How to Use Storytelling to Predict Your Future
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Today on the show we are going to be talking about how to use storytelling to predict the future. It is a brand new year at the recording of this episode and I am hearing lots of people trashing New Year’s resolutions. They talk about them like New Year’s resolutions are the mean teacher that would scold them in class when they were a bad kid. I think people hate New Year’s resolutions because 99% of the time they are based on whatever inadequacies or insecurities you are feeling right around the new year. It is always based on something bad about yourself.
Over the last few years, I found something to replace New Year’s resolutions that is more effective and more successful. It even feels good. Listen in to hear all about it!
We discuss:
- [01:44] A great story is structured in a way that sweeps you from the present moment you are in and immerses you in another essential moment in time. As the story is being told unfolds you feel like you are living attuned.
- [02:18] The deeper that the story resonates with you the more impactful the decision that you will make after learning from the story. There is a ton that goes into telling great stories to create this effect in premium clients.
- [03:01] You want to tell a story like it is happening right now in front of you and you are living it in the present tense.
- [03:44] The more immersive and emotional residence you can make the story, the more effective it will be in creating engagement, enrollment, and decisions with your audience. The more aligned your story is with their problems and their experiences the more they will be enrolled and excited in working with you to find the solution.
- [04:56] One of the most interesting and powerful tools I have discovered in the last couple of years is called remembering the future. This is a process of actually creating the future that you want by picturing it and practicing what it feels like before it’s actually real.
- [05:41] The key to this practice is creating a vision with as much emotional residence as possible to motivate and inspire you.
- [06:38] The same techniques that you can use to create a great story for a keynote speech, content, or a sales call are the same techniques you can use to write your future.
- [09:06] When you bring these same storytelling elements into this process you can become the author of your own life.
- [09:47] If you can get past that initial challenge and stick with practicing feeling the future you want, coming back to it every day, and feeling what it is you want you are going to astound yourself.
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