Identify destructive habits

Grab a journal, sit down in a quiet place where it is just you and your thoughts and write down your origin story. If there are multiple origin stories, write them all.

How to write your origin story:

1. Start with the now. Who you are, what’s your superpower. Where you’ve arrived. What is your expertise? You can have several origin stories. 

2. Go back to the beginning. Pivot back and find the story from your life that’s most relevant to setting up the origin story, sets up your expertise. (Think about the ending).

3. After you tell the anecdote, reflect. Pull the meaning out of the anecdote. Ask: “How do I feel now about how I felt then, and how do I think now about how I thought then.” (retrospection) It brings out the lessons you learned. 

4. Write your way to the next anecdote with a transition. All anecdotes lead to your superpower.