It’s Anne with your Coaching on the Go.

What stories do you tell?

What is your life story?

We can change our story any time we want.

There is an energy that comes off of the stories.

If you started looking and thinking about the stories you like to tell, or when you meet somebody new, what do you tell them about yourself?

What spin do you put on your stories?

Do they take you to an empowering place?

Last week we searched around why we don’t get started on things, why we procrastinate or if we are actually paying attention and taking action on the things that we are thinking about that are clues to the next part of where we want to go.

Are we paying attention?

This week we’re focusing on the thread that goes through the way that we look at our lives, the lens with which we look at our experiences so far and put meaning on those.

We’re starting just with stories that we tell.

This topic is a massive topic for expansion for people.

Within it lies many, many clues that you can unlock and shift to change the trajectory of your life.

Often we think that something that happened in the past is in the past and it’s done, there’s nothing we can do about it, but it’s actually not true.

As you go back into your stories, you can discover new understandings, you can see new things, you can release old things, and you can get a whole new perspective on what your life really was about.

You can actually change your life story.

We’re starting this week at what stories you tell.

Do they feel good?

Think about some of the stories that you tell about yourself, the prominent stories about things that you experienced in life.

How do they feel when you tell them?

Do they feel great or do they feel like you’re justifying something?

Do they feel like you are proving how tough you’ve had it?

Are they telling a story that has you as the hero or blessed expander?

Is it empowering or disempowering?

You can get to the point in your life where you decide not to tell stories that aren’t empowering, because the stories, guide us to how we really feel our life is, what our beliefs are, what we are worthy of, and what we are not worthy of.

They speak to the patterns we govern ourselves by, so they’re not trivial.

Get started by looking at your stories today.

Look deep now and see.

Do your stories feel good when you tell them?

What is the purpose for telling them?

What are you proving there?

Can you take them further?

What did you get from the story?

What did you get from the experience?

What did you learn from the experience?

What did your understanding of the experience put in front of you, for you, to then have the next chapter of your life?

Back when I was teaching and some things felt like they were happening to me, I felt like a victim.

I had an incredible career, top-level, doing things that no one else was doing in my midst.

All of a sudden, it felt like I was thrown out into no man’s land.

How did this happen?

After I got through it to the other side, I discovered that situation propelled me out of a career that I actually felt was getting close to its completion, but I probably, on some level, wouldn’t have had the fortitude, the guts, the foresight to leave if there wasn’t something amiss.

When I thought about it later, I saw that I “drew” to myself a way to transition out of that job to several things that brought me to where I am now, and I’m incredibly thankful for how it played itself out.

But for years, I was caught in the story of how I was blindsided, and almost felt fired, but to leave on principle.

I told myself a story about how I was wronged and how I chose to leave with my principles intact.

It was a courageous story, but it wasn’t the story of a hero.

It wasn’t a story that propelled me forward.

As I took coaching and I went through experiences, I realized what a gift that whole situation was.

That is typically what happens for us.

Life is happening for us, not to us.

Think about that.

Get back into your stories.

Look at them.

Are they empowering or are they stopping short of the very beauty of the occurrence and how essential it was to where you are now?

All right, that’s your homework.

Get going.