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The Hero’s Journey Part 9: The Journey Home
The Journey Home You’ve achieved your heart’s desire, and claimed your Treasure. And now you’re ready to make the journey back into the Ordinary World from where you came. But when you return, you’re not longer the person you used to be. You’ve been strengthened by your Hero’s Journey. And no longer is the New World the [...]
Continue reading...My Hero’s Journey
17. March 2006
Talk about facing down your demons! In my Hero’s Journey not too long ago, I felt another Call to Adventure to strike out into other fields of work, and close the chapter on the existing chapter (by the way, the closing posts on the Hero’s Journey are coming in the next few days). I answered [...]
Continue reading...The Hero’s Journey Part 8: Claiming Your Treasure
15. March 2006
Claiming Your Treasure You’ve faced down your worst demon in his stronghold, and you’ve defeated him. You’re no longer in the inauthentic state you were in when you were stuck in your Ordinary World, your initiation by fire is complete and you are now a true Hero. It is time to claim your Treasure, the goal of [...]
Continue reading...The Hero’s Journey Part 7: The Supreme Ordeal
14. March 2006
The Supreme Ordeal You’ve walked into the Innermost Cave to confront your worst fears once and for all, and you know there is no turning back; you either make it or break it. This is the final test to which your challenges and helpers have been helping you to grow stronger for, this is the final stage [...]
Continue reading...The Hero’s Journey Part 6: Into The Innermost Cave
11. March 2006
Into The Innermost Cave Now the challenges you faced in meeting your helpers and challenges have escalated to a point where you can no longer avoid them or ignore them: you must face them and end them once and for all, or risk losing your treasure forever. To do that you’ll have to take your Hero’s Journey [...]
Continue reading...The Hero’s Journey Part 5: Meeting Your Helpers & Challengers
10. March 2006
Meeting Your Helpers & Challengers Now that you’ve passed your first threshold and have entered into the New World, you’ll begin to meet new people and situations. You might be charting unknown territory in the New World, and you’ll also be seeing new sides of yourself you’ve never known before. You will be tested in the New [...]
Continue reading...The Hero’s Journey Part 4: Crossing The Threshold
7. March 2006
Crossing The Threshold You’ve committed to leaving behind the Ordinary World and stepping into the New World of your Hero’s Journey. And as you do, you’re exposed to new sounds and sights, new learnings, surprises, adventures and experiences you’ve never had before. As you do so, you might feel out of place. You might feel uncomfortable, inexperienced. [...]
Continue reading...The Hero’s Journey Part 3: Meeting The Wise Mentor
5. March 2006
Meeting The Wise Mentor An interesting thing happens as soon as you commit to The Call to Adventure, when you’ve had it, things are going to change, they’re going to change now, you’re leaving The Ordinary World of the status quo and there is no turning back; a wise mentor appears to guide you. It’s simple. Haven’t [...]
Continue reading...The Hero’s Journey Part 2: The Call to Adventure
4. March 2006
The Call to Adventure All this time, you’ve felt a nagging feeling that something’s not quite right, that something needs to change, and there should be something more in your life. You haven’t thought about it till now, but as you reflect on that message in The Ordinary World, you realize just what it is. In The [...]
Continue reading...The Hero’s Journey Part 1: The Ordinary World
3. March 2006
The Hero’s Journey was originally coined by Joseph Campbell, an American professor who studied the myths across different world cultures and found that they had common patterns of story woven through them. For some reason, these patterns of story are so prevalent in our human psyche that even today, the movies and novels of our time [...]
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