Written by Harry Croose
"The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure."
     Hello, my fellow readers, I hope you are well. Today we are going to be talking about ‘The Hero’s Journey’ and how prominent and helpful this narrative can be in not just your own artistic expressions, but also in your own lives, as a means of motivating and encouraging you to push you boundaires and to live to your highest values.
Here are a few points and ramblings, I have about this amazing theory created by Joseph Campbell, that I want to give special mention in this post. 🙂 Â
1. Life is a Pack of Cards
      You may have heard the ‘life is like a pack of cards’ metaphor, said in passing to descirbe some event or circumstance in your life. 🙂
I believe, that this particular metaphor is rather a good one, and can be a very useful image to help you approach certain situations in your own path towards world domination. (Just joking obviously).Â
Also you always get a couple of jokers in every pack of card which rings true. I am sure you can name a few jokers in your life, perhaps even more than 2! I think a Tarot deck is also a very insightful way of looking at events in life. Cards like ‘The Tower’, ‘The Lovers’, ‘Temperance’ and ‘The Wheel of Fortune’ to name a few, all of which tells a story through some very vivid artwork. 🙂
2. Seeing obstacles as opportunities, rather than challenges.
        The perspective of seeing obstacles as opportunities rather than challenges, will also open a lot more doors for the hero. YOU will see that short-term hinderances may avtually become long-term gold mines for your goals, ambitions and dreams. 🙂 This simple change, I say simple but it can be challenging to make a habit of, can challenge the trajectory of outcomes and more importantly how you see YOUR outcomes. 🙂Â
3. Preparing yourself for your Journey
         Would you seriously wanted to go on a 30 day journey in the Amazon Forest without preparing yourself with the appropriate equipment. If you do, you are either foolish, or Bear Grylls. Like in life, you need to make sure that you have the right balance of equipment, insights and wisdom to meet your needs and also to achieve your goals.Â
For example, you need to make sure that your health, wealth, your sense of purpose is at a good enough level in order for you to get the most out of your journey.Â
4. Find Your Life Purpose
        Life Purpose is a very great way of being able to grow and develop as an individual. If you know yourself, then you will be able to create goals, and even better achieve them and this in turn will give you the sense that you have control in your life and you are learning to dancein the rain. If you have a STRONG CORE of life purpose then this will ground you even when you are in life’s hurricane. If you have not found oyur life purpose yet… keep looking. Never settle. Wise people keep looking for opportunities to grow, because staying still holds only room for stagnation and regression. The wisest people continue to look for opportunities even when they are content or happy. Remember that you can never really stop finding your life purpose.Â
5. Having fun. 🙂
Of course, when you are on an incredible journey fighting demons and saving all of humanity; you should try and make sure that you have fun every once in the while. Pretty self-explanatory really, do you need to me to explain to you how to have fun. If you do then this needs to be your top priority. 🙂
Bonus Point. Start a Self-Reflection Practise
To give you some suggestions that really benefited me through this obstacle. I want to recommend for you to start self-reflecting. Whether it be through…
– Journaling
– Reading Self-Help Books
– Reading Fiction Books
– Meditation
– Write your own story.
This will allow you to get what you read in theory, into practice. I want YOU, yes I am looking at you! To have a successful and happy and prosperous life! 
Until the Next Blog Post! Take Care and Look after yourself!! Take care fellow hero!!
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