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The use of stories that form word pictures
is one of the most powerful ways to enhance your ability to communicate your message. All
effective communicators make use of personal experiences, word pictures, anecdotes and
analogies to get their point across. I hope that you can make use of the following
resources.
-
Driving
you car forward looking in the rear view mirror. A major hindrance to
succeeding in your personal life or relationships is trying to go forward
looking in the rear view mirror.
- Moral
of the Cracked Pots Story: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're
all cracked pots.
- The
father of Sir Winston Churchill, The Scottish farmer. What comes around
goes around.
- Poem,
Dad. You mean more to me with every passing year.
- Slow
Dance: This poem written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York
Hospital.
- Paul
Harvey story: We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that
we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
- Greater
than God riddle. When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got
the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.
- The black and white dogs that
fight. The moral of this story, is what ever you feed yourself the most
will win.
- Team work, story of the geese
illustrated by Tom Worsham.
- A story of character and personal development, a
little story of when you put the man together the world comes together.
- Over coming obstacles, the results
summarized of "Cradle's of Eminence" a book that revealed a study of 415 great
and famous people.
- Flea training, an analogy of how our
environment can condition us.
- Conditioning, the ape experiment.
- The tallest creatures on Earth, some
facts about giant cedar tree's on Vancouver Island:
- Niagara Syndrome by Anthony Robbins, failing
to make decisions.
- The Chinese Bamboo Tree, a very brief analogy
of growth.
- Grade 5 Mentality, an analogy of how we can
easily loose our desire to continue to grow.
- Dr. Viktor Frankl shares a true story of
an experience in a concentration camp and how the loss of a mans vision took his life.
- Building Bridges, a story of how a man
helped two neighbors resolve differences.
- Bites and pieces of Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
- A true story of Lieutenant John
Blanchard, his character and blind love of a woman he never met but grew to love
through written correspondence.
- An analogy of how Socrates illustrated
burning desire to a young man wanting his wisdom.
- The fisherman enjoying a low stress life,
a nice little story of a business man wanting this fisherman to grow his business so he
could enjoy a life style he already had.
- An analogy of a blue print, how a blue
print expresses the need to have a plan.
- Making committed decisions, burn your ships,
the story of Hernan Cortes.
- Determination, a little story of the
determination of the bull dog.
- Learn to build wise, the story of the
carpenter tells us about building our life wisely.
- Temptation, the story of how the Eskimo's
lead wolves to their death
- Magnifying Glass, a little analogy of the power of
focus.
- Habit forming, analogy of how the computer relates
to developing habits.
- Tolerance, Famous story told by
G.E. Lessing
- Little things do make a difference, story of the
little girl throwing star fish back to the sea.
- The road map, a couple nice little goal setting
analogies.
- Creating the impossible, the development of the
V-8 engine by Henry Ford
- It only takes a bit to make a huge difference,
analogy of a horse race.
- Effort & Attitude, poem by Jim
Rohn, "
The Seasons of Life "
- Believing you can do it, story of a little boy
trapped under the ice.
- Mary Kay's mother believed she could do it so can you.
- Misunderstanding, story of
the fake turkey told by Chuck Swindol
- Momentum, analogy of an
airplane taking off.
- Perseverance through
obstacles, Mr. Honda and the obstacles to his success.
- Neglect is a disease,
an analogy of bacteria on our immune system.
- Story of the precocious
little girl, a cute little story or joke.
- Braces analogy for
understanding the process of success or healing.
- Power of belief systems,
Roger Banister breaking the 4 minute mile.
- Saint Patrick and the story of the three leaf
clover.
- Determination, story of a little girl who over
came an angry man by her determination to get the 50 cents.
- Story of a missionary team that lost their
lives to save a people group. Bringing Jesus to the most feared people group in the world,
The Aucas's!
- Doing good deeds always pay off, story of Bryan
helping the stranded woman.
- Personal responsibility, the famous story of the
Rock Garden.
- The Stranger, a short story disguised until
the end until you learn of a familiar stranger.
- Finding meaning in difficult circumstances, a true
story found in one of Viktor Frankl's books about a woman who attempted suicide until she
found the value of her life.
- The off season hill, Walter Payton was abducted to
the hall of fame for going the extra mile.
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