What’s the Ending of Your Hero Story?

With everything going on in the world right now, I’ve heard many people express a deep worry: “What if I don’t reach the goal I once believed I could?” 

With mass layoffs, a tough job market, and shifting landscapes, that fear is completely understandable.

But what if you looked at your situation the way you’d watch a hero movie?

The Hero's Journey

In every hero movie, there are three acts:

1.  Setup: We meet the hero in their everyday world.
2.  Confrontation: They face challenges that test them, push them, even break them.
3.  Resolution: They emerge transformed, ready to claim what’s theirs.

Take The Matrix, for example:

1.  Setup: Neo lives an ordinary life as a software programmer.
2.  Confrontation: He’s thrown into a confusing and frightening reality, wants to give up, but keeps going.
3.  Resolution: He masters the Matrix, embraces who he is, and rises as the hero who can change everything.

Your Hero Story

Your journey may not be as wild as Neo’s, but, you are the main character in your own hero story.

Your Setup:

• You’ve worked incredibly hard to get where you are.
• You studied at great schools. You may have earned a master’s or PhD.
• You landed strong jobs. You became an expert in your field.
• You may have even felt a sense of stability.

Your Confrontation:

• Now you may be facing uncertainty that feels bigger than expected.
• Layoffs. Fewer opportunities. A job market that doesn’t reflect your effort, talent, or potential.

So the real question is: What’s the ending of your hero journey?

• What do you truly want?
• What would make that ending exciting, meaningful, and worth the twists along the way?

Because when you focus on that, your vision of the ending, you may realize something powerful: The exact steps matter less.

The path might change. The timing might shift. You may walk a route you never imagined. And that’s okay. That’s part of the story.

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