There are times when we all get ‘stuck in a rut’. We feel like we aren’t progressing and we look around to see everyone else living their supposed dream lives on social media. We wonder what is wrong with us and sometimes despair that we haven’t come as far as we would have liked. We start envying people, or sometimes less obviously, idolising them and wanting to ‘be like them’. We use their stories as inspiration. This can be beneficial, as long as it is temporary. Something that is much more mentally powerful and long-lasting is if you sit down and pen your own success story, starting from the moment that you are currently in. Write in as much detail as you possibly can about how you turned your life into something that you are incredibly proud of. Avoid miraculous events like winning the lottery or convincing other people to be around you, focus on the things that you control and how you utilise them in order to recreate your life into a success. Write it in the past tense in order to communicate to your brain that these things are already accomplished, already your past, and they are a reality. This will make your definite action, when you are inspired by your own story, all the more easy and effortless. Often, writing this story will give you the courage to take a chance or the determination to push past the hesitation or avoidance – you feel like you already know the ending. It drives you and removes the sense of the unknown. Give it a go – write your ending from where you are now.
LLUMI Australia 