What have we Learnt from Creating a Life Story

What are your stories? How can you help Create Your Life Story and share what you know with others so they can share their stories as audio, video or written biographies.

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 as a …

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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 as …

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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

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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 you …

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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 one …

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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 you …

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Live Question & Answer Show

17 September 2011

Come and join us on our first live Q&A on Ustream.

Everyone is welcome to join the First live broadcast of Create Your Life Story with host Ian Kath.

Live broadcast by Ustream
I mentioned the graphic with links on the images that could be used to generate a linkable PDF. This is the Linkable PDF that …

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Episode 53 : Silence – Nothing Helps Your Story

13 July 2011

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What is a vase? The container or the space within?

Silence is like empty space, it doesn’t seem to be anything. But in actual fact, without the silence, the void, or the margins, the space around things is needed to make sense of the thing.

Imagine for a moment walking up to your home, putting the …

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5 Major Regrets of People’s Lives

6 June 2011

If it all ended now, what would you regret?

In early 2007 I knew that I had to make a decision, to dive off the cliff into deep water, not knowing what may come of it, or continue on my merry way doing what I had been doing for the last decade.

When I wrote of …

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The Power of Voice

11 May 2011

The voice screams of emotion, text only whimpers.
A biography is always more powerful when heard directly using the voice, rather than just the printed words when telling a story of your life. This is particularly important when it comes to events that are significant and poignant.

Maybe it is possible for a skilled author to …

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Episode 42 : Unexpected Surprises from Creating a Life Story

26 April 2011

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You’ll never know what surprises there are until you Create Your Life Story!

Here on Create Your Life Story I’m constantly wanting to motivate you to start on your personal Life Story project but I know that there can be several issues with getting underway and we’re all working to resolves those points. What you …

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Say Hello via Audio

5 April 2011

Don’t be shy… Say G’Day
I know, you feel a little shy and you may not be totally comfortable on the microphone yet but what better way to move forward than to tell your story to someone who understands.
I’ve recently installed a SoundCloud easy audio uploader so you can drop me a comment or just …

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Episode 34 : Publishing Your Life Story as Multimedia

22 February 2011

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Share all of Your Life Story in One System

A life is not one event or experience. We all have multiple events throughout our lives often recorded on various pieces of memorabilia along with our personal memories.

To share all those events with others we can tell the stories, which is what Create Your Life Story …

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Episode 33 : Don’t have an Amazing Life and Not Tell Us!

15 February 2011

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Don’t you dare take your stories with you!

Don’t you dare, not at least consider the importance of someone’s or your own story before you start procrastinating about creating a Life Story project.

Our Life Story is something that we take for granted. Maybe we don’t think that we have anything to say and even if …