How to Create a Life Well Lived
Whatever your age, in this book I will challenge you to re-evaluate your life for the better. To ask yourself deeper more powerful questions about how you spend your time on earth. To think clearly about how you prioritize the things in life that are most important to you. To make changes and take actions that will enhance your experience, friendships and general enjoyment of life. To live with a passion, you might have forgotten is even there...
  • ​Do you feel you are you getting the most from your life, maximizing every single day?
  • ​Are you passionate about your daily work or activities? 
  • ​Do you travel frequently and see many of the places you dreamed of seeing in the world? 
  • ​Do you feel time is running out too quickly on your goals or bucket list? 
  • ​Do you feel trapped in a situation that’s holding you back? 
  • ​Would you like to ask better questions, take stronger actions and add more meaning, experience and color to your life? 
  • ​Do you feel you are you getting the most from your life, maximizing every single day?
  • ​Are you passionate about your daily work or activities? 
  • ​Do you travel frequently and see many of the places you dreamed of seeing in the world? 
  • ​Do you feel time is running out too quickly on your goals or bucket list? 
  • ​Do you feel trapped in a situation that’s holding you back? 
  • ​Would you like to ask better questions, take stronger actions and add more meaning, experience and color to your life? 
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain
Four of My Close Friends Never Saw Their 50th Birthday's 
I was lucky in a strange sort of way in that one of my best friends died when I was in my early 30’s. He was a world-class athlete and only 42 years old. It quickly brought home to me how fickle life can be at an age when few people think of death. Most of us pretty much take our lives and our health for granted until we get ill or someone close to us dies. Since Dave’s death 30 years ago three more of my good friends one man and two ladies have also died of various forms of cancer before, they were 50. Randy, Trish and Donna all had a whole lot of life still in them. Only Randy smoked, the rest had a healthy lifestyle and just got a bad draw in the gene pool. There is not much you can do about that except get constant check-ups and try and nip it in the bud. 

Even when the prognosis was fatal none of them expected to die. Two were convinced their faith in God would save them, the other that natural healing could do the job. All were making big plans for their future "when they got better.” The future never came. Donna never got to see Hawaii, although we practically begged her to go, even offering frequent flyer miles and hotels to make it easy. 

Too many great people die with the life still in them. While there is little, we can do with the winds of fate we can make sure we get more joy, experience and adventure in our lives. As Jon Bon Jovi so eloquently said, “I don’t want to live forever I just want to live while I’m alive!”  
WHAT GOES INTO
A life well lived?
For some it could be a quiet life in the village in which they were born surrounded by family and friends
To others like me, a single country, nay even a single continent is not enough to contain my wanderlust
For some it’s the work they do or the causes they champion
For others it may simply mean that they are a good person and practice many of the most important virtues
Obviously, the answers to this important question vary tremendously. There is no right or wrong answer, but many people settle for a full life experience far less than they are capable of attaining. I am not trying to say that my way is a better way what I aim to do is get you thinking about the possibilities again. To ask better questions, take better actions and add more meaning, experience and color to your life!  
“When the sun rises it rises for everyone” - Cuban Proverb
Our lives are a large collection of hours, days, weeks and months one right after the other. The sun rises, the sun sets, and it rises again. For most people the days simply came and went, perhaps with them longing for the weekend, their next vacation or retirement. Thinking that over time they might be happier, fitter, financially successful or lucky enough to get a big break. Essentially most people are sleepwalking through life as if they don’t have all that much say in the matter. The fact is the lives we chose to live will be determined by how we choose to spend each day. The same day comprised of 24 hours for everyone regardless of creed, color, geography or talent. 

How I spend those days is a question I ask myself more and more frequently now that I’m on the flipside of 55 years old. The older you get the more likely you are to look back on your life and examine it. You start asking yourself if you made the best use of your time on earth, but it is never too early to start considering what it means to live a good life. The younger you are when you start focusing on making sure you have a well-lived life the more time you will have to make decisions that will leave you feeling like you succeeded. 

