Positive Mindset Monday | Ep 21: The Story You Are Telling
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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In this episode of Positive Mindset Monday, I explore the powerful idea that the story you tell yourself shapes the life you live. I’ll challenge you to look at your own story, are you portraying yourself as the hero in an inspirational tale? Discover how overcoming adversity can strengthen you and empower you to help others. Tune in to rethink the script you live by, and if this message resonates, don’t hesitate to share it with someone who needs a mindset boost this week!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John Gordon with your positive mindset Monday. |
| 0:07.0 | So lately, my wife and I have been watching the special on Billy Joel, and it's on HBO Max, and it is incredible. |
| 0:15.6 | It's all about his life, but also his songwriting, how his songs came about. |
| 0:21.6 | And basically I learned that he was telling stories through his songs, |
| 0:26.6 | stories about his life, stories about his relationships, |
| 0:30.8 | stories about messages that he wanted to share with the world |
| 0:34.4 | or what he was seeing in the world. |
| 0:37.2 | And as a storyteller, someone who actually writes books and tells stories, I was just |
| 0:42.6 | enamored with that and I just loved that. |
| 0:45.0 | And I thought about how it applies to us that every day we are telling ourselves a story. |
| 0:51.8 | We are living a story. But the story that you actually live is the one |
| 0:57.2 | that you are telling yourself. What story are you telling yourself? Is it a drama? Is it a |
| 1:04.4 | horror story? Is it a documentary? Is it an inspirational tale as I believe it should be in so many ways because |
| 1:13.5 | we face adversity and challenges and setbacks? And so when it's an inspirational tale and you're |
| 1:19.4 | the hero in your story, you get knocked down. You get beat up. You face failure and rejection |
| 1:26.3 | and setbacks. But that hero and that inspirational tale |
| 1:30.9 | gets back up. And when you're the hero in your own inspirational story, you get back up and you |
| 1:37.2 | overcome the challenge, you overcome the obstacle, and you get stronger as a result of that. |
| 1:42.5 | And because of that strength, because of that perseverance, you, the hero, becomes someone |
| 1:47.9 | who can impact the lives of others. |
| 1:50.0 | And you do. |
| 1:51.3 | In all the great movies, the hero ultimately saves someone and saves the world. |
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