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Predicting The Future
Boom. Tuesday. Four days to deadline. Feeling solid. What I have to do today is get T to finish the last two pages. Then I can cut five pages and we’re on track!!
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The beauty about the Hero’s Journey is that it tells you what you are going to need IN ADVANCE OF DOING IT. Doesn’t give you resources, but TELLS YOU what resources you’re going to need, as judged by the elders of every tribe in the world, over all of time.
- Hero confronted with a challenge. Meaning: shit happens. You are going to be jarred out of your routine and faced with new opportunities or problems,
2. Hero rejects the challenge. If the potential gain is large enough to change your life, there will be FEAR connected with both failure and success. Get ready for it. One of the best signs of this will be if the first steps are tiny, but you still come up with excuses not to try. Career? A sentence a day. Body? Taking a photo of everything you eat. Relationships? Sixty seconds of belly breathing, five times a day. Few people can honestly claim to be unable to do one of them. Whatever stops you is your “stuff” not the external world.
3. Hero Accepts the challenge. You will have to decide. Find a way to admit you care, and are committed. That your deep identity matches the intended results and you will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make it happen.
4. The Road of Trials. How do you eat an elephant? One forkful at a time. What is your daily minimum? Optimum? You have to break it down and…