Don’t Believe Other People’s Lies…

I’ll cut to the chase…

Someone posted a nasty comment about me online this past week. And man, did they go in DEEP!

I mean paragraphsssss of negativity.

Now, I’m gonna tell you the truth…

There was a time when I would have freaked out about this. I would have fed into the lie that I’m not good enough and that there’s something wrong with me.

I would have doubted if I had what it takes.

After all… we have a tendency to think the worst about ourselves. To feel like we don’t measure up.

To tell ourselves stories. Lies. And when someone says something nasty about us, we’re even tempted to believe it!

What the reindeer?!

Has there ever been a time in your life when you’ve experienced this?

Do you worry about this very thing happening?

Are you afraid you won’t know how to handle it when it does?

Well, let me help.

The first thing I did was laugh.

It was so outrageous, radical, and untrue that I just had to.

AND… when you can teach your brain to laugh instead of panic, you train it how to respond the next time.

It won’t freak out and immediately send you into fight or flight. The next thing I did was to tell myself a story about it that served me instead of one that tore me down.

Because the ONLY thing that happened was someone posted a comment online. That’s it! Nothing more, nothing less!

It’s what I made that thing MEAN that matters.

I could have told a story about my unworthiness, etc. etc.

BUT INSTEAD, I chose to tell the story that this person must be really hurting to attack someone online.

They must be pretty unhappy and unfulfilled. And that makes me sad. I hope they find what they’re looking for.

The story I’m telling myself is… I’m not even in it.

This comment had nothing to do with me. It was all about the person writing it.

So, I can move forward without thinking about it for days, second-guessing myself, and hiding in a closet.

So today, ask yourself…What one story can I rewrite today so that it serves me instead of keeping me stuck?