Keep Telling Yourself

Book excerpt: Do you suspect you’re capable of more but keep settling for less? Take a journey of self-love and personal growth that puts you back in control of your story and catapults you into the success you’ve been convinced is beyond reach. Too often our inner critic fabricates stories that undervalue our capabilities or make us question where we’re going and why. The things we keep telling ourselves eventually start to feel true and even inevitable—as if we’re destined to live within the confines of that story for the rest of our lives. Speaker and executive coach Chad Sanschagrin teaches that “you find what you focus on,” and he’s shown millions in search of a better life how to write a better story by focusing on who they want to become instead of what they want to achieve. Learn to apply SHIFT—See How I Find Truth—to reclaim your personal narrative and produce a truer reflection of who you are and who you want to be. To do so, you’ll enact key mindset shifts, moving from: Worthless to worthy Lack to abundance Doubt to faith Indifference to respect and love The ultimate goal of shifting your thinking is to uncover “Cannonball moments”—those times when you don’t have to wonder why you bother with everything you do or worry about what comes next because you glimpse the significance of it all in the arc of your life. No matter how you most want to be better—whether as a parent, spouse, leader, or all of that and more—Keep Telling Yourself shows you the power of the stories we tell ourselves and how to rewrite yours to realize your full potential.