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Episode 52 : LifeStory Designing Your Life Story

5 July 2011
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LifeStory Designing your life in all the different ways. Once you’ve recorded the audio of the conversations and it’s time to Create Your Life Story, what do you do with all the other wonderful things from you life? Just have a look at what you’ve managed to collect to help you with remembering and flushing [...]

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What Would a Young Mother Teresa Say

2 July 2011

What would the young and old You say about your life? The younger generations are often shocked to find that You, their older relative, was once young. Even those who were there with you, who were also young with you, may have forgotten what you were like. When you were vibrant, strong and beautiful, when [...]

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Episode 50 : 5 Historical Timelines of Your Life Story

20 June 2011
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No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.→ You don’t live alone. You live with people in your family, community, culture, country and world. From each of these groups you’ve been impacted by all the events that occur in them. Obviously family occasions [...]

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Episode 49 : Discover the Missing People of Your Autobiography

9 June 2011
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Don’t forget the important insignificant people Too often we look to the things of our life to talk about. The places, adventures, heartache, career even the family but we don’t take the time to consider all the people of our Life Story. A story is not just cold information. As we look into the themes [...]

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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 [...]

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Episode 48 : Cost of a Life – Story

30 May 2011
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What is the cost and the benefit of recording a Life Story Value, cost and worth are all interesting terms. Most of the time we associate them with the financial cost of something but when we’re talking of a Life Story it’s important to consider the emotional and physical effort along with any financial cost. [...]

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7 Ways to Screw Up an Interview

20 May 2011

Don’t screw up and you’ll be better than most You’ve been there haven’t you? Maybe it’s a formal or a general conversation where everything starts well. Everyone is getting on just fine and then somehow it starts to unravel because you drop the bundle. You went in with the best of intentions but you did [...]

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Episode 44 : Say More with Nothing

4 May 2011
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Pause to create the space and rhythm of a conversation One of the things that always comes up when you decide to Create Your Life Story is how to deal with the breaks in conversation or the pauses. Sometimes pauses get in the way but often they can scream loud. Do you wait or interrupt, [...]

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Episode 43 : Professional Storytelling Tips for a Real Life Story

29 April 2011
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Get the attention you want with some storytelling skills For all of our lives we tell stories. Stories to get our message across, to help others and to share some entertaining information. We share stories in all parts of our life, the most common being during the most mundane of conversations. But importantly for us [...]

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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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Episode 41 : Listen and They’ll Tell You Everything

13 April 2011
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Genuine listening is the key to their confidence It’s not what they say but the way you listen, that helps people to share the deepest parts of themselves. We often think we listen… but do we? Are we really listening or are we just taking turns to speak? In a recorded conversation we’re away from [...]

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Episode 39 : The Reason They Don’t Listen to Your Life Lessons

31 March 2011
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History is philosophy taught by example. How many things have you done and lessons learnt that you could share with others. The challenge is in helping them understand the lesson without them having the same experiences. A wiser way for them to learn is from others rather than make the same mistakes in life as [...]

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Interviewing as if they were Your Lover

29 March 2011

Hanging on every word… Remember when you first meet that special person? When everything was bliss and you couldn’t bare to be apart? It didn’t matter what you did, as long as you were together, talking, laughing and loving each other. You would talk for hours wouldn’t you? And listen so intently, hanging on every [...]

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Episode 37 : Two Systems to Help You Unravel Your Life Story

15 March 2011
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Chase a Theme or Flow with the Times We know a Life Story is about an individual’s life and we want to include certain key points but how do we go about tying all the other elements together, to flush out this life, to understand the points that need to be made? Primarily a Life [...]

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Episode 36 : Secret Interview Techniques the Professionals Don’t Even Know

9 March 2011
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Forget what you learnt at school! It’s time to record an interview. But first we need to prepare, know the personality and everything about them – Correct? This is what we’re told. All the professional interviewers say this. University courses say, in order to be able to engage with the interviewee we need to know [...]

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Don’t Talk to Strangers – Tell Them Everything

26 February 2011

Ever spilled your guts to a complete stranger? There you are, sitting on a bus, having a quiet drink or just happen to meet someone out of the blue and before you know what’s happened you find yourself telling everything to this complete stranger. Have you ever noticed how you don’t do that with family? [...]

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