In some cultures, you have to kill a lion in order to graduate into adulthood.
In others you go on a Walkabout, or run with the bulls, or trek across the Amazon with nothing but the clothes on your back.
Today, the rite of passage is making the conscious decision to pursue your potential, despite how much this upsets your parents, elders and guardians.
It means doing the work of figuring out what’s important to you, making a plan to get it, and then going after it with everything you have.
It means standing up to your parents’ challenges, figuring out how to deal with debt/loan/cash flow issues, and refusing to settle for less than what you were created to do.
It means being willing to suffer for a moment or a decade or more…in order to reap the rewards of being true to your True Identity.
And when you do this, your parents et Al. will resist you, shout at you, guilt trip you …and then celebrate you for standing up to them.
Because all they want to know is that you’re really seriously about what you say you want this time.
So this is where you grow up, and decide to go after what’s important to you.
Welcome to your Rite of passage.
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