CORRECT YOUR ALTERNATIVE FACTS

DID you know there is the truth, being economical with the truth and alternative facts? Wow. Gets a bit confusing doesn’t it? Focusing on the last two suggests to me that people are told what they need to hear or they accept without questioning from a ‘so-called’ credible source.

I wonder are alternative facts simply a verbal invention created during a heated interview on TV or is there something more to this...

Well, working as a Life Coach – I didn’t have to think too long and hard about it. We all have a history of believing alternative facts about ourselves. I put alternative facts in the same category as self limiting beliefs. Stuff that we have taken on board about ourselves to be true maybe because of one single experience or it could have been something someone said to us. Perhaps they were a ‘so called’ credible source so we believed them and we complied.

Those are just two examples of how we accumulate alternative facts about ourselves. The danger is what we do next with them. If we accept them without questioning and allow them into our belief systems we could be scuppering any future opportunity to learn and grow. And for my money – life is all about learning and growing.

Believing alternative facts about ourselves is like believing someone else’s lie. But the good news is what we have processed and nurtured can be unlearned. There are many adults who have grown up believing ‘I was no good at sport’. I suggest you challenge that and go for a run/walk.

Day one starts today! Take action. Maybe we’ll see you walking/running Wexford 10km? Finishing that shatters one alternative fact about yourself – setting you up nicely to tackle the next one.