Legacy, and Leaving Behind a Life You’d be Proud of
Day 83 of 100 days of writing daily, going sober and starting a business.
Start this article by listening HERE, and scrolling through a few of the pieces I used as inspiration today. My thoughts are in caps*.
I have an immense fear of living a life of proclivity.
It’s prevented me from being happy with a normal life and instead drafting up nightmares filled with 9 to 5 jobs and suburban homes. Relationships and jobs have ended for being too normal.
I run away from steady, safe, boring.
It comes from a mix of delusional grandeur and impassable work ethic. In my life, I’ve always worked my ass off to get what I want. Perhaps it’s also in my blood to be a risk taker, a gambler but safety in it’s conventional white picket fence sense means that when I see stability, I see iron bars.
I see giving up a possibility of something wonderful happening if I chase that little dream.
My ideal life isn’t small. I want to do big things, make serious impact and really change people’s lives for the better. I strive to do it everyday in how I react with people, and simply to be happy with a simple paycheck is not for me. I don’t care how millennial spewing that sounds, it is what I feel and have felt since the very ethos of my college years.
Today, I thought about the legacy I’d like to leave, and how it is so much bigger than who I am now. I felt as if I needed to inspire myself today, and so below I am sharing a few pieces that made me think and feel closer to that person.
THINGS THAT INSPIRED ME TODAY
*HOW GOOD IT FEELS TO THINK AND LIVE IN SPACES OUTSIDE OF MYSELF.


*I FOUND MORE VALIDATION THAT THE WAY WE CONSUME CONTENT IS CHANGING. ENTER TOPIC.COM
“ We’re interested in creating an experience that’s reflective of the culture, but not reactive to it.”
— Anna Holmes of Topic.com / Neiman Lab

