You always have a choice whether to bore your audience or bring them with you on your thoughts' journey. If your thoughts are any good, they will fit into a story. Do you ever have these niggling feelings? I feel that people listening to my presentations think I'm...
When I used to tell corporate leaders about the value of storytelling for their culture and success they would tell me I was ridiculous. Now they beg me to tell them how to use storytelling to make their culture so good they can’t be ignored. How a little time changes...
My novel ‘I used to be dead’, about 4 naughty kids is set in 28 AD in Israel during the rule of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Authenticity demanded I visit the country to investigate the old places like Capernaum, taste local foods, see the families celebrating Sabbath...
One winter’s evening meal set my destiny as a storyteller. I was six. Embarrassing dark secret My big brothers didn’t like me. Who could blame them? I was their embarrassing dark secret. Our mother became pregnant with me as an old lady of 39 when they were 9 and 12....
Our lives are full of thousands and thou … OK, TRILLIONS of incidents, conversations, interactions, experiences, sights, smells, tastes, thoughts, reactions, impressions etc … Some incidents we forget. Others become stories The more spectacular the incident, the more...
I receive Celinne Da Costa’s newsletter which I thoroughly recommend as a refreshing read for all. It's a stimulating source of encouragement for story writers, speakers and marketers. She writes and vlogs from exotic places as she tours the world. One day she's in...
About 152,000 people will die in the world today. Sounds gloomy, but 360,000 will be born to take their place. 360,000 new stories in the making. The deaths mean that in the next week or so there will be 152,000 funerals. There will also be the 1,000,000 funerals of...
In another post I told the story about my experience on the infamous morning after 911. I'll never forget it. You might not recall but I do. 'Would passenger Mohammed please identify himself to the cabin crew? Passenger Mohammed.' I froze. Everyone on the plane froze....
Your brain is a busy little doohickey. It has not only captured everything you've ever been told, everything you've ever done, everything you've ever experienced, but it has catalogued it, filed it and archived it. Most amazing of all, your brain has made up its...
In Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale of the Die goldene Gans (The Golden Goose) after many trials and enchantments the simple wood cutter wins the day, and the maiden AND the kingdom, and the story ends with the immortal lines, nach des Königs Tod erbte der Dummling das...