The Day I Realised The Story Was The Problem
The Day I Realised the Story Was the Problem How I stopped explaining my life and started fixing it There comes a point when you realise you’re not exhausted from doing too much — you’re exhausted from explaining everything. Explaining why things didn’t work. Explaining what went wrong. Explaining who or what is responsible. For months, I had been living inside a story that felt real, justified, and convincing. Parts of it were true. Parts of it weren’t. But all of it distracted me from the one thing that actually mattered: identifying the real problem and doing the work to fix it. The day I stopped feeding the story was the day I finally had the energy to face the challenge. The problem itself was simple, even if it was uncomfortable to admit. We couldn’t generate money fast enough, and we couldn’t access money when we needed it. That was it. Everything else — the doubt, the fear, the frustration, the sense of being unlucky or blocked — grew from the story we built around th...