I've actually been practicing this for the last 4 years. I want to say I've been consistently, faithfully practicing it every day for 20 minutes, probably for like the last 2 years of the four. It is something that I'll honestly say it is a little weird when you're starting it out to really just kind of make up this better situation and to do that consistently, but I'll show you how to do that. Show you how to also, you know, get over the jitters of creating a better um story day-to-day, but it really does help you feel a little bit more optimistic in the midst of whatever situation that you're facing.

So, if you think, in other words, if you think that, you know, you'll feel better happy once you get that new job or you'll feel better once you've hit a particular weight goal or you'll feel better, you know, once you've just conquered some dream that you have in your mind for your future. Whatever it is, you have to feel good first and then focus on that thing that you want to happen second. So, telling yourself a better story is a really great way on focusing on those positive, optimistic feelings before that thing actualizes in your life, whether it's relationship, money, you know, health related, whatever situation that you are facing.

I actually have my book that I use to write in. Now, I will say this, you know, many people, many techies out there, people who love apps, love all things technology, writing might not be your thing. That is totally okay. Me personally, I enjoy writing day-to-day. I come from the old school of handwriting and all that, but I do type a lot for work. This is like the one exception in my life. But, if writing is not your thing, by all means, you know, type it out. Type your way to telling yourself a better story. That is not a problem, but I have a book. I always keep it with me with a pen, and I do this for about 20 minutes in the morning.

And what I always do is I typically start out by writing the date. And then my title will It's pretty much consistent. The ending has always has a little twist to it. I'll always start off by saying a better story about and then I'll finish the sentence with whatever situation that I'm facing. So, for example, the one that I wrote this morning is called a better story about things coming together for me. So, I'm at a period, obviously. You know, every year, especially towards the end of the year, we start thinking about, you know, what we want for next year, what our hopes are. It's just I have a lot of vision and goals on things that I really want to see come together. Things that in the midst of what I'm facing right now, I feel like they're not coming together. So, I'm telling myself a better story that they in fact are coming together, whether I can see it or not.

And I always put the date at the top. Starting with the date at the top was something I just randomly did for a long time, but now that I've had so many years of writing and telling myself a better story, I'm able to kind of go back to that particular date and time and read the story, and I kid you not, there were things that I was hoping for and I was wishing for, and some things happened honestly exactly how I had told myself it should happen in my better version of the story, and some things happened way better than I had imagined.