Should I Record My Life Story?

Your life story is who you are in the times you live as a biography of the culture as you saw it. Is that enough of a reason to record your life story?

Real Time Multi-Media Journaling a Life Story

28 January 2012

In this new digital age, what does it mean to have a journal? Many people have diaries or journals to record the everyday significant and mundane aspects of their life. Then there are others who look back over their life and capture a reflective biography. Both systems primarily concern themselves with using text and language [...]

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Episode 66 : Digital Journals, Time-travel & Surprises from a Life Story

25 January 2012
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Your Life Story is far more important than you realise. Over the last few weeks I’ve been travelling through Europe, spending time with family in Megève in the French Alps where you can see a short video I produced at my other podcast at Your Story. This video and the other content that I’m producing [...]

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Episode 65 : Talking to Family and Really Hearing their Stories

24 December 2011
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Christmas and a time to connect with family Click to share on Twitter Christmas and the holiday time that we have at this time of year, is often about family, catching up and talking about what has been happening over the past year. In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to urge [...]

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How to Tell Your Story – It doesn’t have to be a Book

18 December 2011

Tell your Life Story in any way you choose. Biographies are normally thought of as being books but that’s wrong. Biographies are stories nothing else and the technology of telling those stories is your decision, maybe a book, maybe something else. Look at all the digital systems that are now available to you and choose [...]

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WRONG – You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

9 December 2011

Go try and guess, I’ll bet you’ll be wrong! There are many things that you can prepare for a Life Story. The questions, location, additional information like photos but one thing you can be guaranteed of is, there will be surprises that will astound you. These surprises could be in just hearing the stories that [...]

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Episode 63 : Help with Your Life Story

28 November 2011
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There is help nearby for your Life Story Click to share on Twitter Your great idea of recording a Life Story requires one major achievement. You to actually do it! That’s obvious and with all the content available here on Create Your Life Story you can get the knowledge to start and complete a project [...]

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Free Quick Start Mini-Guide to Your Life Story

5 November 2011
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Find something simple to start today. The huge amount of content here on Create Your Life Story has created an issue of overwhelm for some people. I know that feeling from personal experience of starting on these projects and I want to help you. Where do I start? To help you cut to the chase, I’ve created [...]

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Episode 62 : Fear of Your Life Story

2 November 2011
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Are you fearful of telling your story, or just a little shy? In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to open a conversation about the reasons for people not wanting to tell their stories, particularly when they say that they are interested. In recording conversations for Your Story, I’ve noticed several, sometimes contradictory reasons why people avoid [...]

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Recording Your Life Story for all History

26 October 2011

The everyday stories of human history are being recorded today. One of the greatest history shows I know of, be it television, radio, text or new media is the extraordinary Dan Carlin’s Hard Core History. If you want to go deep, not just into the facts but start thinking of some of the other issues of [...]

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Who’s Life Story do You Wish you’d Recorded?

26 October 2011

Everyone has missed some stories. It doesn’t matter who I mention Create Your Life Story to, but everyone; Everyone!!! says that there is someone from their life who they didn’t happen to get that information, that story, that understanding, of what their life was all about… and how they wished they had Then in the [...]

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Reporting Your Family Story

19 October 2011

Look at your life, like a journalist would. Have you thought about approaching your own life and therefore, your families story as a journalist would? In a recent post on CNN Mark Whitaker suggested some great ideas to help you dig deeper into your family, using some of the skills that he’s gained in 35 [...]

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I’ve Been Meaning to… Oh! Too Late.

6 October 2011

Is recording a Life Story something that you have written on your white board? Nicked from Crikey.com Is recording a Life Story something that you have written on your white board? Nicked from Crikey.com

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Stunning Memorial to a Fragile Life

8 September 2011

You just have to listen to this! Sometimes it’s not about someone telling their story – but of us telling the story, of what they meant to us. Sometimes we just need to get our thoughts out there and in doing so we manage to capture an essence of who they are/were. Kevin Farkas from the Social [...]

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Your Digital Footprints are How You’ll be Remembered

9 August 2011

What are you going to leave behind? As happens I was following Derek K Miller, the science and technology journalist mentioned on this video and thought about many of the points that are mentioned here by Adam during Derek’s illness. It got me thinking about all the digital data that we’re now producing, that can [...]

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Episode 55 : 3 Steps to the Stories of Your Philosophy on Life

3 August 2011
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One sentence to sum up your philosophy on life Push, pull… Fight, kick and scratch or just let it be and do as you like, or not! How do you do this thing called your life? If you’ve had the good fortune to raise children you’ll sometimes find yourself sharing your beliefs on life. What [...]

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What You Want for Your Life Story

17 June 2011

What do you want…? Amongst these pages is much of the content you want, but what else do you need? I have a limited understanding of your desires based on my knowledge but it’s important that I know from YOU what you want to ensure that I give you what you need. This short survey [...]

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