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Your Chapter Turners
Last week (or now if you like) you wrote down and briefly described 12 or so events from your life history that were influential to you in “shaping the person you have become”. Now then, I invite you...
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Your Formative Influences (with interactive stories/ comments)
April felt like an Orphan through much of her childhood; though she was the middle child of five she always felt—somehow—like an outsider. She slept in odd places: basements, attics, as if she was...
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The Chapters of Your Life Story
Summarizing what we have explored so far with this sequence of weekly Life Mapping topics and tools, if you have been participating with the weekly tools you have so far reviewed your Origin Story,...
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Are You on a Comic, Tragic, or an Episodic Adventure?
After over a decade of coaching people from a wide range of backgrounds to compose Life Maps that represent their Life Chapters and Life Themes, I find there are three basic narrative GENRES people...
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Your Story as Myth
Preface: As I present this blog about topics covered in my upcoming book Life Paths I find I need to dampen the material just a bit in order not to reveal more than I should before launching the book....
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Your Life As History
Monday I felt I just had to go out to find the film Julie & Julia, as it is an appropriate parallel story for an enterprising author and for any blogger, of course. I streamed the movie and found...
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Your Narrative Statement
Have you ever taken ‘time out’ to try to encapsulate what your life is “all about”? Of course, it doesn’t need to be “about” anything, but at the same time, since you like everyone else have a Life...
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So, What Is YOUR Logline?
If you read Sunday’s post you may have already been practicing the art of crafting fictional throughlines or loglines. I would love to be a fly on the wall to see what some of you may have come up...
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What Is Your Mission?
An early ‘Friday’ post this week… Your Mission Statement Every successful organization has something that helps its employees and customers to thrive: a Mission Statement. In a way this is like a...
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What is “BetterEndingsNow!” to Me?, by Dr. Joshua Bertetta
{Dear Readers: Here is a treat (for me especially!). Joshua Bertetta of the intriguing blog The Story of the Four has taken time to reflect on BetterEndings Now which he has been graciously following....
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