STORYTELLING…

The oldest and yet most powerful tool

there is for changing

OUR LIFE

OUR BUSINE$$ OUTCOMES

OUR WORLD

and helping

OUR DREAMS come true.

STORIES have been changing

people’s lives and the World itself, both

POSITIVELY and Negatively,

ever since humans began to communicate.

Hello There,  I’m Kashonia Carnegie

And I’d like to tell you some stories about how you can change the world, starting with YOU.

20+ years ago, I used to work on radio as a talk-back broadcaster – this was before I became

Dr Kashonia.  And I had a love for presenting segments about personal development and global

change.  Even in those days, I used to talk about climate change and environmental

responsibility; and the benefits of loving and laughing; and the like.  And one day …

I got this idea ...

to do an entire weekly radio program called Learning Loving and Laughing.  Now I’m not

talking about the old “roll in the hay’ type loving.  That’s more like LUSTING not loving. Unlike

the English language, the ancient Greeks had lots of different words for different kinds of love. 

Romantic love was known as eros.  But the love I was, and still am referring to is the one the

Greeks called agapé – love of people, nature, friends, family, and so on.  And living a

Loving (agapé) life is akin to …
 

living an ethical life

And everyone likes to THINK that they're ethical, even if they don’t always understand what

that entails.

Living a loving (ethical) life ...

 

is what promotes:

♥  sustainable relationships at home;

♥  sustainable community relationships; and

♥  sustainable business relationships.

And of course sustainable business relationships lead to sustainable clients and a

VERY SUSTAINABLE BANK ACCOUNT !!!

So I wrote up the most compelling proposal that I could write on this great Learning Loving

and Laughing program that I wanted to do.  I then presented it, not only to the manager of the

station at which I was working at the time, but also to a number of other radio station

managers.  The answer was always basically the same.  That …

I was “flaky” enough as it was ...

and they didn’t want to know any more about these strange ideas that I kept coming up with. 

As one person said “this loving thing is all very nice; but it’s not the sort of thing we talk about”. 

Yet that same radio station had their Saturday night sex show. 

So sex was okay to talk about; but not love – go figure that one.

Nevertheless, whenever I could …

I continued to secretly embed ...

into my “normal” talk-back program some of my so-called “flaky” segments including my Share

your Love Campaign, which I “loved” (excuse the term :-))and so did my listening audience. 

Finally, the Universe made it clear that it was time for me to leave radio and go get the

university education that ...

I’d always dreamed of having ...

but had previously told myself the limiting story that it wasn't possible.

Needless to say, due to my university studies my life change dramatically, and I ended up

acquiring a real alphabet soup after my name and became Dr. Kashonia.  I figured that if

people wanted to think I was a "flake" with all of my non-conventional ideas – at least as Dr.

Kashonia, they’d know that I’m an intelligent flake.

It was also early in those university studies, in the early 1990s, that I did a heap of intensive

academic research on the subject of Laughing.  I seem to recall that it was during the long

3 month summer semester break.

Now you might wonder why I would spend so much time and effort looking into the concept of

laughing.  And so …

I’ll let you into a little secret …

I can’t remember what it was that started me on that trail of discovery at that particular time. 

It certainly wasn’t part of any of the university courses I was taking.  But maybe I was so

exciting about this academic research stuff that I had to keep on going even during the vacation

period.  What I will always remember, however, was that the information I uncovered led me

to set up a laughing workshop which then morphed into some creative thinking workshops

which I still run, but normally as part of a longer workshop.

The other thing I will always remember is how important laughing is to us humans. 

Did you know that laughing  …

♥  Increases oxygen;

♥  Is an effective anti-aging technique;

♥  Is a form of internal jogging and so exercises our internal         organs;

♥  Promotes whole-brain function and creativity;

♥  Gives us a NATURAL ‘high’ by releasing endorphines;

♥  Is a physical healing technique;

♥  Makes us feel fantastic and a joy to be near;

And is the …

 NUMBER 1 WAY TO CONVEY LOVE !!!

How about that last one.  

