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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 …

Stunning Memorial to a Fragile Life

8 September 2011

You just have to listen to this!

Sometimes it’s not about someone telling their story – but of us telling the story, of what they meant to us. Sometimes we just need to get our thoughts out there and in doing so we manage to capture an essence of who they are/were.

Kevin Farkas from the Social Voice …

Episode 57 : Storyboard to See Your Whole Life Story

29 August 2011

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A simple tool to discover the topics of your Life Story
and a different way to share the whole of your life in one view!

Today’s episode of Create Your Life Story is full of listener feedback about how their individual projects are developing including a conversation with Paul Harbath about his personal Life Story project and the …

Life Stories for Genealogists.

30 July 2011

Interview on GeneaBloggers Blog Talk Radio
Today I had the opportunity to share with some of the genealogy community on GeneaBloggers BlogTalk Radio the advantages of recording a life story and how that will become part of the history for future generation.

If you want to listen to the show I’m on from about 5:00 minutes …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Episode 29 : Stories of Celebrations in Your Life

22 December 2010

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How do you celebrate those special events in your life?

End of the year celebrations are the time when we often assemble with family and carry on family and famular traditions that we take for granted but what are the stories of those traditions that we take for granted?

There are many events in our lives …

Sharing Personal Stories Across Generations.

13 September 2010

Stories that transition multiple generation.
I remember clearly talking to my Grandfather before his death in 1981 about the soon returning astronomical event that is Halley’s Comet due in 1986.

He remembered it’s last visit to our part of the solar system in 1910 when he was just a boy of 11. He described to …

Choice – Decisions that Lead to Life Changing Events

6 September 2010

Could those choices you made be the the start of the greatest moments in your life?
When we think back over our life, to those momentous times and greatest events, I wonder if there is a pattern of decisions we make that can help us with our storytelling.

Think back over the major achievements of …

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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