Be more loving, generous, kind, or any other value you like

Is there a value you wish to experience in yourself that you feel you are lacking? For instance being more loving, less selfish, maybe even just a little happier.

Try doing the thing associated with the value as if you already embodied that value. In other words, if you want to feel more generous, go out of your way for someone today regardless of how you feel about it.

It’s so simple, but so easy to forget. We say to ourselves “I’m not that way. I’m not that kind of person, so I can’t do that thing.”. Well nobody said you had to feel generous in order to give something away. And yet, you will feel generous after you do it. You will be generous.

Ask yourself, what would a generous person do? What would an energetic person do? What would a happy person do? What would _____ do? Sounds familiar right?

Choose an Archetype

Make things easier on yourself with an archetype; someone or something that acts as a model or blueprint of what value you wish to achieve and ask yourself what they’d do in a situation.

Right now many of you are making the excuse “But that’s not me. It’s weird and wrong to act like someone else.”. No it’s not. In fact it’s what you’ve been doing your whole life, emulating archetypes you’ve grown up with. Didn’t you get your sense of humor from your favorite cartoons? Didn’t you get your sense of justice from your favorite heroes? The difference with Personal Mythology is now you are consciously choosing your archetypes and values.

So what is weird and wrong here? To unconsciously be fed a million archetypes and allow them to shape you without your mindful input? Or to make decisions on who you want to be and to feed that vision with the proper archetypes?

It’s your inner space. Clean it up, design it, empower it, live mythically.