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HOW TO TELL YOUR STORY IN A COMPELLING WAY




The first thing people will demand from you in meeting you for the first time is your story. They want to know who you are, what you do, where you’ve been, what you know and how interesting and inspiring your life is.
If you have an amazing story, then people will engage and pay you simply because your life story is inspiring.
I moved from a scared-to-the-bones speaker to one of the greatest speakers of my time. Now I earn five to six figures to motivate, train, teach and mentor all kinds of audiences.
I moved from a timid, colourless, uncreative scribbler to a poet, then to a lyricist, then to a staff writer in a publishing firm. Now I earn five to six figures from creating content that sell online and offline, while helping others do the same.
I moved from a lowly background as an unknown, struggling youth looking for people to help me to a brand that people now depend upon for help. Now I earn five, six, seven figures as a problem solver and solution provider working with individual and corporate clients.
Wow! All because I tell my story compellingly. And I get paid simply because my story is so inspiring.
3 TRUTHS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TODAY’S WORLD
The world today is different from the world just a decade ago. Globalization brought with it new ways of thinking, connecting and working. According to Jeff Goins, there are three reasons why becoming an expert of your own story is essential:
1. Nobody Cares About Your Resume Or CV
For many professional fields, the resume is dead. This is especially true for creatives.
What people want to know is your story. What happens when I Google you? What does your “bio” say?
Future employers want to know: What are your life experiences, and how have they shaped you?
You need to be ready to tell them.
2. Storytelling Is The New Marketing
Think about the nonprofit and for-profit organizations you know that are really making a difference. Chances are, they’re telling a compelling story. For instance Apple‘s story is about the underdog eventually beating out the competitor who wronged him. Every customer gets to live out this same story each time they buy a Mac or iPhone.
Influential organizations and individuals tell a story that is so compelling others can’t help but want to join it.
3. You Don’t Know Your Story As Well As You Think
Telling your story helps you make sense of your life — why certain events happened the way they did. You begin to examine what has happened to and through you. You begin to make sense of who you are.
Telling your story can be incredibly therapeutic, and the practice often leads to greater confidence and understanding of self.
Most people don’t take the time to do this. They take their stories for granted; they don’t steward them.
Take the time to learn your story. We need it. And we need you to tell it. If we’re going to be changed by it, you need to tell your story well.
Only the people that tell unique stories build wealthy, lasting brands. Go ask Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, etc.
Everyone has a story to tell. You have a story to tell, and it deserves to be told well.
LET ME HELP YOU FIND AND TELL YOUR STORY
I can help you find your story, carve out a unique selling point and craft the story that helps you win.
WAYS I CAN HELP YOU
 Read my own amazing story here.
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MacHenry Churchill is an OAP, Serial Blogger and Multipreneur. He owns 30 blogs, runs several businesses and hosts various radio shows. He is using the power of talk, blogging and entrepreneurship to tell his story, spread ideas and start movements that engage people to change themselves in order to change the world, starting from their local communities.
His lead company, MacChurchill Consulting develops ideas, programs, platforms, conversations and collaborations that create development opportunities for people. Through storytelling, people engagement and idea sharing, MacChurchill Consulting is getting people to learn simple ways to create change for themselves by using their talents and skills to solve problems in their various communities.
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#VantagePOINT101: BECOME A BETTER VERSION OF YOU


The only person better than you is the person you've yet to BECOME! 
- Juliet Dillinger

With continuous and non-stop improvement you can accomplish almost anything. As long as you never stop learning and never stop growing, nothing will be beyond your reach. Life in itself is progressive, so as long as you keep putting in the work, as long as you keep doing what needs to be done, you will continue to experience commensurate reward and result.

You must be willing to change and grow, to learn and increase your capacity, to acquire necessary life skills. You must move beyond your perceived and culturally defined limitations, beyond the average you, to position yourself for advantage. It matters less where you’re coming from. What counts is how you prepare yourself for the journey ahead.

You only stay limited when you refuse to become a better person; when you consciously decide to not move. Most people are stuck where they are simply because they are comfortable in their space, consciously or unconsciously, and so make no effort towards moving. The singular decision to move puts uncountable forces at work at your disposal, so that the moment you decide and commit to change, the atmosphere around you begins to change almost immediately. When you decide to get better, opportunities to get better begin to present themselves before you at once. Decisions are powerful when tempered with commitment.

To be the best YOU, you must push boundaries, starting from where you are at the moment and not letting limitations rule your fate. You must shatter those limits by refusing to stay down, going against seeming impossibilities as if your life depends on it – and it does. You must exhaust your potentials, putting in the best of your talents, skills and abilities. You must determine to break out from the old YOU, embracing challenges and daring impossibilities. To achieve the desired, one must confront and leap over obstacles, face and deal with limitations, engage and conquer fear. New goals require new commitment, mindset and will. The best YOU demands a new YOU. You are your biggest competition. To conquer others is nothing, to conquer YOU is the key to amazing. For self-conquest is the greatest victory of all.

Your overall goal and bottom line ambition should be to add more value in this world, to be the best at what you do, and to continually strive to be a better version of yourself. This is the path to becoming exceptional, outstanding and peerless.

#StayMotiv8ted



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