If Your Life was a Story…
Would your readers be mesmerized as they tore through the pages, or would they toss it aside?
Would they trumpet it to everyone they knew, leaning forward with wide eyes, or would they forget about it?
Would it shatter chains of fear and doubt and awaken faith and courage, or would it weary readers with standard routines, pitiful cliches and plain pettiness?
Would it wallow in normalcy, or soar with inspiration?
Would your readers want to be like you?
How would people feel after reading your story?
Would you be a hero, a villain, or a faceless nobody drowning in a sea of faceless nobodies?
Would your story be told a hundred years after you had passed on?
Would it matter if your story was told or not?
Guess what: Your life is a story. And you’re writing it every moment of every day.
Is it worth reading?
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Stephen Palmer is a book writer for mission-driven leaders, a small business lead generation website design architect and persuasive website copywriter, a co-founder of The Center for Social Leadership, and the author of Uncommon Sense: A Common Citizen’s Guide to Rebuilding America.
He co-authored the New York Times bestseller Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity, as well as Hub Mentality: Shifting from Business Transactions to Community Interaction.
He is a liberal-arts graduate of George Wythe University and a graduate and faculty member of the “non-traditional business school” Wizard Academy.
Stephen resides in Round Rock, Texas with his gorgeous wife Karina, awesome son Alex, and princess daughters Libby, Avery, and Laela.
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2 Responses to “If Your Life was a Story…”
Stephen, You are so amazing! Thanks for being so inspiring. I guess the mission statement of GWU is being fulfilled in you for sure if not many others! Love you! Lori
Comment made on December 29th, 2009 at 4:31 pmAfter reading this posting, I’m depressed.
Nobody would want to read about my life, just as they wouldn’t want to read about George Bailey’s life. Sure, they made a movie about him, but that was after Hollywood built it up. And Mother Theresa’s life was pretty boring, too, until people began to realize she’d been providing quiet service for the underpriviledged for 50 years or more.
Then again, maybe my day to day activities such as spending quality time with my family reading, playing and praying; time serving with the young men in my Church and Scouts; or even the book discussion group that I started, are nothing anyone would want to write home about, but maybe in its entirety, it will add up to a decent story. Perhaps, not on the par with Dickens, but maybe a dime-store novel type.
O.K. Maybe, I’m not so depressed.
Comment made on December 30th, 2009 at 2:41 pmLeave a Comment