Life has a way of speeding up as your 30’s give way to your 40’s and 50’s. Your 50‘s has a way of freeing you up and tying you down, a home, kids, college, your job, aging parents. The carefree winging it of your early years gives way to far more careful planning, caution and hesitation before you can embark on any new adventure, or does it? For me it was just the opposite. I threw caution to the wind and am having the best time of my life. With the right questions, the right motivation and a few simple changes in the way you look at life maybe you can too? The sooner we accept we are all masters of our own destiny and start to live consciously the life we want to live the happier we will be.

The main idea of this book is to get you to think. I’m not trying to change you to my point of view, just to challenge you to reevaluate what you have done, where you are at and where you are going. My only goal is to help you maximize your time on earth. To experience all the thrills and adventures possible before you, like every one of us draws your last breath. To do this, the best place to start is not at the beginning but the end.

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and
go to the grave with the song still in them."
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
- Henry David Thoreau 
Life is a Ticking Time Bomb

No matter your age every day brings you closer to your last. Many people looking back on their life at the end have the very same regrets, regrets you can avoid. The first step to a life well lived is to take your mortality more seriously and take control of how you spend your time. It helps to define how a perfect life should look which in most cases means more experiences not more stuff. It also means living more in the moment and enjoying a sense of freedom. 
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking,
start paving another one.”
- Dolly Parton 
Cages Without Bars – Life’s Great Traps

Many severely limit their life experience because they are unaware, they are living in cages without bars trapped in prisons of their own making. Some feel trap by their family, relationships, location or jobs. Other by their business, debt, limiting beliefs, need for permission or religious dogma. While some just languish aimlessly in the crippling comfort zone and fail to move on.  
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
- Dolly Parton 
Cages Without Bars – Life’s Great Traps

Many severely limit their life experience because they are unaware, they are living in cages without bars trapped in prisons of their own making. Some feel trap by their family, relationships, location or jobs. Other by their business, debt, limiting beliefs, need for permission or religious dogma. While some just languish aimlessly in the crippling comfort zone and fail to move on.  
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” 
- Madonna
Your Life View Lens

How you view the world plays a huge part in how much you enjoy your life. Few who seek perfection truly live, yet many try for fear of criticism or failure. To really live you must approve of yourself and be unconcerned about other opinions of you. You must understand that we all make bad decisions, but the past does not equal the future. Your attitude will determine how you deal with the daily challenges of life and the more positive at attitude is the more likely you are to deal with them well. Treat yourself as you would a friend, ditch the emotional baggage, don’t leave negative reviews. Live your life with gratitude we can all find much to be thankful about and should do so more often. 
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” 
- Madonna
Your Life View Lens

How you view the world plays a huge part in how much you enjoy your life. Few who seek perfection truly live, yet many try for fear of criticism or failure. To really live you must approve of yourself and be unconcerned about other opinions of you. You must understand that we all make bad decisions, but the past does not equal the future. Your attitude will determine how you deal with the daily challenges of life and the more positive at attitude is the more likely you are to deal with them well. Treat yourself as you would a friend, ditch the emotional baggage, don’t leave negative reviews. Live your life with gratitude we can all find much to be thankful about and should do so more often. 
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that
count. It’s the life in your years.”
- Abraham Lincoln 
Planning for a Legendary Life

Focus on the things you want, clarity of purpose is important. If you find that difficult try the reverse and decide what you don’t want in your life. Use the power of great questions, which you must answer with brutal honesty to find your path and re-ignite your passion. Set some written goals, with detailed action plans and deadlines you reward yourself for reaching. Ditch the extra baggage you don’t need and don’t be afraid to do some crazy things it’s only be expanding our boundaries that we grow. 
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." 
- Abraham Lincoln 
Planning for a Legendary Life

Focus on the things you want, clarity of purpose is important. If you find that difficult try the reverse and decide what you don’t want in your life. Use the power of great questions, which you must answer with brutal honesty to find your path and re-ignite your passion. Set some written goals, with detailed action plans and deadlines you reward yourself for reaching. Ditch the extra baggage you don’t need and don’t be afraid to do some crazy things it’s only be expanding our boundaries that we grow. 
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add  
what is specifically your own.”
- Bruce Lee
Developing Your Talents

For most of us good health is a choice stay fit, stay lean, stay healthy. Get good at something for mastery of anything brings pleasure. Be a lifelong learner if you are not growing mentally you are dying. Too many people give up learning or being in touch with the world around stay relevant. Spend time each day just thinking and always look for ways to increase your creativity for creativity always expands your opportunity. Look for ways to motivate yourself and increase your energy with all this extra life you are going to have you’ll need it! 

