Life is a series of situations, circumstances, and events that are often unexpected. 

Are you ‘onboard’? Do you agree?

Using the strategies taken from part III of storyitell: tips, if I am resistant to an idea and block it without awareness (mindless), I’ve missed an opportunity to be curious. When I’m curious is when I learn and grow. 

Assuming you are onboard with the suggestion that life is series of situations, circumstances, and events that are often unexpected, let’s move forward from there…

The situations, circumstances, and events will include outcomes, or results. 

Could we say that life is a series of outcomes?

The thing happens. And then there is a response to what happened. 

What is in one’s control? Or maybe it is better said: what is most in one’s control? How one responds to the thing is what contributes to short term, and eventually long term, results. Once the thing happens, it happens. It’s done. Now what? 

Here is where self-care enters in. Without the awareness of the storyitell, one can continue to talk about what happened as if continuing to talk about what happened will lead to better outcomes. 

This video is the first part of a 20 minute video on Executive Functions that I created for a class lesson in 2021. At the time of this current post, I am preparing to begin storyitell in the Monday night class.

Everything connects.

Here is the betterway excerpt for today’s Sunday Book Club:

Reflection Questions –

1. Can you notice the difference between a general thought and a specific thought? If you notice that you are thinking thoughts that are specific and contributing to a negative or unhelpful ‘filter’, can you change your thought to one that is general until you are back to a better ‘filter’ at which to view what may be an unwanted situation, circumstance, or event?
2. Can you recognize the space of goodness or wellbeing inside of you? I heard it referred to as the ‘eye of a hurricane’. In the same reference, it was suggested that one can continue to remain in the eye amidst what is happening around them. Does that make sense to you? My estimation is that one can begin to notice when they are beginning to encounter the ‘storm’ and make choices that can move them back toward the eye. This takes awareness. It also takes belief. The storyitell is a reflection of one’s beliefs.
3. After reading p 53, can you consider the story you tell about goodness? Can you use ‘tips’ to consider a story you want to tell? Are you open to disrupting a limiting story? No one needs to know. Practice. The story will begin to tell itself.