Yes, the research also shows that laughing is the most important ingredient to

HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS  and

“marital satisfaction”

It’s also said that children laugh 400 times a day – and I mean good solid belly-laughs. 

Although intuitively, I’ve always felt that number was extremely high.  So let’s be conservative

and say 100 times a day.  

SO MY QUESTION TO YOU IS???

How many good solid belly laughs have you had today?  Or should I be asking, when

was the LAST time that you had a good solid belly-laugh?

You only have to read the story of Norman Cousins to find out how important a good belly-

laugh is to our physical health.
 

So from a literal Laughing perspective; to keep our physical bodies, plus our relationships,

our emotions, and our psychological and spiritual self healthy, we need to Laugh a lot

and be happy. 

However, there's …

something even more important ...

that you might like to consider. 

These days, due to the success of DVDs like The Secret, and What the Bleep, most people

have some idea of how the Law of Attraction works.  And yet throughout each day the media

bombards us with story after story of the horrors of life around the world.  Now in this global

perspective, the Laughing in LearningLovingand Laughing.com is not about Laughing

these negative situations away.

That won't work

Indeed, it's essential that we are aware of the stories about local and world events, both the

positives and the negatives. But if we constantly put our ENERGY into these negative stories,

we'll only continue to attract more and more negative stories. Whereas by putting our positive

laughing ENERGY into changing our global stories enhancing the positives, which even

exist in most negative situations, we're far more likely to attract more positives.  

Just imagine helping to
attract more positives into the world today!

So if you’re not getting your 100 belly-laughs a day, or even 1 belly-laugh a-day.  And

you’re not to sure about this loving stuff. 

Then you’ve come to the right place

Because I’m finally doing something that I’ve wanted to do for over 20 years – have a

‘program’ called Learning Loving and Laughing. 

You see …

a great idea, that you’re REALLY passionate about, will stay with you forever

OK, so I got the idea for Learning Loving and Laughing long before the World Wide Web was

even born.  Maybe even before you were born :-).  And originally, I wanted to put it on the radio. 

But that didn’t work out

Nevertheless, the idea, while it might have had a long sleep, never left me.

And so as soon as I realized that I could do on the Internet, a lot of what I’d done in the job I’d

loved so much, as a talk-back broadcaster, all those years ago; 

I then remembered …

Learning Loving and Laughing

And this time, by presenting it on the Internet, I wouldn’t have to answer to radio station

managers whose insights and vision weren’t always as forward thinking as they could be. 

Not only could I bring my passions here to the Internet, but I also discovered that “working”

this way, on the Internet, and doing it all from home too,

is the dream job that I’d been searching for my entire life

So then I began to reflect on the approach I would take to this 21st Century version of Learning

Loving and Laughing.  First, of course, it had to be combined into “all one word” with a .com on

the end www.LearningLovingandLaughing.com

Next, I began to think about what makes me angry, what I’m passionate about, what’s

important to me, and how I could research, write, and present my passions, and share with you

the many incredible insights that have come my way through a life-time of amazing experiences

and learning. 

And also let you in on …

some secrets to making
YOUR dreams come true, too

Now, at this stage you’re probably thinking –“OK, this is an internet site – what’s the pitch. 

So far she’s been talking about loving and laughing but what’s she actually selling here?”  

Maybe you’ve even done what I always do; and you’ve already scrolled down to the bottom of

the page looking for the closing deal of  “ AND it will ONLY cost you  $XXXX – what a bargain). 

But you haven’t found that, nor the guarantee seal, nor the 7 point check list as to why you

should “BUY NOW!”

And the reason that they're not there is that …

I’m not selling anything

Sure, on my products and services page you’ll see that I take on a VERY limited number of

life/business/executive coaching clients, and there are also a few books on the products

page which you might be interested in, at some stage.

But that’s not what this letter is all about. 

What I want to do today is exactly what I wanted to do 20+ years ago when I was on radio.

And that is to bring more loving and laughing into YOUR life. And to introduce

you to some new ways of thinking so that we can all work together to help

bring more loving and laughing into the World. 

