The stories that we tell ourselves can often be a distortion of the facts that really exist.  This fiction can derail you from accomplishing our greatest goals and becoming our best selves.  We must constantly ask ourselves if what we are "seeing" are the facts of the situation or the fiction that we have created around the situation based upon our own interpretation of the situation as seen through our biases, prejudices and beliefs.  This is some of the hardest work that we can do as we are constantly evaluating our interpretation and questioning our beliefs that create the fiction in the first place.  But it does get easier and faster to do and allows us to break through potentially false narratives to make better decisions and then achieve better results.  Don't let your fiction rule your decisions and your life; challenge yourself to look beyond the story and the narrative that you tell yourself and seek a different perspective to obtain different results.  You are the author of your own story so you might as well cast yourself as the main character and the hero.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.  Joseph Campbell

…we are the stories we tell ourselves. In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.  Shehkar Kapur