MIND: Do This Each Day!

DAILY INSIGHT Earlier this week we talked about using stories, and the power of your imagination, to help you fall asleep happily. You can also use your storytelling skills to improve your state of mind at any other time. We all have stories on repeat; those negative stories that keep us small (like that story about that person who said you weren’t good at coloring in when you were 5, which irrationally reaffirms the limiting belief that you’re bad at art…etc.); and those positive stories that make us feel good. DAILY ACTION Create a new positive story for yourself today. You don’t have to wait for other people to create them for you. Start at the end: how do you want to feel? And work backwards. What would make you feel like that? What has made you feel like that in the past? How did you do that thing? What does the fact that you DID that thing prove about what you’re capable of? Write a story — either based on real life events, or completely within your imagination — that makes you feel the feelings you most want to feel. Be empowered to create those emotions for yourself.