This document discusses using imagination and creativity to author your own story or mission by first determining a controlling idea. It recommends asking yourself questions to identify the object of desire, overarching value, cause, and how the main character must transform, in order to develop a controlling idea that has originality and value to live your story. Imagination fuels creativity, which involves having an original idea that provides value through a process.

1. STORY LAB
Authoring your story as mission

2. Being Creative Is putting your imagination
to work.
1.Controlling Idea -
2.Vision -
3.Mission
4.Purpose
Imagination fuels Creativity

3. Imagination fuels Creativity

4. Creativity Is : Having an original Idea That
Has Value.
• There needs to be a process
• It Should be original
• It must have value
The Idea may not be yours!
Imagination fuels Creativity

5. Knowing your Contribution

6. What will be the controlling Idea for the
story you want to live.
Value + Cause = Controlling Idea
Knowing your Contribution

7. 5 Questions for your Story
My Stories object of desire is ?
My over arching value for my controlling idea is
?
The cause for my controlling idea is ?
My controlling idea is ?
How must my character transform if I am to live
my story ?

8. STORY LAB
Authoring your story as mission