How to change your future by changing your story

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Your stories are boring, repetitive, and rigidly fixed. You tell them the same every time, and that gives you a life of gloom and doom, an ever narrowing, ever more impoverished version of the Life you could have.

This article is about blowing some life into your story, so you can have more life.

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.” — Allan Gurganus

Gurganus is right. The truth happens to everyone, but stories only happen to people who can tell them. And tell them well…

Professor Sexton recently told me about a new definition of reality known as the antenarrative: Ante: prior to, Narrative: the story. Prior to the story. Most of us miss it… it gets completely replaced by the story.

The antenarrative is the story that no one can tell.

Not even the people who were there. It is chaotic, without logic and disconnected. It is the way things actually happen. If you ask all the people present, all will tell a different story.

Narrative, the story, is crafted in retrospect.