One of the most powerful yet overlooked abilities you possess is to continually invent and reinvent yourself. Whether or not you’re aware, you’re deciding who you are and who you’ll be all the time. You speak yourself into existence through the repetition of stories.

I am this way because of the way I was raised.

I’m such a messy person.

I’m so bad at time management.

I’m the peacekeeper, responsible for holding everyone together.

Like cast spells, you bewitch yourself into making your self-perceptions true. Your actions follow suit.

The truth is, who you are is not fixed but fluid, and the stories you’ve told, regardless of how long you’ve repeated them, are entirely mutable.

Consider the fact that at every instant the entire universe is recreating itself. That you are a different person now on a cellular level than you were when you started reading this.

At any moment, you can choose to harness the power of your thoughts to tell new stories. You can bridge the gap between your past and future self by probing your old refrains.

I may have been that way because of my upbringing; who do I want to be now?

In the past, I always reacted to these types of situations in a certain way; how do I want to respond now?

I have allowed myself to manage time poorly in the past; how does the version of me I now aspire to manage their time and commitments?

Editing your internal monologues then paves the way for you to adopt new truths.

I am who I choose to be now.

I am capable of change.

I respond with intention.

I have learned and grown, and I am embracing new, more adaptive behaviors.

It isn’t too late–I am perfectly on time for my own evolution.

I am changing for the better.

I have changed.

I stay open.

I reserve the right to reexamine, and to change, and change again, for as long as I’m alive, and until the story I tell about myself reflects the fullest and freest expression of me.