Becoming a Hero on a Mission—Start By Writing Your Eulogy Now
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 16 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.
In part two of our series, Donald Miller talks through the exercise of writing your own eulogy, all from his new book Hero on a Mission. While it may seem morbid, writing your eulogy while you're alive actually gives direction how you should spend your time each day and how you truly want to spend the rest of your life. You'll find that determining how you want your story to end acts as the perfect filter to help make decisions on living a life that gives you true meaning and purpose.
When you preorder Hero On a Mission on Amazon, Audible, or wherever you buy books, you'll also get free instant access to Donald Miller's limited video series How to Transform Your Life with Story-Based Goal Setting. Just email your receipt to book@heroonamission.com, and you'll unlock the course you need to achieve your goals using the power of story.
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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 |
| 0:19.7 | in your own life. |
| 0:21.0 | 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. |
| 0:37.0 | 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. |
| 0:48.6 | 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. |
| 0:59.5 | I want to start today's conversation by saying my new book, Hero on a Mission, is finally, |
| 1:23.5 | finally available. |
| 1:24.5 | We've been talking about that for a long time, but you can actually go on Amazon, Barnes |
| 1:27.5 | and Noble, and you can get the book. |
| 1:29.3 | With everything that went into writing this book, I was actually just thinking about when |
| 1:32.4 | I recorded the audiobook. |
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