“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”
- Bruce Lee
Developing Your Talents

For most of us good health is a choice stay fit, stay lean, stay healthy. Get good at something for mastery of anything brings pleasure. Be a lifelong learner if you are not growing mentally you are dying. Too many people give up learning or being in touch with the world around stay relevant. Spend time each day just thinking and always look for ways to increase your creativity for creativity always expands your opportunity. Look for ways to motivate yourself and increase your energy with all this extra life you are going to have you’ll need it! 
“It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.”
- Dalai Lama 
Doing the Right Thing

To live a good life, you must also give back and do the right thing by others. Good manners are a simple start, as are words of praise for a job well done. Random acts of kindness will keep your karma in good stead, for while there is no scientific proof everyone knows that what goes around comes around eventually. Championing a cause or a charity can add meaning to your life and off pays off in very unexpected ways with the people you meet. We must all do our bit to protect the planet and the limited resources it contains.
“It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.”
- Dalai Lama 
Doing the Right Thing

To live a good life, you must also give back and do the right thing by others. Good manners are a simple start, as are words of praise for a job well done. Random acts of kindness will keep your karma in good stead, for while there is no scientific proof everyone knows that, what goes around comes around eventually. Championing a cause or a charity can add meaning to your life and off pays off in very unexpected ways with the people you meet. We must all do our bit to protect the planet and the limited resources it contains.
“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends
to help us stay young.”
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin 
Friendship

One of the great joys of life, never stop making new friends. To aid in this worthy endeavor be active in your listening and make yourself friendship friendly with a smile and open body language. Don’t be afraid to start the conversation first and have a few stories or jokes you can tell well to break the ice. Embrace rituals and traditions to encourage annual meeting and events that bring friends together. If you want a friend that never judges, buy a dog. Better still, adopt one from the shelter. Last but not least cut out the cancerous relationships people change, and you can’t be loyal to people who drag you down.  
“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young."
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin 
Friendship

One of the great joys of life, never stop making new friends. To aid in this worthy endeavor be active in your listening and make yourself friendship friendly with a smile and open body language. Don’t be afraid to start the conversation first and have a few stories or jokes you can tell well to break the ice. Embrace rituals and traditions to encourage annual meeting and events that bring friends together. If you want a friend that never judges, buy a dog. Better still, adopt one from the shelter. Last but not least cut out the cancerous relationships people change, and you can’t be loyal to people who drag you down.  
“Don’t count the days. Make the days count” 
- Mohammad Ali
Creating More Time for Life

Finding time for more life is critical because as Franklin pointed out is the very stuff of which life is made. Getting up three hours earlier gives you an astonishing 48 extra days of life a year! Turn off the TV, your phone and even your computer, your life is far better entertainment. Make the clock your friend compartmentalizes your life and pay attention to your body clock before the wall clock. Don’t waste time preaching your gospel to others, they don’t care. Create some life-enhancing routines in your day and most important of all learn to say “NO.”
“Don’t count the days. Make the days count” 
- Muhammad Ali
Creating More Time for Life

Finding time for more life is critical because as Franklin pointed out is the very stuff of which life is made. Getting up three hours earlier gives you an astonishing 48 extra days of life a year! Turn off the TV, your phone and even your computer, your life is far better entertainment. Make the clock your friend compartmentalizes your life and pay attention to your body clock before the wall clock. Don’t waste time preaching your gospel to others, they don’t care. Create some life-enhancing routines in your day and most important of all learn to say “NO.”
“To Travel is to Live”
- Hans Christian Andersen
Expanding Your Universe with Travel, Food and Wine

Travel is one of the very best ways to educate yourself on a wide verity of subjects like language, geography, politics and culture. It opens up a world of new experiences and possibilities. When you do go abroad live like a native it’s far more fun and rewarding. There are a million great places to go but check out my list and hit a few of those destinations I promise you won’t be disappointed. Book last minute, travel at the right time and always carry some cash to maximize your trip. Food and wine go great with travel and with making new friends. Embrace them both but be sure to focus on the local, in-season whole foods that will keep you healthy and the planet sustainable.  
“To Travel is to Live”
- Hans Christian Andersen
Expanding Your Universe with Travel, Food and Wine

