#1 Bestselling Author, Speaker, storyteller Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady

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Hear are some inspirational thoughts worth pondering…

Can singing change the world?

Here are 1 million children in Thailand singing for world peace, “Let’s come tog3ether to change the world.” Watch the video.

Consider the power of 1 million people with focused intent.

Where 2 or more are gathered, there is tremendous power for change.

You don’t need 1 million people coming together to bring about world peace or whatever change you desire to bring about in the world.

If you can organize that kind of event, great.

But think about this.

Focus your own intention on world peace.

Then each day do something to bring about peace within yourself, within your home, with in your community, or in the world.

And bring someone along for the ride! Find a peace buddy or 2, or 23, and focus together .

Every focused action raises the vibration.

5simple ways to bring peace:

1. Turn off the news.

2. DO not watch violent television shows.

3. pray or meditate daily.

4. Seek to resolve conflict rather than inflaming it.

5. Seek the quiet within yourself.

And to help you focus on peace, download The Peace Seed now. The little book with online journal and other gifts gives you simple ways to open up to other people with abundant listening and storytelling.

Claim it now at www.ThePeaceSeed.com/book.

 Follow your bliss!

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady of www.ProfitableStorytelling.com

• The Peace Seed, Personal and Global Transformation through Storytelling
• The Instant VIP: Insider Secrets to Fame, Freedom and Fulfillment as an Expert Author
• I'll Push You Steer: The Definitive Guide to Stumbling through Life with Blinders On.
• Read ProfitableStorytelling.com on Kindle.
• Creator of the 30-Day Profitable Author Challenge
•  Ambassador of Inspirational Thoughts, www.HowToLiveOnPurpose.comDisclosures

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Could you be turning people off with your stories?

Most people won’t say, “Wow you’re a horrible storyteller.”

They will simply turn away, get into another conversation, or otherwise seek to get away from you

3 Ways to Know if Your Stories are Turning People Away with your Storytelling

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 Follow your bliss!

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady of www.ProfitableStorytelling.com

• The Peace Seed, Personal and Global Transformation through Storytelling
• The Instant VIP: Insider Secrets to Fame, Freedom and Fulfillment as an Expert Author
• I'll Push You Steer: The Definitive Guide to Stumbling through Life with Blinders On.
• Read ProfitableStorytelling.com on Kindle.
• Creator of the 30-Day Profitable Author Challenge
•  Ambassador of Inspirational Thoughts, www.HowToLiveOnPurpose.comDisclosures

Listen to articles from this blog on your computer or download to iTunes using the Audio Content Reader  and VIDEO Content Reader for this site!

Looking for storytelling ideas?

Simply look to what happens during any ordinary days.

The “what happened” is the content of the story.

Now, give it a meaning.

Why should your audience pay attention? That’s your context.

Next, consider what response you want to evoke with your story.

that’s why the reader/listener should care, which is the hook that gets people involved.

Then, you want to give direction to the story.

That’s the call to action.

There are 4 elements of good storytelling:

• Content
• Context
• Care
• Call to action

Think of this as the “$ Cs Storytelling Template”. Storytelling Templates are easy to follow storytelling recipes so that you can tell a great story every time.

Storytelling ideas are everywhere!

Here is an example.

“Creature Comforts”

In the animal kingdom, “natural enemies” sometimes become close friends.

My retired guide dog Molly was sprawled out relaxing. Trippy, who she considers to be her pet cat, came up, meowing a greeting. Trippy then rubbed her cheek against Molly’s. Molly then licked Trippy and nuzzled her companionably.

What fun it was to watch them, and I found myself thinking, animals who shouldn’t get along find ways to understand each other all the time. Why do humans have such trouble with this?

Animals live in NOW. It is humans who tend to spend more time with our heads in the “then and when” rather than the “here and now.”

 Follow your bliss!

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady of www.ProfitableStorytelling.com

• The Peace Seed, Personal and Global Transformation through Storytelling
• The Instant VIP: Insider Secrets to Fame, Freedom and Fulfillment as an Expert Author
• I'll Push You Steer: The Definitive Guide to Stumbling through Life with Blinders On.
• Read ProfitableStorytelling.com on Kindle.
• Creator of the 30-Day Profitable Author Challenge
•  Ambassador of Inspirational Thoughts, www.HowToLiveOnPurpose.comDisclosures

Listen to articles from this blog on your computer or download to iTunes using the Audio Content Reader  and VIDEO Content Reader for this site!

Another new year is upon us, and this is the perfect time to reflect on goals and plans for this brand new year.

What are your plans and intentions for this year?

There are several areas to consider:

• physical health
• work
• leisure

to name but a few. It is good toset intentions for each area rather than making a “resolution” for some big deprivation you won’t really put yourself through.

In order to help you create your vision for the new year,  please join a free members only live call  (or you can listen later) – New Year Vision Meditation.

During this active meditation, you have paper and pen ready as you create your vision for this new year. Plus you will have instructions for what to do after the meditation to turn the vision into a plan with a focus for every day of the year.

Gain free access as a Profitable Storytelling Insider Member.Not a member yet? Join now.

Live Participation Details:

The live call is Thursday, January 5 at noon Eastern.

The audio is available for members.

Come back to this page to listen to the live call:

Below is the player to listen live Thursday, January 5 at noon ET.

ask questions before or during the call by adding them below.

Listen to the audio (after the live call).

This is the link to listen to the audio.

 Follow your bliss!

