“When you can look back and find lessons in the pain you may have experienced, your life looks more like a hero’s journey and less like a tragedy”. Vex King
I want to hear about your ‘journey thus far’. It is so much apart of what my business is about. Knowing about your school life, your home life, and your ‘thought life’. It matters – and what matters most is how you tell your story: your perceptions; your perspective; your interpretation.
Everyone has a story. Your story is real, and it is not fake or untrue. Your story also results in emotions that will either serve you, uplift you or keep you very weighed down. It is the processing of your story and how it is retold over and over again that can affect how you live in this very moment, now, today.
There are so many very challenging times that we all have. There are so many circumstances that are ugly, sad, disappointing and at times despairing. Also, when looking back on our journeys we can talk about the real difficulties and the aspects of our lives that we so wish had not happened. This, I know.
HOWEVER, sometimes it can only but help to see yourself as the ‘HERO’ of those circumstances. You have made it through and from your angle, you have proved to yourself that you are capable, determined, resourceful, wise – you can choose the lens that you review that past. Try telling the story from a stance that empowers you, from a perspective of tenacity, agility and forward focued.
This is NOT about down playing your past, but to rather consider it from the perspective of being a conquering hero. You are also brave, resilient, capable, able and determined. Somehow you have kept going. Somehow you have made good from the bad. Somehow, despite so many difficult happenings, you are able today to be flourishing.
How can you retell your past story through the lens of being a conquerer, a warrior, a winner, a victor?