My focus mate partner exclaimed this morning when she saw the deep pink of the top I was wearing.
“It’s a pajama top,” I shrugged. Admittedly, the colors are pretty and there is paisley involved. “I got it at a thrift store,” which simply says I am frugal.
“You have the greatest collection of happy sleepwear,” she said, smile crossing her face.
Seeing her in the morning across the screen while I go about my morning tasks is about as close as I come to having a fellow early rising roommate.
I settled in with my water – I don’t do coffee until I have been awake over an hour – and as I wrote my morning writing practice I came to the prompt The question I am to live today is… and my eyes scanned my desk where I had hand written yesterday’s question.
I needed to use it again, I thought. “How can I use storytelling to connect more deeply with my audience?” was what I asked yesterday.
I sat with the question again and simplified it:
“How can I use storytelling to connect more?’
It was interesting to watch my body respond to the question. My shoulders relaxed. They seemed to sigh deeply.
When I subtracted the target of my connection, I took the pressure off myself.
I know intellectually that the question includes my audience, my readers, my students and clients (and future students and clients), but the purity of intention is “Storytelling to connect more” feels better.
I am going to stay with that, especially looking at the note from the five-years-ago me.
I shared with my friends and family that I had managed to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital and wasn’t going home as planned.
It was short and clipped and it was there.
I made it a point to reach into my strongest self to check in and share gratitudes… which was the story I was most comfortable telling and the one that magnetized me to connect.
Expressions of authentic gratitude are always highly connective.
How can you use storytelling to connect more?
I started writing this blog post and it fell flat before I realized the vibrant story was missing.
Even if the sole person I connect to more is myself, today, telling the story has been worth it.
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