The Top 10 Questions on Our Reluctance to Change (Refusal of the Call)

The Top 10 Questions on Our Reluctance to Change (Refusal of the Call)

Category: Coaching Tools and Skills (CG28)

Originally Submitted on 2/27/2001.

The Hero's Journey is another way of viewing a rite of passage or personal development: adolescence, first career, sobriety, parenthood, retirement, self-peace, etc. The Refusal of the Call is the third stage of this Hero's Journey.Our hero has a reluctance to change. The hero feels she has a lot to risk if she answers the calls and many people around the hero will also remind her of this as it affects them too. The answers are not simple for the hero. It may be that persistently refusing the call to change could end in crisis. It could be that answering the call would finalize other options forever. By answering the call, the hero might just be making the best decision of her life.How did you handle this stage in your past journeys? How do you want to handle it in the future? Here are some questions to enlighten and inspire.

1. Do you quickly answer the call to change?

2. Do you take time to evaluate where you are, where you want to go, and whether you want to accept the call?

3. What holds you back from answering the call? Why do you let it?

4. What fears need to be faced before you can say yes to the call?

5. How does self-worth play a part in your ability to answer the call?

6. When might it be a good idea to refuse a call temporarily?

7. When might it be good to refuse a call altogether?

8. Have you ever answered a call unknowingly?

9. How does the world around you tempt you to say no to the call?

10. What motivates you to finally say yes?

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