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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 64 : It’s About Your Story – Hindenburg Editing Software

9 December 2011

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Hindenburg makes editing your Life Story simple so you can concentrate on the Story

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I know the feeling of getting bogged down on the details of Creating a Life Story. There are so many things that can take you attention away from what a project is all about… The Story.

One of the …

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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

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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 but …

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Episode 59 : Smash and Mash Your Life Story

13 September 2011

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Make your Life Story more than the sum of the parts

Once you start digging into it, your live can seem like an archaeological expedition. There are just so many things that you can start to bring to surface to help remind you of your life story. Just some of them are:

Photos.
Documents.
Journals & diaries.
Films & …

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Hindenburg Audio Editor Overview for Your Life Story

30 June 2011

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This is how to edit your Life Story audio in Hindenburg.
Your Life Story biography should be all about getting the wonderful stories recorded and shared with family and the world. Everything else should get out the way of that result.
For that reason I suggest you use the Zoom H1 Handy Recorder with Giant Squid …

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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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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.

This …

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Episode 47 : Overcoming the Underwhelm

24 May 2011

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The excuses driven by underwhelmed motivation

You know that capturing a Life Story in some form is a great idea and maybe even occasionally at 2:30am you have had a little panic attack knowing that you need to get underway, NOW!
…But then the moment passes and, well, you just feel a little underwhelmed again. There’s …

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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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The Selfish Reason You’re Recording a Life Story

14 March 2011

Kick Your Motivation to Record Your Life Story
If I was to ask you why you want to recording a Life Story, what would be your response?
That response is the motivation that helps you to get on with completing a biography but it’s worth taking the time to really consider it and not just take …

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Episode 35 : Why You Won’t Record Your Life Story

4 March 2011

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A Life Story – For most it’s only, a Great Idea!

Everyone I tell about Create Your Life Story say what a great idea it is, then something like, ” I wish I had have recorded my Gran, she had so many wonderful experiences in her life.” Then depending on who they are, something about…

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Genealogy is Dead

2 March 2011

There is no future in Genealogy – It’s all about the past
There you are poking through the archives. Looking at old documents trying to discover the secret that is the final number to the code to reveal the next layer of your family history. If only you can find this one last piece of …

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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 …

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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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Better Ways to Use a Mouse

11 February 2011

Doing the Obvious – Differently
We often do new things without thinking. If I throw you a ball, a shovel or a pillow you would instantly act with a catch or block as an automatic reaction depending on the situation.

If you were start a new task, especially something that you haven’t done before, how would …