Live Fully While You're Alive

Although I spoke a lot about legacy years ago (even wrote a book on it 25 years ago called Who Will Cry When You Die?), I no longer think it’s a thing worth pursuing. Because we’ll be dead. So who cares what people say? Better to be great and brave and excellent and loving while you’re alive. That’s the irony: care not about your legacy and live gorgeously now and you’ll automatically create a grand legacy. I'm truly super excited over the upcoming release of my new book The Robot and t...

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  Hi, it's Robin Sharma and welcome to Daily Mastery. This is my short form podcast where I'll walk you through the insights, methodologies, and tactics that I've shared with many of the world's most successful people as their mentor, including celebrity billionaires, NBA superstars, world-class artists, and global humanitarians. I hope you find great value in today's episode.

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  How are you? I am so delighted to have you in this daily podcast. Well, towards the end of the Everyday Hero Manifesto, I come up with a pretty contrarian thought, which is, don't worry about legacy. We live in a culture right now where so often we hear, "Think about your legacy. Think about how you want to be remembered when you're no longer here." Quest for immortality, so many pundits say. Many years ago, I wrote a book on legacy and I called it, "Who Will Cry When You Die?" And at that point of my journey as a philosopher, as a human being, as a mentor to leaders, I really thought legacy was important. So I would coach them and I would mentor them, "Live your life in such a way that when

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  you're no longer here, you are revered by the people you leave behind." I think it was Joseph Campbell said, he said, "Live your life in such a way that you live in the hearts of those you leave behind." Well, at this point of my process, I don't really think legacy is very important. In many ways, I think it is, it is a pursuit that doesn't lead to much value. I think legacy is really just about ego in many ways, because legacy is, how will you be remembered when you're no longer here? But why does it matter how you will be remembered when you're no longer here? Because you will be food for worms. You will be six feet under.

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  You will be a pile of dust in a little urn on someone's mantle over their fireplace next to their Little League pictures and their anniversary photos. And I think what's most important, and what's far more important with being concerned about how you will be remembered when you're no longer here, is how will you live while you get to be alive? I'm going to repeat that again because it's so important. It doesn't really matter how you're remembered when you're food for worms. What really matters is how will you be remembered or how will you live your life while you get to live? In other words, how will you inhabit each of your days? And that brings me to a question I'd love to ask you in this session, which is, how

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  will you spend your last day? On your, at the last hour of your last day, when you reflect on your life, how will you have wished you will have lived? How do you wish you will have treated people? What kind of work will you have wished you will have done? What kind of values will you have lived by? What kind of pursuits and adventures on your last day will you have wished you will have done? Because you know, what we regret at the end are not the risks we took, but the risks we didn't take, and the relationships we didn't build, and the adventures we didn't do, and the music we didn't listen to, and the books we didn't read, and the places we

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  didn't travel to, and the masterwork we didn't push out into the world. And then I want you really to think about, how will you spend your last day? I'm reading this book, it's about the Last Supper. And the author interviews all these famous chefs, and it's a great book. And it's basically, what do you wish on your, what, what will, do you wish your last meal will be on your last day? Let me ask that to you. What do you, what will you wish will be your last supper on your last day? On your last day, who do you want to be surrounded by? On your last day, how do you want to spend your hours in terms of work? Where do you want to spend your last day? What thoughts do you want to think on your last day?

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  What art do you want to look at on your last day? What will be the last paragraph you dream of reading from which book on your last day? If you could actually have one person around you in your last minute, who would that be? What would you say to yourself in your last moment? Some things to think about, some things to meditate on, some things to journal on, and most importantly, forget about legacy. Live today fully, and then do the same thing tomorrow, because you create your future by what you do today. Thank you for being with me. I honor you for your consistency, listening to this podcast, doing the work each week.

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  As you do the work each week, you are recreating who you are, the way you see the world, the way you see yourself. You know, it's those micro wins and those tiny triumphs that look so small, it's easy not to do them, but when you stay with them with meticulous consistency every day and every week, and you come back and you watch the next video of me as your mentor, I promise you, I assure you, those small little wins over time will stack into marvelous victories that reshape who you are. You will see yourself in a whole new way. You'll become stronger, braver, more creative, more productive. So you go out in the world and you make the world a brighter place. I'll see you in the next session. Bye-bye.

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  Hi, it's Robin Sharma. I hope you've received strong value from today's episode. I encourage you to read my latest book, The Everyday Hero Manifesto, which is helping people from right across the world live soaring lives. If you'd like to go into further learning, you can head over to robinsharma.com, or you can download my free ebook, The World Changers Manifesto. And when you do that, you'll also get full access to the Everyday Hero Training Formula, which is a complete system to help you upgrade your productivity, positivity, impact, and the quality of your life. Have an outstanding day.