The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Business and in Life

The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Business and in Life
by Jim Loehr

The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Business and in Life
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Author: Jim Loehr
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-07
ISBN: 0743294688
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Free Press
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  • ISBN13: 9780743294683
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Business and in Life

Book Review: What Label Would You Give the Story of Your Life - Tragedy, Comedy, Romance, Thriller or Drama?
Summary: 5 Stars

Best selling author (The Power of Full Engagement), Jim Loehr, followed his passion, and combined his love of psychology and sports to create a specialized business helping elite athletes achieve optimum performance by changing their story. His initial high-profile clients included Monica Seles, Jim Courier, Mark O'Meara, Grant Hill, among many others. In changing their stories, he redefined how they ate, practiced, rested, recovered and, most importantly perceived themselves. Since then, his clientele has expanded to include the Navy SEALS, Army Special Forces, the FBI elite anti-terrorist force, and high profile businesses and executives.

"The Power of Story" outlines the principles he followed and has applied to achieve "success." His own story was one where he felt he needed to focus his energy on his career to achieve maximum success. He then came to realize in the process of gaining professional success that he was about to lose something far more valuable - his family.

Loehr came to understand the key to almost all of our problems, faulty storytelling of the most important story we will ever tell - the story we tell ourselves about ourselves. This story drives the way we gather and spend our energy.

He provides this example:

"Losing a wallet or being in a car accident is factually what happened but the meaning or significance you give to either of these two events - `I am a careless person' or `bad things happen to me' becomes the reality you create... these form the only reality you will ever know in this life." These stories which we tell ourselves may or may not conform to the real world. "They may or may not inspire us to take hope-filled action to better our lives. They may or may not take us ultimately where we want to go." But they will influence as our destiny "follows our stories."

"The Power of Story" centers on the imperative that we must do everything in our power to get our stories right for personal happiness. The book provides the tools and exercises to identify and rewrite our story, and delivers insights on performance psychology, exercise physiology, and nutrition based on hard data.

Do you know what stories are speaking to you?

Are they good or bad? If yours is bad story, you will continue to give energy to a bad story, and you will almost assuredly beget another bad one, or ten. This diet of faulting thinking will ultimately have long-term negative consequences.

"The Power of Story" will help you seriously edit your story, and create the success and meaning you truly want.

Summary of The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Business and in Life

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.

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