story

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

Often one of the stumbling blocks to living a simpler life is our inability or unwillingness to change how we play some of the games that got us into these complicated lives in the first place.

Telling a story without an obstacle for your hero to overcome is like watching paint dry. It's boring.

Your Story = Your Brand!

"In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story."

Milarepa had searched everywhere for enlightenment, but could find no answer - until one day, he saw an old man walking slowly down a mountain path, carrying a heavy sack. Immediately, Milarepa sensed that this old man knew the secret he had been desperately seeking for many years.

'Old man, please tell me what you know. What is enlightenment?'

The old man smiled at hime for a moment, and swung the heavy burden off his shoulders, and stood straight.

'Yes, I see!' cried Milarepa. 'My everlasting gratitude. But please, one question more. What is after enlightenment?'

Smiling again, the old man picked up the sack once again, lunged it over his shoulders, steadied his burden, and continued on his way.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

The quick and easy way to stop people from repeating themselves in any situation, especially in the workplace is to simply say You’ve told me that story before, and it’s an excellent story, and repeat the lesson or point you took from that story the first time you heard it.

"Stories are medicine.
They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything -
we need only listen"