Ever notice how you respond to a story, v.s. just verbal information?

[Note: This was not published when I wrote it. Here it is today, October 8 2011]

THIS, just arrived in my main e-mail box:

"HELP! OUR MEETINGS ARE HORRIBLE – WHAT TO DO?"

Wanted: Stories, Storytellers and Story Sellers for Business
Good stories fascinate us all. They always have. They always will. Basically, there are two types of stories: Truth Stories and True Stories.
By Cincom CEO, Tom Nies

Tom Nies is no less than an accomplished story-teller, himself. His bio includes . . .

"Thomas M. Nies is the founder and CEO of Cincom Systems, Inc. The longest actively serving CEO in the computer industry, Nies was recognized by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 as "the epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit of American business." In 1992, British Prime Minister Edward Heath honored Nies for Cincom's role in bringing the software industry to England. In 1995, he was profiled by the Smithsonian Institute as one of the "pioneers of the software industry," alongside other industry giants such as Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Larry Ellison (Oracle). In 2004, Ernst & Young inducted Nies into its Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame. In 2005, along with the CEO of Adobe, Nies won the International Stevie Award for Best Executive in the International Business Awards—"the business world's own Oscars," according to the New York Post. In 2005, Nies also received the University of Cincinnati Lifetime Achievement award and in 2006, was named as one of the Top Ten IT Visionaries by START-IT magazine. In 2008, Tom and Cincom were featured in a Harvard Business School Study. Email Tom Nies: TNies@cincom.co"



The "Wanted: Stories, Storytellers and Story Sellers for Business" web page gives a clear picture why people prefer facts-by-story.

http://expertaccess.cincom.com/2011/02/wanted-stories-storytellers-and-story-sellers-for-business/

The page begins: "Good stories fascinate us all. They always have. They always will. Basically, there are two types of stories: Truth Stories and True Stories."

Isn't this the missing link so often left out of our own communications? Raising my family, instead of giving my dear children a memorable story to guide their thoughts like I wanted, my usually cryptic, too-often unfriendly diatribes were void of any story-like presentation. Even now, retired and with time to reflect on what I say, my words are un-story-like.

I'm sure there's ways to retrain myself to think and contemplate things in "storySpeak"!! In fact, let's search for just this . . .!

A favorite place for me to gain insight into my self-centric "Me," is Sonny Radio.

http://www.sonnyradio.com/

For this topic, let's listen to movie great, Jimmy Stewart. "A Dog Named Beau" [It's on YouTube!]

http://www.sonnyradio.com/jimmy-stewart-johnny-carson-dog-named-beau.html


I always loved Jimmy's movies, his homey voice and down-home delivery always captured my full attention to all his words. I don't know how he was in relating to his children, but, can you imagine how awesome it would have been to have your father give you growing-up guidance the way Jimmy told stories?!!

This search returns lots about Jimmy . . .
http://www.google.com/search?q=Jimmy+Stewart%27s+family&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Here he is given acting and personal insights for us to know and understand him more . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart

Jimmy's grave is detailed here . . .

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1816

"Actor, American Icon. James Stewart was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, where he had an ideal childhood with encouraging and supporting parents. When he won the Best Actor Oscar in 1940 for his role in "The Philadelphia Story," he sent it to his father saying, "It belongs to us both.""

He is remembered all over the world by many . . .
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One of the greatest and best
- Bette
 Added: Feb. 28, 2011

Personal life

Jimmy Stewart marries Gloria McLean, 1949

James Stewart was almost universally described by his collaborators as a kind, soft-spoken man and a true professional.

<sup>Some excerpts from the Wiki . . .


"</sup>James Stewart was active in philanthropic affairs over the years. His signature charity event, "The Jimmy Stewart Relay Marathon Race", held each year since 1982, has raised millions of dollars for the Child and Family Development Center at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California."


