David Krueger, MD Executive Mentor Coach

LIVE A NEW LIFE STORY™
THE OWNERS GUIDE
The Art and Science of Change, Reinvention, and Success

David Krueger MD

What is LIVE A NEW LIFE STORY™ THE OWNERS GUIDE

• A Book
  Ten Modules present the principles, methods, and case illustrations to mentor new life, money, career, and relationship stories. 305 page book includes Live a New Life Story™ Glossary.
• A Workbook
  An annotated guide to the application of change using 68 New Life Story™ proprietary tools, exercises, and quizzes.
• The ROADMAP™ Program
  7 Steps to Live a New Life Story™. A philosophy, plan, and techniques to change beliefs, behaviors, and performance.
• A Complete Curriculum
  The program to train and mentor New Life Story Coaches™

• Learn the master plan for writing the next chapter of your life or business story.
• Apply a comprehensive philosophy to transform your mind and brain.
• Implement the latest psychology and neuroscience research to strategically change belief, behavior, and performance.
• Maximize new coaching techniques for mindset changes.
• Harness the power of regulating and accessing states of mind for optimum success.
• Demystify and defuse obstacles to achieving and sustaining success.
• Develop the art and science of success strategies: mind over matters.

Live a New Life Story™ The Owner's Guide integrates insights from psychoanalysis and neuroscience with strategic coaching to mentor life story transformation.

Live a New Life Story™ shows how to assess a life story plot, master the inevitable changes, and craft a new story. The structured programs in this manual will systematically guide the transformation of life, money, relationship, and career, and wellness stories.

LIVE A NEW LIFE STORY™
THE OWNER'S GUIDE

The Art and Science of Change, Reinvention, and Success

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHANGE

Module 1. STORY AND STORY ASSESSMENT

Step One. Recognize Authorship of Your Story

1. The Power of Story
1. Experiences are consistent with assumptions
2. Beliefs become reality
3. Live in the present moment
2. The Story Takes over the Author
3. The Story Ghostwritten by the Brain

Step Two. Own Your Story

1. Storylines That Define
2. Storyline Motivations and Assumptions

Step Three. Assess the Storylines and Plot

1. Ideals Assessment
2. Needs Assessment
3. Understand Conflicted and Contradictory Storylines
4. Recognize Active versus Passive Positions
5. Listen to Your Self-Statements
6. Listen for Repetitions of the Old Story
7. Listen to Your Body

Workbook Tools

• Calibrating Intuition
• Step One. Recognize Authorship of Your Story
• Step Two. Own Your Story
• Step Three. Assess the Storylines and Plot
• Distinguish and Address Ideals
• Distinguish and Address Needs
• Ideals and Needs Decision Tree
• 5 Phase Plot Outline
• Life's Ground Rules: Paradoxes and Antipodes in Story Construction

Module 2. Change and Change Evaluation

Step Four: Decide What to Change

1. Four Basic Inquiries for Story Evaluation
2. The Psychology of Change
3. The Neuroscience of Change
4. Principles of Change
5. Assessment for Change
1. Personal Feedback Questionnaire
2. Compromise Inventory and Resolution Schedule
6. Establish a Context for Change
1. Neutrality
2. Empathy
3. Insight and Understanding
7. Reflections to Understand and Revise your Storylines
8. Before, During, and After Story Components

Step Five: Map Changes

1. Steps to Edit your Life Story
2. Steps to Revise a Storyline
3. Change Only What Doesn't Work
4. Resistance to Story Ownership

Workbook Tools

• Step Four: Decide What to Change
• 4 Basic Inquiries for Storyline Evaluation
• Personal Feedback Questionnaire
• Compromises Inventory and Resolution Schedule
• 15 Reflections to Understand Your Storylines
• Deconstruct a Concern (To see what it teaches you)
• Step Five: Map Changes
• 14 Steps to Edit Your Life Story
• 5 Steps to Revise a Storyline
• 18 Caveats on How to Avoid Story Ownership and Change

Module 3. Guide to Lasting Change

Step Six. Author New Experiences

1. Live a New Life Story Coaching™
2. Getting Out of the Box
3. The Basic Coaching Model
4. A Dozen Basic Tenets of Coaching
5. Coaching Interactions
6. Strategic Goal Pursuit: SMART Goals and Life Mission Statement
7. Success Insurance for Completing Goals
8. Eleven Steps to Ignite Change

Step Seven. Program New Identity to Incorporate and Sustain the Changes

1. Twelve Basic Principles for Change and Transformation
2. Thirty-two Guidelines to Further Life Story Change
3. Creating a Vision

Workbook Tools

• Step Six: Author New Experiences
• Strategic Goal Pursuit
• Success Insurance for Completing Goals
• 11 Steps to Ignite Change
• Step Seven: Program New Identity to Incorporate and Sustain Changes
• 12 Basic Principles of Change and Transformation
• 32 Guidelines to Further Life Story Change
• Creating a Vision


2. TRANSFORMATION

Module 4. Master States of Mind

1. Understanding States of Mind
1. Access to Mind States
2. Continuity of Self
3. Establish Self-Empathy
4. Self-Reflection
5. Let Go of the Past
6. Construct a Present Context
2. How to Regulate States of Mind
1. How Do You Feel? A Structured Inquiry
2. Regulation of Feelings and States
3. How to Get Centered in Your Body and Experience
4. Management of State-Specific Issues: Blocks, Chokes, and Slumps
5. Listen to Body Stories

