Change The Story

Every single one of us has a story to tell.

We can also read just a few chapters of somebody else's story and think we know the whole book.

Some have only read a few of the earlier chapters.

Some have only read a few of the middle or later chapters.

Some have skimmed the whole book and think they know the entire story.

Never mind all of the character changes and location changes and plot twists that make it such an interesting story.

Don't judge a story by the chapter you left on or walked in on.

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As far as your own story goes:

Everything you read,

Everything you watch,

And everything you listen to,

Influences the stories you tell yourself.

And the stories you tell yourself affect your emotions, your relationships, your health, your limits...

They affect everything.

It's a story.

It's a story that you may have pieced together from what you read and watch, and who you listen to.

It's a story that someone may have told you at one time about what you could and couldn't do - about what you were and were not capable of.

It became a story you told yourself that you chose to believe.

These stories go on for years, if not decades, until one day a seemingly radical and transformative concept may enter your mind;

That you can change the story.

It doesn't matter how boring or insignificant you think your life is - or has been up to this point - we all have something in our story that can help someone else;

Maybe even change their life.

It's never too soon and it's never too late.

You can change the story at any time.

Change what you watch,

Change what you read,

Change who you listen to,

And the entire story will begin to change.

It's your life.

It's your story.

You get to write the script.

In every moment you have a chance to make that change - to change the narrative.

You just have to decide to do it.

Photo - Grant Krasner sunrise at Lake Mead NRA, Arizona