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3/6/2026 MISSION DRIFT, STORY CREEP AND IMPOSTER SYNDROME

EPISODE 1750

The most common question asked when meeting new people is “So, what do you do?”

That question has been answered, scripted, refined, rehearsed and repeated by tens of millions people in the last century. The answer seems to evolve as careers change, marital status changes, political seasons change, and the library of business cards with the same name tries to keep up with the resume and LinkedIn profile. 

Just be careful to not allow the story creep to impact at the deeper level when not welcome. The story creep will throw out ancient comfort zone stories and corrupt current endeavors. The story creep will also confuse and corrupt - reducing your human-beingness to merely human-doingness. 

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3/4/2026 HOW WILL I KNOW IF I LEAD WELL?

EPISODE 1749

The art, skill and obligation of leadership is to help others to be better. One of the 10 Key Areas of Leadership Development asks the question “Am I taking others higher?”

If the influence you have over others doesn’t lead to them emulating the principles you espouse, that question becomes even more relevant. If you’re not helping to make their decisions more decisive, their options more opportune, and their convictions more choice: you must ask why am I leading?

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2/12/2026 PAIN IS A PRICE TO PAY FOR NEXT LEVEL

EPISODE 1740

One of the saddest things I see in society is the number of people suffering from their own comfort. Gary Brecka says “Aging is the relentless pursuit of comfort.” I coach leaders, trainers, speakers and many other coaches who are baffled by this human phenomena.

It is truly painful to see someone so close to a breakthrough who just won’t take the next step. As a coach or mentor, I can only take you so far.

If you are desperate for transformation there is a price to pay to get to the next level. At some point the pain of staying the same must become a price you’re unwilling to pay. Sadly, that price usually comes as a bill of negative consequence.

Do you want to be well? Pay the price!

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WHAT DOESN’T MATTER WHEN LAUNCHING YOUR VENTURE?

I’ll tell you what doesn’t matter.

- your story

- your passion

- your joy

- your brand

- your reputation

HERE’S WHAT MATTERS:

Do your homework and prepare your plan.

Know what you need and what you plan to do with it.

How can you help?

What do you offer as a solution?

In the end what matters is the people you help, the progress you make, the plan you fulfill. If you do your planning up front, investors, cohorts and collaborators will jump at their chance to participate. Now the other stuff matters.

9 Lessons of Mastery is an great mentorship program to master personal growth to build influence,

(https://j-loren-s-school.thinkific.com/courses) training course to take your own journey to the next level. ”

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IF THE CRISIS WERE OVER IN A FEW SHORT WEEKS, WILL YOU HAVE INVESTED THE TIME? PASSED THE TIME? OR WASTED THE TIME? Most Americans admire or are envious of the European Holiday. Not just the destinations but the 30 days of respite. 30 days to rest, relax, recoup and rejuvenate. 30 days to do what ever you wish. 30 days to unplug from the daily grind. What an incredible opportunity to step out of the rat race and catch your breath. BUT IF you had that time, what would you do with it? Would you go fishing? Take the family on a camping trip? Visit exotic places you have never been? Volunteer to help someone else? Take care of a loved one who is ill? Encourage those who are struggling? Take a class? Read some good books? Watch several educational videos to deepen your understanding? Stare at the television and fill you mind with mush? Watch the never ending news cycle and feast on fear? Escape into video games? Binge watch reruns by the season? SO MANY OPTIONS!! Only so much time. Like life, this season will be over faster than you expect. For some, not soon enough. For others, long before they are prepared. Trust me when I say, the world as it was January 1, 2020 is no longer ours to be enjoyed or endured. Some relationships, industries, business operations, employment opportunities are gone the way of the horse and buggy. Some new ways of coping are on the horizon. Would be heroes are decimated and new ones will take their place. Take heed now!! Invest the time you have now!! Time is not waiting for anyone and if you are not investing this time to prepare for next, you will find yourself in the shadows of a day gone by wondering where it has gone. Watch the video #leadingleaderspodcast 4-14-20. LEADING LEADERS PODCAST with J Loren Norris providing daily leadership video lessons promoting faith, family and freedom for Tell It Like It Is TV . #leadingleaderspodcast #storypower Blog & Online Courses - www.jlorennorris.com/live Copyright 2020 Tell It Like It Is, Inc. All rights reserved.

