315: If Your Story Doesn’t Empower You to Move Forward, Change It

The story that you assign something either propels you forward or holds you back because the meaning of anything is only what you give it. Betsy shares some thoughts about why she is behind right now and discusses how she has shifted her story to propel herself forward. She encourages you to do the same by giving yourself the grace to change your story to be the best you can be and to know that you are empowered to rest when you need it and do the work when you are able. * Connect with Betsy on IG @betsypake TRANSCRIPT Welcome to the Art of Living big podcast. My name is Betsy pake. I’m an author, a speaker, and a trainer of NLP and hypnotherapy. And I’m focused on helping you understand and design your life with the power of the subconscious. This podcast is designed to help you think differently about what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. Hi, everyone. Hi, welcome to the show today. So this is a, this is gonna be a weird little show. I think this is gonna be a weird little show. Here’s the start, let me set it up for you. Alright, so I’m in my living room, I never recorded my living room, but my daughter is sleeping in my bedroom. I’m gonna get to that in just a minute. I’m behind on my podcast. Do you remember back in January, I hired a Podcast Producer that I love. And she has been so flexible with me. So that I only need to get three episodes ahead, right. So she has time to do all the work that needs to be done. And I’m behind. So it’s really important that she gets it on time. So she can do what she has to do. And I’m like, really behind. I’m really behind. And I don’t like that. Because I want to be respectful of other people. And I’ve had so much to say that I kept thinking I need like all this time to tell you. So I think I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, there are like some bigger things that I want to share and teach you that I’m going to try and record this week. But right now I need to get an episode to her before she wakes up and realizes that I haven’t put a new episode in the hopper for last week. Okay. So I was like, I’ve got a record, what am I going to record. And so I thought, I’m gonna record and tell you why I’m behind. Because I think we all have things in our lives that happen, ah, that make us feel like we’re really behind. And then we have a story about that thing. Right, I’m behind. And I want to be respectful. So that means I’m not being respectful. I want to be on time, which means I’m not taking and being a good steward of my business. Like there are a lot of things that I could say about it, like a lot of story. And I say story because the meaning of anything is only what you give it. That’s it. Like every little thing in your life, if you could think of some things right now that are bothering you, or holding you back. It’s just a story. Like you have a story about it. It’s something that you think about it, maybe something someone else told you about it. It’s the way that you think about the thing. And the way that you think about the thing either propels you forward or holds you back. And so I realized I haven’t been keeping up. And I want to tell you why. And I want to tell you what my story is. So if you’ve heard me talk before, on the show about how my daughter was sick. I mean, I’m I want to say this has probably been like 10 years, she’s had really bad anxiety and depression. She was on the show last summer. And we talked in depth about it. She was doing so great. And she went off to college, she went to SCAD. And then in an earlier episode this year back in maybe like June or July,