Sunday, April 22, 2012

What's your story? Is it empowering you?

"We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves. Everyone of us has a story, we are all storytellers.

Does your story empowering you to maximize what God has given you, or is your story causing you to fall short?

How many have a limiting story in one area of your life, like you’re brilliant in one area and in another area you’re not doing so good, and you got a story. A story, a reason, an excuse. It might be legitimate by the way. Story doesn’t mean it’s not true. It just means continuing to focus on it will not empower you.

Steve Jobs, what’s his history, what’s his story? His story was he was born out of wedlock, he was given up as a child, but he was told by a neighbor girl that he was given up. He’s sitting on the grass, crying his eyes out because he knows he was given up. He was discarded. His parents saw him crying, they were good soul-full people. They didn’t have alot of resources, they had the ultimate resource - Love. They said “you were not discarded, we chose you.” That changed his life. His story became : “I’m chosen,- that’s a much better story. Now, by the way - which one is true? Whichever one you pick, is the one you’re gonna believe and the one you’re gonna live.

Biography is the furthest thing from destiny, your decisions are."


Notes from Tony Robbins on Oprah Life Class.

Which story are you telling yourself (and others) - Does your story empowering you to maximize what God has given you, or is your story causing you to fall short?