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I'm bad with money, or I'm too sensitive.

Or maybe it's, I always mess things up.

I'm one of those, if not all.

But that's another story.

You've told this story so many times it feels like truth, like fact.

Like who you are.

But what if it's not?

What if it's just a story?

One, you've been repeating for so long you forgot, it's even optional.

I'm Chad Lawson and let's comment down in three, two, one.

We narrate our lives.

We take our experiences and turn them into stories, stories about who we are, what we're capable of, what we deserve.

Some of these stories are empowering.

Some are just neutral, but some, some are holding us back.

The stories we use to explain why we can't, why we won't, why we're stuck.

And the more that we tell them, the more real, they become.

Think about the story you tell most often.

Maybe it's about your past.

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