go out and do it but like you have to do this um we we make it special because of the mentoring and the processing like asking the questions and and taking experience to the next level I'll share some more stories about that in another episode but like you can go and you can see the place and you you be like okay that was neat that was cool or you can go and let the place like change you but that comes with the coaching and the mentoring that we do while we're there so over come but the other side is we have um a a training and a coaching program called the freedom income Mastermind and we we call this income like we call it Freedom income because we wholeheartedly believe that everyone should have freedom income that's income coming in that brings you the freedom you want the time Freedom the Financial Freedom the mental emotional Freedom like freedom from the stress and worry and the mindset there around money and like you just bring in this Freedom income and I think all of you should have multiple streams of income and that the income should come in because of value you bring to the marketplace and something you're doing that you enjoy or that you're good at and whatever Freedom looks like for you sometimes so many of you want freedom just to live where you want to live and I man I love that right to live where you want to live to do what you want to do to be able to build your life on your terms to be able to take off time when you want to take off time uh freedom to work on your art and your gift and your talent your skill like your hobby freedom to have the adventures you want to have to take the trips you want to take like the freedom whatever life looks like to you and if you like we talk about you know living your Legend you're like okay this is what my life looks like and I hope you get that dialed in I hope you sit down and make the time to write that out you know Crystal Clear like what does your ideal day look like where are you what are you doing what does it feel like you know what what's freedom to you you know freedom to pursue learning and growth and contribution freedom to make a difference and so we do this program and we did we did another one of our trainings yesterday and it's so awesome man I love this stuff man you know teaching people how to um level up in their finances and to create additional sources of income or to take the ones they have and raise them so whether you're in a job or you want to change jobs or P pursue careers or start your own business or you already had your business how to scale it and grow it and teaching people how to you know build funnels and like you know create resources and services and tools I mean it's awesome I love this stuff so wherever wherever um our clients are at um on their Journey whether it's you know they don't know what business they want to start I mean they're brand new they have no idea they just want to do it and we help them find a find what they're going to do and do it or they already like have an idea but I haven't done anything yet or they're already like hey I'm doing this I just want to scale it and rock it and so we do that and so and you guys man get in on this stuff like our our whole purpose is to help because we did this in our own journey in pursuing our Legend we had to come over come overcome all these obstacles and these hurdles of getting everything lined up so we're not neglecting our health we're not neglecting our spirituality we're not neglecting our marriage to our parenting we're not neglecting all the things that matter we're we're still doing those and then still living an extraordinary life still doing things that matter living our Legend and have the finances to pay for it right and you guys we have been dead broke like actually multiple times like we get it you know when when we had the economic crash in 2008 and N like we lost everything because we had all investments in real estate and the stock market we lost it all and there's other up other ups and downs and other emergencies and other kind of family disasters that you came from outside experiences and or whatever right and and we've been there we felt the hurt and wondering like is it even possible H how are we ever going to get out of this right and and we felt the hurt and the pain and even we felt the pain of wanting to live our Legend but not being able able to because of circumstances or situations or finances and and so you guys literally the reason we've created the school of awesome sauce coaching the reason we've created the freedom income Mastermind the reason we're leading the Expeditions around the world we literally with just a sincere heart said we've got to help people figure this out and so ultimately everything we're doing even this podcast like everything we're doing is to help you live your Legend and live an extraordinary life and we're giving you the tools The Proven strategies that just work and it's so fun you guys that our students like send us messages all the time like this is amazing like totally Chang changing their relationships I mean their spouses like jumping on board at when they thought they never would and and like transformation in their in in losing weight and getting in shape and the best shape of their life and starting businesses I mean on and on and on we're giving you the tools to level up every important area of your life like you just like like I'm leveling that up right and I'm getting better and I'm and I'm actually making things happen getting things done it's so awesome it's so exciting so fulfilling and that's why we do this that's why we did it but I I want to challenge you invite you get in the game sign up man get in the classes get in the courses if you want this you want it bad enough get some skin in the game be willing to pay for it with your money and your time and your resources and your effort and changing your habits and making things happen oh it's awesome I love this stuff I love it I live for it and and I it's worth every single effort you guys it literally is worth every single effort that you put forth to Live Your Dream and make a difference and I could and I will I was going to say I could tell you hundreds of stories I will tell you stories I we're going to keep going here as I'm telling you more and more stories about how we have pursued our Legend as a family and I can I can picture these images right now where standing in these like sacred special spots with my wife or my children and having made a difference in somebody's life or having had an experience that we only dreamed about and it it was better than our dreams to stand there and take that in with a child be like man we're here like we're we're doing this this is unbelievable right and it's worth it it's worth the late nights and the early mornings and the effort to live your Legend So my friends wherever you at are at on your Journey if you need to find out what your Legend is or you know what it is and you need to start taking action or you're taking action and you need to turn it on or just keep going we're here to cheer you on we're here to help you but please do it today take another step in the right direction and every day wake up I hope you have your vision board up and you got those elements on there and your your philosophy Journal you've got written out where you know how you're going to live your life and every day you get up and you focus on taking a step towards those things living your Legend and and think what that will do for your life for your family for your posterity for the people around you in your world right now to live your Legend and a whole bunch of us are just living legendary lives with the energy and spirit and power that brings to the world that we can all be a great Force for good which is our ultimate goal we all live a legend together as legendary people as awesome saucers oh man I love this stuff but we got to do it so take action today hey you guys will you connect with me connect with me on Facebook and on Instagram greg. Denning on Instagram and and ask me question send me messages you can email me um and and connect with us I want to hear I want to hear your stories I want to hear hear your Legend I want to I want like tell me what it is what what are you pursuing and ask questions like literally I'm I'm being totally sincere and genuine here this is what I live for this is what I get up every day excited about to help well first first and foremost I have to live my Legend with my wife and then together we're raising our children to live their Legends right and then as a family literally as a family we're here to help you live yours and so ask your questions tell your stories like let us know about your triumphs and your failures like connect with us message us email us like get in the trainings and and the resources we're posting stuff all the time to encourage you and inspire you and help you and everything I've been learning and devouring viciously as I've been studying this for for over 24 years well actually like 26 years now W I love this um like I'm sharing this stuff it just works and as I'm helping um people trying transform lives every day that's what I spend my time doing like I'm learning so much um every day from so many great people and I want to help you too so get out live your Legend because awesome is always an option reach

upward hey everybody thanks so much for listening to this episode I hope you got a lot of value out of it and found some things that you can apply to your life right away hey I'm I'm I'm being totally sincere when I say I I live to help you live your extraordinary life so I hope you'll reach out to me if you have any questions or let me know how I can help you in any important area of your life and in fact you know this this podcast is brought to you by the school of awesome sauce monthly coaching program take advantage of that get in there if it's the best way to get a breakthrough to the next level so you can level up your health your spirituality your OT ions your mind your relationships your finances business every part of your life just get in there where you have a a coach and a mentor you have a supportive Community to make things happen so so jump in there take advantage of this try it out get in there with us and level up your life see you on the inside reach upward [Music]