Your Narrative for Tomorrow is Being Written Today -

By Ms Hemma Dsouza 

counselling Psychologist 

The decisions you’re currently making will be reduced to a narrative you’ll tell in the future. Today is a tale that you’ll tell tomorrow, and the rest of your life is a story that’s yet to be written. You will write that narrative one decision at a time.Here’s an example. If  lost a job  and found an innovative way to bounce back and provide for the family without taking handouts, surviving this season might become a story that inspires people with in the future.We each write our story one decision at a time, and the decisions that you make in the midst of battle eventually become the stories you inspire your grandchildren with.But there’s another story that could tell. …lost the job ashamed told friends that was working as a consultant. However, that was a lie, stacked up debt. Lost the respect of family and even lost self respect . One of the reasons people don’t think about their ‘end story’ when making decisions is because their story only gets formulated after their decisions have been made. Decisions happen now, but stories come later after we’ve walked in our decision’s consequences. Wisdom involves anticipating the consequences of our actions.Most people think about the future too late, when it’s too late to reverse their decisions or seek wisdom to make smarter choices.People get distracted by the pressure of the emotions they feel at a given moment. This is why people forget that their life story is still unfolding. Isn’t it true that your worst decisions were fuelled by a strong emotion? No rationalism, just emotion. Awareness and a willingness to manage our emotions are pivotal to wise decision-making.Our decisions reveal our character and who we really are.It’s wise to step back from making emotionally charged decisions because emotion is different from reason in the way that it clouds your judgement. Thinking about the next chapter of your story will draw you out of emotion and set the decision-making process into the broader context of your future. Thus, every decision you make will be wiser as you keep this question in mind: What story do I want to tell? One day you’ll either tell your own story or have aspects of it told by others.You can decide today who you want to be tomorrow, and all of your future consequences will flow out of that that decision . So always make sure your decisions are wise. end up with a story that’s worth retelling.Hemma DSouza, Counselling Psychologist