Life, as I'm sure you're aware, is full of challenges, and one of those challenges that we have,

honestly, it's the voice in our head. Sometimes that voice tells us good things.

Maybe you should go for a walk outside.

This situation has me stumped. I should probably go talk to somebody and know something about it.

I really should take a moment and read a book to my child.

Sometimes, not so good things.

Whether it's awful, there's no point going out.

I can't see my way out of this. I guess there isn't one.

Maybe now is the time to learn to play accordion.

That voice in your head is busy feeding you strategies all day long.

Strategies on how to do the next thing you need to do, or strategies on things even further.

Sometimes those strategies are great. Sometimes they're not.

But whether good or bad, every time they're based on the very same thing,

a story, and that story is served up to you by your narrator, a function of your own

brain.

You know what a narrator does. If you're watching a movie, the narrator sets the scene.

He explains the action. He directs your attention to what matters as the scene shifts from one

to the next, the narrator governs what you think about what you see.

And that's not just television. That's going on between your ears all day long.

Now, there's one big difference.

When you are sitting in a chair watching somebody else's narrator serve you a story,

you're a passive participant. But you are not a passive participant for the narrator operating

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