Every Picture Tells A Story

What would your picture look like?

I got an idea this morning. Nick and I agreed recently to riff on a chapter a week from our recently published book, and this week’s theme is “Tell Your Story”. As someone who does a lot of writing, is in recovery, and is often encouraging other people to tell their story, I was secretly dreading this week. But also being someone who believes in turning adversity into opportunity, I got an idea, one that will probably kick my ass a little. I’m going to try to draw my story. I have NO IDEA how I’ll approach it yet. Maybe it’ll be a tryptic, maybe a flip book. Maybe it’ll be a huge mural on my office wall. Whatever it is, I think this’ll be more fun than mindmapping. I’ll share the results some time down the road. But if your story were a picture, what would it look like?

Each week for the next few months, Nick and I will be riffing on a theme from our recently published book 101 Ideas to Kick Your Ass Into Gear. This week’s theme is “Tell Your Story”

About Ian

Ian is a media consultant, writer, musician, and budding public speaker with an eye on being the next Ellen. Ian's interest in helping others find success and happiness stems from his experience with events planning and media consulting with organizations like Interfluence.com and the Kenya/US NGO Amara Conservation from 2000-2008, which taught him how little we all know about what we're really doing. From 2008 until April of 2011, Ian wrote for and maintained the site DissociatedPress.com. Ian learned long ago that the journey to success may take occasional detours, and often eschews the road map in favor of taking in life's scenery. His first business venture was a small telecom company in the late 1980's, but subsequent ventures included pursuing a pop music career, screenwriting, and the foodservice and retail employment that often follows such pursuits. After struggling with addiction for years, Ian is happily embracing recovery and the clarity it brings.