Quotes About Progress

Using Three Steps Is the Key

It's the crossing of that distance that makes the story work.

IF THE POINT of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

For instance, if step one in the plan is to "set up a call," what benefits will they receive from that call? Will it save them time, will they find out if they're a good fit, will they get information they currently don't have?

be weekly, meaningful workouts.

In order to ease our customers' concerns, we need to place large stones in that creek. When we identify the stones our customers can step on to get across the creek, we remove much of the risk and increase their comfort level about doing business with us. It's as though we're saying, "First, step here. See, it's easy. Then step here, then here, and then you'll be on the other side, and your problem will be resolved.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

How are you helping me win the day?

I could be judging unfairly, but all the people I've met who've really changed from unhealthy to healthy have a story, a story about hitting rock bottom, realizing what they were doing wrong, and radically changing the way they live so they don't repeat their mistakes. Characters only change when they live through a story.

A Sample Explanatory Paragraph At______________[your company name] we know you are the kind of people who want to be______________[aspirational identity. What kind of person do they want to become?]. In order to be that way, you

After reading this paragraph, they suddenly know what's been troubling them, how to overcome whatever has been troubling them, and what steps they need to take to move forward. Their world, as it relates to your product and service, now makes sense.

After you have listed the top five excuses, craft a sentence or two that overcomes each objection.

I wonder if what might help couples build great families is to pick a place for their family to go and then hit the gas, to work toward their vision and build it out. Relationships have a way of stabilizing when in motion. Until then, they just feel like a road trip to nowhere.

Apple didn't find their footing until Steve Jobs understood that people felt intimidated (internal problem) by computers and wanted a simpler interface with technology.

you can include a testimonial in which a customer explains how you helped them overcome a challenge, or you can simply list the problems you resolve in bullet points.

want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Some people skip through life, some people are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder whether we are moving through time or time is moving through us.

for always the greatest obstacle to intellectual and moral progress with Socrates is people's unwillingness to confront their own ignorance.

Albert Einstein said, "The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

that, you have to leave your comfort zone.

The future does not belong to those who believe in socialism. The future belongs to those who believe in freedom.

Make America great again.

anachronisms.

year advanced. But in these first weeks it fell only on the