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You can choose ...
To be your own Best Friend
To live your life Fully Today
To create your own "Greatest Story Ever Told!"
To live your life Your Way
Stop letting others dictate your life story.
- Think of the story you want to write with your life.
- Think of the kind of story you would want to star in.
- Write down your most important values.
- Write down your ideas for your story.
- Your theme: what values do you feel most passionate about.
- Your plot: what is your plan of action to achieve your values?
- Your obstacles: what gets between you and carrying out your plan?
- Your triumph: what are you going to do to overcome your obstacles and carry out your plan?
- Then dare to follow your plan of action and live your life story!
Your story plan will evolve and grow as you evolve and grow over the years. For example, here's what my story plan looked like and has evolved to look like all in one snapshot:
My THEME is Happiness: My Happiness (in particular) and Human Happiness (in general).
My PLOT is to become a Dancer (to achieve my happiness) and to discover a Healthy Recipe For Living and Create Self-Help Products (to help both me and other people achieve their happiness).
My OBSTACLES to my dancing are my parents' and community's beliefs about dancing as a profession, finding good teachers, and acquiring the skills. My obstacles to creating self-help products are my lack of computer skills and my lack of funding.
My TRIUMPH will be:
- Overcoming my obstacles by coming to terms with my beliefs,
- getting the required training, and
- earning the money to fund myself
- Actually expressing my love for life through my dancing, and
- Actually enabling other people to achieve their own love for life through my products, my services, and my example.
Now, sit down with a blank piece of paper and begin writing your personal story plan.
Even if you don't know for sure, don't be afraid to write something down. Your story plan is not written in stone. You can always change the plot and some of the cast of characters as you learn and grow - all but that is. will always be the main character in your life story. Treat your main character with love and respect. Give your main character a life that is exciting to you - a life you can enjoy and admire. Write from your best understanding of yourself today.
This will give you motivation, purpose and direction. Watch yourself become both the Director and the Star of your life in the New Year to come. By writing and living your own life story, you will finally start living a life that is genuinely and authentically yours. And you will love living your life. | 
