{"id":2009,"date":"2013-03-15T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the365effect.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2017-02-14T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:14:32","slug":"heroes-vs-villains-you-cant-have-one-without-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the365effect.com\/heroes-vs-villains-you-cant-have-one-without-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"The Villain inside you. Why the villain might just be the key to your success."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Who’s your Villain?<\/h1>\n

Most great stories or movies that have ever been told have a Hero in them.<\/p>\n

Stories that stand the test of time and continue to resonate with us whether they be Disney Films, Tales of Ulysses, The Star Wars Saga or simply the ones told at bed time all have a HERO in them.<\/p>\n

The hero’s journey or the “Arc” is central to the story but have you noticed that the best ones, the stories that reach deep into our hearts and minds also have a villain that intrigues us almost as much as the hero.<\/p>\n

It’s the Villain that actually makes the story come alive.<\/h2>\n

My first\u00a0post<\/a> in the 10 part “The Heroes Journey” series asked the question “What does a HERO mean to you”.\u00a0 I posed that question as a way to get you thinking about YOU;<\/p>\n

You as your own hero… I wanted to provoke you and invite you to start questioning how heroic you actually are.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Daily we hear stories that make the news about heroic acts as well as unimaginable suffering and terror.\u00a0 Too frequently however, the news skews to the side of terror and suffering.\u00a0 I believe that’s because as a society we’ve become OK with the “Villain”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What is it about our daily lives that has led to this acceptance of the Villain?<\/em><\/p>\n

Would a HERO<\/strong> accept the villains way?\u00a0 NOT A CHANCE – The Justice League would be activated and all hell would break loose. \"\"<\/p>\n

We’ve accepted the villains presence and its dominance in our daily lives….because as an old grandfather would say “That is the wolf that is being fed”.

“Well, you need the villain.\u00a0 If you don’t have the villain the good guy can just stay home” – Christoph Waltz<\/p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n

Understand your Villain – Greet them – Invite them to a meeting.<\/h1>\n

One of my favorite movies of all time is the movie\u00a0“Heat”<\/a> – featuring two of my favorite actors, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.\u00a0 At the movies heart is essentially the battle between the hero (the cop Pacino) and the villain (De Niro as the bank robber).\u00a0 In a beautifully written scene, screenwriter Michael Mann gets his characters to sit down for coffee together.\u00a0 Cop and Robber – sitting down across the table from one another simply seeing each other, putting a face to a name and publicly acknowledging that each other exists.\u00a0 It is a brilliant scene.<\/p>\n

How do you bring your villain(s) into the light?\u00a0 Have you ever invited or\u00a0given permission<\/a> to these villains to make their presence truly known?<\/p>\n

Is the villain inside you too dark, too scary or buried too deep to come out?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the above sentence impacted you at all – don’t let it get away.\u00a0 DO THIS TODAY.<\/strong><\/p>\n