Tell Your Life Story

If you've thought to yourself “I want to tell my life story”, you're definitely not alone. Sharing your story allows family and friends to learn so much more about you, and deepens their connections to you, while also serving as a lasting legacy. Everyone's experience is unique, and the stories of our adventures, romances, struggles and successes, etc. are worth preserving. Fortunately, there are more ways to tell and share your story now than ever before.

Journaling

Journaling is of course a great way to document your experience, thoughts, and feelings. Many find that writing in a journal helps them achieve clarity and perspective. However, the contents of a journal are deeply personal, and often reveal more than you'd want to with others. For that reason, while they are a great tool for reflection, introspection, etc., journals are less than ideal for sharing your life story and in most cases are best kept private.

Writing a Life Story Book

An option many consider when looking to tell their life story is to write a book about their life. There are a number of options available, including purchasing pre-published books with empty pages for you to fill, books with prompts that attempt to guide the process, and services that publish books for you based on your answers to questions.

Unfortunately, many who embark on writing books about their lives find planning, writing/typing, and revising their memoir to be a very time consuming process, and the pursuit is often abandoned. Those who finish their projects are often disappointed that their books are literally shelved, as opposed to being read and appreciated by their recipients. While books can be a good option for those with time, talent, patience, and perseverance (and loved ones who can be trusted to read and appreciate the fruits of their labor), there are easier ways to tell your life story.

Recording a Video of Your Life Story

Recording a video where you share aspects of yourself and your experience is arguably the easiest way to tell your life story, as well as the easiest, most accessible way for the people you care about to experience it. While it requires some reflection like any method of sharing your story, telling it on video is as simple as hitting a record button. Unlike other mediums, your loved ones will be able see and hear you, which is far more impactful than words alone. What's more, the people you care about will be able to revisit your video again and again, even and especially when you aren't there to share your life stories yourself.

Stories of a Lifetime was created to help make it easy to record a life story on video to be preserved forever. The platform prompts the storyteller with questions, and they simply hit a button to record answers to them. Once all of the questions have been answered, the platform combines them into a video that can be downloaded or shared online with family and/or friends, and remains available forever.

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