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 but if you want more, can get the complete Quick Start Guide which will get you started today while helping keep Create Your Life Story producing all this valuable content.
But what about the actual audio?
What are your excuses?
We often use one or a blend of several reasons not to start recording.
* Don’t know what to talk about.
* Don’t’ know how to tell the stories.
* Don’t know how to use the equipment.
* Haven’t got the correct environment.
* Don’t like the sound of your voice.
Any one of these can be enough to stop you from starting and a few of them is enough to paralyse you.
A simple system to get you started
Like all things in life, be it learning to walk as a child, dealing with the issues of adulthood or recording your Life Story, it’s all about starting and practicing. Here is a system to get you started with recording snippets of your life and with that, you’ll practice and gain confidence to continue.
Getting your confidence in 4 easy steps
* Get a recorder. Phone with built in recorder or app, computer based recording software or portable recorder.
* Record your thoughts about one (only one), topic you have on your mind.
* Listen back to it uncritically but learn from the experience.
* Pick a new topic and repeat daily or at least 5 times a week.
Repeat and learn until you have confidence and possibly recorded your entire life story and contemporary opinions while your at it. It’s really that simple