Gifts For Your Future | The Life We Build | Storytelling Therapy

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Storytelling Therapy and Life Coaching by Shelley Carney provides the viewer with a new experience in relaxation and meditation using our most basic human love of stories and a soothing, ASMR quality voice. Starting with quotes from the I Ching, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Covey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michaelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Collier and others, these integrated stories bring life coaching concepts into full use and help us to create a more fulfilling and joyful experience. "The Life We Build" tells a story of a man who wishes to retire but is asked to perform one last job. When he relies on excuses instead of his commitment to excellence, he finds out that he harms himself most of all. It’s so important to have a clear and compelling reason for what you are doing. Because it keeps you going through the inevitable turmoil that will occur between where you are now and achieving your dreams.  If your reason is money to purchase stuff, a vacation or a lifestyle, it’s not compelling enough. If you want to be successful just to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, you’re not going to be willing to go through the necessary discomfort inherent in achieving your goals just to have that comfort. You’re never going to work as hard as you have to work to get to your goal of working less. The journey to get there is incongruent and the opposite of why you’re doing it. The cost is more than the reward. A compelling and clear reason is so much stronger than all our excuses. For some people, it’s taking care of their family, retiring their husbands or their wives, moving into a bigger, better house or neighborhood, or helping their aging parents. When you feel that conviction of your purpose, you know that it’s compelling enough because nothing you have to go through to get it matters. Your future is worth it.  What if your reason isn’t compelling enough? Create one that is! You have to dig deep and figure out what is really important to you. Ask yourself: How does pushing toward your imperative goal move you further away from suffering? Create a reason that generates an emotion that will overcome doubt, frustration, laziness, and confusion. When your reason is truly compelling and creates a driving determination for you, everything else becomes clearer. You don’t waste time. You get to work, knowing your purpose and committing to it. Commitment means you have a willingness to be uncomfortable, that all other options are removed and the necessary steps are non-negotiable. To fully commit immediately invites risk. Your compelling reason is what will make that risk worth taking. By accepting that risk and honoring your commitment, you will become more resilient, more determined, and more successful. These results will add fuel to your compelling reason and increase your desire to evolve. #Storytelling #Why #CompellingReason

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