La Divina Commedia (2)

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La Divina Commedia (2) Creating the life and career you love in the Second Half of Life By Peter de Kuster with Falco Valkenburg Tell the Story about Your Dreams Roberto Benigni’s Tutti Dante What’s the story about your dream? For some that’s an easy question to answer. Maybe you’ve spent years, even decades, nurturing deep within you the spark of an idea for a business or a new career. Or perhaps you’ve always had a fully developed fantasy vision of what you wished your life and work could be. Late at night when you can’t sleep you draw solace from your dream. At times when your real world is frustrating or demoralizing, you look inward to your dream for the strength to go on. “one day I’ll give this all up and write that novel I’ve been thinking about for years”. You may think. Others don’t have a fully developed dream. Instatd of having complete stories of your fantasy life, you may have an abstract sense of what you want. Maybe it’s less a matter of what you want than what you don’t want.

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La  Divina  Commedia  (2)  Creating  the  life  and  career  you  love  in  the  Second  Half  of  Life  By  Peter  de  Kuster  with  Falco  Valkenburg      

     Tell  the  Story  about  Your  Dreams  Roberto  Benigni’s  Tutti  Dante      What’s  the  story  about  your  dream?    For  some  that’s  an  easy  question  to  answer.  Maybe  you’ve  spent  years,  even  decades,  nurturing  deep  within  you  the  spark  of  an  idea  for  a  business  or  a  new  career.  Or  perhaps  you’ve  always  had  a  fully  developed  fantasy  vision  of  what  you  wished  your  life  and  work  could  be.  Late  at  night  when  you  can’t  sleep  you  draw  solace  from  your  dream.  At  times  when  your  real  world  is  frustrating  or  demoralizing,  you  look  inward  to  your  dream  for  the  strength  to  go  on.  “one  day  I’ll  give  this  all  up  and  write  that  novel  I’ve  been  thinking  about  for  years”.    You  may  think.      Others  don’t  have  a  fully  developed  dream.  Instatd  of  having  complete  stories  of  your  fantasy  life,  you  may  have  an  abstract  sense  of  what  you  want.  Maybe  it’s  less  a  matter  of  what  you  want  than  what  you  don’t  want.      

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   The  storytelling  process  is  important    Whether  you’ve  a  full  blueprint  story  of  your  dream  or  just  a  vague  notion,  to  launch  the  Divina  Commedia  that  will  make  it  a  reality,  you  need  to  define  it  clearly  and  simply.  We  think  the  best  way  to  do  that  is  to  tell  a  great  story  about  it.      The  idea  here  is  to  go  through  stages  that  reveal  your  story  what  it  is  you  want  to  do  with  your  life  and  then  enable  you  to  tell  in  it  a  story  as  specific  and  powerful  as  possible.    Roberto  Benigni,  famous  for  La  Vita  e  Bella  will  be  our  guide  on  this  part  of  the  journey.    The  first  stage  looks  at  your  dream  or  dreams  from  slightly  different  perspectives  in  an  effort  to  give  you  a  number  of  different  views  of  your  story.  By  looking  at  your  passions,  your  strengths,  your  interests  you  may  be  able  to  tell  a  powerful  story  what  it  is  you  truly  want.  The  remaining  two  stages  help  frame  your  dream  in  a  as  powerful  story  as  possible.  By  telling  a  powerful  story  of  your  dream  we’ll  make  it  much  more  easier  to  achieve.    

