So your whole life's a story, think about it. Like the day you're born, right? Your early memories,

you remember school, you remember your first kiss, right? You remember what your parents did or

didn't do. The whole thing is a story and what most people don't get is we all dealt with crap

in the early days of our life. We were all dealing with struggle and upset and challenges and things

that didn't go our way. The question is when all that stuff, when you think about it, do you make

yourself the hero or the zero? Do you make yourself the victor? Like, I overcame it, I got

punched in the face, I got my butt kicked, this went wrong, this went wrong, this went wrong,

but I learned and now I'm doing this or do you make that story about why you're suffering today?

You and I both know there are people watching this right now, not you, but there are people

watching this that guess what? When they meet somebody, it's like they grab their bag from the

past and they put it down in front of them and say, oh, so Tristan, let me tell you about the first

mistake I made. And let me tell you about my biggest loss here and oh man, this was horrible

and they just live into that story over and over and over and then they have the audacity

to say why is my life suck? Well, let me give you a little heads up. If you keep talking about the

problems over and over again and never make the connection around how you solved it or what you're

committed to or where you're going, you're just going to get more of the same. It's all a story.

It's all a story. I'm not asking you to lie about your past, but you can reframe your past in a way

that actually empowers you. I said all the time, hey, I barely got through high school, you know what?

And I actually made it kind of like a joke. It was a little self-deprecating, but then I said,

and then I went out and I read 500 books and I went to every seminar and I became self-educated.

I turned that negative that some people would take and I turned it into the positive side of my

story, the breakdown, the breakthrough. It's your life, it's your story. Are you getting what I'm

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