And we do this

with one of the oldest, yet most powerful tools around

Stories

Yes stories, narratives, storytelling!

The “stories” that we constantly tell ourselves control our emotions, our thoughts, and our actions.

And that isn’t just me saying that or some idle comment that I figure sounds really good – even

though I think that it does :-). 

That comment is backed up by nearly ½ a century of very credible, and academically

accepted scientific research into the field known as Social Constructionism.  

This area of social science, suggests that knowledge is constructed  by social interaction,

history, and culture, all of which are primarily based on narratives, or stories. 

It’s the stories that we tell ourselves and talk about with others …

that determine

our values, our culture, our life, and our world

The scientific literature says that people construct their identity, and their day-to-day

reality, by way of the narratives or stories that they use to talk about, and think about,

themselves. 

Change your stories …

and you’ll change

your emotions, your thoughts, and your actions

♥  So change your stories and you’ll change your life;

♥  Change your business stories; you’ll change your business outcomes

♥  Change the world’s stories and we really can change the world.

Social Constructionism (or this area of social science that is all about the stories that we

construct) was one of the foundation theories that I used in my doctoral thesis … 

So, I REALLY AM   ~ The Story Doctor

In my doctoral thesis, Social Constructionism was used to look at the stories in history that have

led to our current environmental crisis and how we might be able to change those stories. 

The other foundation theory was ethics, to ensure that the new stories that we replaced the old

ones with, were indeed ethical and life enhancing.

Today …

we live in the most wonderfully amazing world.

Just one example is what I’m doing at this very moment – sitting in my little bush cabin miles

away from what is considered a remote rural village in Northern Australia.  And yet with a press

of a button I’m able to reach people all over the world. 

How incredible is that !

If someone described that situation “when I was a girl” we’d have thought they were insane.

However, there are also many global concerns at this time, such as climate change; the peak-

oil situation; and global economic concerns to name but three.  Many people feel frustrated and

powerless in the face of seemingly insurmountable issues concerning health; the quality of the

food we eat; domestic, community, and global violence, and the list goes on.

Never before has there been a time when our world was in such
need of major change.

And interestingly, never before has there been a time of such an …

awakening of global and spiritual consciousness

And that’s really exciting!

How we choose to look at the world –

(a) on the brink of disaster enveloped with doom and gloom; or

(b) with incredible excitement at the loving and laughing changes we can help bring to

fruition

– is up to each and everyone of us.      

So take a moment, and …  

♥ just imagine what it’s like helping to make this a more loving and laughing

world to live in.

 

♥ Imagine the form your loving and laughing world would take.

 

♥ Visit my Blog and share your loving and laughing world-vision with us –

under the category “New World Visions”.

Working together, sharing your ideas with me on the Blog, amazing things can happen.

Similarly, the same process, of changing your stories, applies to making a major

difference to your own personal life; or your business success. 

It’s just about scaling things down a wee bit :-).

Now at this stage, you’re probably saying what the radio station managers used to say about

me …

“she’s nuts !”

Personally, I prefer the term eccentric – but I guess it’s all the same thing :-).

Nevertheless, I invite you to just reflect for a moment on how this following global story

constructed HUNDREDS of YEARS ago, affects us ALL today.

Remember, it’s our social or global stories that can lead to physical actions and

outcomes.’ 

As noted social constructionist Kenneth Gergen said we inherit the physical world that our

forebears socially constructed  – as demonstrated in the following story.

Several hundreds of years ago, men like Descartes, Francis Bacon, and John

Locke, all powerful and great thinkers of their day, continued to speak out

about how society had the right to use and control the natural environment. 

The natural environment was there for us humans to dominate.  And so that

might just account for why, until relatively recently we have, as a global

society, been happy to use our rivers as sewers, and consume natural

resources because they're there for us to take.  And until recently, treated

the natural environment with such disregard because over the centuries

most humans believed the story that nature – both animal and vegetable

– was there exclusively for us to use in whatever way we chose. 

And here we are today,

with an environmental crisis far greater than most

people believe or  accept.

So changing our stories about the environment is long overdue.

