Mining for Magic - What Your Ordinary World Wants You to Know (Module Two)
A Beta Adventure Quest from The Lab
This week, I’m gifting this post (and the next two in the series) to all Call for Heroine’s subscribers (free and paid). If you'd like to know why, you can read about it here. You can find Module One here.
This post is (usually) for Lab Members only, aka the inner circle shaping the future of The Heroine’s Adventure. As a Lab member, you get early access to every course, workbook, and tool I create before anyone else sees it. Your feedback (or silent lurking, no judgment) helps shape what’s next. In your "Spoiler Alert” posts, you’ll also get behind-the-scenes insights from someone who built and sold a 7-figure business from scratch. I’ll show you the real systems, strategies, and decisions behind this adventure so you can use them in yours.
Mapping Your Ordinary World
Where Every Heroine's Journey Begins
Before Harry Potter knew he was a wizard, he was just a boy in a cupboard. Before Luke Skywalker faced the Empire, he was just a farm boy on Tatooine. And before you become the hero of your own epic transformation... well, let's map out where you're starting from, shall we?
THE POWER OF YOUR STARTING POINT
As discussed in Module One, every great story begins in the ordinary world. And that's not because it's ordinary, but because it's loaded with clues about who our heroine really is. Just look at how much we find out about Harry in the first chapter of Harry Potter:
"Harry got slowly out of bed and started looking for socks. He found a pair under his bed and, after pulling a spider off one of them, put them on. Harry was used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept." (He sleeps in a cupboard? Does he have no one who loves him?)
"He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose." (There is someone close to him who punches him in the nose)
"Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley’s, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was." (He is neglected)
“I’m not going to do anything,” said Harry, “honestly . . .” But Uncle Vernon didn’t believe him. No one ever did. The problem was, strange things often happened around Harry, and it was just no good telling the Dursleys he didn’t make them happen." (There is something special about him)
The "Ordinary World" is the starting point of transformation in both fiction and real life.
Like those brilliant details from Harry Potter's life (hopefully none of you have spiders in your socks, but if you live in the UK, it's been known to happen), your everyday existence is filled with telling moments that hint at your potential for transformation. Your ordinary world is a treasure trove of insights waiting to be uncovered.
BECOMING A LIFE ANTHROPOLOGIST
Take a pause here and look around your current environment. Pick three objects within arm's reach and consider what story they tell about who you are.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to document your ordinary world with the curiosity of an anthropologist discovering a new civilization. But (plot twist) that civilization is your life! Write out your ordinary world, just a normal day or week in your everyday life.
To help you complete this assignment, I'm providing a Magical Aid (as all journey mentors should). You can download the Ordinary World Journaling Prompt Guide and use this treasure trove of brain-activating stimulants to guide you. Please don't think you must use all these prompts (or even any); they are simply there to assist you if you need a launchpad.
No one will see this, so it doesn't matter if it's good writing or how it's written. Just write a story where YOU are the main character.
Please write this story in the third person, not because we're trying to be fancy, but because it gives you the secret superpower of perspective. Writing in the third person means instead of writing, "I wake up and go straight downstairs to cook breakfast, " you should write, "Lisa-Marie woke up and went straight down to cook breakfast."
Try to be as descriptive as possible. Throw in some dialogue. Have fun with it. Again, this is yours, and you won't have to share it with anyone.
Imagine you’re narrating a documentary about your life. What would the camera capture? What would it reveal about your character?
Let me remind you again: Your journal entry is for your eyes only—think of it as your secret superhero diary. No one needs to see it but you, so feel free to be brutally honest, wildly descriptive, or completely chaotic. The only wrong way to do this is not to do it at all.
In the next module? Get ready to mine for magic! We'll be taking those Ordinary World observations and uncovering the extraordinary potential hidden within them. Because somewhere between your morning alarm and your evening Netflix session, a heroine is busting to emerge.
Over to you, Lab Heroines!
This is your invitation to shape the final version of this quest.
✨ Does it resonate?
✨ Is anything unclear or missing?
✨ Do you need more of something?
✨ Would you want to keep going to the next module? If not, what’s stopping you?
Your feedback helps me make each quest stronger and gives you early access to tools that can change your life. Every note you share sharpens the impact for the next heroine who picks up this quest. I can’t do this without you. Let’s build the adventures together.
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The April Group Coaching Call. Where we all chat about your burning questions. I’ll be live from our summer home in Italy (we went early this year)
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