You see, there's two parts of your story.

Chapter one is what happened to you.

The rest of the story is what you do with what happened to you.

How does it shape you?

How does it grow you?

Does it deform you or help you be a courageous warrior.

So how do you write your part of this story

as the main character?

You get to decide. What I want to share with you is how to become the hero of your own story. Now, have you ever

gone to the movies or read a book and hated the ending? Like the person who was supposed to

become the good guy or the hero wigged out and got outsmarted by the bad guy.

Or the person in the main character position never grew and developed and became the

hero. They just stayed at medium. That almost happened in Millbury and Groundhog Day. Remember the movie?

Where he woke up every day to the same old day and at first he thought, this is great.

I can eat all I want, I can drink all I want, I can have all the women I want with no consequences

and I can do it again and again and again.

But he soon realized his life was boring and also deforming.

And had Bill Murray not changed, it would have been an awful movie.

One of my favorite movies is 42, the story of Jackie Robinson,

the first African-American baseball player in the major leagues. Jackie faced unbelievable

cruelty, criticism, racism, even among his own team members.

Every single time he got to bad or did anything, he was criticized.

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