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The heroes journey

First of all, I want to thank you for coming here. I also want you to thank yourself for taking the effort. If you read this and give it a thought, the first step in your own heroes journey has already been taken.

What is “The heroes journey”?

The heroes journey is in its essence really the core of every intriguing story. From the ancient mythology in Greece to modern day movies like Star Wars, The Hobbit and Avatar. The heroes journey is a pattern of narrative, identified over 50 years ago by the american Joseph Campbell. The heroes journey describes the typical adventure with a hero who ventures out in the unknown world, overcomes great obstacles and comes home as a transformed person with riches.

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My own “The heroes journey”

I just found out that I had also been taking the heroes journey, but in real life, without even knowing it.

It was in December 2012 that I made the decision that enough is enough. My kids were growing up so it was past time for me to grow up as well. I then quit gaming and gambling, which had been a great part of my life. Probably as some kind of escape from reality, instead of facing the problems I had as a father of 2 kids and a demanding full time work. The result of my escape had been less sleep, less energy and bad performance both at work and in family life. My wife always complained about me forgetting things, which was a reality (even though she still does sometimes :-)

I started by deciding to spend time learning something new instead, and ended up with trying to master trading.This became a total failure since I am driven by feelings, which does not work well in trading. Luckily I started with a demo account trading binaries with a system called Pate. I was genius when learned how to read charts and really understand them, if you could have put your feelings aside. I also tried binary option combined with a martingale system that worked like clockwork doubling up 5 losses up to 5 times, if I would have stayed with 5 times. This time it was with real money and was profitable until I lost it all 5 times. I then went over to network marketing and personal development in Empower Network and Big Idea Mastermind. Started a blog, learned and started to advertise and started to listen to personal development presentations. It was a great company and a great experience but extremely hard to recruit so it ended up just being expensive.

The heroes journey

 

The road forward was extremely crooked and nothing really worked for me. Thought that trading with the help of others in Etoro would help me so I joined their traders “facebook” system where you could copy the successful. Only two problems aroused. First, I could not keep my fingers away and traded myself as well. You can guess the outcome of that. Secondly, the traders i choose always seemed to have bumps in their successes whenever I jumped aboard. I still have an account with Twitter shares on it, but that’s all. Then went on searching for robots to trade for me and joined a Bitcoin robot that was great, the only problem was that I never succeeded in linking the money sent to the broker with my accounts, so had to withdraw eventually. Now the rate has skyrocketed, offcourse. Next was to find some great system to trade Binary option for me without me having to choose the trades. I found and tried a couple, but they were all useless and felt like scams.  So I thought maybe a plain trading robot trading currencies could work. Was a bit more cautious now and started to search for the right one.

Then an opportunity came from a network friend about a revenue sharing company. Looked great so I put in all I could afford and more. This was something that did not depend on me, looked serious and could not be jeopardized by my feelings.

The journey continued with me starting a new blog and trying out affiliate marketing, just to end up with me feeling ashamed of myself. I guess all these personal development stuff was getting to me ;-). Failure upon failure led to more personal development and now, a little over a year after taking the big decision I have finally found my way back home again. Transformed and enriched. Last week I found the purpose of my life, yesterday I found out what I really had been doing (I had taken the heroes journey) and today I got acknowledgement of my first paycheck!

Your own “The heroes journey”

Now I encourage you to take the first steps towards you own journey. The difference for you is that I will lead your way and be at your side as a mentor and companion along the path to riches. My suggestion to you is to start reading books that will enlighten you and show “the light”. If you can read at least 10 pages every day you will be 3650 pages richer when a year has passed. To make it even easier for you to start, I can provide you with all the classic books in personal development. This is in a downloadable format where you get the books in both PDFs and Mp3s. This will make it possible for you to listen to the books instead of reading them. Which in turn makes it possible for you to use your phone in your downtime while exercising, driving, cleaning or using public transportation etc. No, there is no limit here and you won’t even have to put in any extra time for this…

As examples of good books to read, see my posts: The slight edge or Think and Grow Rich for free

Next step for you is to start helping your friends and relatives, actually the most important step in the whole process. By helping others you can grow as a person to levels out of you own imagination. What you will gain by this is insight, confidence, recognition, purpose etc. When you find your way home again you will understand. When you find your way home you will also feel so much greater, happier and enriched. But there are also possible financial rewards awaiting you…

Now the ball is in your hands,

Yours truly,Image

Peter Cernvall

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Think and Grow Rich for free

What a day, what a day.  Had visitors from abroad so the evening became night and all morning disappeared…

But I have good news for you, because I found great resources to get you going for free. Remember my last post “lets make this year even better than the last one” where I urged you to start reading good books and to start listening to audios. I there recommended you to read  a classic book by Napoleon Hill called “Think and grow rich”. A book written 75 years ago based on research and interviews with over 500 self made millionaires. The purpose of this book is to explain the secret formula to make you rich.

Think and Grow Rich for free

Through one of my networks I got these links and recommendation where you can read and listen to the classic book for free on any device:

To read it use this link: https://archive.org/details/Think_and_Grow_Rich

To listen to it use this link: https://archive.org/details/ThinkAndGrowRich_21stCenturyEdition

If you have an Iphone you can open it in safari and bookmark it on your homescreen to make it work/look as an app

Personally I can strongly recommend this book and I am right now reading and listening to it. The reason for reading and listening to it at the same time is to get the best out of it because you notice and remember things differently, as well as get a better understanding from going over it twice…

The version I am reading is actually not from the above link since I read it from my Iphone, and then its easier to have it in your Ibooks. Besides that, the version I am reading is with added comments specified for consultants and knowledge workers. I find it very useful and you can find it in appstore called: Think and Grow Rich: The Consultant and Knowledge Workers Edition. This version is also free.

