Jordan Wirsz – The Story You Tell Yourself

Jordan Wirsz – Becoming Incredible – The Story You Tell Yourself

 
Chapter Two pt2
 
I have met thousands of men and women like Josh. Maybe tens of thousands. Maybe more. I meet them every day. On planes, at my events, out and about. People get so very invested in their own stories that they forget about reality. Have you ever heard someone say, “He lies about it so much I think he is actually starting to believe it?” We all listen to negative nonsense on a daily basis, and we allow ourselves to process it as fact. Worse yet, people become invested in their own mythology. For a guy who loves progress in personal development, sometimes my greatest challenge is helping people realize that the investment they have made in the stories they tell themselves is not serving their greater good.
 
We are all authors of our own biographies. Every day, every moment, we tell ourselves “how things are” in our life, and “why they are the way they are.” We are constantly judging everything around us: “I don’t like that color,” “I don’t like that car,” “I like that watch,” “He’s too fat,” “She’s such a witch.” We judge everything subconsciously, if not consciously. And those judgments become the basis of the stories we tell ourselves and the relevance that they have in our life or what it means to us.
 

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Jordan Wirsz – Writing Your Own Story – Being Your Own Author

Jordan Wirsz - Become Incredible - Writing Your Own Story, Being Your Own Author

Living life to the fullest means pushing yourself to the edge, looking over, and deciding not to fall.

~Jordan Wirsz~

Chapter Two

Recently, a noted fashion photographer borrowed my car for a photo spread. He wanted the glitz that a Lamborghini would lend to the pictures, and so I spent the day on the set mingling with the various people on this shoot. Of course, how could I pass up such a neat experience? (That’s another philosophy you will learn, living with the excitement of grabbing at every new experience!) While there, I met a well-known stunt motorcycle rider, and we’ll call him “Josh.” As we talked during the necessary waiting periods between shoots at a high-profile location, we ended up sharing a bit about our lives with each other. It turned out that Josh had begun stunt-riding after the collapse of his company. He had been a CEO of a large multi-million dollar construction firm. The state of the building and real estate industry at the time was quite shaky, and Josh’s company fell victim to the downturn. 

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