Here's a counterintuitive truth about telling your own stories: you converge too fast on the version that feels safest — the one that lets you skip the unfamiliar.
Every situation in your life holds far more options than you let yourself see: who else was there, alternate openings and endings, details you'd never think to foreground. When you only ever reach for the safe telling, the story goes flat.
The method's fix is deliberately uncomfortable — you blow the field of options wide open, then hand the final choice to chance and commit to what it gives you. The lesson underneath: there is no perfect option. There's the option you have, and how seriously you take the work of making it sing.
The full exercise, and why surrendering the choice is the thing that frees you, is in the book and the 5 Minute CEO.
The full system — every exercise and the 36-day practice — lives in the book MEAN IT. and the 5 Minute CEO program. Work with Paul →