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What is the point of your life? You’ll find your purpose in the story you tell. Your story has power — if you believe it. Check out this little book about how to tell a compelling story that will jumpstart your day, and give you satisfaction at the end.

story has power, tell your story

What’s the point?

You must wonder some days. Maybe lots of days. Your alarm goes off and you get up or you don’t get up. Maybe you hit snooze. But even if you hide under the covers, the day is calling.

Find the point, win the prize.

If you have a reason to get out of bed, your day will have purpose. Even if the purpose is daunting. But what about those days when you really don’t know what it’s all about?

This is what it’s all about.

What it’s about — the point of the story you tell — will determine much about how satisfied you are with your life.  The better the story, the better your life will be or become. But how do you know if it’s a good story or not?

Is it powerful?

This the question you will want to ask yourself: “Is my story powerful?” This is what will determine whether it’s a good story or not. In other words, does the story of your life keep you turning pages, wanting to know what happens next? Or have you slipped into ho-hum? Check out this quote from John Steinbeck, author of a little book you may have heard of called East of Eden:

“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”

East of Eden was published in 1952, and has been read, widely and often, ever since. I guess Steinbeck knew a good story when he wrote one. Steinbeck also wrote Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize) and Cannery Row, (my favorite) among many others.

Whose story is it?

You may not want to read East of Eden. It’s a really long novel. Good, but long. But you can learn how to tell a compelling personal story by reading a little book which I am recommending to you called The Point Is by Lee Eisenberg. In Eisenberg’s book, you’ll meet the Scribbler, the teller of your story. Eisenberg writes:

Right now you have company upstairs. There’s a little storywriter nestled in the fissures of your brain, a writer-in-residence, a compulsive scribbler. If it helps you to conjure such a fantastical idea, imagine a diminutive scribe in a teeny-tiny Aeron chair, sitting there with a pen, pencil, or proportionately sized laptop. If things aren’t goint well for you at the moment — a lousy relationship, dead-end job, no job — there may be other items on your storywriter’s desk: a whiskey bottle of a packet of pills.

So please do this.

Check out this little book. It’s called The Point Is: Making Sense of Birth, Death, and Everything in Between, by author Lee Eisenberg.

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