9Step-9Embodying the change

DOI: 10.4324/9781003170402-10

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

(Joseph Campbell)

At step-9, we emerge from the innermost cave. We’ve done the work and gained the treasure, a new version of our Self. We are healed by the elixir. We have removed critically relevant faulty code that has been inadvertently impairing our life.

Once the work is done, embodying the change becomes the goal.

If we chose to skip past step-8 and avoid the deep work or only skirt the entrance of the cave, there is still an embodiment of the step-7 changes at step-9. Once we are regularly deploying the step-7 skills consistently to a point where it becomes habitual then we are changed. Our capability has increased, and we have ...

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