Personal Myth: A replication of our thoughts.

Personal myths are stories we narrate to ourselves. They are a set of beliefs, opinions, and perceptions we hold about ourselves. They inform and direct actions we ought to take in our lives. Personal myths are the cornerstone of our being as individuals, depending on how we narrate them to ourselves; they are replicated in our actions.

As people we are all a replication of our thoughts, personal dialogues we engage on, in our individual capacities and moments alone. These are stories we tell ourselves, that either empower or dis-empower us. The failures and success we have achieved in our lives, to a certain extent, can be attributed to stories or myths we tell ourselves. Success is a deliberate, conscious and consistent effort. To achieve this, our psychology needs to be in sync with our actions. It’s difficult to be prosperous or successful, while your thoughts are not compatible or are in conflict with your actions.

Before we could achieve any form of success, we must first engage in a mental process through which we harden our thoughts and assert our attitudes about ourselves. We work hard on conceiving and developing thoughts that will help us to harness our conviction and courage to help us ultimately achieve our goals. A thorough and consistent construction of personal myth will help us to survive and overcome our meagre surroundings. It helps us to reinvent ourselves as a people, gives us hope and assert our firm belief about our dreams.

While on the other hand, people engage in destructive and toxic stories they tell themselves. They look for “valid or justified” reasons, such as their past failures and rejections as to why they can’t succeed. Stories that limit and dis-empowers them. A negative or destructive personal myth is characterized by terms such as “I can’t” or ” I’m incapable of”, these are self-created limiting beliefs about oneself. Instead of re-energizing people about their future, hopes and dreams, they confine them in the spectrum of impossible. People who engage in such toxic myth, find it difficult to dream outside their local boundaries.

Therefore, it becomes important to be aware of thoughts we construct about ourselves, stories we narrate and conform to, the types of ideas we allow to ponder in our minds. Because ultimately they will be replicated in our daily conversations and actions.

So what story are you narrating to yourself? Is compatible with your dreams? Do you have a strong mental fortitude?