Plus, six strategies to secure lasting behavior change.
| | | | | Hi John,
Last week’s Q&A highlighted the power of the stories we tell ourselves. This week we share a story from the late Kerry Patterson that highlights the self-defeating stories we tend to tell ourselves and how to change them.
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| | | | Taking Control of Our Stories | | by Kerry Patterson |
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| | | | Somewhere in deepest rural America, a man driving along a dark, lonely stretch of country road blew his right front tire. After pulling over and scrambling out of his BMW, he walked to the trunk, opened it, and noted with disgust that his jack was missing.
After ten minutes of nothing but frog and cricket noises, our traveler concluded that he was on his own. It was then that he noticed that off to the west, across a long stretch of open ground, was a lone farmhouse. It was late, but there was a light on in the front window and surely the farmer had a jack.
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| | | | | | If conflicts are about the stories we believe, there is a chance—at least in some cases—to just talk about it and perhaps change the story and find a common story that we can both be happy with. | | | | | |
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