Choose Your Story, Change Your Life: Silence Your Inner Critic and Rewrite Your Life from the Inside Out

by Kindra Hall

Overview

The things we tell ourselves affect how well or poorly our path in life goes. It’s time to flip the script on the internal stories you tell yourself and live life on your terms.

Most of the “self-stories” you tell yourself—the kind of person you say you are and the things you are capable of—are invisible to you because they have become such a part of your everyday mental routine that you don’t even recognize they exist.

Yet, these self-stories influence everything you do, everything you say, and everything you are.

Choose Your Story, Change Your Life will help you take complete control of your self-stories and create the life you’ve always dreamed you’d have. Author Kindra Hall offers up a new window into your psychology, one that travels the distance from the frontiers of neuroscience to the deep inner workings of your thoughts and feelings.

In Choose Your Story, Change Your Life, Kindra will help you:

• Uncover the truth of how you have created the life you have;
• Challenge everything you think you know about how your life has been built;
• Uncover the clear steps you can take to create the life you want;
• Take control of your self-story to become the author of who you are; and
• Live your life in a way you never have before.

This eye-opening, but applicable journey will transform you from a passive listener of these limiting, unconscious thoughts to the definitive author of who you are and everything you want to be.

Changing your life is as simple as choosing better stories to tell yourself. If you can change your story, you can change your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400228409
Publisher:	HarperCollins Leadership
Publication date:	01/11/2022
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	665,434
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kindra Hall is President and Chief Storytelling Officer at Steller Collective, a consulting firm focused on the strategic application of storytelling to today’s communication challenges. Kindra is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers trusted by global brands to deliver presentations and trainings that inspire teams and individuals to better communicate the value of their company, their products, and their individuality through strategic storytelling.

What began as a chance encounter at age 13 with a storytelling cassette tape grew into a passion for not only telling stories, but a mastery for teaching others the methods and science of storytelling so they can better tell their own.

She was a National Champion storyteller (yes, they have those), member of the Board of Directors of the National Storytelling Network and has her master’s degree in communications where she conducted original research studying the role of storytelling in defining and revealing organizational culture.

Kindra is a former Director of Marketing and VP of Sales and former Chief Storytelling Officer at SUCCESS Magazine. Today, Kindra’s work can be seen at Inc.com, Entrepreneur.com, SUCCESS, and more. Kindra’s message spans all industries, and her clients include Facebook, Hilton Hotels, Tyson Foods, Target, Berkshire Hathaway and the Harvard Medical School.

Regardless of the industry, Kindra has become a conference favorite for her clients. The blend of inspiration and education in her keynotes mean that audiences leave feeling excited and equipped to finally put their stories to work in a tangible way.

Kindra lives in Manhattan with her husband, young son, and daughter. When she is not traveling around the world speaking, Kindra can usually be found at spin class or in Central Park with her family.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

The Real Yellow Brick Road

Part I You Become Your Story The Powerful Stories Within You

1 Wired for Story 3

Where Your Self-Stories Come From

2 Life Imitates Story 14

How Stories Create Your Reality

3 Choose Your Story, Change Your Life 30

How Rewriting Your Stories Can Transform Your Future

Part II The Self - Storytelling Process Reconstructing Your Inner Voice

4 Catch 55

Identifying Your Invisible Stories

5 Analyze 71

Putting Your Inner Story Under the Magnifying Glass

6 Choose 97

Reautkor a New Story that Serves You

7 Install 114

Putting Your New Self-Story to Work

Part III Hacking Your Essential Stories Tales of Transformation

8 Business and Career 139

Choosing Your Own Success Story Adventure

9 Health and Well-being 159

Finding Your Stories of True Health

10 Money and Finances 181

Stories Don't Grow on Trees …

11 Relationships and Love 201

Connecting with the Characters of Life

12 Family and Parenting 219

Telling It Forward

13 The Emerald City 235

It's All Stories

Acknowledgments 239

Notes 241

Index 245

About the Author 250

Editorial Reviews

11/22/2021

Hall, the “Chief Storytelling Officer” at Success magazine, follows up Stories That Stick with an exhaustive guide to reimagining and rescripting “self-stories” that may have kept readers from progressing in their lives. She defines self-stories as often subconscious thought patterns designed to protect the thinker, but which can often be critical or limiting, and breaks down how to dismantle these “habits” of thought by addressing what she calls internal “tip-of-the-iceberg” statements, such as “I’ve got a good job, that’s enough” or “I’ll never be an entrepreneur,” which allow “glimpses into the larger stories that steer our life.” Hall lists steps (and sub-steps) to rewrite these narratives, such as “choose a story that serves you” and “insert stories at trigger moments,” bolstered by examples of clients who have used her steps to redesign their lifestyles, finances, and relationships. In a book about stories, Hall walks the fine line of sharing too many; toward the end, she weaves together so many client examples that readers may lose the thread. In true storyteller fashion, Hall leaves nothing left unsaid, for better or for worse. Agent: Kathy Schneider, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

When I look back on my life and the risks I've taken, so many of them were possible because I chose to tell myself stories that encouraged me to fearlessly take the next step. Choose Your Story, Change Your Life is the missing piece for anyone who has felt stuck and isn't exactly sure why. Look no further than the stories you're choosing to tell yourself.