"One of Stewart's lesser-known talents was his homespun poetry. He once read a poem that he had written about his dog, entitled "Beau," while on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. By the end of this reading, Carson's eyes were welling with tears.^[82] This was later parodied on a late 1980s episode of the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live, with Dana Carvey as Stewart reciting the poem on Weekend Update and bringing anchor Dennis Miller to tears."


Jimmy proved himself a man after my own heart, too! . . .

"In addition to poetry, Stewart would talk during Tonight Show appearances about his avid gardening. Stewart purchased the house next door to his own home at 918 North Roxbury Drive, razed the house, and installed his garden in the lot."












His hometown hosts a museum, but it has fallen on hard times. Wall Street Journal has and article by Clare Ansberry posted on its website about the museum . . .

 

"Jimmy Stewart Museum

At the Jimmy Stewart museum, one display features artifacts from the hardware store founded by the actor's grandfather.

INDIANA, Pa.—It used to be a wonderful life at the Jimmy Stewart Museum.
Every year before Christmastime, bus loads of senior citizens would come to the actor's hometown to see costumes and scripts from his 81 movies, his childhood bed and the red leather booth excavated from the acclaimed, now-shuttered Chasen's Restaurant in Hollywood. The Stewart family dined there on Sunday mornings and Thursday evenings."


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395904576025701805597850.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

"He was, Mr. Harley notes, not only a Hollywood star, but a decorated military hero, a Boy Scout, as well as a good husband and father. Mr. Stewart's simple four words of advice to his twin daughters as they went off to college: "Be nice to everyone.""

I Get The Point!

Oh? Do I really understand the concept of making myself think how those I interact with see me as a communicator? Honestly, maybe not!

Here's one man's way with communication. I think that anyone who watches and listens to Nick cannot help but be moved with Nick's life. Let's listen and watch as Nick Vujicic shares his heart with you and me.

http://press.lifewithoutlimbs.org/

Lots more from this search . . .
http://saerch.yahoo.com/search%3B_ylt=A0oG7nECh2pN7E4AbgWl87UF%3B_ylc=X1MDMjE0MjQ3ODk0OARfcgMyBGZyA3NmcARuX2dwcwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc3ljBHF1ZXJ5A2xpZmUgd2l0aG91dCBsaW1icwRzYW8DMg--?p=life+without+limbs&fr=sfp&fr2=&iscqry=



Nick is a story. He tells it with his presence. His words reflect his story. Nick, is a story.

Am I a story that those I love want to hear told?

My Recent Story-telling Activites

To begin this year, I am focusing on forming a story to share with everyone who loves to garden, and to utilize organic waste materials as high-nutrient garden soil builders. It's called "Composting."

Out in the woods, it happens quite naturally, and in a lawn that gets no care, or a meadow, or even a semi-arid desert region, "compost" happens to organic materials that are no longer alive, accumulate on the ground, and have a bit of moisture added to assist in the enzyme, insect, fungus, and microbial life in digesting and de-composing organically-bound elements into their individual forms. It's a form of fertilizer production that creates one of the best plant nutrients known, if not THE best plant nutrition.

In fact, a man where I live discovered that burying kitchen wastes directly into his little tomato plant garden produced more tomatoes, and better tasting fruit than using commercial fertilizer, such as "Miracle-grow"!!

When I studied this phenomenal event in my own garden area, I saw why; As the kitchen wastes decompose, earth worms and other soil organisms ingest the now-edible material, and their digestion produces a steady flow of plant nutrition right at the root level! How efficient!

Now, to fertilize my garden while it is growing, I dig in kitchen and other organic waste materials alongside my vegetable and flower plants, and watch them grow with vigor and produce heavy yields of flowers and foods! 

Of course, for a large-scale food or flower production enterprise, like a farm, it would require much more than the home gardener's shovel!

I'm educating myself to understand sustainable agriculture ways, learn how to give my ideas as stories, and meeting with those who may become my customers! It's all here, in a local Agriculture Extension Service class . . .


http://smallfarms.wsu.edu/education/pierce/






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