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Episode 67 : Audio Snapshots of Your Life Story

25 February 2012
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Enhance your skill & confidence while recording your LifeStory. Getting started is often the hardest part of recording a life story and getting started isn’t all the preparation. It’s starting to record audio. Your Audio! A good place to get some motivation is with the free Quick Start Mini-Guide PDF. This useful information will help your overview [...]

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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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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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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. [...]

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Episode 46 : Why You Can’t Afford to Not Use a Blog

16 May 2011
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A life story for your family and the world So you want to produce a life story of someone… Maybe your own story, maybe someone else. And you want to record this life story because there is some information that you feel is worth capturing for posterity. Maybe they were involved in some interesting events [...]

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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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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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Ask for Help to Record Your Life Story

20 February 2011

Help! Can someone talk to me? So you want to get your Life Story down. You’ve had a good look over Create Your Life Story and understand the rewards of doing this. You have an audio recorder and maybe written a few notes about what you intend to talk about. As yet, you don’t know [...]

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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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How Private do You Want to Keep Your Life Story?

9 February 2011

What level of privacy do you want when you share your Life Story? We’re all different in the level of privacy that we feel is necessary in sharing a life story. Sure we know the recorder is on capturing the conversation and we can censor our comments. Even after that we can edit out some [...]

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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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Why Record a Life Story?

27 July 2010

Most of us don’t have interesting lives. Actually when it comes down to it, even people who have interesting lives have a gazillion tedious little events that when combined may eventually develop into something interesting.  If we were to listen to everything we would realise that the vast majority of their life is much like [...]

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Episode 10 : Conversational Interview Technique – Let’s Have a Chat

21 July 2010
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Directed Conversations – What we do when we’re interested in others. Click to share on Twitter It’s easy when we’re fascinated with what they have to say. Are you prepared with all the questions that you’re going to ask and do you have a good expectation of what answers you’re going to get?  Are you [...]

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It’s not as Scary as You Think

1 June 2010

The biggest thing that stops creating a Life Story is procrastination.  Waiting until the time is right to get started, then oops, it’s too late for one of the many reasons. The second greatest issue is fear: Fear of not speaking well Fear of not having anything interesting to say Fear of what others will [...]

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