The Happiest Hero: 10 Heroic Hacks to Magically Improve Your Life: The Hero's Path Library, #2

By Shane Denham

Did you know YOU are the hero of your story???

You're not the sidekick, you're not a side character, you are the HERO! So, why aren't you acting like it?

Maybe it's because you're afraid the only way to step into that role is to live a lifestyle that doesn't fit you. Let me be the first to tell you that's not true. It's possible for you to build your own version of success AND a live lifestyle that fits you perfectly. That is what this book is about.

In The Happiest Hero, I'll show you some of the best tips, tricks, and hacks I've picked up along my journey. These insights can help set you free from your preconceived notions and false impressions about how to live a happy, fulfilling life. They'll point you in the right direction to start building a lifestyle that brings you joy and fulfillment in your daily life.

Life is an adventure and you are the hero of the story. It's time to become The Happiest Hero!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shane Denham
• Release date: Mar 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215851142

Shane Denham

Shane Denham is a reader, writer, musician, and marketer with a long list of nerdy fandoms. He went from jobless, homeless, and bankrupt at 27 to a 6-figure earning senior manager at a software company 10 years later. More importantly, he found a way to create the exact lifestyle that fit him and his family perfectly. Now his passion is to teach other creative people how to find their purpose and build their own version of success without giving up the weird and wonderful things that make them unique. Shane lives in West Michigan with his incredible wife, 3 amazing children, and an especially dumb beagle named George.

Book preview

Introduction

If life is an adventure , then you are an adventurer – though, maybe not by choice.

Perhaps you’re an unsuspecting hero, wandering an uncharted land filled with princes and rogues, damsels and villains, and treacherous paths that lead to glory or ruin.

Like the heroes we love to read about in books or watch in movies and TV shows, you may have been thrust into your adventure involuntarily.

It happens to a lot of us.

We enter adulthood with our parents and teachers having taught us the things they think we need to know, but we’re often woefully under-prepared. Many of the things we learn in school are less than useful, and some are just plain wrong. Get good grades, they tell us. Go to bed early and eat your vegetables. Go to a good college and get a good paying job. Trust your employer. Trust the government. Settle into a comfortable life and pay your taxes. If you’re sick or depressed, go to the doctor and take your medicine. Don’t ask too many questions and don’t pay attention to those dubious voices who speak outside the mainstream.

Some of this can be good advice, for what it’s worth, but much of it ends up falling short and failing us once our boots hit the dirt and the miles of unfamiliar road slip away beneath us. We travel out into the world, and it looks very different from the sheltered environments we come from. It’s colder and darker. At times, it’s far more exciting, but it’s also much more dangerous, and the things we really need to know to become the heroes we’re destined to be are often hidden from us.

What happens when the life choices you were forced to make at 18 years old end up making you miserable in your 30s? Where do you turn next when the college degree your parents forced you to get leaves you twisting in the wind with no career prospects and no direction? How do you recover when the cozy life you’ve built for your little family comes crashing down around you and you find yourself ill-equipped to rise to the challenge?

As an adventurer in this epic quest called life, you have only the tools you’ve been given to help you overcome these dangers. Perhaps they’re better than nothing, but harsh experience will soon expose them as inadequate. And lacking the right supplies, you’re likely to end up shivering on the side of the road, hunched inside your traveling clothes to shelter from the weather and missing that warm, safe home you left all those miles behind you.

That is a fate I’d like to help you avoid.

This book is not about your particular journey. It’s not about showing you how to achieve all of your goals and fulfill your destiny.  (Others have written volumes about those topics, and I'll cover them as well in other books). This book is about equipping you with some tools for the road. It’s about filling your travel pack with the supplies you need to traverse this dangerous track, and do so not only safely, but also in good spirits. This book is about transforming you from that grumpy dejected wanderer on the side of the road into a cheerful traveler – a happy hero.

In the following pages, I’ll offer a series of tips – things I’ve learned through hard-won experience during the course of my own adventures – that will come in handy on your travels. They are small hacks that can make a huge difference in the way your journey proceeds. And they can each be applied to you in a way that’s specific to your life and your quest.

So, sit down and rest those weary feet for a while. Come in from the cold, take a seat around my fire, and enjoy some hospitality while we talk about what it takes to become The Happiest Hero.