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Live For The Legacy

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You don’t control the outcomes of your life, principles do.

Benjamin Hardy says that our lives are governed by objective principles: if you drop a book, gravity will ensure it hits the ground. You controlled that action, but the outcome was the result of how it interacted with the outside world.

It is the small, even undetectable, habits that accumulate and create the quality and legacy of our lives. The big things are just the small things done repeatedly.

When we talk about “living for the moment,” we are usually referring to acting on our immediate desires, rather than consciously choosing for each moment of our lives to serve some kind of purpose, add to some kind of objective.

The truest love is not how you feel, but how you act. If you want to find your purpose, think of it as whatever you are good enough to keep doing, until you leave a legacy, then it is your calling.

It is not in premeditation that we decide what the big, important parts of our lives are, it is doing. Particularly, what we do over and over again. Doing defines our lives, our characters, our relationships—everything.

Everything that matters happens in small, repeated actions, and small actions are made up of moments. Which is why instead of living for the desires of “the moment,” you should live for the work of your legacy.

Your legacy is what you will be remembered by — what kind of person you were, and what you did while you were here. Developing this requires you to be present. It requires you to choose. It requires you to use each of your moments, rather than wash them away with a rush.

There is a deeper, more profound peace that comes from working toward building a part of yourself in the world, rather than building your life around catering to your senses’ immediate desires. It will be equally taxing, frustrating, gratifying, joyful, exhausting—but at the end you are left with something greater than yourself, and that is the point. Everything is hard, only some things are worth it.

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