DEFINITION

This is a super good article by a guy who coaches people and pastors youth. His name is Paul Andrew. Check out what he has to say about redefining what defines you.

"I’ve decided to write a dictionary. Words are power. Words communicate meaning. Words have the potential to hurt or heal, build or destroy, enlarge or shrink, help or hinder. Human beings are meaning making machines. We interpret the world around us as we experience it and we attach meaning to things as a result. Sadly we often fail to challenge those meanings as we move through life. They become assumptions as though they were immovable laws of reality. As a coach I talk to people every week who for the first time come face to face with the meanings they have created, the beliefs they formed as a result, and the patterns of behaviour they therefore lived by (often for decades) on the assumption “this means that”. But what if it doesn’t? I want to write a dictionary, for my personal reference. A dictionary of success. What are the meanings I need to attach to events, moments, strengths, weaknesses, people, words…If words define my world, then as a self appointed Dictionary Author, I must redefine the things that define me. On the hit list for redefining - Failure, Fear, Unlucky, Impossible, Success, Giving, Freedom, Opportunity, Values. OK, I dare you. Take five minutes right now and write list- “What words need redefining in your life?” Challenge your limiting beliefs. Give yourself permission to enlarge the map of your life. Your language is shaping your future." Paul Andrew