It’s All About the Story

Life is all about the Story. Your journey is filled with experiences, both great and not so great. You have the power to choose how to tell your stories. How you write the stories in your book depend on how you perceive the events. YOU are the author of your Life Book, YOU can write it anyway you choose.

Now before you start with the questions here, allow me to explain. It all comes down to your state of mind. Do you perceive life as a series of challenges and events that were learning experiences or were they trials and tribulations that you had to endure? When you talk about your past, do you use humor and laugh about it or do you get caught up in the drama of it?

Ah, but life was hard, rotten things happened, you don’t know how bad it was…..
Stop it, stop it right now! When you focus on negativity, you attract more negativity into your life. When you focus on the good things, you attract more good things into your life.

Yes, I acknowledge not every experience was great, yet you have the power to turn THAT into a great Story! You know what? You don’t have to make anything up or embellish because if you utilize humor when telling your Story, it becomes funny just as it stands.

How to Tell a Great Story

The art of telling a great Story is all about HOW you tell it. I remember Mom telling me how she walked to the old one-room schoolhouse in the country during all types of weather – and it was uphill both ways! Now that was stretching it until I realized she left out the part about there being more than one hill! ;)

Have you ever listened to a great Story Teller? You laugh and shake your head, thinking there’s no way it could have happened that way. Guess what? I’ll bet you anything it happened exactly the way they told it. They knew how to emphasize the humor in the situation.

That’s the key, emphasizing the humor in any situation or event. When you can laugh at your life experiences, doesn’t it change your perception of your life? Show me the rule book that says you have to beat yourself up over every mishap or event that didn’t turn out so well. THAT was a learning experience, nothing more – nothing less. You can perceive it any way you choose. Use this thought as a test – “In 5 years, will it really matter?” If not, why get all stuck on it now!

When you can understand and take this to heart, life becomes full of laughter. Bringing laughter to the mix when telling a Story makes a simple thing sound extraordinary! Others will wonder how YOU get to have all those cool adventures. You just smile and say, “It’s all about the Story.”
My Stories

So I have a plethora of great Stories to share. There are Stories about:
Playing Kick-the-Can or Spud
Space Ships made out of Refrigerator Boxes
Adventures on the Farm
Cruising the Circuit
Senior Skip Dayr
Girl Scout Adventures with my Daughters
Boy Scout Adventures with my Sonr
Camping at Rendezvous in the Teepee
Day Trips with my Granddaughtersr
The ’69 Camaro (I especially like the Fuzzy Dice Story)
Tromping Through the Marsh to the “Secret Fishing Hole”

That’s just a smattering of My Stories. Do I have your curiosity peaked? Wanna get together and swap stories? I’ll bet you have some great ones too! Isn’t life all about enjoying the journey? You betcha!!! Your whole life up to now is written in your Life book. You can take your past and re-write those Stories in such a way that they serve you in moving forward.

You also have ALL the blank pages of your future life experiences yet to be written.

How are you going to write those Stories?
I know how I’m going to write mine.

It’s all about the Story