Travel is one of the very best ways to educate yourself on a wide verity of subjects like language, geography, politics and culture. It opens up a world of new experiences and possibilities. When you do go abroad live like a native it’s far more fun and rewarding. There are a million great places to go but check out my list and hit a few of those destinations I promise you won’t be disappointed. Book last minute, travel at the right time and always carry some cash to maximize your trip. Food and wine go great with travel and with making new friends. Embrace them both but be sure to focus on the local, in-season whole foods that will keep you healthy and the planet sustainable.  
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a
better class of memories.”
- Ronald Reagan 
Financing a More Fulfilling Life!

The best things in life may be free but the rest take money. Many people are very uncomfortable talking about money as if they were afraid of it, but it must be done. Ditch the unneeded baggage you’ll save a fortune if you travel through life light. There are many creative ways to enhance your spending power and generate additional side income, you just have to be creative.

“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories."
- Ronald Reagan 
Financing a More Fulfilling Life!

The best things in life may be free but the rest take money. Many people are very uncomfortable talking about money as if they were afraid of it, but it must be done. Ditch the unneeded baggage you’ll save a fortune if you travel through life light. There are many creative ways to enhance your spending power and generate additional side income, you just have to be creative.

“Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction”. 
- Sylvester Stallone
Creating Your New Life Blueprint

You are neither too young or too old to start living a more fulfilling life. Go back through the 50 questions from chapter four and review them. Answer the hard ones with zero-based thinking and re-evaluate how you will move forward. Shun the idea of living a balanced life and go all in to the key things that you love with passion. Start checking off that bucket list, take more chances and most of all take action towards creating a life truly well lived. Your life! 
“Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction”. 
- Sylvester Stallone
Creating Your New Life Blueprint

You are neither too young or too old to start living a more fulfilling life. Go back through the 50 questions from chapter four and review them. Answer the hard ones with zero-based thinking and re-evaluate how you will move forward. Shun the idea of living a balanced life and go all in to the key things that you love with passion. Start checking off that bucket list, take more chances and most of all take action towards creating a life truly well lived. Your life! 
ONE THING I PROMISE.
By the end of this book you will not look at your life the same way again...
While the book is packed with stimulating ideas, it’s an easy read with no chapter longer than 3 pages. To back up my point of view, I have dug deep into the biographies of some very accomplished people and quote them at the start of each chapter. I have added their pictures as well to give additional meaning to them and provide additional stimulation to you.
About The Author, Andrew Wood
Born in Oxford, England and growing up in the midland county of Shropshire, Andrew Wood immigrated to America in 1980 to pursue a career as a professional golfer. Unfortunately, lack of talent held him back and he accidentally found himself running a small karate school in Southern California. After struggling to survive for 18 months as a small business owner he decided to focus all his attention on marketing. This focus soon paid off and he increased his income to six figures while still in his twenties. His initial interest in marketing turned into a passion and he quickly turned the single school into a national franchise of over 400 units.

After selling out of the karate business in the late 90’s he moved to Florida where he founded Legendary Marketing, a business designed to combine his passion for golf and travel with his marketing expertise. Legendary quickly built a name for itself in the golf industry with innovative websites, social media, and online campaigns. Over the last decade, Wood has worked with over 1500 golf clubs, resorts and developments, in over twenty countries. His clients include properties in the USA, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Russia, the Caribbean, and Morocco to name just a few.

Author of over 40 books including; Million Dollar Laptop, Cowboy Wisdom, Cunningly Clever Marketing, Cunningly Clever Selling, Cunningly Clever Entrepreneur, The Golf Marketing Bible, The Hotel Marketing Bible, Confessions of a Golf Pro and many more. He is considered the world’s leading expert in golf, resort and real estate marketing and spoken to thousands of audiences worldwide on this and other topics from his books.
A pioneer in internet marketing his creative talent, out of the box ideas and copywriting skills are at the core of his expertise. Regarded as one of the top marketing minds in the world his ability to generate leads and increase income! In his spare time he travels the world, plays golf & tennis, writes books and occasionally races cars! 

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