Are you stuck in the past, or work with someone who is? Not everyone aims for personal growth or uses their past experiences to move forward.
If you’ve ever worked with a colleague who tells the same old stories over and over, you understand how people can distort reality to suit their purposes. And yet, most of do our own version of repetitive storytelling.
We form an identity of ourselves as a team member, colleagues, or friends by telling personal stories about our past. And we project the lessons we’ve learned onto our present situations. We let our past influence our present reality and in doing so, affect our future.
The fact is, personal stories serve to protect our egos — it’s human nature. Our stories aren’t about what actually happened, but rather what we told ourselves happened. They’re founded on real events, but mostly on real emotions. They are stories that we’ve invented based on how we interpreted things back then.
This article explores how our personal stories – our interpretation of past events – can keep us stuck in the past and suggests 5 steps to personal growth.
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The complete article includes these important concepts:
- Reframing reality
- Looking back to look forward
- Draw a life timeline
- Identify significant events or people with big impact
- Find patterns and meaning
- Back to the future
- Map making
- Trust in the future
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