The power of story : rewrite your destiny in business and in life / Jim Loehr.
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- ISBN: 9780743566643 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0743566645 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 30 min.)) : digital
- Edition: Abridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Simon & Schuster Audio : 2007.
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Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Change (Psychology) Success. Self-perception. Storytelling > Psychological aspects. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Outlines a strategy for personal success that explains how readers can adjust the telling of their life stories to promote goals and change how they are seen by others. - Findaway World Llc
In his groundbreaking new audiobook, Dr. Jim Loehr, New York Times best-selling co-author of The Power of Full Engagement, examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves: and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives.
"Your story is your life," says Loehr. As human beings, we continually tell ourselves stories: of success or failure; of power or victimhood; stories that endure for an hour, or a day, or an entire lifetime. We have stories about our work, our families and relationships, our health; about what we want and what we're capable of achieving. Yet, while our stories profoundly affect how others see us and we see ourselves, too few of us even recognize that we're telling stories, or what they are, or that we can change them: and, in turn, transform our very destinies.
Telling ourselves stories provides structure and direction as we navigate life's challenges and opportunities, and helps us interpret our goals and skills. Stories make sense of chaos; they organize our many divergent experiences into a coherent thread; they shape our entire reality. And far too many of our stories, says Loehr, are dysfunctional, in need of serious editing.
First, he asks you to answer the question, "In which areas of my life is it clear that I cannot achieve my goals with the story I've got?" He then shows you how to create new, reality-based stories that inspire you to action, and take you where you want to go both in your work and personal life.
A Simon & Schuster audio production.
- Simon & Schuster
With Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny Jim Loehr's objective is to show how the stories we tell represent the single most powerful tool we have for managing energy and achieving any important mission in life. For the purposes of this audiobook, a story is simply the interpretation we give to our world of experience. It represents the meaning we give to whatever happened to us in life. For example, having been in an automobile accident or having lost your wallet is what actually happened, and the meaning or significance you give to the accident or lost wallet is your story.
Scores of people have explored the impact of storytelling on others as well as on how the mechanics of storytelling can be improved to enhance the desired effect. From a business perspective, considerable attention has been given to helping leaders improve their storytelling skills to enhance their organizational effectivenss. The case will be made with this audiobook that more important than the impact of storytelling on others is the profound effect storytelling has on the person telling the story, whether in enhancing, for example, leadership capacity or sales effectiveness or in entirely different dimensions of life. - Simon and Schuster
In his groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jim Loehr, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement, examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves -- and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives.
"Your story is your life," says Loehr. As human beings, we continually tell ourselves stories -- of success or failure; of power or victimhood; stories that endure for an hour, or a day, or an entire lifetime. We have stories about our work, our families and relationships, our health; about what we want and what we're capable of achieving. Yet, while our stories profoundly affect how others see us and we see ourselves, too few of us even recognize that we're telling stories, or what they are, or that we can change them -- and, in turn, transform our very destinies.
Telling ourselves stories provides structure and direction as we navigate life's challenges and opportunities, and helps us interpret our goals and skills. Stories make sense of chaos; they organize our many divergent experiences into a coherent thread; they shape our entire reality. And far too many of our stories, says Loehr, are dysfunctional, in need of serious editing. First, he asks you to answer the question, "In which areas of my life is it clear that I cannot achieve my goals with the story I've got?" He then shows you how to create new, reality-based stories that inspire you to action, and take you where you want to go both in your work and personal life.
For decades, at the Human Performance Institute, Loehr has been examining the power of story to increase engagement and productivity, and Fortune 500 companies have paid millions to send employees to his program, in which he applies the principles and methods that he now offers in this book. Global business leaders, world-class athletes, military special forces, and thousands of individuals from every walk of life have sought out and benefited from his life-altering insight and expertise.
Our capacity to tell stories is one of our profoundest gifts. Loehr's approach to creating deeply engaging stories will give you the tools to wield the power of storytelling and forever change your business and personal life.