HABITS OF RETURN

Written By Duane Nelson

2 IDEAS FROM ME

  • Seven leadership habits are critical to living your best life in the “Return” phase of the Hero’s Journey: Courage, Creativity, Humility, Patience, Perspective, Gratitude, and Equanimity. These habits integrate insight and growth into your authentic nature enabling you to be an instrument of inspiration rather than a tool of torture.

  • Courage overcomes the uncomfortable transition from knowing to being. Creativity translates insights into interpersonal reality. Humility keeps you grounded and teachable. Patience enables you trust the integration process instead of trying to force outcomes. Perspective turns experience into wisdom through meaning making. Gratitude stabilizes growth. Equanimity cultivates the inner peace necessary to overcome guaranteed friction of essential change.

2 QUOTES FROM SAGES

  • “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” — Joseph Campbell

  • “You have power over your mind—not outside events.” — Marcus Aurelius

1 QUESTION FOR YOU TO EXPLORE

  • There’s a big difference between living your values and admiring them. What actions have you taken in the last 24 hours to live your highest values?

Namaste,

Duane Nelson

Duane Nelson

Ultrajourney Insight is an Anacortes Washington-based non-profit organization providing mindfulness & well-being services designed to ignite the adventure of a lifetime. The founder, Duane Nelson, is a writer, speaker, and teacher with four decades of parenting, wilderness, & international technology leadership. His professional insights come from chemical engineering and automation leadership at Philips, Intel, and Amazon. His adventure insights flow from ultramarathons, mountaineering, canyoneering, and adventure racing in Nepal, Alaska, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico, British Columbia and Alberta.

https://ultrajourneyinsight.org
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