The Secret Power of Telling Your Story

THE Secre POWER OF TELLING YOUR STORY apoifrend de sto waren, Thinking. Writing & Success More Stories Have Yet to Be Written Worldwide there are approximately 152 MILLION BOOKS 2.2 MILLION MORE BOOKS Stories Are Shared Every Day are published each year Posts Per Day Linked in. facebook 1 Million 7.5 Million 422 Million Posts 500 Million Posts Posts Blog Posts The Benefits of Storytelling Storytelling can make any fact up to 22x more memorable “The most common way "We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn't a stronger connection between people than storytelling." people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." Jimmy Neil Smith Alice Walker Director of the International Storytelling Center Virginja Dellolt CC BY-SA 10 The Power Of Writing Stories The Benefits of Writing Writing about important personal experiences for as little as 15 minutes over the course of three days may benefit your mental and physical health Psychological Benefits ahal iHealing Writers process emotions se o quicker than non-writers "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." Anne Frank Communication "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Writing can effectively communicate difficult concepts Maya Angelou Self-Reflection "I think your thoughts are so much less frightening when they're tangible, when you can see them on a page in front of you." Writing about your experiences helps provide clarity Emma Watson Cotidiano Mujer CC BY-SA 3.0 Concentration "When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us, can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a Writing helps you focus on a síngle idea pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools." Photo by Paul @sddiehard Michael Leboeuf Legacy “To survive, you ja Umberto Eco Nir n must tell stories." Writing makes your story pārt of history Reasoning "There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight." Regular writing helps organize complex iděas and feelings Warren Buffett Success “My most essential possession is a standard-sized school notebook." Writing goals enhances wellbeing and likelihood of success Richard Branson Chatham House CC BY 2.0 According to one study, people who WRITE DOWN THEIR GOALS are 1.5x more likely to achieve them * If there's a book that you How To Write Mindfully want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." ® John Mathew Smith 2001 CC BY-SA 2.0 Toni Morrison Getting Started Vour Story Choose "Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere." Anne Lamott Zboralski CC BY-SA 3.0 Enjoy Decide what yoU want to write about the Do you want to reflect on à challenging experience? Journey Use a writing prompt to get the crêative juices flowing Focus on the process rather than just the end result Writing should feel like a reward, not a punishment Build Save everything - you never know what you'll want to come back to Flabit The benefits of writing take time Commit to writing every day or several times a week Start small – write for 10 minutes Writing a day and then stop for Life Opyrus enables you to tap your power to write and change your life Morning Write down a goal you want to accomplish Daily Write about your feelings to help reduce stress Evening Write about something you're grateful for Every writer needs support, guidance, and feedback to succeed anyone can become a published author with the right tools оpyrus enables billions of people to tap their power to write for mental, physical and financial wellbeing Opyrus democratizes and socializes writing Grow Collaborate Create WritingLight"M delivers you rich information, courses, podcasts and other sources of knowledge Caravan FastPencilM is a private community of writers, guides and service providers is an easy-to-use writing tool to create, protect and sell your personal content Sources: azquotes.com/quote/1268368 akhshaygandhi.com/storytelling entrepreneur.com/article/234712 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15723890 kinsta.com/blog/facebook-statistics Start Writing Your Story positivityblog.com/write-things-down journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/256708 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/189437 goodreads.com/author/quotes/3503.Maya_Angelou rookiemag.com/2013/05/emma-watson-interview/3 letter.ly/how-many-blog-posts-are-published-per-day journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167201277003 You might just change the world mashable.com/2010/08/05/number-of-books-in-the-world redbookmag.com/life/charity/g32801532/lgbtq-poc-quotes geriatricinhomecare.com/benefits-reading-writing-dementia scientificamerican.com/article/writing-can-help-injuries-heal-faster linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-voices-2018-influencers-daniel-roth opyrus.com edutopia.org/blog/writing-executive-function-brain-research-judy-willis quantifiedcommunications.com/blog/storytelling-22-times-more-memorable tubefilter.com/2019/05/07/number-hours-video-uploaded-to-youtube-per-minute DEVELOPED BY rорyrus N NOWSOURCING inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/50-quotes-from-famous-authors-that-will-inspire-yo.html theifod.com/how-many-new-books-are-published-each-year-and-other-related-books-facts gointothestory.blcklst.com/almost-all-good-writing-begins-with-terrible-first-efforts-1312662100c9 researchgate.net/publication/240209584_The_health_benefits_of_writing about_intensely_positive_experiences journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Abstract/2013/07000/Expressive_Writing and Wound_Healing_in_Older.10.aspx onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-4679%28199910%2955%3A10%3C1243%3A%3AAID-JCLP6%3E3.0.CO%3B2-N web.archive.org/web/20150816170918/https://www.dominican.edu/academics/ahss/undergraduate-programs/psych/faculty/fulltime/gailmatthews/researchsummary2.pdf