Melissa Reddick

Today, let’s focus a little bit on how hard it can be for Super Heroes to watch other people struggle. Even when those people maybe are not very nice to you.

Super Heroes don’t become heroes without caring. They just don’t.

You can have a ton of powers, but you only become a Super Hero when you decide to use your skills, talents, and abilities to make life better for other people.

We think of “fighting evil” as “fighting crime”, but what if your special ability is actually a service that you can offer people to help improve life. What if you are able to produce a tiny iron cube that magickally turns into a vehicle over seven days. Sometimes you create cars, other times planes, and every now and then you create a vehicle that traverses all forms of matter (liquid, solid, and gas). You can’t control what you create yet, but you are noticing that every day you are getting closer to figuring out how to predict what’s coming next.

That doesn’t necessarily translate to “fighting bad guys in the sky” or down dark alley ways. But does it make life better for the people around you? Absolutely it can! Especially if you are willing to use it AND share the results with them.

So, what does it do to a Super Hero, someone who has CHOSEN to use their TSA (talents, skills, and abilities) to make the world a better place for some and/or all people, when you have to step away for a little bit and let people figure things out without you.

Let’s say you’re the vehicle-producing Hero. And you go to a different country for a few weeks. Do you think the gaps that have been created in society because of your presence will be revealed?

Of course they will be! If you’re in a small town, they probably have no vehicle manufacturing plan in place. That might be fine for a week or so, but eventually they will start to have to figure something out so that their new drivers, or those who total their car in an accident or it just ages on them and dies, can buy or receive new vehicles.

Any town that was relying on a Super Hero to fight most and/or all of their crime will definitely feel the impact differently if you leave them for a little bit of time.

What does that do to you, mentally?

It can drain you. It can trick you into thinking a lot of different things.

It can either fuel you in a good and positive way, or it can start to make you think really highly of yourself in a destructive way.

I am not talking about leading to a Villain mindset just yet. But have you ever heard the term “ego-maniac”? Someone who thinks highly of themselves while thinking terribly of everyone around them? That is the sign of someone who is mentallyl unwell.

Someone who needs a break will typically start to turn this way.

So today, I want you to start brainstorming the answer to these three questions:

1. How would you start to think of yourself if you were in a situation where you were doing something that apparently no one else could do but you, AND everyone wanted some of what you could do from you?
2. What would you do to protect yourself from the temptation to diminish other people as your confidence in yourself grew?
3. How would you protect other people from yourself when you started to look down upon them for needing so much from you?

One mistake Super Heroes tend to make – something that works in fiction, but in real life it would lead to you being really drained – is that they do everything without receiving a paycheck for doing it.

This might sound backwards, especially in the West, because we are conditioned to do good things without asking for nor expecting anything in return.

Part of my Super Hero powers is to change all of that.