WEEDS GROW STRONGER WHILE THE GRASS IS DORMANT. HOW DO YOU APPLY THIS METAPHOR TO THE PANDEMIC? Every fall the beautifully manicured lawns of St Augustine grass begin the process of “shutting down for winter.” The grass goes dormant, turns brown, stalls its growth and spreading process in wait for the spring. Meanwhile, all the weeds in the universe seem to migrate to the well watered, healthy soil of the lawn. Surely, weeds can and will grow anywhere!! They grow in the cracks in the sidewalk, the arid desserts, the middle of the road given half a chance. As you apply this truth to the metaphorical areas of your life, ask yourself questions like this: “Did anyone teach me to lie and deceive my parents when I was a toddler?” “Do I have to pursue distractions and random useless thoughts, or do they simply appear against my will?” “Are all of my activities and efforts focused with intention on the goals and dreams I have decided on?” “Do I allow boredom to conquer my desire to live a healthy life?” “Do I cultivate, nourish, irrigate, defend and guard my thoughts and activities like I would a lush but delicate lawn?” “Do I allow ‘weed like’ notions, activities and distractions to rule my time, talent, treasure and attention?” While the world of business activity is dormant due to this global pandemic, don’t allow the weeds to take over. Business will resume. Work will be available. Relationships will be reignited. However, JUST LIKE THE DORMANT LAWN they will all be suffering from an infestation of weeds! Don’t allow the presence of weeds to starve everything you have worked for up to now. Don’t set the grass afire to destroy the weeds. Be prepared to pull the weeds by hand if you must. Get a firm grip and pull them up by the roots!! Watch the video #leadingleaderspodcast 4-13-20 LEADING LEADERS PODCAST with J Loren Norris providing daily leadership video lessons promoting faith, family and freedom for Tell It Like It Is TV . #leadingleaderspodcast #storypower Blog & Online Courses - www.jlorennorris.com/live Copyright 2020 Tell It Like It Is, Inc. All rights reserved.

#STORYPOWER AND PAPER TIGERS: - WHY WOULD A STORY TELLER INVOLVE PAPER TIGERS? - WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF A PAPER TIGER? - CAN YOU GIVE ME AN ILLUSTRATION OF HOW A COMMUNICATOR MIGHT USE A PAPER TIGER? (Listen to the audio) Paper tigers are tools for rhetoric, tools for persuasion, tools for control. A good leader or communicator will have more effective, IMHO more ethical tools. A weak or intentionally misleading communicator or leader relies on the use of paper tigers to “puff up” the veracity and validity of their argument. Action they want or need you to take, behavior they need you to conform to, ideas they need to you carry forward, movements they need you to buy into, all of these are reinforced with a solidly constructed paper tiger. Like any other ruse, camouflage, misdirection or boogeyman, the more convincing the threat, the greater the harm, the bigger the lie, the more likely the masses will believe it and buy in. It is a strange psychological phenomenon! That’s what makes a well constructed paper tiger so dangerous. From a distance, it looks real! The light is just right. The sounds are perfectly in tune. The expectations of the threat so well articulated, even if the tiger never moves... WE ALL JUMP with just the right nudge. THAT’S THE REAL DANGER! ——- OVER REACTION. When people are so tense with emotion that a sneeze will set them off into an anxiety attack or a panicked mob like response, those triggers are no different than yelling FIRE in a crowded theater. High strung, gullible, misled humans are a dangerous lot. (Add a touch of frequency disruption and you can turn a cluster of chai tea sipping soccer moms into a herd of raging wildebeests.) #STORYPOWER will teach about the paper tiger effect and other tools of rhetorical communication like it. Just remember, as a Leadership and communications coach, I focus on preparing the speaker to be worthy of being heard, long before we prepare a speech worth hearing. Watch the video #leadingleaderspodcast 4-10-20 LEADING LEADERS PODCAST with J Loren Norris providing daily leadership video lessons promoting faith, family and freedom for Tell It Like It Is TV . #leadingleaderspodcast #storypower Blog & Online Courses - www.jlorennorris.com/resources #publicspeakingcoach #publicspeakers #ijoinedtoastmastersnowwhat Copyright 2020 Tell It Like It Is, Inc. All rights reserved.