Rebecca Minkoff

Choose Your Story, Change Your Life will leave you asking yourself, 'What story am I telling myself here and does it serve me?' A radical approach to self-talk and personal perspective, Kindra Hall's digestible storytelling process teaches you how to find, edit, and ultimately use the stories you already have inside of you to redefine and uplevel your finances, relationships, business and life.

Award-Winning Host of the Redefining Wealth Podcas Patrice Washington

I am successful because years ago, I took control of my own story. Choose Your Story, Change Your Life will show you how to create a powerful story for yourself that inspires and engages others from the inside out.

Ryan Serhant

If you've ever sensed that the thing holding you back from achieving greatness isn't entirely an outside obstacle — that maybe there's something inside of you keeping you tethered to where you are, you're not wrong. In Choose Your Story, Change Your Life, Kindra Hall takes the power of storytelling to a whole new place — inside our own minds — and shows how the key to success has been within us all along.

NYT bestselling author Get Out of Your Own Way Dave Hollis

My entire business is focused on helping people achieve their physical health goals and I see the lessons in Choose Your Story, Change Your Life play out in real time every single day. People who choose to tell themselves stories that fuel their motivation and belief in what they're capable of, are far more likely to achieve their health goals than those who don't. This book will change lives.

Autumn Calabrese

As a therapist, I know how powerful the stories we create about ourselves can be. Choose Your Story, Change Your Life teaches us how to change our narrative. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to create a different path for themselves.

Bestselling author of 13 Things Mentally Strong Pe Amy Morin

Kindra Hall is a master storyteller and knows how to tap into the power that stories have to inspire and transform. In Choose Your Story, Change Your Life, Kindra shows us how to spot the hidden stories behind our behaviors and how to write all new scripts for any part of our lives.

international bestselling author of The 5 Second R Mel Robbins

Whether you're looking to make improvements in your health, your business, your family or your finances, this is the book that will make it happen. Kindra lays out a simple process for big changes and keeps readers entertained the whole way through.

People Editor at SUCCESS magazine Tristan Ahumada

The greatest enemy we have sometimes is the pessimistic co-pilot flying in the cockpit of our minds. Kindra's new book shows you how to eject that co-pilot and put you back in control of your mind and life so you can reach your desired destinations.

CEO The Identity Shift Anthony Trucks

Kindra Hall is one of the best storytellers in the world, but her true calling is in her ability to teach others how simple and empowering it is to share their own experiences. Choose Your Story, Change Your Life is the written guide to something I've witnessed her do in person countless times: Show people who they really are and how their uniqueness can make a positive impact on others.

Editor-in-Chief SUCCESS Magazine Josh Ellis

Kindra has built an amazing career teaching people about the power of telling stories. In this inspiring book she will help you write the most important one of all—the one you tell yourself!

New York Times bestselling author of Take the Stai Rory Vaden

In this excellent audiobook, storytelling expert Kindra Hall speaks to individuals whose inner stories or scripts are limiting how they live and what they strive for in their lives. She narrates with the energetic pacing of a confident business consultant who wants to be helpful. Her performance bonds listeners with her message that we can live more fulfilling lives once we examine inner stories that are not affirming or empowering. With insights from neuroscience and social psychology, she offers practical strategies for staying in touch with these inner scripts and changing them when they are out of sync with our aspirations. Lifted by her clear voice and faith in her ideas, this is powerful advice on how to rewrite the road maps we’ve been following. T.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2022 - AudioFile

In this excellent audiobook, storytelling expert Kindra Hall speaks to individuals whose inner stories or scripts are limiting how they live and what they strive for in their lives. She narrates with the energetic pacing of a confident business consultant who wants to be helpful. Her performance bonds listeners with her message that we can live more fulfilling lives once we examine inner stories that are not affirming or empowering. With insights from neuroscience and social psychology, she offers practical strategies for staying in touch with these inner scripts and changing them when they are out of sync with our aspirations. Lifted by her clear voice and faith in her ideas, this is powerful advice on how to rewrite the road maps we’ve been following. T.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2022 - AudioFile