Day 3 – Rewrite the Inner Script

You are not broken. You are just running outdated instructions.

The thoughts running through your mind are not always yours. They were planted. Conditioned. Repeated so often that you mistook them for the truth.

And unless you pause to examine the code, you will keep reliving the same day, the same year, the same life,and call it destiny.

I used to live like that. I know the script well.

Work hard. Keep your head down. Do not complain. Be grateful. Be nice. Stay safe. Follow the rules. Life will reward you eventually.

That script was installed early. I grew up in London during the eighties. Our family had arrived in the UK in the early seventies. We learned to keep our voices down to avoid drawing attention.

Racism was not hidden. It was loud, sharp, and constant.

People spat in our direction. Classmates mocked our food and our names. We were taught not just to survive, but to obey.

At home, money was always tight. My parents worked hard, but every bill brought tension. Every holiday was postponed. Every financial decision carried weight. Somewhere along the way, I developed the notion that money was evil, that rich people were selfish, and that financial success necessitated moral failure.

I believed that if I just followed the script, good grades, a good job, a good title, and a good salary, life would finally begin.

I believed that if I stayed quiet long enough, I would be noticed. That someone would come and validate my worth. That my loyalty and sacrifice would be rewarded.

It never happened.

Instead, I climbed the ladder and found it leaning against the wrong wall. I said yes when I meant no. I smiled when I wanted to scream. I gave and gave until I forgot what it felt like to want something just for me.

Success appeared to be good on the outside, but it felt empty. I could not shake the sense that I was performing someone else's idea of life. And when I finally started to wake up and step away from the script, the backlash was real.

In 2012, I accepted a job offer in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Big move. Bigger leap of faith. Someone I had known for years, sent me a message before I left:

“F*** off to the Middle East.”

That moment marked something deeper than a location change. It marked the death of my need for permission. I realised that every time I outgrew someone’s expectations, they tried to shrink me back. Not because they hated me. However, because my growth triggered everything they had refused to face within themselves.

The same thing happened when I started putting myself online.

People laughed. The family said I sounded strange. Friends went silent. Trolls did what trolls do. And yet, I kept posting. Kept showing up. Kept speaking from the scar, not the wound.

I remembered what a family member told me when I was nine years old:

“You will never be anybody.”

He meant it. He said it with conviction. And for years, I carried that curse like a weight on my back until I dropped it. Until I chose to write a new story.

Let me show you how to do the same.

Here are three beliefs that ruled me, and how I replaced them:

1. I used to believe I had to earn love by shrinking myself

Now I choose to believe I deserve love by being fully me

If people only love the version of you that plays small, they do not love you. They love their own comfort. Your job is not to manage their feelings. Your job is to own your truth.

2. I used to believe success required struggle and sacrifice

Now I choose to think success follows alignment and truth

Struggle is not noble. Burnout is not proof of ambition. When you start to move with clarity, things feel lighter, cleaner, sharper. Life opens when you align with who you really are.

3. I used to believe I had to follow the rules to stay safe

Now I choose to believe the rules were built to be broken

The default script was written to keep you obedient. Quiet. Controlled. It rewards you with just enough comfort to stop you from asking bigger questions.

But you were not born for quiet obedience. You were born to choose.

So here is your task.

Stop waiting for permission. Stop asking if it is okay to want more. Stop checking how others will react before you act.

• Take a blank sheet of paper.

• Draw a line down the middle.

• On the left, write this heading: I used to believe…

• On the right, write: Now I choose to believe…

• Then go deep. No edits. No filters. No politeness.

• Write five of the most toxic beliefs still running your life. Replace each one with something powerful, liberating, and real. Speak each new belief out loud. Feel the difference. That is how you start to rewire your inner code.

You are not stuck.

You are just following instructions that no longer serve you.

1. Rewrite the script.

2. Update the code.

3. Reclaim the pen.

The life you want is waiting on the other side of the belief you refuse to change.

Now move.

No more waiting. No more pretending. No more playing the good student in someone else’s classroom.

Write your five new beliefs today.

Then go live like you believe them.

The next chapter of your life will not be written in silence. It will be written in truth.

And it starts now.

With Love, Amit

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