What if the story you are telling yourself right now is not the full truth but only a draft? In this episode, I share how you can rewrite your life with the help of the S.T.O.R.Y. framework, a practical guide for transforming limiting narratives into empowering ones.
By learning to make sense of your experiences, uncover truth, revisit your origin story, discover resonance, and claim your role as author, you begin to see that the power to rewrite your life has always been in your hands. The stories we live by quietly shape our identity, our choices, and our future. When you change your story, you change your life.
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How to Rewrite Your Life with the S.T.O.R.Y. Framework
Most of our self-narratives begin early. Maybe you were called the responsible one, the troublemaker, or the star. Those labels become scripts that echo far beyond childhood.
Culture adds its own influence by telling us what success should look like, who we should love, and which paths are considered safe. Then life experience refines the narrative further. A failure becomes proof that we are not enough. A heartbreak becomes a story of unworthiness. A win becomes a story of worth tied only to achievement.
The question is simple but profound. Are these stories serving you? Or are they silently holding you back?
Putting the S.T.O.R.Y. Framework Into Practice
Here is an exercise I encourage you to try. Choose one area of your life where you feel stuck, whether it is in your work, your health, or a relationship.
Write down the story you are currently telling yourself about it. Then run that story through the S.T.O.R.Y. framework.
Ask yourself: Does it help me make sense of what is happening? Is it true? How does it connect to my origin story? Does it resonate with who I want to become? And most importantly, what role am I playing? Am I a passive character or an active author?
What you will find is liberating. Stories are not fixed. They are drafts. And you have the power to edit them, to write them differently, and to choose a new direction.
Putting the S.T.O.R.Y. Framework Into Practice
Here is a simple exercise I challenge you to try this week:
- Pick one area of your life where you feel stuck, maybe your work, your health, or a relationship.
- Write down the story you are currently telling yourself about it.
- Run that story through S.T.O.R.Y.:
- Does it make sense of what is happening?
- Is it true, or cluttered with comparison and fear?
- How does it connect to your origin story?
- Does it resonate with the person you want to become?
- And what role are you playing, passive character or active author?
What you will discover is that stories are not fixed. They are drafts. And you hold the pen.
A New Chapter
I know this because I have lived it. From my years in the Navy to serving in the C suite, to launching Passion Struck, I have had to revisit and rewrite my own stories over and over again. Stories about identity, worth, resilience, and purpose. Each time I edited the script I was carrying, I moved closer to alignment with who I truly am and the impact I want to create.
That is why I believe rewriting your life begins with rewriting your story. The narrative you tell yourself today will quietly shape the life you live tomorrow. If you want a different tomorrow, you need a different story today.
So let me leave you with this question.
What story are you living by right now, and is it the one you want to keep?
Concluding ‘Decoding Humanity’
The Decoding Humanity series has been a journey into the invisible forces that shape our lives, trauma, belonging, meaning, and now the stories we carry. Each conversation peeled back another layer of what it means to be human, reminding us that behind every struggle and every triumph is a narrative waiting to be understood.
This final chapter on rewriting our self-narrative is not just a conclusion. It is an invitation because decoding humanity ultimately leads us back to authorship, to the realization that while our biology, culture, and experiences influence us, they do not define us. The story you choose to tell will.
As we close this series, I leave you with this. Humanity is not something we simply inherit. It is something we create, one story at a time.
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