Achieve Your Best Possible Self By Looking Ahead
How to write your
story
Write as though you were already
living in the
scenario, place, and year you have
already set.
Write the story about you, your
family, and
your
associates in the first-person i.e.
“I …“.
Describe the position you, and they,
find
yourselves in now this scenario is
happening to you all.
Tell it with feeling and use your
imagination!
Hold nothing back in terms of your
feelings of
excitement, challenge, and
achievement, your fears, uncertainties. and doubts about the
imaginary
situation
you
find yourself in.
Write about personal decisions you had
to make
to
survive and succeed in this
imaginary scenario, and the decisions you had to make to get there.
Describe what decisions went well and
which
ones
went badly, and what you now need
to do to learn from both.
Use what you have learned to describe
how you
will
reduce the stressful feelings of
fear, uncertainty, and doubt, to take the first steps to increasing
your
excitement,
challenge, and achievement, today, and every day from now on, if
this
scenario
happens!
Describe your first few steps to
success. Then
Save your story so you can keep
referring back and improving your plan
Have fun and think like a reporter in
telling
your
story.
You can now set scenarios if you wish
that
could
affect your future and repeat the
exercise, modifying your story to fit both and looking for the sweet
both
where
you
can survive and succeed in all of them.
Then
Best wishes for your tomorrow and
happy
scenario
writing.
Alexis
EXAMPLE OF A STORY:
"I was very happily married with two great children until the
Russians
blew
up the nuclear plant in Ukraine, causing thousands of deaths.
It again resulted in calls for bans on the use of nuclear power
in my
country and the politicians and activists soon won out in their
demands
all
work be halted on new facilities. Consequently, I was one of the
first
senior nuclear engineers to be laid off. I’d spent thirty years
in the
industry and now I was on the scrap heap.
I couldn’t take the rejection. My anger at everyone knew no
bounds. I
hit
the bottle and became a serious alcoholic. I was suicidal. My
family
could
take no more and threw me out. My weight ballooned and despite
the
efforts
of my friends I ignored all advice and help. At times I was
homeless. I
had
reached rock-bottom.
Finally, my body had had enough, and I had a major stroke. The
hospital
saved my life, weaned me off of alcohol. and I was able to
understand
the
self-destructive behaviour I had embarked on.
I found PreEmpt while recovering from my addiction, and explored
where
my
skills could be best put to work here. I could have chosen to go
abroad
and
stay in the nuclear industry, but I didn’t want that as I was
frightened
history would repeat itself.
My mechanical engineering skills were still strong and so I
found solar
and
wind power to be the closest sector to my capabilities and with
good
long-term prospects, particularly constructing offshore solar
and wind
farms.
A friend got me a job at his solar power firm, and I’m now once
again
back
on my feet. He offered me that while I was sick, but I was blind
and
could
not see straight.
I’m still in a junior position but my next steps are to get
promoted to
senior engineer and get married again to a lovely, caring and
understanding
lady who has given me back my will to live.
I’ve learned that I can cope with trauma the next time it hits
and that
I
need to be positive in the face of adversity instead of being
angry,
depressed, and destructive to those who loved me. I realise it
was
nobody’s
fault amongst my family, associates, or countrymen and that
everyone has
to
cope with life’s curve balls.
I’m extremely grateful to PreEmpt for showing me the light, and
to my
friend
for sticking by me when I was completely lost."
