![]() ![]() Your environment or location is one of the powerful forces of your life.ĭepending on how it is set up, this could either empower or hinder your success. To Rewrite Your Story Change Your Environment Within your story, you need to establish the steps and plans you’ll put in place to defeat these sources of negativities in whichever form they appear. ![]() It could be the bad company you keep or the bad habits you wish you could stop. These villains can come in different forms. You need to decide on how you’d go about this. While writing your story, you also should focus on ways to defeat your villains. In every story, there’s often a bad guy that ends up defeated. According to Inc, looking beyond your doubts, fears, and uncertainties to analyze your life, identify the negatives, and take the right steps to change, is requisite for growth and success at work and life. Change is inevitable, no matter how hard it might seem. The whole idea of rewriting your story is about forging a new path. But there’s no real growth when you’re approaching key aspects of your life with a rigid mindset. They fear it will knock them off their game for good. If you’re at this point where the way forward does not hold significant promise, gather courage, end that chapter, and leverage the opportunity to start on a clean slate. Identify key aspects and leverage them to your advantage. Take a moment and reflect on certain aspects of your story (life). One bad chapter is not going to be the end of your story. If you don’t like the way a certain chapter is unfolding, perhaps it’s time to close it. But some will leave little to be desired. ![]() Some of these chapters will be phenomenal. The story of your life will have many chapters. Consider Closing Chapters That Need to End It’s time to associate your life’s story with a more encouraging theme.Ĭonsider changing your life’s theme from ‘failure’ to ‘ growth.’ And rather than ‘ condemnation’, carve your story around ‘redemption.’ In the end, choosing an overriding theme that’s positive and encouraging as this can help change your realities and perspective.Ĥ. ![]() Chances are you’ve been focusing on negative and discouraging themes up until this point. Likewise when you rewrite your story, you need to find a theme to focus your new story around. Develop a New Theme For Your StoryĮvery story should present a narrative to the reader. While external opinions might be considered, you’re the sole authority in charge of which opinions are worth consideration as well as those that belong in the bin. Rather than living as someone who thinks life just happens to them, you live life as the creator of your own future and destiny.īy creating your story, you can assert your influence on the personality you want to create as well as on the characters embedded within your story, among other things. Putting yourself in charge as the creator of your story will impact your perspective and approach to life. This is more about your mindset than it is about other things. This will help put you on alert so you can minimize this bias as you set out to create a new story. Make a conscious decision to focus on the positives in your life once the negativity starts to creep in. This is why I recommend overcoming this as the very first thing to do if you want to rewrite your story. It can impact your story and sabotage your success. Psychologists refer to this phenomenon as the negativity bias, and it’s a trap. So, even if you have an equal share of both positive and negative experiences, the brain tends to emphasize the negative ones above the positives. The human brain is wired to make bad stuff stick in a much stronger way than good ones. ![]()
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