When someone says to me, “Everything happens for a reason”I want to say, ‘Yes, but is it your reason Life is not a accident. Through careful choices and persisent storytelling, you can control what happens to you. That sounds boring, doesn’t it? It is not. We are talking about your life story. The best way to deal with your future story is to invent it!

What could be more exciting than trying to figure out what you want to have happen and as they say on Star Trek ‘make it so’? If you live your life wandering about aimlessly, you’re not likely to end up anywhere at all. If you live your live bouncing around, reacting to events and circumstances, you’re giving up control over where you go next. This is not an ideal way to live – it is stressful and frustrating and not creative at all.

I believe that each hero and heroine comes prepackaged with a reason for being, a purpose. A hero’s journey. Unfortunately there is no operating manual to make it easy to figure out what that hero’s journey is. Once you figure it out, however, life is soooo much easier and better. It means that you are living on purpose. This translates in doing the right work, in the right environment, with the right people and using your talents and abilities in a way that benefits others as well as yourself. This hero’s journey covers every aspect of your life, including having people to love and who care about you. But that is another story.