For the most part, you’re probably in need of something if you’re delving into your Hero’s Journey. Maybe it’s healing, or direction, or the calling to transcend the ordinary and find your Sacred Dream. Maybe it’s rediscovering who you are, sifting the archaeology of your own life, to find the real you that was there all along. In your professional life, especially if you are a mid-career professional, it may reflect reaching a period of leveling that amounts to stagnation, where all the old drives that got you where you are, are less relevant. Now what can you do, will you do, should you do? You have a professional Sacred Dream as well, so that figures in too -- what are you called to be doing?
For that reason, your Hero’s Journey is not a static tapestry of “all that was, cementing all that is”. It is a living document allowing you to shine light on what you need to lead you to the next level. The end of the story isn’t written, it’s open for you to write. What are your Hero’s Goals? How can your Hero’s Journey be crafted to lead you to those goals?
Define your Hero’s Goals by exploring your current pain points, and/or your current wishes and desires for a fulfilling, happy, productive life or career.
Where are you dissatisfied? What needs to change?
Where do you need the most healing? What needs to be healed?
What do you want most out of your life or career?
What troublesome situations have repeatedly pushed themselves into your life, that you no longer stand for any more?
What is your Sacred Dream of how your life changes so you can bring your talents to the world?
Realize that changing ANY of this is up to you. This is all part of your Hero’s Journey moving forward from this point. Use the power of story to connect with that energy. What will you change or do?
To work with these ideas, explore your Hero’s Journey story arc up to this point. Then flow the story forward in a way that connects with your goals. Use these as starters:
How do your past descents and rebirths give you the expertise to solve this problem or dissatisfaction in your life?
How will you take on new armor, new knowledge, new strength to explore and transcend this?
How do you handle this problem differently, knowing you’re on a Hero’s Journey of learning and growth?
Explore your problem as the beginning of the story for your hero. What does it rouse the hero to do?
Explore your problem as the belly of the descent, its lowest part. How does the hero forge forward, despite these issues? What re-ascent do they create?
What does this part of your journey help you teach others?
Begin telling your Hero's Journey story with an eye toward these new levels, dreams, and ambitions. Set your goals, and then feel out all the ways in which your Hero’s Journey fills you with the incredible energy to create them.
As you do, feel that your goals are that much more tuned in to heroic. The Hero in the Hero’s Journey always returns with something to teach others. Aside from your achievement, what will attaining your goals give you the power to teach?
What Hero’s Goals will you start working toward today?
Keep Growing,
Katherine Lieber coaches and trains on self-leadership, limitlessness, energy health, inner power, and healing the wounded professional to recover core vision, joy, and high-powered performance in the workplace. She is the founder of TitaniumBlue Leadership. Be limitless - be the hero in a world that needs you.
© 2019 Katherine R. Lieber & TitaniumBlue Leadership
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