Super book – inspired me to get the ‘kick ass club’ going and do something.   Not 100% there yet with all the things this book offers, but it has been a beautiful, super powerful book.

 

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 719-20 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:03 PM

Is your story with your children working?

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 740-42 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:05 PM

Think to a time when you were very ill, so sapped of energy that you didn’t even feel like reading a book in bed. Do you remember any promises you made to yourself while lying in bed? As in, “I don’t ever want to feel this way again. If and when I regain my health, I’m going to…”?

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 744-52 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:10 PM

Your Story Around Happiness What’s your story about your happiness? How would you rate your happiness over the last six months? Is your answer acceptable to you? According to your story, how important is happiness and how do you go about achieving it? Are you clear about where or how happiness might be realized for you? If there is something out there—some activity, some person—that dependably brings you happiness, how long has it been since you encountered it or her or him? What do you think is the connection, if any, between engagement and happiness? If your level of happiness is not where you want it to be, then what’s the story you tell yourself that explains why it’s not happening at this point in your life? If you continue on the same trajectory, then what kind of happiness do you expect is likely in your future, short-term and long? Do you consider your own happiness an afterthought? An indulgence? A form of selfishness? Have you removed joy—joy, as opposed to contentment—from the spectrum of emotions you expect and wish to experience during the remainder of your life?

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 885-86 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:15 PM

Purpose is the epicenter of everyone’s life story. Purpose is one of the three foundations of good storytelling.

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 911-13 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:17 PM

Purpose is the thing in your life you will fight for. It is the ground you will defend at any cost. Purpose is not the same as “incentive,” but rather the motor behind it, the end that drives why you have energy for some things and not for others.

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 934-35 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:20 PM

Once you know your purpose—that is, what matters—then everything else can fall into place. Getting your purpose clear is your defining truth. What is the purpose of your life?

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 938-39 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:20 PM

Once you find your purpose, you have a chance to live a story that moves you and those around you.

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 955-61 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:23 PM

By envisioning the end of your life, by coming to terms with the question, How do I want to be remembered? or What is the legacy I most want to leave? you provide yourself with your single most important navigational coordinate: fundamental purpose, which henceforth will drive everything you do. By envisioning the end of your life, you are, in simplest terms, pausing to define what could reasonably be called a purposeful life, as lived by you. After you finish reading this paragraph, close your eyes. Visualize a tombstone: yours. It’s got your name engraved in it, the year of your birth and (imagined) year of death. Can you see it? What does it say underneath? Is it simply the word “beloved” and numerous familial relationships? Is that okay? Does it work for you? Does it say more? Does it need to?

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 977-78 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:24 PM

Often the first time an individual’s purpose is articulated is at his or her funeral, and then only if he or she is lucky enough to have a eulogizer who saw his or her purpose for what it was.

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 1025-30 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 03:27 PM

What’s your Ultimate Mission? Before you write it down—using whatever words that speak to you and move you; you’re writing this, after all, for yourself, no one else—ask yourself these questions: How do you want to be remembered? What is the legacy you most want to leave for others? How would you most like to hear people eulogize you at your funeral? What is worth dying for? What makes your life really worth living? In what areas of your life must you truly be extraordinary to fulfill your destiny?

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 1377-84 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 04:07 PM

The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Work Week,” listed characteristics of “extreme jobs” (referred to in the story as “the American Dream on steroids”): unpredictable flow of work fast-paced work under tight deadlines inordinate scope of responsibility work-related events outside regular hours availability to clients 24/7 great amount of travel physical presence at the workplace at least ten hours a day Research showed that extreme jobholders, rather than feeling burned out and bitter about their work, reported that they loved their jobs (66%) and felt exalted, not exploited, by the extreme pressures. When asked why they loved their jobs, the most frequent response (90% of men, 82% of women) was that they found the work stimulating and challenging and that it gave them an adrenaline rush.

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 1695-96 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 04:34 PM

When we depart sufficiently from reality, the optimism that ushered us there deserves a new name: denial.

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 1851-52 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 05:01 PM

What they want, for better or worse, is influence: influence over what you value, think, feel, say, or do.

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 1918-20 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 05:11 PM

In his 1951 book, Brain-Washing in Red China, Edward Hunter describes in great detail how the Communist Party of China set out to reform the hearts and minds of an entire nation.

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 2159-60 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 05:30 PM

“We do not see things as they are,” says the Talmud, the sacred Jewish text. “We see things as we are.”

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 2735-37 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 06:39 PM

“Insincerity stands out in a diary; practically no one can successfully fake his true opinions over a prolonged period of time. The tone just doesn’t ring true, and any experienced [Party] man entrusted with reading it can soon detect the falsity in the notes jotted down…”

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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Jim Loehr)

– Highlight Loc. 2891-94 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 1970, 06:50 PM

Learning to invest your full and best energy in whatever you’re doing at that moment is what I call “full engagement,” a paradigm we’ve developed over more than two decades, which posits at its core that life is enriched because of the commitment, passion, and focus we give it, not the time we give it.