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady of www.ProfitableStorytelling.com

• The Peace Seed, Personal and Global Transformation through Storytelling
• The Instant VIP: Insider Secrets to Fame, Freedom and Fulfillment as an Expert Author
• I'll Push You Steer: The Definitive Guide to Stumbling through Life with Blinders On.
• Read ProfitableStorytelling.com on Kindle.
• Creator of the 30-Day Profitable Author Challenge
•  Ambassador of Inspirational Thoughts, www.HowToLiveOnPurpose.comDisclosures

Listen to articles from this blog on your computer or download to iTunes using the Audio Content Reader  and VIDEO Content Reader for this site!

Writing Tips: Should I Be Mild  Or Opinionated?

Do you think you should be mild or bold?

There’s this entrepreneur I have mentioned before, whom I call Natasha. You might have met someone like her.

I have a great respect for Natasha’s expertise. She is most definitely an expert in her field. She has strong opinions, and that is a good thing!

Why Be Opinionated?

Natasha is not afraid to give her opinion. Reading her blog posts, she comes across as knowledgeable and astute. Her writing is clear. When she teaches steps, she is easily understandable.

Being an opinionated expert is a GOOD thing!

Being opinionated shows that the expert has gumption and that something to say. She knows her stuff and thus can lead others to expand their horizons.

Without opinions, you’re not truly an expert.

Whether others agree with you is not important. Those who are examples of the ideal customer will resonate with the message. They will buy from you and tell their friends about you as well.

Think of it this way. Those who disagree with the way you approach your subject would never be a customer or client anyway.

But here’s an important consideration…

Do You Show Up Differently in Writing VS in Person?

Too often, an expert shows up (represents him or herself) one way in writing and very differently during a personal encounter.

Working online allows experts to expand their reach globally. Because of conference lines, webinars, Skype and other connection services, it is easier than ever to hear and see the expert instead of merely reading their words.

Talking to Natasha on a call brings a much different impression of her than reading her blog gives.

She comes across in a way that is haughty, as if she is a superior being suffering the company of idiots.

Opinionated or Belittling?

There is a difference between being an opinionated expert and belittling anyone who sees the world differently.

Hearing her talk, Natasha sounds as if she feels everyone else but her is an idiot who can scarcely breathe on their own.

Those smart ones who do as she says might one day be able to elevate themselves from subspecies status to barely sentient.

I’m sure that sounds harsh, yet that the way she comes across in my opinion. Dismissive. Not honoring their uniqueness and gifts.

Are You Creating a Mismatch?

Reading her articles made me think two different people had been talking. Expert Natasha and High-and-Mighty Natasha.

Remember that I first met her in person via a conference line. Later, I read her blog.

When I read several of her blog posts, I found them to be interesting. They did not sound like the condescending, dismissive  Natasha I had experienced.

I have tremendous respect for her knowledge and expertise. She definitely knows her stuff.

Imagine if you find someone interesting in writing and then hear them speak and experience them very differently from how they came across in writing.

How would you feel?

How you show up on a call or in a webinar needs to match what you write in your public works (blog posts, articles, and products).

Otherwise, you are misleading.

Who Is The REAL You?

Some people DO make a living out of crossing that line from opinionated expert to officious know-it-all.  Think of certain talk show hosts and political pundits.

There is room for this, too!

I am not saying it is bad to be officious if that is who you are. Be true to your nature. Only, if you cross that line, do it with full awareness and intention.

I personally do not want to do business with you if you are belittling, disrespectful and officious because that is not the experience I choose to have.

(I can whole-heartedly support someone’s right to express an opinion and yet not support them with my dollars!)

Let there be no surprises. When people read your words, let them come to know the real you.

Writing Tips for Being Authentically YOU

Here are 3 writing tips to help you be authentically yourself in writing.:

1. Step into your expert status before writing a word. You might find it easiest to truly be yourself if you TALK what you want to write instead of typing it. Be truly yourself.

A tool such as CopyTalk gives you a way to dictate anything, such as articles or blog posts in 4–minute chunks, and have it transcribed by real living humans and emailed to you.

2. Definitively state your opinion. Be opinionated. Call it what it is from your perspective. You’ll cause the people who resonate with your approach to pay close attention.

Those who are not your ideal audience will leave you alone sooner or later.

3. Be true to your nature.  Be the same person in your writing you are when you deal with people directly.

If you’re a condescending person, do not hold that aspect of yourself back in your writing.

Those who appreciate that style will flock to you in droves! Those who do not appreciate your style will turn elsewhere. Win-win.

My Opinion.

Honor everyone’s right to their voice and their opinions, even if their ways are diametrically opposed to your own..

Be respectful of people’s differences. You need not agree or endorse their differences but merely allow and respect.

Give people the same freedom of self expression you yourself crave.

Understand that experience shapes behavior. Everyone is the way they are because of their life experience.

Recognize that every person alive (including the ones who do things that shock or offend you) is a gift to the world!

More Help with Self Being Authentically YOU

One of the best ways to become authentically you and express your true nature in all you do is to take the free 21–Day “I AM a Gift to the World!” Challenge.

This challenge gives you 7 simple yet profound challenges to complete. I recommend you write your experiences in your own journal.

You also have an opportunity to take a Gold Upgrade and get weekly live help during the Gold call.

By delving deeply into your truth, you become who you are meant to be.

Take the challenge now at www.ProfitableStorytelling.com/iamagift.

 Follow your bliss!

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady of www.ProfitableStorytelling.com

• The Peace Seed, Personal and Global Transformation through Storytelling
• The Instant VIP: Insider Secrets to Fame, Freedom and Fulfillment as an Expert Author
• I'll Push You Steer: The Definitive Guide to Stumbling through Life with Blinders On.
• Read ProfitableStorytelling.com on Kindle.
• Creator of the 30-Day Profitable Author Challenge
•  Ambassador of Inspirational Thoughts, www.HowToLiveOnPurpose.comDisclosures

Listen to articles from this blog on your computer or download to iTunes using the Audio Content Reader  and VIDEO Content Reader for this site!