Be the Hero: Three Powerful Ways to Overcome Challenges in Work and Life [Hardcover]

In this engaging parable, author Noah Blumenthal shows that we are all master storytellers. Our stories are vivid, detailed, and convincing. These aren’t the stories we tell around the watercooler or the campfire. They are the stories we tell ourselves—the ones that rattle around in our heads and move us to emotions and actions.

If we don’t pay attention, these stories can take us down the victim path—blaming, frustrated, helpless, and hopeless. But at any moment, we have the power to identify and change these stories. We can choose the right stories—the ones that enable us to become “Everyday Heroes.”

Be the Herobrings to life the entertaining tale of a struggling young professional whomoves from victim to hero by learning to become aware of and change the stories that are holding him back. Battling negativity, inertia, and anger, he learns to see life through a new lens, to create new hero stories that develop his capacity to chart his own course.

The powerful resources at the end of the book, including a hero tip of the week, smart cards, manager tip sheets, and more, will help you make your hero stories stick.

This simple parable will change your life forever.FOREWORD BY MARSHALL GOLDSMITH

INTRODUCTION: CHANGE YOUR STORIES, CHANGE YOUR LIFE

PARABLE
CHALLENGES OF WORK AND LIFE
PEOPLE STORIES
SITUATION STORIES
SELF STORIES
AFTERWORD: FIND YOUR HEROIC INSPIRATION

RESOURCE GUIDE
OVERVIEW OF BOOK AND ONLINE RESOURCES
RECOGNIZE YOUR STORIES
BUILD A COMMUNITY OF HEROES AROUND YOU
TAKE ACTIONS TO ENCOURAGE THE HERO IN YOU
HERO TIPS FOR MANAGERS
FIRST STEPS TO TAKE TODAY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR“This book is quick, easy, and life
changing, showing how it is within your power to choose how you perceive and respond to the events in your life.”
—Sid Chapon, Senior Vice Presil#'