Successful Life Story Transformations

The case summaries in this book are from professional Mentor Coaches whom I have trained as Licensed, Specialty-Certified New Life Story® Coaches and New Money Story® Mentors. This Mentor Coaching system integrates psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics with strategic coaching to transform mind, brain, and behavior. Unique in its scope and depth, it incorporates the art and neuroscience of creating changes that last. Along with successful changes of behavior, the choice architecture also entails underlying revisions of mind software and brain hardware. We help our clients create essential changes of life, money, career, relationship, wellness, and business stories that can make a difference for a lifetime. This compilation of ROADMAP Case Studies submitted by Licensed, Specialty-Certified New Life Story® Coaches and New Money Story® Mentors both illustrates the work that they do in Mentor Coaching and is a contribution in its own right. The approach illustrated here integrates the dynamic insights of psychology and neuroscience with the principles of strategic coaching to generate a new story. The new story calls for generating new experiences coupled with awakening hope, envisioning the future, and mobilizing talents and strengths to attain certain goals of personal and business growth. Beliefs drive behavior. Behavior drives performance. Changing your mind changes your brain and your life. The ROADMAP process systematically informs active listening and understanding of the participant’s own story. Beyond that, it provides structure and strategies to guide the evolution of a participant’s unique voice as he or she writes and revises a new story. The ROADMAP(acronym for the seven steps in the creation of a new story) is a structured process by which participants deconstruct an old story and systematically construct a new or revised one. No matter whether the story has to do with life, money, relationships, career, wellness, or business, this str

The Art and Science of Change, Reinvention, and Success When people construct their personal narratives, important elements often remain invisible, along with beliefs that ghostwrite behaviors. Unlike other narratives, a personal narrative is not announced directly. The narrator may not recognize the real the story he or she is living and can even believe it’s different from the story others perceive. The case studies included here illustrate a method for identifying personal stories and bringing about systematic change. Basic to this method is the personal requirement to have a new story to be in before the old story can be given up. The vignettes illustrate both change from compromising past storylines and reinvention of present successful stories. The principles and strategies of actively authoring change bring new dimensions of personal, career, relationship, and financial success. Many prescriptions for change ignite discomfort with the old story or even resolve an old story as a way of coming to the end of the past, yet they fail to offer ways to develop a successful new story. Insights, understanding, even coming to the end of the past and ending an old story are not enough to create a new story. The process of change itself must be addressed in an informed and systematic way. The approach illustrated here integrates the dynamic insights of psychology and neuroscience with the principles of strategic coaching to generate a new story. The new story calls for generating new experiences coupled with awakening hope, envisioning the future, and mobilizing talents and strengths to attain certain goals of personal and business growth. Beliefs drive behavior. Behavior drives performance. Changing your mind changes your brain and your life. The ROADMAP process systematically informs active listening and understanding of the participant’s own story. Beyond that, it provides structure and strategies to guide the evolution of a participant’s unique voice as he or she writes and revises a new story. The ROADMAP(acronym for the seven steps in the creation of a new story) is a structured process by which participants deconstruct an old story and systematically construct a new or revised one. No matter whether the story has to do with life, money, relationships, career, wellness, or business, this structured process serves as a guide to transformation. We employ the following seven steps of the ROADMAP program as an effective means to clients’ significant life change: Recognize the authorship of your life story Own your present story Assess the storylines and plot Decide what to keep, enhance, let go, and avoid Map changes Author new experiences Program new identity to incorporate and sustain the changes These vignettes and case studies illuminate the hidden agendas, beliefs, habits, and assumptions that ghostwrite limiting stories, along with the insight and mutual work that generated a new story of hard work miracles.

David Krueger, M.D. is an Executive Mentor Coach, and CEO of MentorPath®, an executive coaching, training, publishing, and wellness firm. He works with executives in high-risk, high-reward situations to develop and sustain success strategies. Author of 17 trade and professional books on success, wellness, money, and self-development, and seventy-five scientific papers, his coaching and writing focus on the art and science of success strategies: mind over matters. His latest book, The Secret Language of Money (McGraw Hill) is a Business Bestseller translated into 10 languages. A Mentor/Trainer Coach and Dean of Curriculum for Coach Training Alliance, he has been quoted in Money, Fortune, Forbes, Town and Country, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and was elected to the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Founder and Director of his own Licensed, Specialty-Certified New Life Story® Wellness Coaching, and New Money Story® Mentor Training, he has trained professionals worldwide. Dr. Krueger formerly practiced and taught Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He was listed in The Best Doctors in America (Woodward/White, Inc. Publishers) annually from 1996-2002, and was listed in America’s Top Psychiatrists (Consumer Research Council of America, Washington DC). He founded and served as CEO for two healthcare corporations, co-founded a third startup that went from venture capital to merger/acquisition, and founded the Houston Gathering of Angels, an angel investment group. He gives keynote addresses nationally and internationally. www.MentorPath.com www.MentorPath.com/Corporate dkrueger@mentorpath.com