And I’ll certainly be talking about that on the blog.

And the stories don't even have to be to do with nature to impact on our environment as this

following story shows.

An extremely wealthy man I knew always left almost every light on in his

house whenever he went out at night. Now I know that many people like to

leave one light on for a range of reasons. But this fellow left his house lit up

like a mini Las Vegas.

 

I said to him on one occassion: "why don't you turn the lights off."

He replied in a rather shocked tone: "I can afford to leave the lights on".

My obvious response was: "YOU might be able to afford it, but the Planet

can't".

 

This is a great example of how people just don't stop to think about their actions. The story he

always told himself is that as he had plenty of money, he could afford to pay what must have

been an extremely high electricity bill, resulting from leaving his lights on - and no doubt many

other forms of wasted electricity. He didn't even stop to think of any other possible

impacts/stories resulting from leaving his lights on.

Yet in our world ...

Everything Impacts on Everything Else!

How about this next socially constructed "story".

Just think of the stories that were handed down over most of history, well the last 5,000

years at least, that housework was women’s work and the Man ruled the household,

including all those who lived there.  If you want to see the stereo-typical story of the

family unit in the Western world, not all that long ago relatively speaking, try and get a look at

some re-runs of TV shows like Leave it to Beaver or Father Knows Best.  I mean, just get a load

of the program name to start with …

“Father Knows Best” – WOW – maybe he does, maybe he doesn't!

But they were the cultural stories that we lived with in the Western World when I was

growing up.  That’s why I left school at 15.  Because in those days my lot in life, as a

female, was to get married and have children and I didn’t need a formal education to do

that.

Gosh, I didn't even need to finish High School - and so I didn't

Today, those cultural stories in most Western countries have all changed.  Unfortunately

though, there are still many countries that continue to tell the stories from the days of old.

But have those story changes alone brought more loving and laughing into people’s

lives? 

In some cases they have, in some they haven’t.  Yet I’ve been saying that all we have to

do is to change the odd story here and there and the world will be filled with loving and

laughing.

Well …

that’s both true and also not true

Because humans and our lives are so inter-related, changing stories is normally far more

complex than that.  We must also be aware of our interconnectedness with others. 

As I mentioned before, in our world …

Everything Impacts

on

Everything Else

And so we might have to take into account, not only our personal stories, but also our

community’s stories, our family’s stories, our cultural stories, and so forth. 

But …

it still all comes back to stories.

And as all stories had to …

initially be constructed

so …

we can start NOW and
construct some NEW stories.

But …

let’s get back to YOU for a minute …

or even your business outcomes.

There are very few, if any, people who can say that they’re 100% happy with where they are in

life, and what they’re doing.  Maybe, you’ve got a great family life; but the story that you

keep telling yourself is that it would sure make life easier if I had some more dollars coming in

every month. 

As Jim Rohn says –

“you’ve got too much month at the end of your money”.

OR

maybe, you’ve got plenty of money, and so you’re story is “I’ve got all the material

possessions and financial wealth anyone could want; but there's still a void in my life”. 

OR

maybe it’s …

the   “If only I …”    story

“I’d be REALLY happy if only I … 

    
♥  had more time,

♥  more skills,

♥  more education, and the list goes on and on and on  

Are any of those stories familiar?

I invite you to fill in your own ending to that sentence.

You know ...

the essence of Wisdom
is to have both the desire, as well as the ability,
to look at the world from as
many different perspectives as possible. 

In other words, on a personal level, it’s essential to think of more than just one story to tell

yourself.  You know that you’re able to make up any life-story you want.  Whether it’s

realistic is stage two. But for goodness sake – don’t get into stage 2, until you’ve worked on

stage 1.

A very common risk management and change strategy in business is called Scenario Planning 

When scenario planning is done effectively, the team thinks of as many different stories, or

outcomes, as possible for a particular decision or action that has to be taken.  They don’t just

say “OK the community has got to get from point A to point B and so THIS is how it will be

done”. 

There is …

NO one way to do anything,

in business, or in life, or in our global world.
 

