Becoming a Hero on a Mission—How to Ditch a Victim Mentality (When You're Not a Real Victim)
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to your own personal story and experiencing a meaningful life, do you feel like things are coming up short? Even if you have a packed schedule, you might still wake up feeling restless, bored or even hopeless. Know that you are not alone. Too many people have lost interest in their own stories. But in this Business Made Simple six-part limited series, we want to help you change that. We want to help you become a hero on a mission.
Every story includes four basic characters: a hero, villain, victim and guide. Do you know which character you're playing in your life? We often play the victim when we feel overwhelmed with our to-do lists or stuck at our jobs. But unlike true victims who do need our help, a victim mentality is a temporary state that can actually be avoided.
In part four of our series, Donald Miller breaks down how you can take control of your own life, escape the victim mentality, and transform into a hero on a mission.
Dive deeper into crafting a life story filled with meaning and order Hero on a Mission on Amazon, Audible, or wherever you buy books. You will learn to create a life plan, establish a morning ritual and stop playing the victim or villain so you can finally transform into a hero.
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| 0:00.0 | Whether we like it or not, the lives we live are stories and living a meaning-filled story |
| 0:10.8 | does not happen by accident. |
| 0:12.4 | In fact, living a good story is a lot like writing one. |
| 0:15.8 | Unless you put in the work to write a good story, you may find you have lost the plot in |
| 0:19.9 | your own life. |
| 0:20.9 | You find yourself feeling restless, feeling bored, feeling hopeless. |
| 0:25.0 | If you feel like you've lost the plot in your life, then this six-part limited series |
| 0:28.8 | called Hero on a Mission based on my book, Hero on a Mission, is just for you. |
| 0:33.3 | Your business, your relationships, your story needs to flow out of something it needs a plot. |
| 0:39.0 | If you've ever thought or wondered if life is meaningless, I want to convince you that |
| 0:42.4 | it is not. |
| 0:43.4 | There is, in fact, meaning in life, and there can be an experience of meaning for you. |
| 0:48.7 | But only, only if you take control of your own story. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Donald Miller, and I want to welcome you to this limited series brought to you by |
| 0:55.5 | Business Made Simple, all about becoming a Hero on a Mission. |
| 1:18.9 | You know, we've built this idea that your life is a story, and that you need it to come |
| 1:23.4 | up with what that story is, and then you need to direct it, then you need to stay disciplined |
| 1:27.0 | to stay inside of it, if you want to have mental clarity and not exist in a fog. |
| 1:31.9 | If you don't do all of that, your story is going to get hijacked, and it's going to feel |
| 1:35.8 | like what Victor Frank will call the existential vacuum, or what I call the narrative void. |
| 1:40.3 | By narrative void, I mean, there is no story in your life. |
| 1:43.5 | It's just a series of events that are happening, and you're not actually taking control of |
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