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Quotes About Transformation

I 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.
~ Donald Miller
Pain can serve a purpose if we cause it to. Again, while we do not have power over all that happens in the world, we do have power over our perspective. We can choose to take unfair and undue pain and cause it to serve our own story so that we become better. So that we transform.
~ Donald Miller
The purpose of an external problem in a story is to manifest an internal problem.
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In its purest form, a story starts with a character who lives in peace and stability. Suddenly that stability is disrupted:
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offering a vision for how great a customer's life could be if they engage your products or services.
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You'll come home to a clean, fresh house that will make you feel like the queen's own cleaning staff has come through your house." Or "You'll be wearing the tux you got married in within a few weeks!" Can you see how this kind of language is more motivating than "Your house will be clean" or "You'll lose weight"?
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Question 2: How Will It Make Your Customer's Life Better?
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If somebody buys what you offer, how will it make their lives better?
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he did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.
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we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.
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ROADMAP TASK FOUR: COLLECT AND TELL STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION
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People love movies about characters who transform, and they love businesses that help them experience transformation themselves.
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2.    Use your name in the solution.
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Our 'behavior' will not be changed long with self-discipline, but fall in love and a human will accomplish what he never thought possible. The laziest of men will swim the English channel to win his woman. I think what Rick said is worth repeating that by accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
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You can see the arc of the questions naturally yields a transformation story.
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The point is that people are drawn to transformation. When they see transformation in others, they want it for themselves.
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Transformation is natural. None of us look the same as we did when we were babies, and when we are old, we'll look very different than we did when we were middle aged. Things that are healthy and alive change. The converse is also true: things that are dead do not change. A rock does not change because a rock is not alive.
~ Donald Miller
The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting molded in the hard work of the middle.
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I was creating someone I could live through, the person I'd be if I redrew the world
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Where there is an absence of story, or perhaps a bad story, a good storyteller walks in and changes reality. He doesn't critique the existing story, or lament about his boredom, like a critic. He just tells something different and invites other people into the new story he is telling.
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4.  Collect and Tell Stories of Transformation.
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What problem do you solve for customers? What will your customer's life look like if they buy your product? What consequences does your product help customers avoid?
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ARTICLE THAT SAID in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.
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A hero needs somebody else to step into the story to tell them they're different, they're better. That somebody is the guide. That somebody is you.
~ Donald Miller