Chapter 4
THE POWER OF YOUR STORY “If we didn’t have the struggles that we have had, the challenges, and the pushes, we would never develop our character. Our character is coming from those times when we didn’t believe we could do it, but we did it anyway, and we fought our way through. In that struggle, we developed our character and our strength.”
— Brendon Burchard, interview with Dean Graziosi
Each and every one of us has a story—or many stories—that has shaped our lives. At its core, your story is where you live, emotionally, mentally, and sometimes even physically. Your sto- ry can either be the wind behind your sails or the anchor that is weighing you down. Our inner villain tells us the stories that hold us back. If you’ll recall the ways in which that villain sabotages us, you’ll understand that he does so by telling us those stories again and again—stories that we believe are fact, even when they’re nothing of the sort. What we need to do is figure out what stories we should be telling ourselves—the ones aligned with the new vision we have for our lives, the ones that enable us to leave our old story in the past.
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