Story Worthy

Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling

Do you remember what you did on Thursday last week? Sunday two weeks ago? Any days from last month? Last year?

I couldn't have told you the below photo was from the 24th of September 2016 for my friends 30th birthday.

Not unless the technology I take for granted was there to remind me.

If I hadn't taken this photo I wouldn't be able to share the story of mini city we constructed for his monster party.

The hours constructing the building, painting windows, drawing fans inside the stadium and not to mentioned the empire state complete with plane spinning around it.

Nor my own epic construction of Mecha Godzilla that took me three days to build and is still my favorite costume to this day.

How many other moments of our lives do we miss if we aren't taking pictures?

How many days blur into each other?

Enter Story Worthy a wonderful book that promotes how we can tell better stories through useful practices.

Of all the wonderful insights, the most potent I found was Home Work for Life.

From the below talk, Homework for Life asks for 5 minutes we write down something that happened to us that day.

Here is an excerpt of my own from March of 2021, each of these takes me straight back to that moment and can be turned into something story worthy. Note the 1.4 million was funding for work, don't get excited 😢

I'd actually forgotten I'd been doing HFL and it was so wonderful to look back at at all the moments and recall what each day's highlight was, even it was very minor.

I'll be making this a nightly habit to take 5 minutes and write down the highlight of my day.

I'd highly encourage you not to rely on taking photos to remember what you did like me, write it down and it'll be yours forever.

Cheers,