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.

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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1000′s of Images but What is Vivian Maier Story?

14 February 2011

Vivian Maier, Street Photographer and Nanny Scratching around amongst people’s cast off junk at an auction house in 2007, John Maloof, a real estate agent in Chicago, discovered the boxes of unloved negatives repossessed from a storage unit. His initial stash of negatives from the life of Vivian Maier, that he paid $400 for, has [...]

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Episode 31 : Big Times in My Life Story

2 February 2011

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What would you do if that event happened on you? Welcome To Episode 31 of Create Your Life Story but this episode is my story and the reason I’ve been out of the loop for three weeks It’s been a while since my last podcast and post about the events of the impending doom of [...]

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Episode 30 : How do I Write My Story? – Get a Blog!

5 January 2011

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Get a Blog to Learn How to Creating a Life Story Biography It takes time to produce a Life Story. Along the way there are many distractions. Some are from outside influences of your life, while some are due to the issues with actually creating the content that will become the Life Story. A blog [...]

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Episode 28 : You Can’t Make Someone Tell Their Story

14 December 2010

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How to help someone talk about things they don’t want to It’s an oft asked question. How do I get someone to talk and reveal something that they just refuse to talk about? This is not just for us and our desire for the stories of someone’s life but it’s also the same for finding [...]

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A Life Story is about experiences – Nothing else

19 November 2010

Your Life is Experiences. “History is one damn thing after another” – Winston Churchill. The life of everyone is a continuous stream of experiences. Some exciting, some dull and many simply mundane. For the greater community it’s the exciting experiences that capture us. These events take us to new places and show us new ways [...]

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Life Story Presentation for Seniors

7 November 2010

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Introduction to Create Your Life Story at Tamborine Mt U3A. The University of the Third Age is an international organisation of individual chapters where seniors can share their lifetime of knowledge with each other about anything of their choosing. It’s all about open sharing of skills that helps to keep seniors active and motivated in [...]

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Episode 22 : How Do Others Perceive Your Story

16 October 2010

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Your life means something to me, can I record you? Click to share on Twitter The way we perceive ourselves and others has a huge affect on what can come from producing a Life Story. It will be reflected in everything from the initial approach through the recording and the questions asked, eventuating in the [...]

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Sharing Your Life – Unlike Your Grandparents

1 September 2010

Imagine Discovering your Grandparents Life. Imagine finding a neglected box of old 78 rpm records covered in dust sitting in the attic. Imagine wiping them off and placing them on a gramophone. Then as you play those records you hear your grandparents voice speaking to you, across the decades, telling you of their life, their [...]