Telling yourself a story?
Like me, I’ll bet you have a “story” for just about everything! Why you can’t lose weight, why you can’t keep to your budget, why you can’t learn a new skill…
“I’m just big-boned.”
“I’ve never been good with math.”
“I’m too old.”
Like me, you probably know that the story we tell ourselves is really just our excuse to ease the guilt/the remorse/ the pain of the choices we know we have made.
And it probably doesn’t matter whether our story came from our childhood or is just our current fiction, it still accomplishes the same thing: removing our personal responsibility from the situation. We allow ourselves to be “victims.”
But our stories, our reasons, our excuses, our complaints are actually just rationalizations for why we won’t/can’t/ shouldn’t change.
And yes, we do know that the highest form of energy is thought energy and when we verbalize what we are thinking, it magnifies the power of the thought and draws to us the folks who agree with our perspective. Then life says “yes” and we get more of that!
So are we thinking and speaking what we want to experience? Or what we don’t want to experience? Henry Ford said it well…
We can choose to become more self-aware of the stories we tell ourselves and pat ourselves on the back for our creativity. And then, thankfully, choose to redirect them into more positive stories and, thus, more positive experiences!
So maybe…
- “I am continuing to make better food choices.”
- “I’m learning to use my improving math tools each month.”
- “I’m as young as I’ll ever be, so this is a good time to learn!”
What story will you choose to change?
