Be The Hero In The Movie Of Your Life | Motivational Video
your life is a story it’s time for you
to be the hero in your own journey what
was your favorite story as a child was
it the Wizard of Oz did Dorothy want to
go down the yellow brick road or did she
find herself in unforeseen circumstances
where she really had no alternative to
go down there yellow brick road and get
the support of the people around her as
she went on this epic adventure what
about Rocky rocky one rocky – rocky 3
rocky 4 Rocky Balboa it’s the same story
Alice in Wonderland Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter why do we love these films
ask yourself the question what is it
about those films that makes us want to
watch these films transport us from the
world that we’re in and take us into a
fantasy world but a world that we
resonate a world where we feel an
identification with the characters it’s
called the hero’s journey
and every single film has the hero’s
journey mapped out and this is what I’m
asking you to do I’m asking you to come
on the hero’s journey with me I’m
calling you out just like Frodo was
called in Lord of the Rings but he
didn’t want to go
he wanted to stay where he was he needed
a coach he needed a mentor someone to
pull out their hand and give them the
confidence that they could step into the
unknown and even in the film when they
leave the place they were from and they
gone to the end of the field they come
to an edge of a field one of the
characters says to the other
we’ve never been past this then they
step to a place they had never been
before and just imagine if they haven’t
done that and they’ve gone home would
you have watched the film no you watch
the film because the characters go to a
place they’ve not gone to form in most
cases we are scared and frightened to
follow our bliss we are scared to do
what others don’t do we are scared to
walk our own path you see in your life
when you grew up just like me
we had to conform we had to be like
everybody else I don’t know about you
but I learned to smoke did I enjoy it of
course I didn’t enjoy it I did it
because I wanted to fit in I wanted to
be like everybody else until I got to an
age where I started to question I don’t
like being like everyone else I want to
be myself and when we be our self we
choose our own path
we don’t walk someone else’s path now
there are probably been many times where
you’ve watched the film and you’ve seen
this hero going on this epic adventure
they’re called to an adventure they
don’t want to go they get a coach or a
mentor and they go to a place they’ve
not gone before maybe you’ve seen Star
Trek one of the famous lines in strata
to boldly go where no man has gone
before if they kept going to the same
place every single time would you watch
it you watch it because in it that it’s
an adventure you watch it because you
don’t always know what’s going to happen
you see the characters taking on
something that in many cases almost
defeats them but then they go into
training they learn skills they didn’t
even know that they had they then face
the adversity that they faced before
and this time they conquer and then they
go back stronger than they were before
and they pass on what they learned and
give it to other people it’s called the
hero’s journey being a hero in the
beginning and having the feeling of
doing something is all well and good but
how do you keep that feeling alive how
do you get yourself to hold yourself
accountable for what it is that you say
you’re going to do and when we look at
all of the heroes and all the films that
we love there is a common theme yes they
are the protector but they are also
practicing virtue what does that mean
the virtues of courage the virtues of
justice the virtues of practicing
temperance not giving in to willpower
and the virtue of wisdom but what about
the story of your life
and closing that gap between where you
are and where you want to go so you
become what you can become because you
and I have something in common you and I
we are in the story making business we
are in the legacy making business and
right here right now legacy of your life
is unfolding and I really want you to
think about where do you want your life
to go from here we have a capacity to
make things happen we have a capacity to
do great things but we are our own worst
enemy you might have heard that if you
always do what you’ve always done you’ll
always get what you’ve always got and
history has an incredible pattern of
repeating itself unless we change
and when we look at the story of your
life in my life we have a lot of things
in common your life was probably quite
traumatic you grew up in a world where
you had to fit in you were programmed to
fit in you were programmed to be like
everyone else you were programmed to be
accepted and what did that do well that
gave you a whole load of insecurities
and doubts as you started to question
who you were for me as a child I
desperately thought I wasn’t good enough
and wanted the world to give me
attention I wanted the world to tell me
that I was good enough and I did
whatever I needed to do to fit in to
smoke to drink to do what the others
were doing and it was Mark Twain that
said when you find yourself erring on
the side of the majority step back look
at what you’re doing and reconsider we
know that people change when their
perspective changes and I want to give
you a different perspective of this
right here right now we have a number of
things in common we’re in the story
making business your story is probably
similar to my story we’ve had challenges
we’ve been called to an adventures we’ve
had love stories you’d have horror
stories but we’re still here to tell the
tale
the question I want to ask you is what
do you want the next chapter of your
life to be do you want history to repeat
itself you have a voice in your head
that is giving you a narrative it’s the
inner voice the voice that says stay
where you are
it’s the voice that wants you to be who
you were in the past it tries to defend
you to keep you in your past because
that is where you’ve been that is where
you’re comfortable and there is a part
of your brain that thinks this is who
you need to be in the future and for
many of us we’ve given that part of us
such great attention that it’s so noisy
that we fail to hear the other part of
us have you ever seen Star Wars in 1977
I watched that film and I sat in this
cinema with my mouth wide open I
couldn’t believe what I was seeing to
see the force that existed in this
person Luke Skywalker and which force
was he going to tap into the dark side
or the side of the Jedi the force of
good or the force of evil we resonate
with these films that’s why we watch
them they’re talking to us you have that
part of you that will take you away from
where it is that you could go because
maybe now you don’t exactly know where
you want to go but I’m sure you want to
go away from where you are to something
back
if you want to be in the movie of your
life step back look at what you’re doing
and we consider and I really believe
that this is the pivotal point in all of
our lives to look at life with a fresh
pair of eyes
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