Your Story
A little while ago (seriousy, like an hour ago) I had lunch with two gentlemen. It was a pre-arranged lunch, through a friend of a friend, where they wanted to talk to me about something… business or insurance or steak knives. All I really know is that I got free fish tacos.
What really struck me was how quickly these guys, obviously adept salesman, tried to get to know me. Now, did they really care to know me? Who knows. But they asked a ton of questions, candidly related it to their own stories, and relentless took interest in everything I said.
It got me thinking about this:
I had a few minutes and just a handful of statements to make about my life.
How do I condense my life down to a 5-10 minute conversation?
How would you?
I was with two guys I had never met, and I essentially had a blank slate to tell anything or everything about my life. The conversation was dictated by some odd combination of guardedness, efficiency, truth, and creativity.
How do you tell your story?
What’s most important? Perhaps you don’t even know.
Where would you allow yourself to expand into minutia?
What makes your story spectacular & worth telling?
What will people connect with & what won’t they get?
The way you lay your story out deeply impacts how you form relationships. It is a deeply spiritual way of entering into the worlds of others.
How do you tell your story?
I'm a runner, writer, thinker, and pastor. I love to agitate people's consciences. I like to spend my time reading, running, and relaxing with family & friends.