Do You Need to Rewrite Your Life Script?
The narrative of your Life Script determines your life’s quality and the legacy you leave behind. Are you writing your Life Script or living someone else’s story?
Learn How To Re-Write Your Life Script
by Melvin D. Nix
People enjoy a great story. They enlighten, educate, and are often entertaining. We learn of the greatest triumphs and failures of the people we admire through stories. You may turn to a story for guidance when you want to find courage, gain wisdom, or discover solutions to challenges. However, the most important story you need to re-read and examine is your own Life Script.
Who Created Your Narrative? (Your Story)
Consider this, your story defines who you are, the quality of your decisions, and sets the boundaries in your life. The narrative of your Life Script determines your life’s quality and the legacy you leave behind. Have you ever taken a moment to consider if your story is genuinely yours or does it belong to another?
You were given your name and raised in environmental surroundings that you didn’t choose. You didn’t select your parents, family members, or economic status. The roles you play, rules you live by, interactions with others, and your worldview were all influenced by external situations. If the factors that make up your identity are not your choice, there’s a strong possibility that you aren’t living in your authenticity.
Why Am I Always Experiencing This? (Your Theme)
As you navigate the paths of your life, have you ever questioned why you experience certain repetitive events? For example, do you always choose the wrong acquaintances? Are you frequently unhappy with your life and periodically having to start over? Do you find it nearly impossible to sustain yourself? The answers to these questions lie within the theme of your life.
Before I understood my purpose and began to change my life, it seemed that nothing I tried to do worked. I experienced failure on many levels. I had terrible relationships, awful mentors, and the worst support system. I always felt like life was a constant battle. It seemed as if the story of my life was to be defined by struggle and destined for mediocrity.
The theme of your life’s story reflects the overall meaning of your life. It’s the message that you stand for and defend. It conveys your core values and showcases what you represent. Many times, we adopt the theme of our families. Many people live and die and never wonder if the meaning of their lives reflects the blueprint in their hearts. It’s time to take a magnifying glass to the pages in your life and see if it’s the theme you desire or if it’s time to switch things up!
What Is This Happening To Me? (Your Plot)
The chain of events that unravel in your life is associated with the story you tell yourself. These events have a cause-and-effect relationship and often seem to spiral out of control. It feels as if the plot of your life is to constantly suffer, bump into problems, or experience bad luck. Others you know seem to have the Midas touch and always seem to find success. It’s sometimes frustrating and very confusing.
One of my personal experiences similar to this occurred when I was in the military. I relocated to a new duty station. On the first day on the new base, my supervisor had given me a thousand-page report, an old typewriter, and an old monochrome computer system. He said that my job was to comb through this report and manually type letters to every person in that report to resolve a particular issue. Instead of torturing myself with that archaic way of doing things, I went to the library, got a book on basic computer programming, and wrote a program that managed this task for me very efficiently.
When my supervisor saw what I was doing, he told me that I was wasting government time and that if I continued, he would write me up. He behaved this way for months. He even began to taunt me for trying to improve an outdated process. It seemed as if no matter what solutions I thought of, he was determined to create roadblocks for me. Ever been there?
