How to write your personal story to attract, lead and inspire

when I was nine years old I drew up a 20-year plan because I had a dream so I drew up a 20-year plan and that plan was to be the best safety in the whole world and I had 20 years to do it okay so achieve that 1984 became the best safety in the world and I made up a new plan so now I started that at nine and now on 29 so a 29 the new plan is I'm going to be the best stage performer of my time okay so I study and I train for the next 15 years and guess what happens the New York Times names my play the play that I wrote the play that I'm the only one in called run to the litter the most powerful play of the last decade okay so that one happened so then I made up another one at 49 so at 9 best safety 29 best stage performer best playwright 49 best speaker i speaker in the world okay so walking on that one right that one's in the works this is what I want you to get from this I was talking some kids the other day and I showed them my 20 year plan the one I drew up when I was 9 years old and it's written on school paper and I'll show it to you one day anyway so I'm showing it to these kids it's you know high school kids I'm showing them the plan so they start making it for themselves and these kids inform me that that piece of paper is 44 years old my 20 year plan now is 44 years old I'm 53 so that piece of paper is 43 years old it's like the Declaration of Independence so I started thinking about that I have spent 44 years out of my 53 years dedicated in this space of being the best turning myself into being the best at you know three or four different disciplines completely different disciplines you know playing in the NFL and and being a playwright on Broadway I mean those two just don't go together right so I have spent 44 years of my life dedicated in the space called what it takes to be the best so I started retracing my steps because people said to me I want those kind of results for me I want that those kind of results for my kids I want those kind of results for my for my company and so I retrace my steps and what happened over these 44 years was patterns start to develop they started to reveal themselves methods systems started to reveal themselves to me that I did the same exact things for all of those disciplines so can you imagine you know being the best safety in the world there certain there are certain things you have to do to achieve that right and then to be the the to create the greatest play of the last ten years how are you going to do that you take that same discipline and you just put it right over here and it all translates pretty well I mean there's certain skills that are specific to certain environments that you have to take into account but what what always came back were these systems and these patterns and this is the reason I'm talking on video to you this is the reason I'm going to continue to teach you and to train you and to show you those patterns and those systems so that you can apply them to your own life because it's very simple it's not like it's hard all it is is for one you got to show up you got to show up I mean that's that's the biggest problem people will just don't just won't do they'll quit you know my son he's seven his name's axel he has this dream he drew up a 20-year plan and his dream is to be the is to be playing the NFL and to play in the NBA at the same time so pro athlete in two different sports now that sounds impossible doesn't it but that's not impossible for him he doesn't see it as impossible and I don't really see it as impossible either I see it as going to be he's going to be very hard but he's drawn up the plan he's dreaming of it everyday and he's showing up and doing the work at the age of seven every single day he's got the discipline trained him to have the discipline now the day's going to arrive where they're going to say okay axel now it's your turn and he's going to have to come through for himself on that day so the patterns that I followed he follows the same ones because I know look I know how to be the best in the world and pretty much anything it's all the same thing so I teach him the same thing that I teach you that's what we're going to talk about one thing I want to introduce at the tail end of this video is this every one of those disciplines that I committed to being the best in the world out guess what guess what was constant in every one of those disciplines in every one of those environments guess what one thing that was constant throughout at all and it's constant with my son axel right now it's story his personal story my personal story your personal story is a gigantic piece of you being the best in the world at what you want at you achieving the highest level at whatever discipline you choose your story has got to lead the way you've got to know what it is you've got to know your story from the past you've got a no your's vision of the future like where are you going to take us where are you going to lead us you have to know that story how you see the world you have to know the story of the defining moment which which got you here what is the defining moment that got you to this place right you have to know those things and you have to express that story and that's how people know to help you with your dream to help you with your story you see it I mean so over the course of this video series we're going to be talking about your story we're going to talk about how to develop it how to use it so that you can be just like every other great leader of all time dating all the way back to Julius Caesar and that is is you're going to have to have the ability to tell your own story the number one thing leaders have to have and so for the last 44 years I have been haunted by one thought and that thought was how can I be the best at a thing how can I be the best at a thing and I tell you what happens when you're the best at a thing everybody around you the people that are closest to you they get to be the best too because they go with you most some people will eliminate themselves from you they'll go away from you but the people who are closest to you who really help you with your dream help you protect it and facilitate it they will go with you they'll go straight to the top so you'll find that you committing to being the best actually helps other people to to realize that they're the best - and they can go with you and that's the environment I want to create and that is done through your story you're going to have to tell them your story you're going to tell them the dreams that you have so they know how to make your dreams come true and then in in turn their dreams get to come true that is our job that is our job as human beings on this earth it is to make our dreams and everyone around us dreams come true the best way to do that the best way to do that is have the ability to share yourself the ability to share your vision of where you're going to take them and they will either follow or they will not that is their choice so I'm going to sign off right now I want you to start thinking about your story if we all follow you if we all follow you are you going to be happy with where you lead us are you going to be satisfied with where you're going to take us because I'm going to give you the ability that people are going to follow you people are going to be attracted to you and they're going to listen to you and they're going to follow you are you going to be content with where you're going to take them so you better start thinking about it now you better start thinking about where am i taken my whole life's been dedicated to this I have the scars and the heartache to prove it okay and our leaders going forward in our lifetime are going to be people with scars not these fake leaders that we have today not they're not their fake leaders not real they're unscathed they're perfect they're polished I wouldn't follow them anywhere and neither would you that's why you don't listen to them that's why you don't pay attention to them I like my leaders with a little mud on their face little scar under their eye you know a little blood on the knees those are the people have run the miles for the last 44 years I have stuck my nose into what it takes to be the best now when you stick your nose in there trying to be the best you get a lot of heartache you get beat up you get a lot of surgeries right but that's who's gonna leave okay so you with me you want to lead we've got to find out what your story is we're going to be able to share that thing get out there get out there and lead and you lead with your story right off the bat okay we'll see you next time

Channel: Bo Eason

Views: 52,339

Keywords: Bo Eason (American Football Player), storytelling, personal story, speaker training, Motivational Speaker (Profession), the best

Id: 2viWGn0bECg

Length: 10min 31sec (631 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 24 2014