WHAT IS A PAPER TIGER?! WHAT MAKES THEM SO DANGEROUS?! Watch the video #leadingleaderspodcast 4-9-20 The danger of the paper tiger is the loss of perspective, the conjured emotions, the manufactured fear, the intentional manipulation and the nefarious activity going just out of view. The real risk is the danger lurking behind the tiger. Remember the inflatable tanks used during WW2? If not, do some homework! They changed the course of a WORLD WAR!! The ability to mislead, deceive, distract and redirect is a powerful tool for pushing an agenda, waging war and furthering a campaign of any magnitude. Narcissists use paper tigers better than anyone! But governments and large, uncontrollable entities such as drug cartels, the mafia, big tobacco, big pharma and so on have used the same tactics to bend the will of the people for decades. The difference is, there is a certain level of trust embedded in the media at large which makes the tool of communication a paper tiger on its own - whether knowing co-conspirators of useful idiots, you be the judge. When politics, money, power, control and long range plans are at stake, we humans are merely pawns in the game. Be vigilant. Be observant. Ask probing questions. Get uncomfortable with the incredible efforts to make you “comfortable.” Don’t be gullible. Be informed. Don’t be fearful. Be bold. Do not trade liberty for security. When you do, you lose both. And for Heaven’s sake don’t use flame throwers to defeat paper tigers!!! #nomoreflamethrowersforpapertigers LEADING LEADERS PODCAST with J Loren Norris providing daily leadership video lessons promoting faith, family and freedom for Tell It Like It Is TV . #leadingleaderspodcast #storypower Blog & Online Courses - www.jlorennorris.com

ARE YOU AWARE? AWARENESS IS THE KEY TO TRANSFORMATION! “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!!” This is a redneck philosophy which carries a ton of basic common sense. The balance against this philosophy is the idea of incremental improvement other wise known as consistent personal growth. The challenge for the “don’t fix it crowd” is the threat of never improving, growing or addressing the issues which don’t appear broke. The challenge for the”constant improvement crowd” is the threat of perpetual tweaking and the shiny object syndrome. These practices often lead to constant change but not allowing a process to play itself out and prove or disprove the success of the modification. There really are cures which are worse than the illness they address. The are paper tiger slayers who are significantly more dangers than the paper tiger!! AWARENESS IS THE KEY to transformation - sometimes awareness is required to PREVENT a transformation which is ultimately undesirable. LEADING LEADERS PODCAST with J Loren Norris providing daily leadership video lessons promoting faith, family and freedom for Tell It Like It Is TV . #leadingleaderspodcast #storypower Blog & Online Courses - www.jlorennorris.com/resources Copyright 2020 Tell It Like It Is, Inc. All rights reserved.

#STORYPOWER and the RAS - HOW “TIME TRAVEL” IS ACCOMPLISHED EFFECTIVELY. Watch the video #leadingleaderspodcast 4-7-20 Simply speaking, the RAS is like a filter responsible for what thoughts, memories, and stimulus input your conscious mind actual receives and processes. There are certain events in your life which may choose not to recall because they are too painful. There are other memories you wish you could recall, but the details are too fuzzy or vague. There are other memories which commonly come to mind based on someone’s voice, a sound in traffic, or a specific sight. When a good storyteller uses properly placed emotive application of sights, and sounds they can invite you into a moment you haven’t considered in decades. They can also allow you to imagine a moment you have not yet experienced with such intense emotion you will have the sense it is a moment relived. CAUTION: Storytellers who use this approach must be responsible and respectful in this practice because the assumption of reaction can be hurtful. https://www.jlorennorris.com/store/p7/learn-to-roar-communication-audio-download-course.html _______ noun: reticular activating system a diffuse network of nerve pathways in the brainstem connecting the spinal cord, cerebrum, and cerebellum, and mediating the overall level of consciousness. What is the main function of the reticular activating system? The reticular activating system is a short, pencil-sized piece of the brain located just above where the spinal cord is attached to the brain. It acts as the gatekeeper of information between most sensory systems and the conscious mind. https://study.com/academy/lesson/reticular-activating-system-definition-function.html _________ LEADING LEADERS PODCAST with J Loren Norris providing daily leadership video lessons promoting faith, family and freedom for Tell It Like It Is TV . #leadingleaderspodcast #storypower Blog & Online Courses - www.jlorennorris.com/resources Copyright 2019 Tell It Like It Is, Inc. All rights reserved.