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What is your default mode?
Many people set out to change their lives but end up circling back to the same habits and outcomes. It’s not because they’re weak or broken. It’s because their brain is wired to keep their story consistent. At the center of this wiring is something called the default mode network. Think of it as the narrator in your mind. It’s the part that connects your past, present, and future into one ongoing story. Once it decides who you are, it works tirelessly to keep you in alignment with that identity, whether it’s empowering or limiting.
It also controls the reticular activating system, the filter that decides what information makes it into your awareness. It only allows in what matches your current story. So if you believe you’re not good enough, your brain highlights experiences that prove it, even nudging you to act in ways that keep that story alive. You might push away love, ignore financial opportunities, or shrink from leadership. Not because you want to, but because it feels familiar. And what feels familiar is what your brain labels as safe, even if it causes pain.
The beautiful truth is this story isn’t fixed. You can train your brain to narrate a new one. It begins with changing what feels familiar. Meditation helps you quiet the old narrator. Imagination allows you to build new possibilities. Affirmations and intentional identity work rewire your default settings. Over time, as you consistently align with a new identity—one rooted in love, leadership, or abundance—your brain starts filtering life differently.
Your thoughts, emotions, actions, and results follow the story you believe. Change the story, and your life follows.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check my other books. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mike-Jensen/author/B0DKDC7YSZ
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#loyal #story #feed #lead #potential
Background Photo Credit:
David Liceaga
Many people set out to change their lives but end up circling back to the same habits and outcomes. It’s not because they’re weak or broken. It’s because their brain is wired to keep their story consistent. At the center of this wiring is something called the default mode network. Think of it as the narrator in your mind. It’s the part that connects your past, present, and future into one ongoing story. Once it decides who you are, it works tirelessly to keep you in alignment with that identity, whether it’s empowering or limiting.
It also controls the reticular activating system, the filter that decides what information makes it into your awareness. It only allows in what matches your current story. So if you believe you’re not good enough, your brain highlights experiences that prove it, even nudging you to act in ways that keep that story alive. You might push away love, ignore financial opportunities, or shrink from leadership. Not because you want to, but because it feels familiar. And what feels familiar is what your brain labels as safe, even if it causes pain.
The beautiful truth is this story isn’t fixed. You can train your brain to narrate a new one. It begins with changing what feels familiar. Meditation helps you quiet the old narrator. Imagination allows you to build new possibilities. Affirmations and intentional identity work rewire your default settings. Over time, as you consistently align with a new identity—one rooted in love, leadership, or abundance—your brain starts filtering life differently.
Your thoughts, emotions, actions, and results follow the story you believe. Change the story, and your life follows.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check my other books. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mike-Jensen/author/B0DKDC7YSZ
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#loyal #story #feed #lead #potential
Background Photo Credit:
David Liceaga
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