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Change your narrative

alan belcher blog Dec 13, 2020

People ask me all the time,
"Do you ever have a bad week?"
"It looks like you don't even have a bad week?" 
"What do you do?"
Those people that are close to me know that this dude's sh*t's gone down.
It's been going down since I was 18, 19 years old.

We all got something that we're dealing with.
It's not about that something.
It's about how you deal with it.

So, change that narrative.
Changed that story that's going through your mind.
You're in control of that.

Every time I have something negative go through my mind, I flip the switch, change the narrative and then I feel powerful.

Things still do bother me sometimes - I just don't show it.
It's usually my own thoughts that are bothering me but I have learned to use it, take control of it and own it.

I'm dumb. I'm stupid. I'm late. I'm getting in my head. I get anxiety.

No. Change the narrative.
Change the words that are going through your brain. It's like you're talking inside your head. If you want to talk out loud, that's cool. (I don't talk out loud all. I've tried it before it makes me feel weird.) It doesn't even mean you're crazy, if that's what you got to do that's what you got to do.
Because the bottom line is - it's your brain, those negative thoughts that are going through just turn it around.
Flip it.

What if I had a home run?
What if I knocked this guy out?
What if getting fired from my job gets me to that next career where I make 200k a year or more?
What if that took away some negative vibes, some things that were there and maybe those people didn't go there?
What if some of the people that did leave were not really a good fit anyway?

Change your what if’s.
Look at the opposite side of your negative self-talk.

Acknowledge your worst enemy but don’t let them win. Change that story that’s going on in your head.

You got this.