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Your Story Tips – Helping You Tell Your Story

20 March 2012

Quick tips for helping you with you storytelling. Now that we have so much content here at Create Your Life Story it’s easy to be overwhelmed when really it should be simple and easy. I’ve started a series of short form tips to help you record your life, one small story at a time using [...]

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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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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 32 : 5 Simple Steps to Starting Your Life Story Project – Today

8 February 2011

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Get started today on your Life Story or “How to avoid the overwhelm.” Don’t look at this web site! Looking at Create Your Life Story for many people, with the amount of information that is now available, can be intimidating. Do you sometimes say to yourself… Where do I start for my own life story? [...]

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This will Reveal Your Essence

6 January 2011

Sum Up Your Life in Six Words A Life Story has a theme… All good stories do. Think of someone, anyone and think of the theme that sums them up. The Dalai Lama, Marilyn Monroe, Neil Armstrong, just a few famous people that you would probably have a general thematic opinion of, that you feel [...]

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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 [...]

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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 7 : What to talk about – Prompts

29 June 2010

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Nine Aspects of Life and the Prompts to Start Your Story! Click to share on Twitter Welcome To Episode Seven of Create Your Life Story. So you want to talk to someone or you want to record yourself, but what are you going to talk about? Sure it’s a conversation and we have conversations all [...]

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I’m Gutted – What Happens when You Wait too Long

27 June 2010

The other day I received a message on Facebook from a friend who listens to Your Story and this Podcast. I didn’t even know Tony was listening to the show but he has since mentioned that it was the motivation for him to get on with recording his Dad’s life story. Something that he had [...]

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Episode 3 : Is it too Late to Start an Audio Life Story?

1 June 2010

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When is it too late to start a Life Story Project? Click to share on Twitter Welcome To Episode Three of Create Your Life Story. The last of three episodes that introduces the ideas and motivations behind this podcast and site. I asked the question, “Is it too late to start and audio life story?” [...]