So as wisdom is about taking a multi-perspective, or multi-story, approach to all things

how wise would you like to be? 

♥ How could a little bit more Wisdom help your business? 

♥ How could a little bit more Wisdom change your life. 

 
♥ How would a little more political Wisdom change the world?

 

Suzie’s Story – both the OLD and the NEW

Suzie, a life-coaching client, came to see me.  She was very down and

unhappy because of the boring, uninteresting life she’d led as a laboratory

scientist.  And her personal life was just as boring.  It took her nearly 45

minutes going on about how boring her life was.

 

At the time, she was also working on a Post Graduate university degree,

which was going to give her higher-levels of boring skills.  The STORY that

she was telling me about her boring life was a story that she’d been

telling herself, and so living out, her entire adult life – probably about

15 years at that time.

 

When she finally got to the end of the ‘boring’ story, I repeated her life

story back to her.  The exact life that she’d just told me about.  The

characters of the story were the same.  The location of the story was the

same.  The situations were the same. 

BUT …

I changed

THE PERSPECTIVE of the STORY 

180 degrees.

 

Also my version only took about 5 minutes.

As I related MY version of HER story, her eyes continued to get bigger

and bigger, and sparkled more and more.  Her cheeks became flushed

with excitement.  Her labored breathing began to speed up.

 

And by the time I’d finished My version of HER story

the changed story perspective
had changed her life

 

She was sitting bolt upright in her chair and exclaimed “WOW Kashonia.  I can’t believe it – but you’re right.  You really are right.  I’d never

looked at it that way before.”

 

AND …

THAT WAS THE WHOLE PROBLEM

 

She’d only ever looked at it from one perspective.

She’d only ever told herself the one boring version of her life journey.

All I did was give her another version of the same story, and some follow-up

work to ensure that she integrated that new life enhancing story into her

newly enhanced life.

 

NEW STORY – NEW LIFE

 

She changed her post graduate major – became an adult educator and 

corporate trainer.   Her scientific background gave her a great foundation for

the area in which she worked.  But instead of spending her life alone behind a

microscope – which to her was incredibly boring -  she was out talking to

people.  And her life was never happier.

 

New Story – New Life

 

Stories from a Business Perspective

From a business perspective, Storytellling in business is currently the hottest thing since

sliced bread.  When I did my doctoral research in the late 1990s, commercial organization

storytelling, as such, just didn’t exist – certainly not from an Internet perspective. 

By the early 2000s however, there were a few organizational storytellers around. 

And today, it’s common place for someone to be an organization or business storyteller; and

Amazon is overflowing with books on the subject.

There are so many exciting ways that stories can be used to enhance business

outcomes. 

Just a few examples include:

♥  creating a powerful, positive, and compelling vision of forthcoming

change in the organization;

♥  an incredibly effective sales tool;

♥  an extremely powerful, motivating, and inspiring way for a leader to

communicate;

♥  a tool for branding a company, product, or a person within the

company;

♥  a tool to help resolve conflicts.

Are you using stories

to communicate to your staff?

If not, why not?

Give your staff the picture that’s in your mind. 

Describe that picture and they’ll have a much better idea of what you want them to do

than if you just use words. 

Your words might have a different meaning to them than they have to you. 

The Image Diagnosis Model

The power of storytelling is a major tool that I taught my Change Management, as well as my

Leadership, MBA students.  And another wonderful example of the power of storytelling can be

seen in one of the many change management diagnosis models.  It’s known as the Image

Diagnosis Model, and was always one that I loved to teach. 

It’s also, without a doubt the simplest – which is often the case.

It works this way: ask your staff, customers, suppliers, in fact any of your stakeholders – the

people that your organization deals with – to describe your organization in one sentence using

the format of:

My/Your organization is like a …     And then in another sentence why you/they say that.

Here’s just one wonderful example that one of my students came back with after interviewing

the Vice President of a medium-sized organization. I always use it because I just love it.

The VP was asked to describe and put into context his current view of his organization in

order diagnose the change management issues that needed attention. 

