How do I start my journey?

How do I start my journey?

Embrace the Hero Within.

Once you’ve accepted the call, probably the most difficult part of embracing your inner hero, the journey can commence. We begin our adventure by leaving our world of routine and comfortability to venture into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules and limits are unknown. As you begin to embrace the hero within, you finally accept the call and begin a physical, spiritual, and/or emotional journey to achieve a boon, something that is helpful or beneficial. Now that you’ve answered the call. You can put in the work to achieve the Ultimate Boon. Whatever this goal, it is yours as long as you listen to the call and embrace the adventure.

I want to talk about the Ultimate Boon because it sometimes gets overlooked or taken for granted as the natural end to the Hero’s Journey. The Ultimate Boon is usually a physical object to which is also attached a code of conduct or moral that the hero must learn. But what we sometimes fail to consider about the Ultimate Boon is that the hero must incorporate this lesson into his or her life.

This is the point I think is often overlooked and understated. As you begin your journey, remember that you will learn something new and important, however, it is a knowledge not for you alone. You need to incorporate that knowledge, that boon, into your life so that others might see that truth, that knowledge, that self in you. Do not worry about how you are going to achieve that part of the journey right now. Instead, focus on the adventure and the transformation that awaits you as you begin your adventure.

Bilbo chased down the party with his signed contract in hand, Frodo sets off with a ring and his friends, and Amari travels across the Atlantic Ocean in a slave ship. Anakin, Luke, and Rey board space ships to begin their adventure. All leave behind the known world of safety and comfort and find themselves in a very different place. You may not run after an adventure, enter into enslavement, or travel through the stars, however, your journey will also lead you away from what comforts you. This may be moving out of your childhood home and into a home of your own. This may involve you finding a new profession or a new hobby that allows you to grow into the person you choose. This may involve a new philosophy or faith that moves you away from the beliefs you once held. There are many ways to begin your adventure and none are comfortable. All involve making a choice to change. And true courage for the hero is choosing to leave the comfort, the familiarity, the routine behind and embracing the hero within.

The first step in embracing your own heroism is accepting the change. Your normal routine needs disruption. Every person has the choice of remaining the same and ignoring the call. Every person has the choice of embracing the change and answering the call. This is the option of the hero. All it takes is a little faith. Faith in yourself, faith in the journey, faith in the Ultimate Boon.

Say yes to the disruption? Say yes to the change?

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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