What's your story?

Most people believe that the reason they are not successful is due to some external force that is keeping them down. They don't have time to take business classes so they can learn how to succeed because they have kids.  Or they are simply not smart enough to do it. Perhaps you believe you have always been broke and living paycheck to paycheck and that is all you will ever be. Nobody believes in you. You may believe that you are a product of your parents and your environment and since your folks aren't wealthy and neither is anyone else you know, you can not not become wealthy.

If all of those things were true how would anyone become wealthy in the first place? Originally we were all on an even keel. Nobody had more than anybody else. Yet some rose while most did not. What made them special or different? Do they deserve to be rich while you deserve to be poor? Is it some kind of karmic balance? Not hardly.

Every sentence  in the first paragraph is a limiting belief. While many of those who become successful do or did have some of those circumstances surrounding them, they were not part of their internal story about who they are and what they are able to do. Many successful people had busy lives before they were successful. A lot of them came from poor broken homes. Some had little or no real education, a few years of grade school and no college at all. Every person around them constantly told them about how they were going to fail. And yet they succeeded anyways.

Successful people, take note of the bad circumstances around them and declare that they are not acceptable. They are not okay with where they are. Their lives change forever and for the better when they decide to use those circumstances to lift them up instead of holding them back.

I acknowledge that I am a high school drop-out with barely a summer term of college. I come from a somewhat poor immediate family. I am 38 and have been employed for less than half of the last 20 years. None of my immediate friends and family are wealthy.

But that is not going to stop  me. I am one of the wisest and most intelligent people that I have ever met. My thirst for knowledge is never ending. I can do anything I set my mind to and I have a burning desire to succeed in spite of all the "markers" for failure that surround me. I have begun to take active steps to change my thinking from scarcity to abundance and to infuse my life with even more inspiration and coaching from those who already are how I want to be.

Your story can be that you are a winner or a loser. But, in the end it's your story, meaning you are the author of it. You decide the tone and context. If you are the writer why make it a horror story? Why not make it epic fantasy?