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Two Perspectives on Personal Transformation Two Perspectives’ is a bi-monthly column with two different perspectives from two different continents, genders and cultures on the same topic viz. Dr Janet Smith Warfield (based in Florida, USA) and  Dr Amit Nagpal (based in New Delhi, India). Dr Janet Smith Warfield's Perspective, USA Transition - Moving On Dr. Amit Nagpal and I have been co-blogging now for three years. Our procedure has always been to agree on a topic, write our own blog without reading the other's blog, and then post the blogs simultaneously on both of our websites. Two different perspectives, two different writing styles, and two different bases of experience have emerged. Our topics have ranged from Dark Nights of the Soul to Tools for Transformation, from Love to Conscious Mind, from Piercing the Veil of Word Illusions to Silence. We both like to tell stories. We both offer diagrams to illustrate our points. It has been great fu...

Mini Stories and Musings on Wisdom and Love Wisdom And of course stories All memories fade away and all is forgotten by the mind except four things; a) nursery rhymes, b) shocking statistics, c) quotable quotes d) and stories. ------------------------- Every story has an inspiration-The Past, Present and Future Every story has an inspiration. Some stories describe the present and past, some visualize the immediate future and some stories imagine the distant future. -------------------------- "My dear 'Good Disciple'.....Are you really good?" The Guru is surprised by the sudden good behavior of the disciple and asks, "What has made you such a good human being all of a sudden?" The disciple is silent. The Guru continues, "Ancient Indian literature says that a weak man becomes a saint. If you wish to become a true saint, you should first buy a weapon. Weapon here means:- -either the ability to stand for your principles ...

A personal story about lessons of life that helped me in social media success. My formula for social media success is :- Social Media Mega Success = Mindful Content + Passionate Engagement + Heartfelt Collaboration How I created this formula is an interesting story in itself and a very important part of my professional story.  ( Read full article )

After 12 years on the storytelling path, Michael Margolis, Chief Instigator,  Get Storied , announced a big next chapter in his professional story last week, the full fledged launch of " Story University ", world’s first university dedicated to professional storytelling. In continuation of my previous compilation of “ Best of the Best Quotes on Storytelling ”, here are some more quotes and musings, from my beloved teacher and leading global voice of business storytelling Michael Margolis. (included in " 100 Geniuses of our Times ") ( Read the full article )

Our previous eBook, " The Power of Storytelling " has got 10,000 + downloads in less than one year (including 5,200 on Scribd itself). Inspired by the immense success of our previous eBook, we decided to inspire 'Aspiring Storytellers' and guide them step by step in the storytelling journey. The eBook also includes sections on Brand Storytelling FAQ, Storytelling on Social media and Resources/suggested readings. Bon Voyage!!! An Introduction My life has been a pretty interesting story. Sometimes I jokingly say, “Sometimes your 'life' itself is such a story, that 'story' has to come to your life.” My beloved teacher  Michael Margolis  says that social media has democratized storytelling and I have joined his movement to spearhead storytelling to the masses. Sometime back, a friend came to me and told me, "I want to be a storyteller too. What can I do to become one or is it a gift from God rather?" I replied with a subtle...

Guest Blog Post by Howard C. Fero and Rebecca L. Herman (Authors of the book " LEAD ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME:    Stories And Strategies To Develop Major League Leadership " which uses storytelling in a powerful way) In baseball and in life, the leaders with the most passion   are the ones who will be most successful at inspiring their teams.During our research, numerous players throughout Major League Baseball identified passion   as one of the most important characteristics their managers can have because they want to see their managers excited and with fire in their eyes. There are many behaviors we can adopt from coaches and managers in sports to develop our Major League Leadership © and being more visible with our passion is certainly one of them. What is passion anyway and how can I have it at work? Most simply put, passion is doing something you love. It doesn't need to be a romantic idea of living on an island and writing a roman...

Mini-Stories and Musings on Wisdom and Love Wisdom Storytellers cannot afford heart-walls Real life often pushes people to build heart-walls or become hard-hearted. Yet a storyteller cannot afford a heart wall, in fact a storyteller starts to feel the pain of others too. How can you describe pain without feeling the pain? How can you describe the roller coaster of life without a first hand experience? Imagination has its limits and too much imagination can result in loss of authenticity. If a storyteller is scared of experiencing the emotional roller-coaster of life, how can she/he take the audience on the bumpy ride of story?  The deeper the empathy you will develop, the more touching and impactful will be your story. It will make people burst into laughter or break down into tears. Sometimes these tears will heal your audience because the flowing of tears will be the release of emotional blockage and letting go of ...