How To Own Your Story
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min read
Written by: Chris Janssen, Executive Contributor
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Do you own a powerful story? Maybe you’ve started a new job. Perhaps you’re establishing a new relationship or reentering the worksite in person instead of online. Whatever your season, engage it with a powerful story.
Your story is the narrative you tell yourself, either consciously or subconsciously. It’s your interpretation of past, current, or future events—along with your life circumstances. The story you tell yourself about something becomes your belief about that thing. You get to choose whether you tell a story that energizes you—or one that exhausts you.
There are other choices under your control too:
You can move toward what you want,
get stuck where you are,
slide backward,
or quit altogether.
These choices are based on the stories you tell yourself.
Destructive stories spawn when what’s true and fabricated about an event mangle together over time to create an unsound belief. You can live for years believing a destructive story about a past event. That story may even feel comfortable and safe because you’ve formed an identity with or significance in that old story.
Constructive stories develop when the truth about an event interweaves with your positive interpretation of that truth to create a sound belief. You cannot control all your circumstances, but you can control the meanings you choose to attach to them.
To own a powerful story that serves you well, first identify and destroy destructive stories you’ve been telling yourself for days, weeks, months (or maybe years).
How? As a coach, I specialize in walking my clients through identifying and terminating their exhausting stories. I’ll help you find your blind spots and strengths you may not know were there. If you want help creating your new story, visit my website to set up a call.
You’re the only narrator of your story. Tell one that emboldens and invigorates you. Own your powerful story!
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Chris Janssen, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Chris Janssen is a Board Certified Life Coach with an honest, strategic style who helps her clients master habits and skills to move toward and thrive in what they love. Chris excels in working with high performers and understands the character traits associated with driven achievers. As a trained Business Coach, Chris specializes in closing the gap between where a company or individual is and where they want to be. Chris partners with her clients to access their creativity and resourcefulness necessary to achieve the sustainable results they want. She cares deeply about her clients' careers, relationships, spirituality, wellness, health, patterns, and mindsets. Chris says her clients are experts at what they do and she is an expert at the psychology of what they do. Together they are unstoppable.
