“You’re not stuck. You’re telling yourself a story that says you are. And the story feels so true that you’ve stopped looking for the exit.”

That usually lands somewhere uncomfortable. Which means it’s usually right.

Every belief you hold about yourself and your life started as a sentence. Someone said it out loud — a parent, a teacher, a coach, a friend, an enemy — or you said it to yourself in a moment of pain or disappointment or fear. And somewhere along the way, you stopped questioning it and started living it.