What’s the story you tell yourself about why you have what you have in your life? Does it create pity or inspiration in others? Is it a story of reasons or excuses?
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Hi, I’m John Paul Fischbach. I’m the CEO and the Chief Alchemist here at the Auspicious Arts Incubator and the theme this week, this week’s Hot Tip is What’s your story? This tip follows the theme of being at cause and creating the results that you have in your life or being at effect and creating the reasons and the excuses for the results that you have in your life.
Julie-Ann Black, our producer of Bold and Irresistible Communicators has a really great metaphor that she uses in her seminars Your Life as a TV Show. The concept behind this metaphor is to consider the role that you are playing and the script that you are reading from.
One of the most important parts of this idea is to be actually aware of the story, your story, what is the story that you tell yourself about why you have what you have in your life? Are you consciously aware of it like as if it was written by someone else and it was being read as a monologue of a character in a script in a TV Show of your life?
The reason that I say that is it’s important to hear the story. Quite often the story is the private and public conversation of justifications and reasons, explanations and fixed positions that stand in the way of getting results. We often trade our story for the results that we could have. We gather evidence that supports this story but it is a story.
One of the great truths is we dont see things as they are. We see them as we are and we fit them into our story. Sometimes we accept our story as though it were fixed and true. We’re blind to the fact that we are using our story and selling it to others. This week I challenge you to pay particular attention to the story that is holding you back or keeping you stuck.
See that it is a story. You are the writer and the performer. You can choose to stop telling the story or you can create a new story that will inspire you and others. Remember it’s not what happens to you that matters. It’s how you respond to what happens that makes the most interesting story.
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