{"id":4503,"date":"2021-03-02T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:14:49","slug":"the-heros-journey-and-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-heros-journey-and-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hero&#8217;s Journey and Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, a close friend of mine suggested that I need to go on my Hero&#8217;s Journey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1024px-Heroesjourney.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4504\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1024px-Heroesjourney.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1024px-Heroesjourney.svg_.png 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1024px-Heroesjourney.svg_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1024px-Heroesjourney.svg_-1019x1024.png 1019w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1024px-Heroesjourney.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1024px-Heroesjourney.svg_-768x772.png 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1024px-Heroesjourney.svg_-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically he meant that need to go through some quest, if you will, that can help me find or refocus my purpose, since I&#8217;ve definitely have lost my way, so to speak, in many aspects of my life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been told by a couple of friends that one way that helps them focus is journaling, which I&#8217;ve looked at, but seemed like something that was a bit too much or not enough, depending on what I was trying to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>Which is my basic problem.\u00a0 What the hell am I doing?<\/p>\n<p>And then I came across a product called <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.theherosjournal.co\/\">The Hero&#8217;s Journal<\/a>.\u00a0 A method to help me tell a better life story.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to try an experiment with this product, setting up a quest and going through the 90 days (pages) of this journal to see if my goal can be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Simple goal, really, to see if I can lose the weight I&#8217;ve gained during the pandemic, if not more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done weight loss before, but it was all gained back over the years, and then some, thanks to working from home\/sheltering in place.<\/p>\n<p>So part of the quest will be finding solutions and sticking with it over the 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>I think writing this down will give me a better handle of what I&#8217;ve been doing (or failing to do) over the past year or so.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, a close friend of mine suggested that I need to go on my Hero&#8217;s Journey. Basically he meant that need to go through some quest, if you will, that can help me find or refocus my purpose, since I&#8217;ve definitely have lost my way, so to speak, in many aspects &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-heros-journey-and-journal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hero&#8217;s Journey and Journal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10],"tags":[539,540,538],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-media","tag-goals","tag-quest","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}