| Stories can inspire or deceive; motivate
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| | potential or minimizing it? If your story
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| or manipulate; challenge or deflate;
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| | is a victim story then you'll find
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| persuade or console; unite or divide;
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| | problems. If it's about winning at
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| ignite or resolve; anger or connect. But,
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| | working and achieving your life's
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| none of this is new news. Stories are
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| | potential, you'll see challenges to meet.
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| everywhere, all the time. In the papers
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| | It's not about the words, it's about your
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| we read, in the content we watch or
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| | self-vision behind them. How you see your
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| listen to, and in the places we frequent.
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| | life is how you live it.Sometimes we're
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| That includes our workplaces. And we're
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| | not even aware of the stories we've
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| all storytellers.The stories we choose to
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| | adopted as our own. We've grown up
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| tell about ourselves and others impact
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| | hearing about who we are, what we're
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| how we're perceived at work: team player
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| | like, what abilities we have or don't
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| or not team player; victim or
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| | have and we overlay those stories onto
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| problem-solver; resilient or discouraged;
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| | our life as our own. But here's the
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| approachable or distant. They impact what
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| | wonderful thing about stories. We can
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| work culture we help create: trusting or
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| | write new ones.For much of my life, a
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| distrusting; silos or teams;
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| | story I lived into was being quiet and
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| soul-enhancing or soul-depleting. And
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| | shy. It was true I was a very shy child,
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| most importantly they impact how we see
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| | but I kept the story alive as I grew
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| ourselves. Our choice of stories matter,
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| | older. At times, it kept me on the
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| increasing or decreasing our potential to
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| | sidelines as a spectator to my life. But
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| be winning at working.But the most
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| | now I find that story confining, limiting
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| important stories you tell at work are
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| | and detrimental to the work I want to do.
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| the ones you tell about yourself, to
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| | So, I've let go of it and replaced it
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| yourself. For me, one of those is that
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| | with one that better fits this stage of
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| I'm technically challenged. Okay, I know
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| | who I am and what I'm about. I've chosen
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| what you're probably thinking and you're
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| | a different story to live into.You see,
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| right. The more I tell myself the story
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| | you have the power over your life story.
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| of my technical incompetence, the more
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| | Winning at working is a choice. What I
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| likely it is that my behavior lives up to
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| | learned in twenty years in management is
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| my expectations. That's true on the
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| | this: people who are winning at working
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| reverse side, too. Another self-story for
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| | realize they're the ones with the pen.
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| my life is that I can invent the future
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| | They know they're the author of their own
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| that I want to face. In both cases, as T.
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| | work story and they act accordingly. So,
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| Harv Eker puts it, "You will live into
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| | if they don't like how their story is
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| your story."Kyle Maynard is a good
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| | evolving, they create a better one and
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| example. Before he was nineteen he was a
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| | start living it. They write their story
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| Wrestling Hall of Famer with the
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| | as they go, building the outcome they
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| impressive title of the "World's
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| | desire.(c) 2006 Nan S. Russell. All
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| Strongest Teen." He's been living into
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| | rights reserved.Sign up to receive Nan's
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| his story, summarized by the title of his
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| | free biweekly eColumn at Nan Russell has
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| book, "No Excuses." You see, Kyle has a
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| | spent over twenty years in management,
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| congenital condition called quadramenbral
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| | most recently with QVC as a Vice
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| phocomelia. He has no limbs below the
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| | President. She has held leadership
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| elbows and knees. His becoming a
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| | positions in Human Resource Development,
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| wrestling champion goes beyond normally
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| | Communication, Marketing and line
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| impressive feats. But Kyle lives his "no
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| | Management. Nan has a B.A. from Stanford
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| excuses" story not only in the wrestling
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| | University and M.A. from the University
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| arena, but in all parts of his life,
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| | of Michigan. Currently working on her
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| learning to type fifty words a minute and
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| | first book, Winning at Working: 10
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| drive a car.What stories are you building
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| | Lessons Shared, Nan is a columnist,
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| your life around? Are they enhancing your
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| | writer and speaker.
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