HOW TO TELL YOUR STORY IN A COMPELLING WAY

The first thing people will demand from you in meeting you for the first time is your story. They want to know who you are, what you do, where you’ve been, what you know and how interesting and inspiring your life is.

If you have an amazing story, then people will engage and pay you simply because your life story is inspiring.

I moved from a scared-to-the-bones speaker to one of the greatest speakers of my time. Now I earn five to six figures to motivate, train, teach and mentor all kinds of audiences.

I moved from a timid, colourless, uncreative scribbler to a poet, then to a lyricist, then to a staff writer in a publishing firm. Now I earn five to six figures from creating content that sell online and offline, while helping others do the same.

I moved from a lowly background as an unknown, struggling youth looking for people to help me to a brand that people now depend upon for help. Now I earn five, six, seven figures as a problem solver and solution provider working with individual and corporate clients.

Wow! All because I tell my story compellingly. And I get paid simply because my story is so inspiring.

3 TRUTHS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TODAY’S WORLD

The world today is different from the world just a decade ago. Globalization brought with it new ways of thinking, connecting and working. According to Jeff Goins, there are three reasons why becoming an expert of your own story is essential:

1. Nobody Cares About Your Resume Or CV

For many professional fields, the resume is dead. This is especially true for creatives.

What people want to know is your story. What happens when I Google you? What does your “bio” say?

Future employers want to know: What are your life experiences, and how have they shaped you?

You need to be ready to tell them.

2. Storytelling Is The New Marketing

Think about the nonprofit and for-profit organizations you know that are really making a difference. Chances are, they’re telling a compelling story. For instance Apple‘s story is about the underdog eventually beating out the competitor who wronged him. Every customer gets to live out this same story each time they buy a Mac or iPhone.

Influential organizations and individuals tell a story that is so compelling others can’t help but want to join it.

3. You Don’t Know Your Story As Well As You Think

Telling your story helps you make sense of your life — why certain events happened the way they did. You begin to examine what has happened to and through you. You begin to make sense of who you are.

Telling your story can be incredibly therapeutic, and the practice often leads to greater confidence and understanding of self.

Most people don’t take the time to do this. They take their stories for granted; they don’t steward them.

Take the time to learn your story. We need it. And we need you to tell it. If we’re going to be changed by it, you need to tell your story well.

Only the people that tell unique stories build wealthy, lasting brands. Go ask Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, etc.

Everyone has a story to tell. You have a story to tell, and it deserves to be told well.

LET ME HELP YOU FIND AND TELL YOUR STORY

I can help you find your story, carve out a unique selling point and craft the story that helps you win.

WAYS I CAN HELP YOU

• Let me hold you in the hand to find, craft and market your story.
• Let me help you tell your story via blogging.
• Learn how to employ digital marketing to spread your story.
• Let me help you start a side hustle that enables you tell your story.
• Tap into the power of your personal brand to tell your unique story.
• Learn to craft and share your story from experiences and knowledge to inspire and help others.
• Create a unique, sellable story for yourself by raising the bar in your life.
• Let me help in sharing your expertise with the world for FREE.
• Let me help in spreading word about your business for FREE.

 Read my own amazing story here.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MacHenry Churchill is an OAP, Serial Blogger and Multipreneur. He owns 30 blogs, runs several businesses and hosts various radio shows. He is using the power of talk, blogging and entrepreneurship to tell his story, spread ideas and start movements that engage people to change themselves in order to change the world, starting from their local communities.

His lead company, MacChurchill Consulting develops ideas, programs, platforms, conversations and collaborations that create development opportunities for people. Through storytelling, people engagement and idea sharing, MacChurchill Consulting is getting people to learn simple ways to create change for themselves by using their talents and skills to solve problems in their various communities.

BECOME A BETTER VERSION OF YOU

The only person better than you is the person you've yet to BECOME! 

- Juliet Dillinger

With continuous and non-stop improvement you can accomplish almost anything. As long as you never stop learning and never stop growing, nothing will be beyond your reach. Life in itself is progressive, so as long as you keep putting in the work, as long as you keep doing what needs to be done, you will continue to experience commensurate reward and result.

You must be willing to change and grow, to learn and increase your capacity, to acquire necessary life skills. You must move beyond your perceived and culturally defined limitations, beyond the average you, to position yourself for advantage. It matters less where you’re coming from. What counts is how you prepare yourself for the journey ahead.

You only stay limited when you refuse to become a better person; when you consciously decide to not move. Most people are stuck where they are simply because they are comfortable in their space, consciously or unconsciously, and so make no effort towards moving. The singular decision to move puts uncountable forces at work at your disposal, so that the moment you decide and commit to change, the atmosphere around you begins to change almost immediately. When you decide to get better, opportunities to get better begin to present themselves before you at once. Decisions are powerful when tempered with commitment.

