So I'm standing on top of this hill at six in the morning in a preaching position.
My posture is speaking towards a large crowd.
Six in the morning it's dark out and I'm standing on top of a mountain.
I feel like I feel amazing.
I feel very powerful.
And then I hear something and I look over.
I bet you want to know the rest of the story, right?
Well, first we got to go back.
Over the past couple weeks I've been studying storytelling, especially...
Actually, let's go back because over the summer is when I really started to look into entrepreneurship
and I actually wanted to look into how to get rich, how to make money and all that stuff,
how to make a business.
I had to start...
I stumbled across a book called Expert Secrets and in that book he basically said that storytelling
is the key.
Like that's basically it.
I didn't know it at the time.
I kept on reading the book because I was like, oh, good, good, good.
I didn't notice that storytelling was the key.
And fast forward I start a podcast because of that book and then I start a YouTube channel,
TikTok, all that stuff.
And I was practicing my storytelling.
I was practicing my ability to record.
And fast forward even further to two weeks ago when I started to realize that it is all
about storytelling.
Literally, the best YouTubers are the best storytellers.
MrBeast, like the best YouTuber on the planet, well, he's just the best storyteller.
He tells the best stories.
He has the best storytelling ability.
So I'm studying storytelling.
I'm looking up how to tell stories.
One of the best books to read on storytelling.
And I read a book and I'm already starting another book and I realized I got to practice.
So I'm practicing.
I start practicing more on the YouTube channel and the podcast and then I realized like, oh,
I learned in one of the books it's really good to just speak out loud.
Literally just start talking to yourself and tell yourself a story.
So I'm like, okay, I can do that.
And I actually started doing that a little bit before I read that in the book.
Just kind of like, I thought that was good practice to do that on my walks.
But now I'm doing a lot more consciously and I'm doing it during my workouts.
And I work out outside.
It's like, I started like five in the morning and I go to the park and work out.
It's like a children's park.
And then there's also like a big sled hill.
It's a really tall hill that you can climb up.
And so in the middle of the workout, once I'm done with my set, I run.
I run all the way over on top of the hill.
And then I practice storytelling.
And I'm just like telling my story and I feel amazing.
Like I actually feel super powerful.
I feel super cool.
And I'm looking down and I can see like the highway off in the distance, all the cars
zooming by at six in the morning.
And I can, I see like all the lights and all of the street lights.
And I'm just looking down at my audience.
And I say audience because it's just like a bunch of grass.
I'm looking down at the grass and practicing giving like a sermon or giving a speech.
And it just felt really cool.
And I completely forgot about that.
Or at least I didn't really think much of it at the time.
It was just me practicing.
Until I, until this specific point in my daily routine, it's called my daily story work.
And I originally heard it from a Hamza video.
He said that in a book that he read called Story Worthy, which is a storytelling book.
I have not read it.
He said, one of the actual steps in that book is to basically sit down at the end of the
day, every day, and try and think of a story that happened that day.
And so I was like, oh, that's a good idea.
And I started doing that.
And yesterday I was like, I was trying to think like, what's a good story?
And usually I just go through my daily routine because my days are all the same.
I basically do the same thing at the same time every single day.
So it's pretty easy, but also not so easy to find a story.
My method is I basically just go through the entire day and recall everything in the order
of events because I memorized my routine.
So I'm like, oh, what did I do while I was lifting weights?
What did I do while I was on a walk?
Was there anything that happened?
And on yesterday I wrote down, oh, I remember that I kind of gave a nice, I told a nice
story to nobody at six in the morning.
That's a cool story to tell.
And it never would have happened if I didn't start being conscious about the stories that
I told.
It's something that I'm very grateful because honestly storytelling and getting into storytelling
has begun to change my life.
It's already completely revolutionized every aspect of my life.
And I'm really grateful that I started doing it and really started taking it seriously.
And I'm only on day 13 of doing that daily story practice.
So tonight I'm pretty sure is the 14th day, so two weeks in of doing that daily story
practice.