Find “Your” People & Take Imperfect Action (+ 54 Lessons from #WDS2014)

17 JulFind “Your” People & Take Imperfect Action (+ 54 Lessons from #WDS2014)

“The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.”

- 休·麦克劳德（Hugh MacLeod）

Finding Your People

This past week has been interesting…

上周三下午，一个名叫卡洛斯（Carlos）的家伙走了起来，在我从波特兰机场的火车上介绍了自己。他是一个住在德国的西班牙人，他独自旅行了两周的旅行。他也恰好是长期的LYL成员，并且显然知道如何放置188金宝搏足彩网址the 3-second ruleto work.

On Friday morning, I did yoga with 807 folks in the center of Portland as webroke the world record对于最长的人类瑜伽链，有100多人。

那天下午，我在我们的LYL当地啤酒品尝时与您遇到了200个。188金宝搏足彩网址我很敬畏，因为我看到了很多我们的lyl，并与任何家人都拥抱，因为他们会成为最好的188金宝搏足彩网址朋友。这证明了我一直梦dream以求的社区（见上文）。

On Saturday morning,Jon Giganti, one of LYL’s first readers, founding CWA member and my very first coaching client, took the stage on Saturday to share how he helped a paraplegic kid get his life back and become a speaker and published author. For lunch, I joined 18 LYL Local hosts from around the world to learn how they’re building their in-person communities.

On Sunday, Linda, our LYL Local host and dance contest winner from Kansas City, walked on stage to accept a现实生活奖学金that she won for the work she’s doing to teach urban children creativity and entrepreneurship throughMINDDRIVE.

Then at about 4:45pm, somehow my wife Chelsea took the main stage to perform her own rap to 3,000 people, in an attempt to win a rather unconventional type of race (she rocked it!).

By midnight that night, I was dancing Bollywood style while wearing a charcoalcapethat read世界统治峰会对面。直到凌晨4点左右，我与密友结束了与亲密朋友谈论大型想法（和小主意）。

为什么斗篷？因为这些是我的人民。我感到宾至如归。我们都做了。

The question of the weekend was simple…

How do we live a remarkable life in a conventional world?

This was the gathering thatChris Guillebeauthought up four years ago – one that started as a little blog with no followers a few years before that.

当我参加第一个活动时，我认识了两个人。18bet188最新地址8金宝搏提款活着你的传奇不存在。

Since then I’ve been infected with possibility.

Finding your people changes everything.

你的警卫下来了。您的疯狂想法会分享。他们被接受。他们受到鼓舞。他们得到了支持。

And this alchemy results in those ideas actually coming to life. You can see the progress in the dozens of people no one even knew about in year one who are now in the spotlight.

您不必参加3,000人的峰会即可获得它，尽管我建议这样做。

You can get some of it online, in a forum or on a site like LYL or反对nect With Anyone.

您可以在当地社区中获得它 - 查看聚会或188金宝搏足彩网址LYL局部for starters.

And if I were you, I’d get it everywhere.

It starts with one other person who believes what you believe. If you’re looking, they’re probably closer than you realized, especially if you’re a part of our movement at Live Your Legend.

因为当您找到它们时，您会获得…

Take Imperfect Action

当贾达·塞纳（Jadah Sellner）提供了一个开头的主题演讲，并表演了她的人生故事 - 口语诗歌风格时，这个主题提供了完美的建议。这三个词将周末绑在一起 - 他们将每个人都捆绑在一起。

因为谁真的准备好了？您可以随时谈论自己。如果您等待，您会的。但是这些人与众不同...

Dee had a heart attack at 40, pressed reset and sold all her stuff to build and live in an 84-square foot house in the woods.

Jadah went from directionless and deeply in debtto building a thriving business and community around green smoothies.

A.J.turned himself into a human guinea pigand is building the world’s biggest family tree.

Elise took a love for crafting and experimentationand turned it into her living, all based on becoming an expert at “the attempt”.

John rebelled against the 1971 San Francisco oil spillby giving up motorized vehicles and taking a vow of silence for 17 years.

泰勒戴上了伟大的名字and brought 808 people together to crush the previous record…

These standouts don’t even scratch the surface. Every attendee I spoke with had only a hint of a story or plan before the route began.

Because as it turns out, imperfect is the only action there is.

我们只是愚弄自己，以为我们将在以后做好准备 - 更有经验，更受教育程度，更为准备。我们出于恐惧，不确定性和困扰的想法来做到这一点，即我们可能正在走错道路。但是，如果您今天相信这是一条途径，那怎么可能存在呢？只有您不做任何探索它的事情才会错。

The right people make this type of action, the only type, feel okay.

找到你的人，采取不完美的行动。

It’s pretty simple.

但是，如果没有一些我的人民最喜欢的课程和想法，WDS的回顾将是不完整的：

To kick it off, here’s an imageChelseacreated during our coffee shop writing session this morning…

A.J.雅各布斯, human guinea pig:

• Be non-stop grateful – there are hundreds of things that go right every day and we tend to focus on the few that go wrong.
• We’re all family – help us treat each other with more compassion.

