Think about your life and what isn’t working. Are you overweight? Are you burned out at work? Are your relationships suffering?
Why do you think this is? Pay close attention to the story you tell.
We tell ourselves stories about our lives all the time. We tell them like they’re facts. Like we’re reporting the news.
I have a sweet tooth.
I have a stressful job.
My kids are difficult.
I’m impatient.
I have too much to do.
Most of these stories are lies. They are just made up thoughts. Sometimes these thoughts serve us and sometimes they don’t.
There are very few facts in our stories. If we wrote our story with facts, it would sound something like: “I was born here. I’m this age. I’m married/single/divorced. I have this many kids. My job is this. I live here.”
It would be a very boring story. These are our circumstances. They are totally neutral facts that everyone can agree on. There’s no emotion attached to them until we have a thought about them.
That’s when things get interesting. Our story is born.
Now I’ll ask you again. What isn’t working in your life? Why? What is your story?
Now tell it again … with only the facts.
How does that story feel?