When you read this book, think of it as a way to start your journey. Forget all your past and try to open your mind to it. Do not just think of it as a way to get rich in fortune, but also as a way to get rich in other aspects of life. You can apply this just as good regarding your health or anything you really desire and set your mind to.

Good luck and happy reading/listening

/Peter

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Let us make this year even better than the last one

Happy new year to you all..

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Let us make this year even better than the last one!!!

For me personally, I can say that I had the best year since my kids were born.

And why is that you may ask, well it´s because I finally started to take care of myself and think ahead. It is so easy to be living in the past and just live one day at the time not caring about the future.

But what happens then? Nothing, life goes by and it feels comfortable. You may even enjoy those little extra treatments of food, candy, luxury spending and not to forget all those lovely lazy days.

But what happens then in the long run? You will not enjoy it for long when your health starts to get affected and when your bank accounts are getting emptied. Then you will get depressed and urge for more “treatments” just to keep you happy. And so the spiral goes on in a never ending drowning hole…

But what can we do instead? I don´t wanna make my life miserable just to get better later on…

Start with the little things. As someone wise said “simple is better”. Make it simple and do it small everyday instead of trying to make it all happen at once. You will never succeed is you expect results immediately. What do you think happens to all the people that wins big in the lottery? Most go broke again, some cant handle it and just a few get happy. And why is that you may wonder? Because they did not earn  it, they never had to fight for it. Did you ever as a kid steal candy? If you did, you know it just didn’t taste as good as the earned and bought one, right?

But if you have a desire to change, to make things better in life. Can you do it? Yes you can do it, and you will make it happen if you just keep on working on your dreams one day at a time. But remember, it is not the goal that is the satisfaction. It is all the little successes and victories along the way. Believe me, because I started this journey a year ago and I still haven’t got much closer to my goal even though it feels like I’m already there.

My problem was that I had no clue on where to start or how to do it. I just decided that enough is enough and it’s time to do something useful instead of wasting time and money on gaming and gambling. So I started by searching the internet and boy did I get screwed again and again. I did not know that it could be so easy so I just over complicated everything and was searching for instant results all the time. But you do not have to do the same mistakes as I did. You can just step on the right path and get going instantly without spending a lot of time and cash for nothing. Well, it was not for nothing since I now know so much more and have learnt many lessons. I also know that I will never be able to sell stuff on the Internet that everyone is trying to make you. I might still recommend stuff I like but never for the purposes of getting rich. That is not for me and I strongly advise you to stay away as well.

Oh, falling out of subject here sorry. Back to you and me, and our journey towards being better and happier…

After reading some of the books recommended below, and trying it our for myself, I can now truly say that the journey begins with a desire,  continues with a goal and takes off with daily actions.

Take health for example. The most important and the easiest to start with, since it is so easy and so important to get results. A couple of daily/weekly suggestions:

  • Sleep regularly. Try to go to sleep the same time every night and try to get up at the same time every morning. Measure how much sleep you need to feel rested and have that as a goal. Will probably decrease if you work on the following suggestions…
  • Exercise daily, start with sit ups and push ups. Just a couple to start with and then increase slowly.
  • Make a decision every time you start to eat or drink. Is this good for me, or is it just instant gratification?
  • If/when you are up to it: Workout or run 2-3 times a week. Start slowly and enhance as you get stronger

Next area is your personal development:

  • Start reading books every day. Books about personal development or books that show you how to reach your goals. If you just read 10 pages every day you will have read several books by the end of your first year.
  • Listen to inspiring audios or watch inspiring videos every day on you downtime, going to work, out walking, doing house cleaning etc. Available on YouTube or Ted.com for example.
  • Stop wasting to much time watching television, gaming or gambling. It is not good for you.

The last but not least area is off course finances:

  • Start by putting aside a small amount from your paycheck every month and see if you can spare it. Then increase that amount every month until you find your limit. Put it on a separate savings account with good interest rate and you will see it grow.  I might come up with some investment suggestions later on…
  • Make a decision every time you buy something, is this really useful or is it just for instant gratification (same as for food or drink)
  • Keep an open mind for Ideas. Maybe you can come up with something unique?

Then there are the social area which I will not go into today because it will come naturally once the others are being worked on, and because it will be talked upon in other ways and in other posts. Like “is anger you worst enemy” , “useful little phrases” , “quality time” etc.

So how to start then? Well, start with your desires. Write them down and make some goals out of them. The goals need to be precise and measurable. Two of my goals as examples:

  • By June I’m going to the beach without a t-shirt, and feel good about it.
  • In five years I will have the choice to work as an employed or not, because my income on the side will be as big or bigger than my paycheck.

I also have a desire to become a personal coach of some kind but have not been able to formalize the goal for that yet. And then there is the retirement desire. How will my life be when I retire? Yet to come…

Well, I think that sums it up for today.

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Take care and burn with desire for the better

/Peter

Books to read that I recommend:

The slight edge

Think and grow rich

Secret of the Millionaires mind