Dallas Bragg argues that every word you speak either empowers or disempowers you. Reframing "I have to" as "I get to" shifts your mindset; choosing present-based language over past stories keeps you aligned with your best self and breaks the relapse cycle.
Beginning today, you get to invest in what your life will look like, how you feel, and how you'll show up tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. Beginning today, you begin the momentum of getting there through each and every word you speak. Every single word you speak. No word is neutral. It's either positive Or negative. It's forward-looking or it's stuck in the past. It's empowering or it's disempowering. It's limited or limitless. You get to decide. It's building you up and building others up, or it's pulling you down and pulling others down. Down to little things like, I have to go to work today, instead of, I have to go to work. I get to go to work. I have to not use meth today. I get to not use meth today, or monkey dust, or methadone. You get the point. I want you to begin to pay close attention to every single word that comes out of your mouth and decide, is this moving me closer to the person I want to be, the highest and best expression of me? Or is this holding me back? One or the other. Am I speaking from a story or the truth? Am I speaking from old past versions of me, old stories of I can't do that, I'm limited by that, this is hard because? Or am I speaking of I am learning, I am growing, I am cultivating, I am evolving? Where are your words coming from?
