Stories

How to Tell Your Story – It doesn’t have to be a Book

18 December 2011

Tell your Life Story in any way you choose.
Biographies are normally thought of as being books but that’s wrong. Biographies are stories nothing else and the technology of telling those stories is your decision, maybe a book, maybe something else.

Look at all the digital systems that are now available to you and choose one …

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Live Question & Answer Show

17 September 2011

Come and join us on our first live Q&A on Ustream.

Everyone is welcome to join the First live broadcast of Create Your Life Story with host Ian Kath.

Live broadcast by Ustream
I mentioned the graphic with links on the images that could be used to generate a linkable PDF. This is the Linkable PDF that …

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Episode 56 : The Secret – They’ll Telling You Everything

15 August 2011

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Your infatuation will cause them to open up

Great storytellers can draw you into their world of interests but most people need someone to be a provocateur to help them express themselves. That’s your role! It’s never an interview but a directed conversation where you keep the conversation on track through engagement.
But how to engage …

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Episode 54 : You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

28 July 2011

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What I got from creating a Life Story for my family!

In 2010 I originally record the Life Story of my uncle for entirely selfish reasons only to discover that I could do so much more for others and myself than I could have every imagined.

In 2007 when I started Your Story I decided that I …

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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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Ghosts of the Past are Here

27 June 2011

Use the images of the past and put them in modern context.
With nearly a hundred years of popular photography and photojournalism we now have some amazing historical images from the past that we can compare with today. And I’ve recently found this photo manipulation method of explaining how things have changed over the years.

If …

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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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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 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 here …

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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 …

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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 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 …

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Episode 27 : Little Things for Your Story

7 December 2010

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It’s the little things in your Life Story that we relate to.

Think of some great person and their story. Particularly one of those biographies where you know the back story. How they got to greatness or how the fell from grace. Consider those everyday parts of their story that is behind their greatness. Maybe …

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Take a Break from Your Story

5 December 2010

Stop to keep Your Story fresh
Your Life Story is a process… It’s not something that you can do immediately, it takes time, much like your life.

You will be exploring and reliving things of the past and maybe talking of some things for the first time. Some wonderful and uplifting, others challenging and thoughtful. Uncovering …

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Episode 26 : Telling Your Story

30 November 2010

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It’s more than just a conversation when you tell a story

Have you ever noticed when you have those very casual conversations that sometimes there is a shift in the way things are mentioned. Instead of it just being a back and forth exchange of thoughts and experiences someone will capture the conversation with …