We help entrepreneurs quiet the voices in their heads so they can be authentically present, live in the now and prosper.
As people learn to quiet the voices in their heads, they start to be more at peace as a result of being able to make conscious choices. The benefit, in addition to being joyfully fulfilled, is to achieve significantly greater success in their businesses!
Where do these voices come from?
There are a number of theories about this but we believe that these voices are held in what we call our conditioned tendency. Everyone knows someone who, when a specific set of circumstances arises, that person will always respond in a very predictable way. One might even go so far as to say "Oh, he/she always does that when ..."
Our conditioned tendency is the result of very careful training from our past. It is like we have gone through four different schools of training in order to be able to achieve our own conditioned tendency.
The first place we get this training is from our gene pool. From here we get our gender, sexual preference, and ethnicity and many messages about them.
The second place is from what we call our cultural domestication. From here we get training and messages from our parents, siblings, language, nationality and even the region in which we live.
The third place is from our education. From here we get trained by our teachers, mentors, coaches, consultants with messages about schooling, (having gone to a good school or not so good school, being smart or not so smart), our profession and our resultant social status.
The fourth place is from our religion and its resultant training. Here we acquire messages about the commandments of life, our moral values and in many cases the after-life and hell.
It is important to know and to be able to recognize our conditioned tendency because we get bombarded by it all of the time. When we can notice, and it is all about the noticing, rather than getting rid of or shutting our voices up, we are then living in conscious choice and at that time we can ask them to sit down and be quiet (or shut up). The amazing thing about this is that they will do just that - sit down and be quiet. Imagine what life would be like in that state?
One final point here at this time and that is an example. Suppose that you were taught as a 3 year old to never cross that street when the WALK sign says "DONT WALK." As an obedient 3 year old, you always listened to that message and never crossed on the "DONT WALK" sign. Well that served you very well because you are still here to read these words. However, now that you are 38 and want to cross the street at 3:30 in the morning and there are no vehicles as far as you can see, this serves you very poorly and it would be ridiculous to stand at the curb and wait for the WALK sign before crossing. It would be a disservice to you as a thinking human being to not act - cross the street - when you know that it is perfectly safe to do so.
So, the job of our entrepreneurial coaching is to help you recognize your own voices so that you can tell them to sit down and be quiet, so you can act consciously as the naturally creative, resourceful and whole human being that you are.
What would it be like to hear your voices clearly and tell them to sit down?
Living your divine purpose!
Eckhart Tolle, at the beginning of the audio book version of his the Power of Now says:
"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are."
What would it be like to permit your divine purpose to be fully seen?
Making brave changes!
When given the complete freedom to choose between what is ones current story and change, the vast majority of people will choose their current story no matter how unacceptable it is because change is simply way too scary!
Are you willing and able to choose change?
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, said:
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Along the way we may stumble and fall but getting up again takes considerable bravery."
How would it feel to conquer yourself and to reach your metaphorical Mt. Everest?
Our Purpose and Mission
The Heros Journey Coaching program is dedicated to providing you with insight into helping you achieve your personal and business goals whether you are in a leadership role in real estate, business or a creative endeavor. Many people have strong visions for their ideas but the voices in their heads either stop them fully or significantly slow them down from making their visions become reality. We see the incredible power in you and our professional coaching staff has been professionally trained to recognize your amazing potential and to help you really reach for it.
Our entrepreneurial coaching program will help you become a true leader of your own life and will also show you how you can use those leadership skills to become a more effective leader of others. Heros Journey Coaching program will empower you to be bold in your endeavors and to motivate you to be courageous on the road to achieving your goals.
The Myth of the Heros Journey
In 1949, Joseph Campbell, one of the world’s leading authorities on myths, wrote in his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, about "the hero’s journey." Mr. Campbell proposed that all myths - across all time and cultures – contain the same basic ingredients and follow the same general formula and that there are never really any new stories – just the same stories retold. These “stories” contain one over arching theme, which is the blueprint for tales since humankind’s earliest days. This is the “hero’s journey,” which is the underlying story of our work. The “hero’s journey” has three main parts: Departure, Initiation and Return.
Behind the Mission: The Complete Story
The Departure
At the departure point, a prosperous, happy person, who is respected by all, experiences a transformative crisis of awareness of his or her situation and is told that he or she is unfit to remain. At first, the person denies that things need to change and resists answering the call. At some point awareness evolves into a new way to live and work and that now he or she must answer the call. Eventually, he or she is ousted from his homeland and sent off and he or she willingly crosses over the threshold to enter a new world.
The Initiation
During initiation, he or she faces difficulties and hard challenges and stares with uncertainty into the unknown. As he or she travels adrift and alone along the challenging path – usually with the help of trainers, mentors, consultants or coaches met during this exile – he or she is given a divine gift. They acquire the capability to undergo a transformation into authenticity and then are able to become present and live in the now and to be at one with his or her new self. At this point, he or she vows to make his or her way back home.
The Return
Eventually he or she does return and is welcomed back into a place that is barely recognized but is still understood to be home. With this understanding, he or she can be at peace with the worlds of both the past and the future and hold a commitment to inhabiting and mastering the present.
This common structure of departure, initiation and return underlies Homer’s Odyssey, the story of Buddha, the legend of King Arthur, Huckleberry Finn, Star Wars and The Matrix. Joseph Campbell felt that patter existed in just about every other major human tale. Daniel H. Pink in his highly recommended book “A Whole New World” beautifully portrays this epic from a modern point of view.
"Before I found Roy, I was all over the place. New job, new city, new husband, step-kids! YIKES!!! I felt both frustrated and overwhelmed. Working with Roy has definitely upped my game.
Roy has a way of gently pushing me to notice when the "voices in my head" are holding me back and keeping me from shifting to make better choices.
With Roys help, Ive gained the tools I need to help me release pent-up resentment and stress. Ive begun to prioritize my goals so that they complement my values.
Roys keen insights showed me how to get out of my own way. In fact, lately its been like the universe has opened up and the road to success has only green lights! Im so very grateful to have Roy as my coach and navigator. Roy is truly a blessing."
TJE, PhD, Psychology
Washington DC
"Coach Roy helps you self-discover where you need to go, which is much better than just receiving blanket directions.
He won’t let you have a limiting thought. He wants you to think on a bigger scale.
I had a team that was floundering and we needed more production. 9 months later, we cut costs by 40%, eliminated programs that werent working and doubled our listing counts. Heros Journey Coaching offers a great business coaching program!"
