George Eliot wrote, it's never too late to be who you might have been.

See, you are a storyteller, a creator of narratives.

In what you see when you look in the mirror are stories.

Stories about your past.

I am the type of person who does X, right?

X being an accumulation of history, of things you've done, you used to do.

And in theory, you know, there's truth to that. We are what we repeatedly do.

But here's where it becomes a problem when you confine yourself to

that narrative when you become stuck there when you are unable to become

something new because you're telling yourself that's not who I am just because because that was the narrative doesn't mean it always has to be.

You can always pick up the pen and start writing a new chapter.

I put on a green shirt last year, last month, every day last week.

Therefore, I am someone who wears green shirts.

Therefore, tomorrow, I must put on a green shirt.

It's who I am.

Seems a tad ridiculous, right?

Until you change the example a little bit.

You know, I was called out recently for saying,

I am a runner trying to put on weight.

Building muscle in the past has been a challenge for me, right?

Because I am a runner.

You know, and I was.

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