Be The Hero!

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ve checked goals off our bucket list, and have someone else give us the okay to move forward. So most of us wait forever because the only one who can grant that permission is the one in the mirror.</p><p id="d485">The fact is that we are never ready to begin anything of significance, anything that will truly ignite us. Whenever we start something that we have never done before, there’s no way to know how it will play out. There will always be doubt, unforeseen circumstances, and perfectly valid excuses why now is not the time. Later is better.</p><p id="48ff"><b>What excuses do you give yourself to stop from moving forward?</b></p><p id="0fb5">In fact, the beliefs we have about why we can’t start were true at some point. So we repeated them, continued to look for evidence of their truth, and eventually, took them as a fact of life. But since we are always evolving, are they still true for us? Are you repeating a story from your past that has nothing to do with the person you are now? There’s never really a concrete ending is there? Life is about constant change, growth, and new discovery. What we take as endings are almost always beginnings and launchings into the unknown. We are always starting new quests — the kind of quests that change us into the hero we need to be.</p><h1 id="647f">The only thing holding you back is YOU</h1><p id="6f19">What if we change our thinking around the idea of readiness? When I think about all the trailblazers of history, it makes me wonder if those people knew every twist and turn they could foretell that they would succeed. I wonder

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if when Steve Jobs or Bill Gates first had an idea if they saw how it would all play out. Did they feel like power players who would change the world while they tinkered in their basements? It seems more likely that they evolved into those people as they went. They were likely rising to each new task as the challenges presented themselves and then gathered the knowledge and confidence along the trail.</p><p id="e37a"><b>That same logic can apply to you</b></p><p id="1620">Why not turn your fears over to the Source of Energy in the sky and trust that the path will unfold before you? Take a leap. The fact that you feel compelled to create something means you not only should but could. Try listening to the voice of your soul, and when you have doubts, affirm to yourself that when things get challenging, you’ll find the tools along the way. Take baby steps. Focus on the project at hand without allowing yourself to get overwhelmed by the project as a whole.</p><p id="019f"><b>When you drive at night, your headlights only light up a few yards in front of you, and yet you can make the whole journey that way.</b></p><h1 id="095b">Don’t trust the belief that you don’t measure up</h1><p id="b912">You can’t know how until you start. You have to trust that you’ll get it done along the way. If the desire is in your heart it’s because the creator wants to be born through you. The fact that you dreamt it up means you’re capable of making it real. Maybe not right at this moment, but it’s the quest that makes the hero. After all, what do you really have to lose?</p></article></body>

Of your own story…

Isn’t it funny how the messages you need the most come from the most unexpected sources? It seems like the Universe waits until your guard is down and then it pounces, showering you with exactly the answers you had been looking for.

I was doing chores at home with the TV on, the dialog mostly a low buzz in the background. I don’t remember anything from the episode except for a line that snapped into sharp focus for me.

“The person who starts a quest isn’t the one who is able to finish it. The act of questing changes the questor into a hero who can.”

This is so relevant to our lives and the way we hold ourselves back. We don’t start projects because they feel too big for us. We can’t see the end game so we don’t feel ready. So we stay still, spinning our wheels and hiding behind the feeling that we are just not good enough.

Are we waiting for someone to give us permission?

We think “Who am I to do something and stand by it? What have I done to be worth speaking up, to be heard?” We seem to think you have already found what you’re looking for in order to write about it. We need to have it all figured out, with a concrete ending to our story. We want to have checked goals off our bucket list, and have someone else give us the okay to move forward. So most of us wait forever because the only one who can grant that permission is the one in the mirror.

The fact is that we are never ready to begin anything of significance, anything that will truly ignite us. Whenever we start something that we have never done before, there’s no way to know how it will play out. There will always be doubt, unforeseen circumstances, and perfectly valid excuses why now is not the time. Later is better.

What excuses do you give yourself to stop from moving forward?

In fact, the beliefs we have about why we can’t start were true at some point. So we repeated them, continued to look for evidence of their truth, and eventually, took them as a fact of life. But since we are always evolving, are they still true for us? Are you repeating a story from your past that has nothing to do with the person you are now? There’s never really a concrete ending is there? Life is about constant change, growth, and new discovery. What we take as endings are almost always beginnings and launchings into the unknown. We are always starting new quests — the kind of quests that change us into the hero we need to be.

The only thing holding you back is YOU

What if we change our thinking around the idea of readiness? When I think about all the trailblazers of history, it makes me wonder if those people knew every twist and turn they could foretell that they would succeed. I wonder if when Steve Jobs or Bill Gates first had an idea if they saw how it would all play out. Did they feel like power players who would change the world while they tinkered in their basements? It seems more likely that they evolved into those people as they went. They were likely rising to each new task as the challenges presented themselves and then gathered the knowledge and confidence along the trail.

That same logic can apply to you

Why not turn your fears over to the Source of Energy in the sky and trust that the path will unfold before you? Take a leap. The fact that you feel compelled to create something means you not only should but could. Try listening to the voice of your soul, and when you have doubts, affirm to yourself that when things get challenging, you’ll find the tools along the way. Take baby steps. Focus on the project at hand without allowing yourself to get overwhelmed by the project as a whole.

When you drive at night, your headlights only light up a few yards in front of you, and yet you can make the whole journey that way.

Don’t trust the belief that you don’t measure up

You can’t know how until you start. You have to trust that you’ll get it done along the way. If the desire is in your heart it’s because the creator wants to be born through you. The fact that you dreamt it up means you’re capable of making it real. Maybe not right at this moment, but it’s the quest that makes the hero. After all, what do you really have to lose?