To be the best YOU, you must push boundaries, starting from where you are at the moment and not letting limitations rule your fate. You must shatter those limits by refusing to stay down, going against seeming impossibilities as if your life depends on it – and it does. You must exhaust your potentials, putting in the best of your talents, skills and abilities. You must determine to break out from the old YOU, embracing challenges and daring impossibilities. To achieve the desired, one must confront and leap over obstacles, face and deal with limitations, engage and conquer fear. New goals require new commitment, mindset and will. The best YOU demands a new YOU. You are your biggest competition. To conquer others is nothing, to conquer YOU is the key to amazing. For self-conquest is the greatest victory of all.

Your overall goal and bottom line ambition should be to add more value in this world, to be the best at what you do, and to continually strive to be a better version of yourself. This is the path to becoming exceptional, outstanding and peerless.

#StayMotiv8ted

IF I LOSE YOU

IF I LOSE YOU

WOULD LIFE NOT BE VOID OF MEANING?

WOULD BLOOD NOT REFUSE

TO FLOW THROUGH MY VEINS?

IF I LOSE YOU

WOULD MY WORLD NOT GIVE WAY?

WOULD THE BREATH OF LIFE

NOT FROM ME BE TAKEN AWAY?

IF I LOSE YOU

WOULD THE EARTH NOT CRUMBLE TO NOTHINGNESS?

WOULD THE DRUMMING OF MY HEART

NOT FADE TO DEAD SILENCE?

IF I LOSE YOU

WOULD LOVE NOT FORFEIT ITS ESSENCE?

WOULD MY FEET NOT END ITS JOURNEY

THROUGH THE MIRAGE STREETS OF EXISTENCE?

WOULD YOU NOT RATHER BE

MINE TO FOREVER KEEP

‘COS IF I TO THE GREAT BEYOND GO

WOULD THE HEAVENS NOT OF MY SOUL

REQUIRE OF THEE?

- MacHenry Churchill

BEFORE I LEAVE

BEFORE I LEAVE

TO HEAVEN WHERE MY SOUL’S REST SHALL BE

I SHALL TOUR THE EARTH’S FAR ENDS

TO GIVE TROUBLED LIVES MY SOOTHING HANDS

I SHALL, THE POOR, ENRICH

WITH THE ALL OF ME THAT I HAVE TO GIVE

THE LACKING SHALL INHERIT MY WEALTH

TO THE HOMELESS I SHALL WILL MY TENT

MY SIBLINGS SHALL HAVE NO CAUSE TO MOURN

‘COS TIME MY STORY SHALL TELL

WHEN I’M GONE

BEFORE I LEAVE

I SHALL SING A SONG

THAT WILL ENDURE TILL THE END

A MELODY OF WHICH SHALL LINGER

LONG AFTER I’M TURNED TO DUST

FOREVER IN THE HEARTS OF MEN

TO QUELL THEIR TROUBLES;

TO PROVIDE LIGHT FOR THEIR DARK STRUGGLES

THE RHYTHM OF IT SHALL ESCORT MY SOUL

ITS ECHO SHALL GUIDE ME HOME

EVEN AS THE CURTAIN OF MY LIFE COMES

TO ITS GLORIOUS CLOSE.

- MacHenry Churchill

BEAUTIFUL

MY HEART IS LOST TO YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL.

WHAT I SHARE WITH YOU MY LOVE IS SO MEANINGFUL.

YOU GIVE MY LIFE A PURPOSE BEYOND WORDS CAN EXPRESS.

YOU MAKE MY DAYS SO PERFECT DARLING, I AM SO BLESSED.

WE’LL TAKE A TRIP TO THE MOON, FLY TO THE STARS,

STROLL TO THE HEAVENS, AND SMILE FROM AFAR.

HAA. YOU KNOW YOU MAKE ME LAUGH.

I’M SO THANKFUL THAT YOU CAME INTO MY LIFE.

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.

I FEEL SO SPECIAL WHEN I’M WITH YOU.

I’M IN LOVE WITH YOU, AND WILL DIE WITH YOU.

JUST SAY YOU LOVE ME TOO,

AND LIVING ON EARTH WILL BE SO COOL.

I ALREADY KNOW ‘I DO’.

MY BEAUTIFUL… AM ALL FOR YOU.

- MACHENRY MOTIV8 CHURCHILL

Meet the Scribbler, the Poet, the Lyricist, the Storyteller

I WRITE FROM THE DEPTH OF ME

I SCRIBBLE AS WORDS COME TO ME

THE PEN INSPIRES ME TO BE

THE INK MAKES ME FULLY LIVE

I LEAP BEYOND ALL WHEN WHEN I WRITE

I SOAR OUT OF SIGHT

I GET FILLED WITH LIGHT

BRIMMING WITH MIGHT

I WIN. I CONQUER

- MacHenry Motiv8 Churchill