Tag: story

  • The Ability to Suspend Judgment….

    The Ability to Suspend Judgment….

    is not just cognitive. It is also an emotional endeavor. I have written about Suspending Judgement before. Here’s a post about it in the form of Asking Questions. Here’s another post about it as I understood it and wrote about it years ago – Suspend Judgment. Here’s another post about…

  • The Words of Emotions

    The Words of Emotions

    So there are some emotions that sit in the area of the brain where there is no language or words processed – just the emotions. Have you ever felt something and then in talking to someone or in someone explaining their feelings – you connected with it in a way…

  • No Matter How Much of the Story You Have….

    No Matter How Much of the Story You Have….

    ……you don’t have the whole story. Inherent in “story” is the idea that you only have a piece of it.  Really, you only have one’s perspective of it.  They couldn’t have told you all of the details.  When someone tells you a story, you get in a few minutes what…

  • Story

    Story

    I love hearing stories.  I love hearing stories that are made up.  I think I like real stories way better.  I love it when my friends share stories. I heard a story today of how the unknown played out in an exciting and favorable way.  I had a student share…

  • Telling Your Story

    Telling Your Story

    There is something so liberating about telling your story.  We all have one.  You might not know your story, but you are living yours.  I guess before you can tell your story, you have to know it.  If you don’t know your story – I guess you’re not free.  Your…

  • Your First Thought

    Your First Thought

    I had an interesting scenario happen when I went to the grocery store this am.  I drove to Albertson’s and pulled into the parking space.  You know that feeling of seeing an open space from far away and kinda rushing to get it.  Yeah, that was my situation. As I…

  • Great Friends

    Great Friends

    I almost got kicked out of college.  It’s a great story.  I can’t tell it in a 100 words, but I will share the face of a great friend that I almost got kicked out of college with. It was the summer of 95.  I was a Senior and Kirk…

  • An Example of a Cover Telling a Story

    My last post was about judging a book by it’s cover. I was reading through my rss reader and came across a post by Seth Godin – kinda about this idea.  Let’s face it, we get all of our ideas from Seth any way – but Seth doesn’t care.  Thanks…

  • Five Word Story

    This is such a great tool to help figure stuff out.  It’s a tool that you can use to describe pretty much anything.  I used it for a series of talks that I recently gave.  I just asked those that were there to write down 5 words that would tell…