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
  Nine Modules present the principles, methods, and case illustrations to mentor new life, money, career, and relationship stories. 280 page book includes Live a New Life Story™ Glossary.
• A Workbook
  An annotated guide to the application of change using 52 New Life Story™ proprietary tools, exercises, and quizzes.
• The ROAD MAP™ 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 Professionals™

• 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 stories.

LIVE A NEW LIFE STORY™
THE OWNER'S GUIDE

The Art and Science of Change, Reinvention, and Success

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHANGE

Module 1. Story and Story Assessment

1. Recognize Authorship of Your Story
1. The Power of Story
2. The Story Takes Over the Author
3. The Story Ghostwritten by the Brain
2. Own Your Story
1. Storylines that Define
2. Storyline Motivations and Assumptions
3. Assess the Plot and Storylines
1. A.Plot assessment
2. B.Ideals and Needs Assessments
3. C.Understand Conflicted and Contradictory Storylines
4. D.Recognize Active versus Passive Positions
5. E.Listen to Your Self-statements
6. F.Listen for Repetitions of the Old Story
7. G.Listen to Your Body
Workbook Tools
• Plot Assessment Questionnaire
• Ideals Assessment Tool
• Needs Assessment Tool
• Ideals and Needs Decision Tree
• Five Phase Plot Outline
• Life's Ground Rules: Paradoxes and Antipodes in Story Construction

Module 2. Change and Change Evaluation

4. 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
6. Establish a Context for Change
7. Reflections to Understand and Revise your Storylines
8. Before, During, and After Story Components
5. 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
• 4 Basic Inquiries for Storyline Evaluation
• Compromises Inventory and Resolution Schedule
• Personal Feedback Questionnaire
• 15 Reflections to Understand and Revise Your Plot
• 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. Transformation to Lasting Change

6. 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
7. Program New Identity to Incorporate and Sustain Changes
1. Twelve Basic Principles for Change and Transformation
2. Thirty Two Guidelines to Further Life Story Change
3. Creating a Vision
Workbook Tools
• Strategic Goal Pursuit
• Success Insurance for Completing Goals
• 11 Steps to Ignite Change
• 12 Basic Principles of Change and Transformation
• 32 Guidelines to Further Life Story Change
• Creating a Vision

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. Constructive Present Context
2. How to Regulate States of Mind
1. Regulation of Feelings and States
2. How do you Feel? A Structured Inquiry
3. How to Get Centered in your Mind and Body
4. Management of State-Specific Issues: Blocks, Chokes, and Slumps
5. Listen to Body Stories
Workbook Tools:
• Regulating States of Mind
• A 5 Step Structured Inquiry to Recognize and Communicate Feelings
• A Grounding and Centering Exercise
• A Brief On-Your-Feet Grounding Exercise

Module 5. Develop Your Unique Voice and Further the 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
• Making Choices: Inquiries for Beginning a New Story
• An Exercise in Authoring Your Own Reality
• An Exercise to Structure Positive Focus

SUCCESS APPLICATION

Module 6. Write a New Money Story™

1. Assess and Understand Your Money Story
1. Your Money Story
2. Symbolic and Emotional Meanings of Money
3. A 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™
3. Live a New Money Story™
Workbook Tools
• A Money Quiz and Discussion
• The Storylines of Money Statements
• Can You Make and Enjoy Money? A 14 Point Self-Quiz
• 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 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 Exercise
2. Systems and Leadership
3. Creative Criticism and Problem Solving
4. Career Assessment: Core Values; Goals; Changes; Obstacles
3. Optional Tracks
1. Identify and remedy work addiction and success intoxication
2. Why managers succeed and fail: Facilitating success for each type
3. 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 Relationship Story

1. Communication 101
1. Communication as Connection
2. Information Processing and Communication Facilitation
3. Illuminate Hidden Assumptions
4. Articulate Implicit Contracts
5. Respect and Communicate Different Points of View
2. Relationship facilitation 201
1. 14 Relationship Principles
2. Mastery Storylines of Money, Power and Gender
3. Reminders in Your Relationship
4. The Us Story
5. Leadership Based on Relationship
6. Transference in Relationships
Workbook Tools
• Communication and Connection: 3 Maxims and 4 Steps
• Information Processing Exercise
• 14 Relationship Principles
• A 4 Step Relationship Story Exercise

Module 9. Live Your Success Story

1. Success: Desire and Obstacles
1. Patterns of New Learning: Four Phases
2. Evaluate and Address 4 Types of Resistance to Change
3. 16 Step Sustained Growth Plan
2. Success Phobia
1. Forms of Success Phobia
2. Questionnaire: Are you Afraid of Success?
3. Special Issues of Success
1. Success and Women
2. Success and Men
3. Success Intoxication: Recognition and Prevention
4. Evolving a Success Story
1. Life's Ground Rules, Part 2
2. Possibility Thinking
3. Your Life Story: Good News/Bad News
4. A Self-Coaching Summary
Workbook Tools
• Questionnaire: Are You Afraid of Success?
• Self-Inquiry For Women
• Self-Inquiry For Men
• Life's Ground Rules, Part 2: 28 Essential Caveats of Successful Being
• Success Intoxication: Recognition and Prevention
• 6 Step Action Plan for Achieving Goals
• Paradoxes Inherent in the Process of Growth
• 18 Step Sustained Growth Plan
• Case Study: An Application of Live a New Life Story™ in an Unlikely setting
• Possibility Thinking Exercise
• 11 Maxims of Sustained Growth

Copyright David Krueger MD and MentorPath Publications