Jadah Sellner, founder of简单的绿色冰沙:

• 我故意遇到生活中的每一课。
• 大声说出自己的梦想 - 向自己和世界展示您的认真。
• Anything that compromises your health and relationships is not a good business.
• Engagement over time is what builds a relationship.
• Choose love over metrics. Even with 315,000 email subscribers, every one is still one person. People can feel the focus on heart over money. We’re all in the business of changing one life at a time.
• 在测试您的想法并查看什么粘性时，请保持疯狂的好奇。
• 放手很难，但是坚持就像跌倒在滑雪板上，被拖到湖边一样。
• Live unedited.

Gavin Aung Than, founder ofZen Pencils:

• What are you uniquely good at that you could do for the rest of your life and how could you use it to help people?
• For best results, add flexibility.

Michael Hyatt，平台的作者：

• The drifting and the driven life are two sides to the same coin. They’re both autopilot choices that take you where you don’t want to go.
• Three questions to leading a designed life: How do I want to be remembered? What is important to me? What single brave decision do I need to make today?
• We unconsciously live as if we are going to keep living. But statistics say three of us in this room will be dead in 30 days.
• Part of the myth of society is that you can do it all. You can do anything, but not everything.
• 如果您想真正伤害您的家人和业务，请心脏病发作。
• In business and personal success, you can’t win at one without the other.
• Priorities make things so clear. You realize that business might actually be fourth or fifth in line – behind family, love, health, happiness, adventure…
• Don’t trick yourself into thinking your situation is permanent. That’s how it becomes permanent.
• Don’t let the urgent replace the important.
• Big, deep planning is a glamorous way of procrastinating.
• If you’re going to get fired, cause it. Take a stand you believe in.
• 反对stantly check in and ask yourself – how are you doing with what you’ve been given?

迪威廉姆斯领导tiny house movement:

• Embrace basic curiosities, walk with your shoes off and unplugged in nature. This leads to action.
• 某种自由来自决定放弃这么多的自由。
• I measure success by how I’m showing up with my friends.

Shannon Galpin, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year:

• 最重要的是，我是一个声音。
• When you find yourself saying, “Why isn’t someone doing something about this?” remember, “Well, I am someone, and I can do something.”
• We all have something we know we can change. We are that somebody that we want to help change the world.

John Francis, who spent 17 years walking in silence:

• You must have an audience to hear your message. Find one.
• 我们只有这一刻可以做我们相信的事情。
• 人们是环境的一部分。保持可持续性的关键是我们如何对待彼此。
• Thinking you’ve learned it all causes you to hardly listen.

Elise Blaha Cripe– professional crafter and expert at “the attempt”:

• Great people do things before they’re ready.
• If you’re not good, who cares? You tried and you learned something about yourself.
• Set the goal before you have the skills to finish it.
• If we waited until we’re ready, we’d do nothing.
• Embrace daily challenges. I love to make stuff. This is how I figured out what fills me up.
• When something stops inspiring you, it’s okay to just stop and move on.
• Say it out loud. Getting it on someone’s radar makes you accountable. Saying it is the first step to realizing it’s possible.
• Stop looking for the full map. Start with just the first steps.
• Create resource circles where each member puts his idea out there to see who can help.

斯科特Berkun, author of Making Things Happen:

• Ideas feel really good out in the abstract when they come up. Then there’s the work.
• The process of creating looks like work and not that much fun – watch an author write.
• 造物主的工作正在梯子上站起来。
• 当我们工作并且感觉不正确时，请避免诱惑重新消费。
• Luck is at play with all creative ventures. You can do everything right and still fail.
• In almost all creative worlds, people journal. Get your ideas out.

John Jantsch, author ofDuct Tape Marketing:

• The secret to life is occasionally meeting or exceeding expectations.
• 谨防地平线效应:梦想和expectations grow with our experiences. Turn around and look at how far you’ve come.
• 放弃我们的小选择应对一切发生的事情ens piles up into big choices over time.
• Creating loyal customers is mostly about choosing the right customers.
• 所有伟大的企业都从服务和为他人服务。

Different Visions, Identical Values

CWA alumni and friendMike Goncalvesput it perfectly – among the thousands of attendees from more than 30 countries, many of us came with different visions, but we all shared the same values. And that makes for the perfect, magical environment for acting before you’re ready.

这就是为什么我每年出现。这就是为什么我尽我所能为自己和你们所有人创造这个日常环境的原因。有趣的是，没有人可以创建一个改变世界改变的社区。只有当我们每个人出现时，才变成。您和我或其他任何人一样重要。

Thank you for that.

Together, we all make the imperfect action not only possible, but encouraged. By showing up the way you do, you allow the rest of us to live our own unedited life. And that’s the ultimate gift.

我们将以克里斯的一人结束，在他打电话给观众中的四个毫无戒心的人之前交付，向他们展示介绍，装备，礼物和飞机票 - 所有这些都是定制的，以启动他们的每个梦想……

“Just because you can’t help everyone doesn’t mean you shouldn’t help someone. It is our capability and responsibility to help people along in pursuing their dream.”

– Chris Guillebeau

We have our people. They’re right here. And I bet you have at least an idea of how you could make a difference. That leaves only one thing.

Act imperfectly.

– Scott

P.S.Next week we’ll be holding a scholarship contest for lifetime access to our反对nect With Anyone course and community, which opens again in a couple weeks. I hope it helps you find your people and pursue what matters. Keep an eye out!

In the comments, tell us your favorite takeaway from WDS. If you weren’t there, just share a lesson you try to live by.

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Images courtesy ofAmosa Studios