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Click here to add this blog to your feed (subscribe to Blog) And One Fine Day-The Power of Storytelling I decided to conduct a Story Blogathon in May 2013 to demonstrate the power of storytelling in general and storytelling for personal branding in particular. The stories received were highly inspiring, shared the hearts of the contributors and I felt the need to compile them into an e-book. 20 entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs from across the world, share their stories of struggles and victories, how they learnt an important lesson of life or how they used social media and personal branding for business/career growth.  The Power of Storytelling Recently I was asked to introduce myself at an event and I told, “As a child I was fond of storytelling and as a student, I was passionate about branding. And one fine day, I realised that storytelling is the most powerful branding tool, be it people, products or companies.” OMG, even while introducing myself, I was tellin

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #28 by Deborah Biedronski For Day 28 of the 3E Story Blogathon, Deborah Biedronski shares her story about how she discovered her deepest passion. For some of us writing is just putting words on a piece of paper, but for others it is releasing our souls! When Dr. Amit asked me to write this blog I wondered what I would be contributing. Writers do have a reputation for insanity! Being older and wiser I have learned through my education that families in the seventies raised their children basically on the Laws of Attraction. This style of parenting limited my growth in self-esteem and intimacy. My Christian up bringing limited my passions, in respect for honoring my mother and father, limited by The Holy Bible. This reading led me to a poet named Rod McKuen, of the 60’s and his intensity for writing about love. With my Father practicing restraint and m

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #26 by Sanjeev Kumar For Day 26 of the 3E Story Blogathon, Sanjeev shares the story about his book. Long time ago, when I was In India, I had a profound interest in enhancing my deep thinking process but my life was totally different. I was engaged much more in medical practice, but along with my practice I used to read wonderful l books. Later on I realized that reading those books created more illusion. As soon as I landed in Canada after immigration (after intense suffering), my thought process got much matured & sharper because it was not hard struggle but rather my evolution. It depends upon us, how we look at things though.  I practiced medical profession in Canada for a while but I wound up my practice very soon due to lack of satisfaction. I never liked this profession ever in my life because I was not made for the medical profes

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #23 by Dr Prashant Gupta For Day 23 of the 3E Story Blogathon, Dr Prashant talks about the importance of cooptetion and tells a short story to prove his point. (Do let us know if he was able to prove it successfully) Cooptetion-A necessity today  A new term was added in management jargon years back-cooptetion, which is a combination of cooperation and competition. In the social media age we live in, we often have overlaps of skills with people around us, and how we collaborate with such people is going to be a critical skill in our success. For example, a life coach may be a competitor to a psychiatrist as people with stress or obsessive compulsive disorder may visit either of them.  From cooptetion to mutual admiration  Let me share a childhood story. Dr Amit Nagpal (the organiser of the story blogathon) and I were class-fellows

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #22 by Nihar Sharma For Day 22 of the 3E Story Blogathon, Nihar shares how she discovered her deepest passion and how it has transformed her life completely. Not too long ago, as I got this thumping incessant feeling in my heart, I realized that there was more to it than just the thumping. There was also an occasional rumbling in my gut which often comes along whenever I thought about the outdoors & travelling. These thoughts of travel & adventure frequently invaded my mind throughout the day. And so, on this particular day I tried hard to avoid being distracted by them. I threw myself-more into my work only to find the thoughts attacking me with renewed vigour. So I decided to surrender. I thought “Ok. Just this once let me go.” I took a short trip to the mountains. Though I love my work and cherish no desire to be away from it, this trip breathed new

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #21 by Oge Okosieme For Day 21 of the 3E Story Blogathon, Oge shares the connection between spirituality and personal branding and sicusses the compatibility of the two concepts n a story format. Questioner: What is it you do?  Oge: I am a Personal Branding Mentor for the Spiritual Entrepreneur  Questioner: (with a confused look on the face) What does spiritual have to do with branding and marketing? This response is not unusual and is captured in this question by someone who had written in to ask about my website  Questioner: Hi Oge, I noticed on your website that it says ‘personal branding for the spiritual entrepreneur and that got me thinking about whether spirituality and personal branding are compatible. I have read through your website and can see where you are going with this but would like a bit more of your thoughts on it 

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #20 by Chandrashekhar Ranade For Day 20 of the 3E Story Blogathon,  Chandrashekhar Ranade shares his story of how he became a successful entrepreneur and L-earner, in spite of all the constraints imposed by life. Dear Friends,  This is the moment I have been looking for long-to share my story so that some simple people like me reading this story may get inspired to be Smarter Communicators, do well and lead more satisfying lives.  I speak from the center of My Universe. I have arrived and am very successful. I have found the reason for being born on this earth. It is very simple. My life purpose is to L-Earn. Learn to inspire people into being smarter communicators, for communication is the key to Progress. It was in 1997 that in one of my lucid dreams I saw this statement, “If I do not Inspire ... I expire!”  The only thing left for me now is to

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #19 by Lipsa Mohanty For Day 19 of the 3E Story Blogathon,  Lipsa Mohanty shares her story of how she shifted from stressful Monday mornings to beautiful Monday mornings. She also shares, how she was finally able to follow her dreams. Follow Your Dreams  or else be ready for the Monday morning The alarm rings … a stressful Monday Morning again!  With my eyes still closed, I tried to stretch my hands and reach my phone to shut it off and buy more time to sleep. While I gripped the phone as though it was an assault weapon and pushed it under the pillow, the phone rang with the second alarm. With one eye still closed and one eye open, I took the phone out from under the pillow to check the time. It was time for the marathon again.  I literally pushed myself out of the bed, somehow managed to got ready in minutes. The newspaper and breakfast ha

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #18 by Debbie Friend For Day 18 of the 3E Story Blogathon,  Laughter Yoga expert  shares her story about how she became a laughter yoga leader. So let us learn to live, LAUGH, love.... “I’m going to be trained to be a laughter yoga leader, “my friend enthusiastically declared during a phone conversation we were having. “That’s great,” I answered. Without missing a beat, she then asked, “Why don’t you do this with me?” My mouth must have been on auto-pilot, because before my brain had a chance to process what was being requested of me, I accepted her invitation. After I committed to this undertaking, I wondered what on earth possessed me to answer in the affirmative.  When the day of the workshop arrived, I was extremely apprehensive and worried obsessively about what I had gotten myself into and why I was doing this.  I quickly discovered that my fea