There’s a sneaky conversation happening inside us, silently, in the background. It’s the conversation we are having with ourselves about who we are, should be, and could be.

The conversation carries an eerie resemblance to the words and voices of our past, but here it is, in our present, shaping our future.

Then, a breakthrough happens. We discover new information about ourselves, see a new fact, embrace a new possibility, and a whole new future opens up.

It’s moments like this when we are most susceptible to the sneakiness of that background conversation. If we’re not careful, the new discoveries will be overshadowed by old opinions. That precious new fact frequently gets dog-piled with all the old facts, and that beautiful new future suddenly seems less available to us.

It’s also moments like this when we are most creative, resourceful, determined, and focused. How we engage with our background conversation can either pull us back into darkness or it can become the very thing that launches us into the light. We can choose to stay rooted in the voices of the past, or we can choose to become grounded in a new story and begin speaking to ourselves with a new voice.

I see you, Sneaky Conversation. Come over here, into the light with me, and let me tell you who I really am.