Workbook Tools:

• Regulating States of Mind
• A Structured Inquiry to Recognize Feelings
• A 5-Step Structured Inquiry to Recognize and Communicate Feelings (Karla: Eliminate this line)
• A Grounding and Centering Exercise
• A Brief On-Your-Feet Grounding Exercise

Module 5. Advancing the New Plot

1. Self Statements
1. Listen; Learn; Own
2. Your Story Becomes Your Life
3. Become Your Own Authority
4. Review and Revise Belief Systems
2. Further the Plot
1. Pick Your Spots: What You Engage and What You Don't
2. Editing and Enhancing Your Choices
3. An Exercise to Structure Positive Focus
4. Authoring the Set of Stories Called Self
5. Creating Time and Keeping Power

Workbook Tools

• 15 Caveats on Being Your Own Authority
• An Exercise in Authoring Your Own Reality
• Review and Revise Belief Systems
• Making Choices: Inquiries for Beginning a New Story
• An Exercise to Structure Positive Focus


3. SUCCESS APPLICATION

Module 6. Your New Money Story™

1. Assess and Understand Your Money Story
1. Your Money Story
1. A Money Quiz
2. Money Quiz Discussion
3. Can You Make and Enjoy Money?
4. An Exercise for Awareness of Your Money Story
2. Symbolic and Emotional Meanings of Money
3. The Psychology of Money
4. The Neuroscience of Money
2. Revising the Text of a Money Story
1. Your Money Mission Statement
2. Plot a New Money Story™

Workbook Tools

• A Money Quiz and Discussion
• Can You Make and Enjoy Money?
• An 11-Step Exercise for Awareness of Your Money Story
• Your Money Mission Statement
• 7 Techniques to Plot a New Money Story™

Module 7. Your New Career Story

1. Core Value Investing in Your Career
1. Meanings and Value of work
2. Value-based Goal Setting
2. Career Enhancement
1. 18 Career Enhancement Caveats
2. Systems and Leadership
3. Creative Criticism and Problem Solving
4. Career Assessment: Core Values, Goals, Changes, Obstacles
3. Optional Career Tracks
1. Identify and Remedy Work Addiction
2. Why Managers Succeed and Fail
3. Common Managerial Problems and Strategies
4. Recovery from Job Loss

Workbook Tools

• 18 Career-Enhancement Caveats
• A Systematic Method for Reviewing and Solving Problems
• Career Assessment: Core Values, Goals, Changes, Obstacles
• Work Addiction: Self-Evaluation Questions + Remedies
• Common Managerial Problems and Strategies

Module 8. Your New Relationship Story

1. Communication 101
1. Communication and Connection
1. Maxims of Communication
2. Steps of Communication
2. Information Processing and Communication Facilitation
3. Illuminate Hidden Assumptions
4. Articulate Implicit Contracts
5. Respect and Communicate Different Points of View
6. Transference in Relationships
2. Relationship Facilitation 201
1. 12 Relationship Principles
2. Master Storylines of Money, Power and Gender
3. Reminders in Your Relationship
4. The Us Story
5. A Relationship Story Exercise
6. Leadership Based on Relationship

Workbook Tools

• Communication and Connection: Maxims and Steps
• Information Processing Exercise
• 12 Relationship Principles
• Recognize the Place of Assumptions about Money, Power, and Gender
• A Relationship Story Exercise

Module 9. Live Your New Success Story

1. Success: Desire and Obstacle
1. Patterns of New Learning: Four Phases
2. B. Evaluate and Address Five Types of Resistance to Change
2. Success Phobias
1. Forms of Success Phobia
2. Questionnaire: Are You Afraid of Success?
3. Special Issues of Success
1. Success and Women
1. Early Models of Success
2. Career Choices
3. Money and Gender
4. Midlife Issues
5. Success Self-Inquiry for Women
2. Success and Men
1. Competition Model
2. Success Self-Inquiry for Men
3. Success Intoxication: Recognition and Prevention
4. Evolving a Success Story
1. Life's Ground Rules, Part II
2. Your Life Story: Good News/Bad News
3. A Self-Coaching Summary with Exercises

Workbook Tools

• Are You Afraid of Success?
• Success Self-Inquiry for Women
• Success Self-Inquiry for Men
• Success Intoxication: Recognition and Prevention
• Life's Ground Rules, Part II: 30 Essential Caveats of Successful Being
• Your Life Story: Good News / Bad News
• A Self-Coaching Summary
• Paradoxes Inherent in the Process of Growth
• 6-Step Action Plan for Achieving Goals
• Possibility Thinking
• 18-Step New Life Story Growth Plan
• 11 Maxims of Sustained Growth

Module 10. Your New Wellness Story™

1. The Wellness Revolution
1. Wellness Defined
2. Wellness as Choice
3. The Wellness System of Energy
2. Authoring Your New Wellness Story™
1. The Mindset of Wellness
2. Why Is Change So Difficult?
3. An Application of Change
4. Brain Programming for Wellness

Workbook Tools

• Wellness Defined
• The Wellness System of Energy
• The Mindset of Wellness
• Identify Body Language
• Wellness Initiatives
• Wellness Mind Mapping
• Why Is Change So Difficult?
• Brain Programming for Wellness
• Wellness Focus and Visualization

Addendum

1. Client Information Packet
2. Case Study: An Application of Live a New Life Story in an Unlikely Setting
3. Little Things Count

Life Story Glossary

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