How About A Rewrite
Feb 16, 2021
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
--C.S. Lewis
"Girls don't go to college." I heard my dad say this to my sister when I was seven years old. She was 16 and really wanted to go to college. That was my dad's final answer. Back in the day, we didn't question Dad...well, not when I was younger anyway. But I had questions in my own mind; Why? Why don't girls go to college? I knew boys went to college because I had a couple of cousins that we going at the time. Are girls not smart enough, good enough? That thought went into my young mind as a belief that if girls didn't go to college, they must not be "good or smart enough.''
"She's too little. There's no way she can help us win." That's what they said about me on the playground. I was always chosen last, if I was chosen at all. My teacher, Miss James would often make them choose me and that choice was accompanying by groans and jeers. AND I was too short for the longest time to get on the Ferris wheel at Euclid Beach amusement part. Being little wasn't enough either.
Wow, two strikes against me--being a girl and being little--and there were more. Our beliefs, positive and negative, are put into our minds when we're young. Often, well-meaning people say things that are not intended to be negative, but impact our lives just the same. Our experiences and perceptions of them can contribute to our programming, as well.
These beliefs impact our self image in such a way that we may sabotage our success until we uncover those limiting beliefs and change them. Our self image is composed of beliefs that we hold about ourselves. I've studied and facilitated classes on self image and the truth is that we never out perform our self image. We can't become more than we believe we can.
The awesome part about all of this is that these beliefs can be rewritten. Dr. Caroline Leaf, a neuroscientist says this, "Regardless of the ways we have chosen to react in the past, painful toxic thoughts can be reconceptualized and reconstructed." It's true and that has been my experience!
I invite you to join me for a webinar on rewriting your story. Let's get together for an hour on Tuesday night, Feb.16th, to learn how do just that. Register here: https://janmcdonald.
I hope you'll join me. Nothing makes my happy dance more than helping individuals change and out grow those beliefs and perceptions that may be holding them back!
Excitedly typed,
Jan
Jan McDonald
The John Maxwell Team
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