The story we tell
Stories are important and perhaps there is no greater story than the one we tell ourselves. We secure our identity, create focus, and guide our behaviors and morals all by telling a story about who we are. Sometimes we are the author of this story and sometimes others are but the focus of Today’s Thought is about your power as an editor. While our stories can be grand and inspired, they can also be limiting. When they do so these stories no longer serve their purpose. That’s where we can serve as our own editor, not as someone that changes the events of the past but what the story means. We can take the lesson learned and guide the character.
Changing your personal narrative is challenging because we treat these stories as absolutes and that all we can ever be, but that doesn’t have to be the case. There are exceptions and addendums. You can take anything and add it to your story. Even now you can take a moment to change the thing the character does next. Imagine standing and the next movement is the one you make as the “revised” character, the one you are becoming. How would they be different if the story had no limits and the character was truly exceptional? What is the very first Act?.. Can we try it? Look around, what is the very first thing the character does in our revised story? Now..move.
So for today’s thought know…You are the focus of your story and you’re not done writing. “This is the moment she changed her story”.