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The StoryBrand Podcast

Becoming a Hero on a Mission—How to Escape a Villain Mindset

The StoryBrand Podcast

StoryBrand.com

Business, Marketing

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 20 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? Unfortunately, more often than we'd like to admit, it's easy for us to default to villain energy, making others feel small or talking about them behind their backs. We get stuck wishing for our friends and colleagues to fail, or worse yet, paint them as villains all so we can find comfort from our own insecurities. Being a villain might give us that temporary dopamine hit, but will always act as a distraction from living a meaningful life.

 

In part five of our series, Donald Miller shows the way out of a villain mindset, giving you ways to check in with yourself before it takes over so you can truly 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody.

0:01.0

It's me, Donald Miller and before we start today's episode, I have some big news.

0:05.0

As of this month, business made simple as officially part of the HubSpot podcast network.

0:09.9

We are so honored to be part of the HubSpot family of shows designed to help professionals

0:13.6

listen, learn, and grow by providing access to the world's leading B2B podcast, like success

0:19.7

story with Scott D. Clary, being boss with Emily Thompson.

0:23.7

And us, you can check out all of these shows and more at HubSpot.com slash podcast network.

0:37.9

Whether we like it or not, the lives we live are stories and living a meaning-filled story

0:42.2

does not happen by accident.

0:43.6

In fact, living a good story is a lot like writing one.

0:47.1

Unless you put in the work to write a good story, you may find you have lost the plot

0:51.0

in your own life.

0:52.4

You find yourself feeling restless, feeling bored, feeling hopeless.

0:56.3

If you feel like you've lost the plot in your life, then this six-part limited series

1:00.4

called Hero on a Mission, based on my book Hero on a Mission, is just for you.

1:05.1

It's all brought to you by the HubSpot network.

1:07.3

Your business, your relationships, your story needs to flow out of something.

1:11.0

It needs a plot.

1:13.0

If you've ever thought or wondered if life is meaningless, I want to convince you that

1:16.5

it is not.

1:17.5

There is, in fact, meaning in life and there can be an experience of meaning for you.

1:22.7

But only, only if you take control of your own story.

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