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   Telling  a  powerful  story  which  is  authentic,  matches  your  dreams  and  gives  you  everyday  the  energy  to  work  at  it  will  engage  you  and  will  move  others.    Tell  about  your  PASSIONS      Tell  your  story  about  what  the  things  are  you  feel  passionately  about?  Write  them  down.  Don’t  worry  about  their  practicality  or  their  potential  to  generate  income.  We’re  not  building  the  whole  story  here,  just  pouring  a  foundation.  Don’t  start  defending  yourself  to  your  critics  or  planning  ways  to  defeat  obstacles.  Give  free  rein  to  your  feelings.  Get  a  thrill  of  travel?  Love  to  watch  movies  each  and  every  day?  Enjoy  writing  do  you?  Put  it  on  the  list.      Next,  tell  your  story  about  the  places  you  are  passionate  about.  Don’t  limit  yourself  to  places  you’ve  lived  or  even  visited.  Don’t  feel  they  need  to  be  specific  geographic  places.  Do  you  just  love  to  be  in  a  bookstore?  A  fitness  gym?  Your  sportscar?  Write  it  down.  Love  the  palpable  sense  of  energy  and  excitement  at  a  movie  theater  when  the  curtain  is  about  to  go  up?  List  it.    Think  back  at  the  times  when  you  felt  the  best  about  yourself.  When  the  time  flew  by.  Don’t  focus  on  just  milestones  events.  Really  tell  the  stories  about  activities  you  loved  to  do  and  were  completely  engaged  in.  What      

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   were  you  doing?  Where  were  you?  Who  were  you  with?  It  could  be  riding  a  bicycle.  Or  writing  a  story.  Of  telling  your  story  on  a  stage.      Finally.  Imagine  you  have  won  the  lottery  and  you  have  all  the  money  in  the  world.  What  would  you  buy  for  a  life  with  that  money.  Which  material  stuff?  A  home  in  Italy?  A  new  Jaguar?  More  hair  on  your  head?  Then  note  all  the  great  things  you  would  do  with  your  money:  endow  a  scholarship  for  creative  kids,  buy  your  mother  a  new  house.  Express  all  your  giving  stories.  Have  you  had  fun?  You  have  still  millions  of  euro’s  extra.  What  would  you  do  for  yourself.  All  this  fantasy  money  gives  you  the  chance  to  buy  you’ve  always  wanted  to  lead.  Maybe  there’s  a  location  where  you’ve  always  wanted  to  live.  A  book  you  wanted  to  write  in  the  sun.    Take  a  few  days  to  look  back  at  your  story.  Read  it  over  and  over.  Look  for  common  threads  and  motives  in  your  story.  Don’t  belittle  any  of  your  passions,  discount  nothing.      Answer  then  these  two  questions:      

• What  do  I  want?  • How  will  I  know  when  I  get  it?  

 

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   Are  you  ready  for  your  journey?    Take  a  look  at  your  story.  What’s  your  story  to  seeing  this  simple,  yet  powerful  tale  of  your  deepest  held  dream?    It  could  be  you’re  excited,  thrilled  at  the  possibility  of  the  glorious  life  that  lies  in  store  for  you.  You  may  feel  empowered,  ready  to  climb  mountains  and  battle  monsters  to  reach  your  long-­‐dreamed  goal.    On  the  other  hand,  it  could  be  you’re  now  convinced  you  can’t  possibly  do  this.  What  you’re  experiencing  is  stage  fright.  It  happens  to  lots  of  people.    You  have  a  choice.  You  can  give  in  to  your  stage  fright,  put  this  guide  of  Florence  down,  and  go  back  to  the  life  you’re  currently  leading.  Nobody  will  know.  You’ll  be  exactly  where  you  were  when  you  started  reading.  Your  dream  life  will  remain  locked  deep  within  you,  a  path  never  taken,  a  chance  never  seized.  It  will  remain,  like  all  fantasies,  perfect.  But  it  will  still  be  a  fantasy.    Or,  you  can  move  to  the  next  phase  of  your  Divina  Commedia  journey.  You  can  take  the  leap  of  faith.  You  can  step  up  like  Dante  to  confront  the  hell  first.  We  need  to  warn  you:  Your  dream  life  will  no  longer  be  perfect.  You’ll  

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be  faced  with  having  to  make  choices  in  order  to  reach  your  goals.  But,  in  the  end  your  dream  life  will  be  real.      Roberto  Benigni  once  said:  “There  is  the  risk  you  cannot  afford  to  take,  and  there  is  the  risk  you  cannot  afford  not  to  take”.  Creating  a  life  and  work  you  love  in  the  second  half  of  life  –  your  Divina  Commedia  –  is  a  risk  you  cannot  afford  not  to  take  because  the  payoff  is  so  enormous.  “Uno  spettacolo  memorabile”.  Your  life  story.