Patty Mayeux Blog

Like it or not, we all view our slice of the world through a limiting lens. It is part of human nature (and maybe survival) to harbor deeply rooted ideas of life based on observations and experiences of the past. Isn’t that what most movies and novels are about? The character wants something but can’t achieve it until they deal with that one thing that holds them back. It is called a mistaken belief, limiting belief or major dramatic question. What must the character come to terms with before they can move on to achieve their goal? What is the internal flaw, the undercurrent of conflict, beneath what is happening on the page or screen? I’ve been catching my own self-talk of late, noticing the roadblocks I create that limit my own potential. When a dead end appears on this path I’ve chosen, it is tempting to return to the comfortable place of it’s enough. But is it? Is it enough to dedicate hours a day to writing when it goes nowhere? Must there be visible, tangible rewards for the work we do? If not, then what drives us? What gets you out of bed each day, spurs you on to do the work you do? What limiting beliefs hold you back from your truest self? It is hard work, dirty work, to spotlight our core beliefs in search of falsehoods. Here’s a hint, anything negative that tears you down rather than builds you up is probably a bald-faced lie that you have agreed to believe from an early age. May you do some excavating and find some rotten relic of wrong thinking, dig it up and expose it for what it is. Then go have fun becoming the amazing you!