Use Story to Change Your Life

What you tell yourself about your experiences becomes what you experience

What we tell ourselves becomes our reality. For some making a mistake is a major set back, while for others making a mistake is an opportunity to learn. Lifeframes/Shutterstock

Most of us don’t realize how powerful stories are in our lives. We don’t even notice that we’re very often telling ourselves a story and that these stories shape everything we believe about our reality.

For example, the stories you tell yourself is the reason you feel:

• Resentment toward a loved one or coworker
• Guilty about what you haven’t done
• Overwhelmed by all that you need to do
• Anxious about the uncertainty of the world
• Stuck in your old habits
• Avoidant of your difficult tasks
• Bored or lonely

Nothing in the basic reality of life makes us feel these things. It’s our stories about our reality that create the feelings.