The Story You Tell Yourself

Everyone is telling themselves a story.

It ultimately comes down to this question.

Are the stories you tell yourself and the beliefs formed from it helping or hindering you?

As a kid you believe what you are told. You believe in Santa and you put the milk and cookies out the night before. Then you get a little older and start to form opinions and ask questions. How can an overweight guy, with a poor diet and likely terrible cardio shape break and enter into so many homes and not get caught?

Then as we get older we become more hardened.

We have painful memories both real, exaggerated and often false.

These memories and stories become beliefs that act like a compass that guide you through life.

They impact your decision making and what paths you take.

But if your beliefs are off track then you take the wrong detours and cannot find the exit you want.

If they are outright wrong then you end up taking constant detours down dead ends that lead you nowhere and you feel lost with no one and nothing to guide you.

Think about it.

What beliefs do you have that prevent you from doing something you want to do?

Or have you feeling a certain way that isn't helping you?

How true are they?

Maybe someone once told you that you were not good at something, so now you constatnly feel like you are never good enough, or you are too scared to try something new.

You took rejection badly one time so now you are too scared to go for that promotion incase it happens again.

Let me tell you some of mine.

I'm not good at my job.

If that was true I would have been fired by now, and the company wouldn't have moved me from my home in England to the US.

I'm boring and no one will be interested in what I have to say.

Partially true, not everyone will be, but some people will be. If you are still reading this then you must have some interest. So overall this isn't true.

I am introvert and socially awkward so I should just stay quiet.

Well, I am an introvert and I can definitely be socially akward, expecially in bigger groups. But I have worked on leveraging that and using it as a strength. I did this by learning and being curious about myself. I experimented. I have been on 4 podcasts and get really anxious beforehand, but I do enjoy them when I am on them, but I can't do many as I feel exhausted after. So I don't do many.

Are the beliefs and feelings that are holding me back genuine?

How can I see them differently and turn it into a strength?

How would my life be different if I do this?

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