The stories we tell ourselves are how we’re able to live. If we didn’t craft stories in our minds about our safety, hope or the future, and other ideas, we wouldn’t be able to eat or sleep or ever have a good time.

Today is about altering that story to fit our desired outcomes, and our story possibilities are wide-ranging.

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2:18 Today’s Topic: Change Your Story, Change Your Results

2:32 Revisiting this topic from Episode #684: How To Write A New Story, Starting Today

3:06 Point I: Your perspective determines the entire story

4:16 If you are able to distance yourself from the situation at hand, you can see things from a different angle and make you see different things

5:27 Perspective is a particular attitude toward or a way of regarding something

6:04 The first thing you need to look at in any situation is what is your perspective

6:37 Point II: Maxwell Maltz (the author of Psycho-Cybernetics) noticed that his plastic surgery patients’ personalities, character, and entire lives changed after he made them look the way they wanted

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10:00 These people changed their internal picture because of the change in their outer appearance

12:40 Point III: A story is an account of imaginary or real people or events told for entertainment purposes

13:24 Your story need not be based on facts or reality

14:10 The mind does not know the difference between reality and imagination

15:26 The Mental Workbook shows in detail how to change your story. Get it at www.dreallday.com/workbook/

16:35 For a story to be wat you want it to be, you gotta supply the “what you want it to be” part

17:09 Recap