His response was …

“My organization is like a volcano with hidden talent, ready to explode.  But we aren't organized well enough to take advantage of this situation and so people keep preventing the eruption from happening”.

 

Isn’t that great!

 

Just read through that description again – I’ll repeat it below otherwise it will be like ground-hog

day for you.

This time, see if you can monitor your senses. 

As you read the metaphor:

♥  what are you seeing in your mind’s-eye? 

♥  Are you hearing the deep rumble of a volcano about to explode? 

♥ What are you feeling or sensing or thinking as you read it again.

 

And this time …

read it very slowly as you reflect on what your senses are telling you.

“My organization is like a volcano with hidden talent, ready to explode.  But

we aren't organized well enough to take advantage of this situation and so

peoplekeep preventing the eruption from happening."

 

Did you see a volcano in your mind’s eye?

Or maybe you ‘saw’ a very agitated man sitting at his desk about to explode with

frustration.

You might have seen, or felt, or heard, something completely different.

Whatever it is, I’m sure you now have a pretty good idea of what’s happening in that

company.

OK, try this one

Our organization is like a deaf dog.  No matter how many times we say something no on ever takes any notice.

OR

Our organization is like a babbling brook –
happily flowing smoothly, yet with just enough small rocks in our path to keep us challenged, active, and innovative.
 

Can you see, or get a feel, for how incredibly powerful this form of storytelling can be?

When you ask your staff, and any other stakeholders, to contribute a metaphor to describe your

organization - so long as they can submit the story anonymously - you'll be amazed at how

much you can find out about why it's running the way it is.

Give it a go

Not only is it extremely informative, but it's also great FUN. And I can assure you, it'll bring an

enormous amount of laughter into the room when the stories are read out.

And yes, they should be read out with all internal contributors present. You'll then, ideally, follow

the hilarity with a more serious discussion about the more negative stories and how the

organization can remedy these situations; over sandwiches, cake, coffee, and fruit juice.

The Image Diagnosis Model can also be

a very effective personal development tool

when you use it to describe your own personal situation; to help you clarify any blocks which

might be present for you on a conscious or a non-conscious level.

AND also, get your close friends to describe whatever aspect of your life you want to work on.

You'll be surprised at what you might discover.

By bringing storytelling into your organization, you’ll certainly have a more loving and

laughing environment for everyone to work in. 

This, in turn, will …  

increase productivity and profits …

which I’m sure will enable you to do …

a lot more loving and laughing yourself.

This time, you might be saying …

“OK Kashonia, you’ve done a lot of talking about stories.  And you’ve talked about

some of the benefits of laughing.  And I know that loving  (agaṕe) can improve my

personal relationships AS WELL AS my  business relationships –

which will lead to greater profits.

But … what about this LEARNING caper? 

NO ONE, except maybe you, Kashonia, wants to have to learn stuff, when there’s so much else

to do as it is!”

And yes …

I admit it, you’ve discovered my personal secret.

I’m a learning freak.  I’m a REAL seminar and workshop junkie.  And I’m sure that I should

have shares in Amazon.com with the tens of thousands of dollars that I’ve spent there too.

So of course I’m going to be pushing this learning thing.

But as children, our whole existence was filled with the excitement of Learning about new

things.

Before we can hope to change ourselves or the world in which we live, we need some

understanding of what's going on. We need to Learn about "the situation" - whatever that

situation might be for each of us - from as many different perspectives and possibilities as we

can.

Remember, the essence of wisdom is to always take

a multi-perspective /multi-story approach to all things.

So I invite you to have a think about the STORIES that you’re telling yourself about learning.  All

too many people have the story of unpleasant times they had at school firmly embedded in their

heads as being the same for all learning.   But, there’s more to learning than just what happened

at school.  And there are far more "types" of learning than just academic learning.

By the way, did you know that

continual Learning also keeps our brain

mentally FIT, HEALTHY, and YOUNG ?

So, if doing a bit of new learning concerns you at all – let me just tell you one more story…

One Last Story – this one’s about learning.

