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Published: May 14, 2020, 7 a.m.

We all have a story in our head. Yet we often have the wrong story. The story you tell is apart of whether or not you are going to succeed.

Now, these stories are yours. But are you telling your story in the right frame of light or are you perhaps living somebody else story? Doing this doesn\u2019t serve you and often it doesn\u2019t benefit you in any way.

What is meant by your story?

Your story is what are you telling yourself. It can also be the story others are saying about you. Others can have whatever story they want. The real story is your story,\xa0

Other people can have their own story about you.

Yes, people are going to have their own story about you. You cant change this and why should you?

What the story isn\u2019t truthful? Ok, but how does their thought of you affect you. They may tell the boss their thoughts? Yeah, they may but the boss also has their own thoughts about you.\xa0 Maybe some of their stories are true. What then? You work for your story. If the story isn\u2019t correct their story will change on its own. If it doesn\u2019t it really doesn\u2019t matter it is their story.

Are you living someone else\u2019s story?

Why would you live someone else\u2019s story

Many times we live other people\u2019s stories for many different reasons. Perhaps it\u2019s a parent that wants you to go to college so that you can take over the family business. They may say that it is your birthright and you don\u2019t want to upset your parents. Yet you love welding and the family business is office supplies. These two really don\u2019t fit together that well.\xa0

There are many reasons to why you start living by someone else story. Many times it so that we don\u2019t rock the boat. Then again it could be because you have been guilt-tripped into that story. So you give up your dream or aspirations of being a writer.\xa0

Yet living your own story is important. You need to have your own story.\xa0

Are you telling yourself the Right story?

Here is an example for you. When I was a kid I was the child of a rancher. And from time to time I was told to get up and go help with breaking up frozen stock tanks in the winter. The work was cold. It was made worse because I would have to dig the ice chunks out of the tank so that they didn\u2019t freeze over again. In the spring I would be out in the rain looking for the weed that is shorting out the electric cattle fence. The summers were a combination of building miles of fence in 100\xb0 weather and grading roads in the wind.\xa0

That sounds pretty miserable, right?

Or I could tell the story of Many times I wanted to stay under the warm cover and sleep. Yet since I was helping my dad when he was needing it. I would get up and help him bust up the ice in stock tanks we would talk about random things and with my dad\u2019s sense of humor, I was always laughing at something. I may be building the fence in summer but dad would be right there with sweat just pouring off of him. I remember applying sweat with hard work and would apply that to my work ethic as I got older.\xa0

When the season to work cattle came around I remember the whole family would get together and pitch in. I would get to see my cousins and we would goof around as we loaded the cattle into the \u201csnake\u201d so they could be given the needed medicine, tagged and branded. These were such good times.

See the difference one is a victim minded story of woe and the other is a story of relationships and learning. You have a choice in what light you are going to see your story.

To find your story, can take a while. Maybe you need to change your story. The good news is that you can. It is your choice as to you want to live your story or live your parent\u2019s story. You have the choice you always have that choice. Remember that not choosing is a choice in itself.

So know that you are telling yourself a story and if you don\u2019t like it then start making those waves.