Its All in the Telling

Have you ever felt like everyone else was doing better than you?

Have you ever felt like the deck was so stacked against you that you would never catch up? I understand that feeling. I had it for much of my adult life. As long as I continued to tell myself that story, I would continue to be not enough.

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The current state of your life is a direct result of the stories you tell yourself , and what you really believe is possible—not what you say is possible, but what you believe deep down in your core. My story about not being good enough showed itself in every aspect of my life—my job, my family, my social life. Until I was able to open my eyes and change my story, these aspects of my life were not getting better.

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You receive what you are telling your subconscious mind you deserve. You will learn the lessons you most need when you are ready for them, and I was finally ready. I thought of it as true and that was, at its heart, quite ridiculous. It took a lot of thought before I even realized that this was the story I was telling myself. What limiting story are you telling yourself? All of these things are stories. Changing that story is one of the most important steps to changing your life. For me, it was simply deciding that I was just as good as anyone else and I deserved just as much as anyone else.

Think about your limiting story. How can you change that story to make it empowering?

A new story in itself is not always enough. That story needs to be rooted in something.

You have to believe it, and changing your beliefs can be the most difficult thing of all. When I decided to change my story about myself, I looked around at my life for evidence that the new story was true. For example, I knew I had friends and family who loved me and certainly thought I was good enough to receive that love. I always went out of my way to be kind and helpful to others.

These are all things that, in my eyes, made me just as good as anyone else. I was comparing myself to others, and that will lead to unhappiness most of the time.

1. We are all storytellers

Instead of thinking of myself as just as good as anyone else, I started to change my story again to simply say that I am good. Do you feel scared? Do you feel alone? Something from your own life will make that story come alive and not just be a boring car chase. He clocks in, he clocks out, he eats donuts and talks about union dues, and we thought that was a pretty funny idea. And sure enough, when I would tell it to people, they would smile. But when we told the story as a film, people started getting bored and restless and they're like, "I don't understand "what this movie's about.

So, why write about what you know?

Well, it's because, probably what happened to you made you feel some particular way. And what you're trying to do really when you tell a story, is to get the audience to have that same feeling. One of the big revelations for me telling stories, is how much work they are, really. I always thought, you would just tell the story once, and it would be perfect. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

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The Diviners, Lair of Dreams. A Memoir of the Craft, author. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

The Woman in White. A Story of Crossing Paths. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told. With our guidance and expertise, we can help bring the storyteller out of you. We can assist you with one or all of your visual storytelling , written storytelling , or social media storytelling needs.

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