Here is the recommendation. Give it a try.
You are sitting in an unassuming corner of the room and allowing everyone else to talk.
You wait for a pause in the conversation, and then, in a quiet voice — but loud enough to be heard — say, “I have a story to tell you.”
That’s the secret.
Telling a good story. That’s all you have to do to make that favorable first impression. You will capture their attention.
Keeping control is another matter. It will depend on the strength of your story and the skill and generosity with which you tell it.
Tell the story well, but don’t perform it. Tell it with great care, great involvement, great vulnerability, and great sensuality.
The story shouldn’t be like a spotlight shining on you; it should be like a gift you’re giving the listeners.
Giving gifts is how you take over the room, and the best gifts are stories.
The reason that stories are so appealing is that you can transport customers into the story and give your message more meaning.
Here are 12 ways to create a story that will permit you to hold onto that favorable impression that you have captured.
Your story components
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your story.
Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development.
Resolve your themes, mysteries, and so on in the final third, the resolution.
Use your experience
To tell great stories, examine your life for times, places, and perspectives nobody else had. Where do you find material for storytelling?
Draw from your experiences and look inside yourself. Rely on what you know and draw from it. Capture a thought, truth from your experience, and express values from deep down in your core.
When you tell about these experiences, make it is as if your audience were there.
Good stories are largely an act of curation. The greats detect stories as they move through life and then pull them together in ways that make us stop and think. In ways, that inspire.
Whenever you tell this story, speak authentically, from the heart. Don’t worry about what people will think.
Whether you swear like a sailor or are as clean-cut as they come, whether you are reserved and quiet or as intense as a Navy SEAL instructor, use your personality and style whenever you share your message.
Employ a strong theme
A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.
The theme is often not stated directly in the story, but it is the essence or the core idea at the story root.
A clear sense of your theme or controlling idea keeps you from trying to throw too many ideas into one story.
Create, challenge, or conflict
Good stories are about challenge or conflict.
Without these elements, stories aren’t very interesting. In its most basic form, a story is about someone who wants something, and either gets it or does not.
That character’s desire brings out the conflict that moves a story forward. The appearance of the conflict is the beginning; the resolution is its ending.
The compelling part of a story is how people deal with conflict–-so start with the people and the conflict.
Make it hard to separate the challenges from the characters.
