Rewriting Your Own Story
SUMMARY
If you were to write a book about yourself and then read it to yourself, would it inspire you, or would it make you feel worse about yourself?
Your identity is the foundation for everything you do. Everything you believe about yourself, everything you take on as true, will either propel you forward or hold you back.
The great thing about our brain is a thing called neuroplasticity, which means that we're able to change the wiring in our brain. By recognising your limiting beliefs, and recognising that they're not serving you, by rejecting them, then replacing them with new, positive, empowering beliefs and behaviours, and then repeating that new behaviour and dialogue over and over again, you will rewire your brain.
TRANSCRIPT
If you were to write a book about yourself and then read it to yourself, would it inspire you, or would it make you feel worse about yourself?
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, VUCA Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to round out this conversation about your identity by helping you rewrite your own story.
Your identity is the foundation for everything you do. Everything you believe about yourself, everything you take on as true, will either propel you forward or hold you back.
The key thing to do right now is to look at all those things you actually believe about yourself, and put them under the microscope, test them, be able to discredit them, and then change them to beliefs about yourself which are true and empowering.
To do that, you need to sit down and write out a list of all the beliefs that you have about yourself, starting with the words "I am" because "I am" is about your identity.
What I've now been able to do is challenge those beliefs, look at where they came from and shift them. Now, most of the time, the story that I have about myself has elements that will help me move forward. I'm not able to change the past, but I am able to change what I made it mean, and you can, too.
The great thing about our brain is a thing called neuroplasticity. By recognising your limiting beliefs, rejecting them, replacing them with new, positive, empowering beliefs and behaviours, and then repeating that new behaviour and dialogue over and over again, you will rewire your brain.
So, what's the next chapter of your story about? Is it going to be about 'how you can't' or 'how you can'? Then, in further chapters, you'll be able to read about 'how you did'.
You're not able to change the past, but you can set up now and the future to be a much more enjoyable journey. I'll see you then.
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