142: Donald Miller - "I Will Make You Everyone's Favorite Leader"

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🗓️ 17 July 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Episode 142: Donald Miller - "I Will Make You Everyone's Favorite Leader"

Donald Miller is a student of story. He's the author of New York Times Best Sellers: "Blue Like Jazz," "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years," and "Scary Close." He co-wrote the major motion picture "Blue Like Jazz" which debuted at the SXSW Film Festival and was listed as one of the top four movies to get you through freshman year by USA Today. He has served on The Presidential Task Force for Fatherhood and Healthy Families, a joint effort between government and the private sector to rewrite the story of fatherlessness in America. Donald Miller is a 3 time NY Times best-selling author. He has worked on Presidential campaigns, and now he helps people clearly and concisely tell their stories through live events and at StoryBrand.com

Episode 142: Donald Miller - "I'm Will Make You Everyone's Favorite Leader"

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"We don't want to react to life. We want to impose our will upon life."

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Having the ability to focus like Michael Hyatt and Bob Goff leads to sustained excellence
The importance of writing it down
Creating a filter to say "No"
The process for creating your story -- "If you confuse, you lose"
The 7 storybrand rules that Jeb Bush broke
People want to hear "their" story, not yours
Passing the "laptop to a caveman" test
Your website should answer 3 questions:
- What are you offering?
- How does it make my life better?
- How do I buy?
The top right quadrant is the most important part of your website
The 2 dominant things your brain does
- Survive and thrive
- Tries to conserve energy
The 7 parts of a story: 1) Character 2) A problem 3) A guide 4) A plan 5) The action 6) Ends in success 7) Or failure
Why "Make America Great Again" is a fantastic slogan
"Every human being is looking for a guide to help them"
Why empathy and authority are needed
"I know how to make you the leader that everyone loves" -- What are the 3 steps to making you the leader that everyone loves
Make everyone think: "What will my life be if I don't subscribe to your podcast?"

"I'm going to make you everyone's favorite leader."

Continue Learning:

Go To: storybrand.com
Follow Donald on Twitter: @donaldmiller
Go to: 5minutemarketingmakeover.com
To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12

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Donald Miller is a 3 time NY Times best-selling author. He has worked on Presidential campaigns, and now he helps people clearly and concisely tell their stories through live events and at StoryBrand.com

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0:00.0	Every time that you try to communicate something to somebody you are handing them a bowling ball
0:07.7	If I hand you a bowling ball Ryan it's heavy right and it's slick It's kind of hard to hang on to. And then I want to communicate something else. I'm going to hand you a second bowling ball. Now you've got two bowling balls. You have one and the cradle of each arm. Now I'm going to hand you a third and you've got to bring your fingertips together and they're kind of strained and your muscles are kind of strained because you've been holding these two bowling balls for a little bit.
0:28.0	Now I'm going to hand you a fourth bowling ball.
0:30.0	When I needed that fourth bowling ball, you're going to drop all four bowling balls and walk away.
0:36.1	So what we want to understand is hand people one bowling ball at a time.
0:41.0	We paint all kinds of ish. I will make you everybody's favorite leader. Then after
0:47.0	a while when they put the bowling ball down and they understand it and they process it, hand
0:50.9	them another one. Then later you can hand them another one. But when we
0:55.6	hand them all the bowling balls at once it doesn't work. Our leaders born or
1:00.6	are they made. Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work
1:06.5	on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.
1:10.9	Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success. You're listening to the Learning Leader
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