Ever walked into a movie halfway through? You were likely scrambling your brain trying to figure out what’s happening on screen. If you were lucky you had a friend whisper in your ear to catch you up.
Often, when people attend the Storyline Conference, this is their experience. Only they’ve not walked into a movie, they’ve walked into their life. It’s just that they hadn’t been paying attention.
One of the ten exercises we do at Storyline is to fill out our timeline. In this exercise, we list the positive and negative turns we’ve experienced and then place them on a grid that allows us to see the trajectory of our lives.
There are many benefits to this exercise, but the biggest ones are:
1. We realize that we’ve been blessed more than we’d previously thought.
2. We get a general sense that somebody is watching over us.
3. We realize that the negative turns in our lives eventually turn out okay.
4. We also realize that the negative turns have usually produced some kind of blessing, either by shaping our character or by preparing us for an important responsibility.
5. We begin to understand that our experiences have prepared us for something important.
You don’t have to attend a Storyline Conference to fill out your timeline. You can do it at home. I recommend creating the
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