What is it about your life that makes you feel less than heroic? Do you feel pushed around by bullies, at home or at work? Do you find your most important decisions being made by others, or to make someone else happy? Are you alone? Lonely? Do you feel unloved or unlovable? Do you eat too much, drink too much, smoke too much or rely on drugs? Do you feel weak, incapable of achieving your goals? Or, worse, do you feel incapable even of conceiving goals for yourself? Let me ask you this: what is the opposite of a hero? That’s right: A Victim! Whenever you allow others to dictate your life, you become a victim. Whenever you stifle your dreams, or don’t even dare to have dreams, you become a victim. When you stop taking chances because you are afraid of the consequences, you become a victim. Whenever you succumb to addiction, you become a victim.

And what do victims do? They SUFFER.

But maybe you’ve tried to do something about it. Maybe you’ve tried counselling or dating services or weight-loss programmes or self-help books, and maybe they’ve helped, for awhile. But then you found yourself falling into old patterns, and drifting back to your role of victim. It doesn’t have to be like that. It is possible to shake off the chains that hold you down, to burst through the walls of your prison, to be free, to fly! It is entirely possible – no matter how trapped you may feel now – to release the hero that lies dormant in all of us, and I’m going to tell you how.