What's Your Story?

People tell stories to survive. Religion, politics, art, war, love; stories have been created over the course of human history to instill well-being, justification, mental peace of mind, etc. When we growing up, we were told a story in our own lives as well. Some of us were told that we were pretty and were born for greatness, others that we were nothing and never would be, most of us were told something in between these two extremes.

Whatever your story is, you start learning it from a young age, and it directs the course of your life. It's not necessarily good or bad, but if it keeps you from achieving what you want, then it should be examined. Coaches help people with their story. Typically, a problem with money can be because you might have been raised to think that you don't deserve or it's too difficult to get and it should be hoarded. A lack of love in your life might because the story you were told is that love is hard and you're better off alone. A hard time with weight loss could be because you were raised to identify food as love and without food, where is the love in your life?

So think about your story. What good things came out of it? What bad things came out of it? Don't dwell too much on positives and negatives though; simply think about how it got you to where you are now. Do you need to alter your story? Do you need to create an entirely new one? If you're a parent, are you concerned about passing that story onto your children?

Our stories make us who we are and there's nothing wrong with that. The difficulty arises when they aren't serving us anymore and we need an "editor" to help us create new meaning for ourselves; to help us create the future that we want. Otherwise, we will repeat our past over and over again and our children will do the same.