What If Your Life Was a Lie—and You Didn’t Know It?
Imagine waking up one day and realizing your entire life was a TV show.
Every interaction scripted. Every relationship staged. Every decision… manipulated. Sounds like a bad sci-fi plot, right?
Well, that’s The Truman Show. And it’s not as far from real life as we’d like to think.
In the movie, Jim Carrey plays Truman, a guy who’s unknowingly spent his entire life trapped in a giant dome—broadcast live for the world to see. Everyone around him is an actor. His “normal” life? Just set design and camera angles.
But here’s what hit me watching it again last weekend: Truman didn’t feel trapped—at first. He felt...fine. Life was fine. Predictable. Comfortable. Until he wasn’t.
A stage light falls from the sky. A radio broadcast describes his every move. People repeat the same lines like they’re reading from a script. And eventually, Truman starts to ask the question that changes everything: “Whose life am I living?”
Now, let’s talk about you for a second. No, you’re probably not being filmed (unless your kid just discovered your TikTok login). But are you living the life you chose—or the one that was handed to you? Seriously. When’s the last time you checked the script?
In coaching, I see this all the time: Smart, successful, high-achieving people who wake up one day and realize they’ve been starring in a version of life that someone else wrote.
That version where you always play the reliable one.
The achiever. The fixer. The person who never slows down.
The role that worked for years… until it didn’t.
And just like Truman, the signs start to show up:
That weird Sunday-night dread you can’t explain.
Success that feels more exhausting than energizing.
The growing urge to do something different—but no idea where to start.
You don’t need to escape a fake town to take your power back. You just have to stop playing the part that isn’t you anymore. You get to rewrite the script. You get to direct the next scene. And if it scares you a little? That probably means you’re onto something real.
Here’s your prompt this week:
If your life really was a TV show, would you be proud of the episode you're filming today? If not, what’s one small rewrite you could make before the credits roll?
If you’re ready to stop reading from someone else’s script—and start leading with intention, authenticity, and clarity—let’s talk. Coaching is where the unscripted version of you gets room to show up.
