What Does Your Story Say About You?
You Have The Power To Change What Your Story Says Michelle Obama spoke to a group of kids overseas a few months ago.
While I didn't vote Obama in as president and do not support his plans for our country, I did hear a clip from this talk that was interesting.
She told them that nothing in her story indicated that she'd be in the White House as the first African American First Lady.
It caused me to think, how many of you are where your stories said you would be? How many are where you are in spite of your stories? Are you letting it hold you back or inspire you to be as much as, or more than where you came from? Most children begin as characters in their parents stories until they're old enough to write their own.
Due to inheritance or birthright they may be expected to remain in those roles and live their lives in a rerun of mom and dad's drama, never breaking free from the mold.
Sometimes it's by choice, obligation, or guilt placed on them, that causes kids to follow in these familial footsteps.
I worked several years in my father's plumbing and heating business until he passed away and we had to close the business.
I think when your parents have a family company any child living at home is in the business in some capacity, depending on age.
Environment, family, teachers, friends, and books read are all choice markers on the road map to where kids ultimately end up.
If your story is not producing positive results, create a new one of your very own.
Wherever you are now you can pull out a blank sheet of paper and draft an original script.
It begins with the live for, fight for, die for thing in this world that you're most passionate about.
What can you not go on without? What is it that you love to do.
.
.
beyond food, beyond sleep, beyond all reason? For me, it's writing.
Starting your story from this day forward, learning from the past, while living in a challenging present and focusing on the future is one of the hardest things to do.
Wiping the slate clean takes fortitude first, backed by physical endurance.
Rather than focusing on regret or mistakes from your past concentrate on what you can accomplish, not what you haven't.
Then use the experiences to help others that have yet to discover what you have.
Shorten their success learning curve by sharing your journey and how it's guided you to this place.
Social media lends your voice a global reach.
Imagine the amount of assistance and education you can extend throughout the world and the relationships you'll build along the way.
If the children in Michelle Obama's audience carry her words with them and transform those into action, they'll have a great start in charting their destiny, because where your story begins is not where it has to end, as long as you do not let what was keep you from what can be.
While I didn't vote Obama in as president and do not support his plans for our country, I did hear a clip from this talk that was interesting.
She told them that nothing in her story indicated that she'd be in the White House as the first African American First Lady.
It caused me to think, how many of you are where your stories said you would be? How many are where you are in spite of your stories? Are you letting it hold you back or inspire you to be as much as, or more than where you came from? Most children begin as characters in their parents stories until they're old enough to write their own.
Due to inheritance or birthright they may be expected to remain in those roles and live their lives in a rerun of mom and dad's drama, never breaking free from the mold.
Sometimes it's by choice, obligation, or guilt placed on them, that causes kids to follow in these familial footsteps.
I worked several years in my father's plumbing and heating business until he passed away and we had to close the business.
I think when your parents have a family company any child living at home is in the business in some capacity, depending on age.
Environment, family, teachers, friends, and books read are all choice markers on the road map to where kids ultimately end up.
If your story is not producing positive results, create a new one of your very own.
Wherever you are now you can pull out a blank sheet of paper and draft an original script.
It begins with the live for, fight for, die for thing in this world that you're most passionate about.
What can you not go on without? What is it that you love to do.
.
.
beyond food, beyond sleep, beyond all reason? For me, it's writing.
Starting your story from this day forward, learning from the past, while living in a challenging present and focusing on the future is one of the hardest things to do.
Wiping the slate clean takes fortitude first, backed by physical endurance.
Rather than focusing on regret or mistakes from your past concentrate on what you can accomplish, not what you haven't.
Then use the experiences to help others that have yet to discover what you have.
Shorten their success learning curve by sharing your journey and how it's guided you to this place.
Social media lends your voice a global reach.
Imagine the amount of assistance and education you can extend throughout the world and the relationships you'll build along the way.
If the children in Michelle Obama's audience carry her words with them and transform those into action, they'll have a great start in charting their destiny, because where your story begins is not where it has to end, as long as you do not let what was keep you from what can be.
