Your Story for 2010

Tomorrow Robert and I start our 1000 miles and this will be a big part of our story in 2010. We will write about this with the pen firmly in our hands or those we give it to along the way. Here are some thoughts about your story for 2010.

The success you achieve in 2010 will depend on the story you tell yourself about yourself. The pen that writes this story will on occasions be in your hand and at other times in the hands of others. One of the most important interventions you can make to ensure the best success for you in 2010 is for you to control the pen at all times. If you give it without thought to your boss, partner, friend or opponent they will write what is good for them and this may or may not be good for you. If you decide what will be written and who will write it then the story written will be good for you and contribute to your growth and fulfillment. But beware the dilemma you are faced with. Giving the pen freely to others is so much easier and natural to us than keeping it in your own hand or choosing who you give it to. Accepting you can't get the promotion you want is down to your boss or you can't have the work life balance you prefer because of your partners needs is so much easier than considering your own role in getting the outcomes you want. Give up the pen and you watch life go by as others are allowed to insert paragraphs and chapters in your story. Hold the pen and face the big challenges this will raise for you and you will be confronted with some exciting and difficult choices that will open up a new world of possibilities for you. Allow yourself to face these choices to shape the future you want. Think about this. What you do today can be an increment on where you finished yesterday or it can be a move made by you in the direction you really wish to travel. You can let the pen write wherever it is or you can grab it and set your own path. Write a great story and make sure it is the one you want to tell.