All in Storyteller Stories
To celebrate my birthday today, I put my Apple watch into my desk drawer and took my old watch to the jeweler to have the battery replaced. I created an in-office schedule for myself that offers limited yet consistent weekly availability to my clients and an out-of-office schedule that creates more availability to my family. I turned off all social notifications on my phone. I turned off the news. I turned on some Lionel Richie. I felt better.
While the bulk of 2020 has been anything but “happy” (unless you like riots, fires, and getting quarantined in pandemics), there have been quite a few happy stories to emerge from this dumpster fire of a year. After all, there is nothing like strife to unite us in the interest of the greater good (well, for the most part) and to help us refocus on what really matters in life.
Great quotes about storytelling and quotes by great storytellers inspire us to dig deep and to tell our best stories.
The stories we read make us who we are, and the stories we tell impact those who hear and read them. As children, we are read stories that shape us, that define our integrity and our social and moral fiber. Sometimes, it’s nice to reflect on the stories that made us who we are today, which is why we have a list of the best life lessons told in children’s stories.
Instagram is known as a very visual social media platform, but what you write in the caption can be just as important. Have you ever opened the app, selected your perfectly edited image and thought, “now what?” It takes creativity and strategy to craft a caption that is captivating, engaging and will resonate with your ideal audience. These helpful tips about how to write an Instagram caption will make you a social media storytelling star in no time!
Imagine a first date where you aren’t allowed to tell any stories about your past, present, or future hopes. Yikes. You’d likely spend the whole time talking about something mundane…like how edible the bread is. While you might learn a little about your tastes, that information doesn’t give you enough of a connection to want to book a second date, does it?
These days we are being forced to take time and slow down; which can be a very difficult thing to master. Here is how the art of bread making was able to help aid one stay-at-home mom in the honing of those skills and even leads to the bringing together of people. These are unprecedented times but with a little patience (and maybe some yeast) we can all rise to the occasion.
