#012 Turning Pro: Be the Hero of Your Story and Finally Tap Your Inner Power
- By Erin Cobb
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- 21 Dec, 2017
In Episode #012 Turning Pro: Be the Hero of Your Story and Finally Tap Your Inner Power, I talk about the concept of Turning Pro. The Process of Deciding what you want your life to look like in the future then having the confidence and fortitude to show up every single day until that vision is realized. Want to be a writer? Write. A Painter? Paint. You must push past resistance, fear, and self-doubt if you ever hope to create anything worthwhile.
"If there was a Pill that would make you a super athlete, would you take it? That Pill Exists. It's called hard work"
-Joe Rogan
Show Notes:
Act as IF you are already the person you are hoping to become.
Be the Hero of Your Movie
(Youtube Audio Clip) -Joe Rogan
Turning Pro - The Basics
Turning Pro is free, but it's not easy. When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own.
Turning Pro is free, but it demands sacrifice. The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It’s messy and it’s scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro.
What we get when we turn pro. What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
6 Major Ideas
- Your Shadow Calling can manifest itself in many ways
- Ecstatic hell - Causes you to blow up your life.
- The snake that cannot shed its' skin must perish -Nietzsche
- If it were easy, everybody would do it. Daily Habits separate us!
- Have a practice that helps you connect to "The muse" "The Essence"
- Where there is a Clearly defined path, you know that's not your path. You must enter the forest at the darkest point
FOCUS. The most powerful word in the world.
- Warren Buffet and Bill Gates both say it is the MOST IMPORTANT key to Success.
- The Paradox of choice
- Once you choose your path, become a living breathing example of the kind of person you want to be
Overcoming Resistance- Key Takeaways from the book
“What we get when we turn pro is, we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and to live out.”
“Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.”
“Are you getting your Ph.D. in Elizabethan studies because you’re afraid to write the tragedies and comedies that you know you have inside you? Are you living the drugs-and-booze half of the musician’s life, without actually writing the music? Are you working in a support capacity for an innovator because you’re afraid to risk becoming an innovator yourself?
If you’re dissatisfied with your current life, ask yourself what your current life is a metaphor for. That metaphor will point you toward your true calling.”
“The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. The human being is a creature of habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones. We can trade in the habits of the amateur and the addict for the practice of the professional and the committed artist or entrepreneur.”
“The hero wanders. The hero suffers. The hero returns. You are that hero.”
Sources:
- Turning Pro -Steven Pressfield
- Be the Hero in Your Movie -Joe Rogan
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