I have an interest in numerology.  Indeed the name Kashonia comes from

Numerology.  It was a name that I put together and then legally adopted,

well over 30 years ago.  And so when a friend of mine’s 40th birthday came

up I did a numerology chart and reading on audio-tape for her.  In the

numbers on her chart it was quite evident that within a few years she would

begin to study something. 

 

She would …

start LEARNING something new.

 

Well, when we spoke next, after she’d listened to the tape, she said all the

polite things and thanked me for my gift. 

But …

she was horrified that

I could get anything so wrong …

about this learning stuff.  I haven’t the time here to go into all the negative

and limiting stories that she’d told herself, and in turn me, about learning and

studying things. 

 

Maybe you can think of a few of those stories of your own.

 

However, I explained that learning is a very broad area and there is no

way I would anticipate that she would embark on the type of academic

learning that I had done.  But nevertheless, it was advisable to be open to

the possibility of changing her stories on learning; because if she didn’t,

she might miss a great life changing opportunity.

 

So we played around with her stories and several years later, as I expected,

the opportunity presented itself for her to do some LEARNING. 

She had the opportunity to learn about the tarot and the Angelic realm.  Her

new stories about ‘learning’ meant she embraced that life changing

opportunity. And today she lives a wonderful loving and laughing life

as one of the most gifted International tarot consultants I’ve come

across  – and all her clients agree with me.

 

She changed her stories about learning and that changed her life and

brought both a level, and a direction, of loving and laughing fulfillment

into her world that she’d never experienced before, and certainly

would never have imagined several years before. 

 

So as I mentioned earlier, this letter is not about selling you a product.  If it’s about selling

anything, it’s about 'selling' the incredible power of stories and storytelling. 

And how NEW STORIES can …

change your life,

change your business outcomes;

and

change our World

And the choice is yours as to whether you

take action now to get going on those changes

And …

it won’t cost you a penny. 

In fact, I’ll give YOU something for taking that first step right

here – right now

So if you’re serious about change in your world on any level, in any area, or even just have a bit

of an interest in the possibility of change in your world, then:

Step # 1

The first step is to put your

First Name and Primary Email address in one of the windows provided. 

There’s a window at the top of the page and another at the bottom of the page.

Not only will you receive, with my complements and love,

♥  my special mini guide -

5 Keys to Take on the World and Win/Win. 

 

♥  But you’ll also receive my short

fortnightly E-Zine - Stories from The Story Doctor

letting you know what’s going on here – like the stories that we're

talking about. 

 

♥  And I’ve also got some really

exciting plans for 2008

that I’d hate you to miss out on. 

 

So it’s very important that you fill in the form.

Step # 2

Next,

I invite you to visit my blog –

just click on the link in the navigation bar and

I'd love you to comment on anything that’s there at the moment. 

And if you’d like to comment on something that’s not up there,

please send me an email and I’ll put it up there. 

Also why don't you get an RSS feed so that you can keep up to date and comment as often as

possible. 

When we share our ideas, or our stories,

we’re helping each other to LEARN and

as we LEARN, we GROW. 

 

And the more stories or perspectives we consider the wiser we all become.

 

 

Step # 3

Last, but by no means least, whenever you hear someone talking about stories or

storytelling I invite you to …

think about Learning Loving and Laughing

And then just imagine,

vividly imagine using all of your senses,

how

 
♥  NEW STORIES CAN change your life,

how

♥  NEW STORIES CAN

change your business outcomes, 

and also how

♥  NEW STORIES CAN

CHANGE OUR WORLD.

 

 

See you on the blog

Learning Loving and Laughing

PS.  Here are just some of the exciting things happening this year that you’ll want to hear about.

♥  Release of several new books including:

* Sustainable Living; Sustainable World

* We Can All Be Inspirational Leaders through Emotional Intelligence 

* Ethics 101:  What’s it all about?

♥  FREE Teleseminars

♥  Teleseminar Workshops – so you can attend no matter where on the Planet

you live;

The workshops include:
         

* New Stories New Life; New Stories New World

* Giving Nature A Voice

 

♥  The Share Your Love campaign will return - this time to the Internet

♥  And with your help, plenty of discussion on the Blog!