Every one of us has a story or two to share about our lives. Some of these stories are funny or heartwarming and deserve to be told as often as possible simply because we feel good remembering it and it makes the listener feel good too.
Unfortunately, these aren't the kind of stories most people tend to focus on when sharing parts of his or her life with others. The stories that are given the most attention are full of drama, the poor me scenario, why does this keep happening in my life, and so on.
You know what I'm talking about. We all do it and you know darn well how you feel inside whether you're the one telling the story or the one listening. Not so great! So, if we know it doesn't feel so great then why keep telling the story?
Because its comfortable and familiar. It's what we've been trained to do from a young age. Heck, the media continuously focuses on more bad feeling stories than good and people are glued to them. They talk about it at work, over drinks, dinner and parties.
But you know what? You get to not do that anymore. Right here, right now, I'm going to challenge you to pay attention to the stories you share with others and see how often you're telling a story that constantly focuses on everything that's gone wrong in your life and what's not working now; relationships, money, job.
When we let go of our stories from the past and stop bringing them into our present circumstances, a funny thing happens along the way. You free yourself to create a new story that supports what you want in your life instead of what you don't want.
Oh, and by the way, here's a suggestion. Turn off the news. I promise you, if there's something you really need to know, it will find it's way to you.
In the next post, I'll share with you how your Gremlin turns a story of fact into enough drama to fill a fiction novel.
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