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By Dr. Basil Springer<\/p>

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. \u2013 Ecclesiastes 3:1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Just over six months ago while chatting casually with some of my Marketplace Excellence (MPE) colleagues, it was suggested that after decades of a traditional business presentation format, my column should now pivot to more of a storytelling style which captures interesting events from my many experiences in life and in business. I was quite content with my style and feedback over the decades and adopted the approach \u201cif it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it!\u201d<\/p>

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In researching this potential storytelling shift, several things were revealed. Storytelling is (1) the oldest way to deliver a message; (2) one of the marketing world\u2019s new darlings; and (3) hailed as the single most powerful communication skill for the immediate future.<\/p>

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These revelations put things in a new perspective. Will I be able to sustain this change and will it be beneficial to all concerned? Well, time will tell.<\/p>\n

Just over a week ago, my partner Judy and I resumed our daily habit of systematically reading aloud and discussing chapters from a book of mutual interest as part of our companionship lifestyle. I do not know why we stopped for a while, but it seemed to coincide with the COVID-19 pandemic. The benefits of this habit created interesting conversational topics, but it often introduced beneficial changes in our lifestyle patterns. If it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it!<\/p>

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The book she chose on resumption was \u201cSoul Food: Stories to Nourish the Spirit and the Heart\u201d by Jack Kornfield & Christina Feldman. The first chapter of the book reads: \u201cThe priceless gift of any story lies in its power to spark a fire into our imagination. A great story has the capacity to transcend the boundaries of our personal world and introduce the universality of human experience.\u201d We were happy to continue our habit.<\/p>\n

I remember as a teenager, I was transfixed by bedtime reading of the \u201cJust William\u201d 39-book series of children\u2019s short stories about the young schoolboy William Brown, authored by Richmal Crompton and published between 1922 and 1970.
\nMy own children\u2019s bedtime reading patterns are less vivid probably because I often fell asleep before they did. But many young children feel more satisfaction turning in once they have had their storytelling nightcap. Storytelling transcends generations. If it ain\u2019t broke don\u2019t fix it.<\/p>

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The above three examples, on columns, companionship and comfort transcend generations.<\/p>

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There are other examples in life where we might not want to fix it. For example, when to undergo a medical operation, abandon your 30-year-old car, replace your computer or phone, or change your business model. However, upon further examination we must take other factors into consideration to optimize our condition.<\/p>\n

And when we do depart from the adage, perhaps we should be guided by another formula \u2013 the Sequential Evolutionary Approach (SEA), which states that as we journey through life \u201cthe intelligence gained at any step along the journey, fashions the size and direction of the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is relevant to all of us for each step that we take each day.<\/p>\n

I am pleased that I yielded to the counsel to start fixing it.<\/p>\n

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