How do you get to know someone when you first meet them. Do you rely on them to provide the information you’re curious about, or are you a question asker? We’re question askers here!
Do you enjoy sharing stories? Do you wait for someone to ask you a question before sharing experiences? We love to tell our stories!
Remember the song “Getting To Know You” from the “King and I”? That’s our theme for August!
Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you,
Getting to hope you like me.
Getting to know you,
Putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,
My cup of tea
Why is it so important to share our stories? Rachel Freed, founder of Life-Legacies and contributor to Huffington Post wrote an article a couple of years ago titled “The Importance of Telling Our Stories.”
From a legacy perspective, we tell our stories for ourselves and as a gift to future generations. How does telling our stories benefit us? We need to know and express our own stories. Difficulties arise not because we have a story, perhaps a very sad or painful story, but because we become attached to our stories and make them an essential part of our very selves.
Telling our stories is not an end in itself, but an attempt to release ourselves from them, to evolve and grow beyond them. We tell our stories to transform ourselves; to learn about our history and tell our experiences to transcend them; to use our stories to make a difference in our world; to broaden our perspective to see further than normal; to act beyond a story that may have imprisoned or enslaved us; to live more of our spiritual and earthly potential.
And that’s our theme for August. Telling OUR stories.
Reading YOUR stories. Everybody’s got a story -
Check in with us each day in August and see what the
Question of the Day is…
Everybody’s Got A Story Schedule
August 5th: If you could go back in time and re-chart your future – what would you be doing right now?
August 6th: What was the luckiest break you ever got?
August 7th: Was there a time you had to end a relationship?
August 8th: What did you do the last time you were part of something greater than yourself?
August 9th: What was a thought or principal you held to be true and now that you’re older you have changed your opinion?
August 12th: What was an experience you wish you had had in your 20′s?
August 13th: What was an embarrassing moment you had as a child – and what would you like to do differently to change the way you (still) felt at the time?
August 14th: What is the best advice someone gave you that you actually followed?
August 15th: You have the opportunity to dine with 3 people (living or dead)…who are they and what is your topic of conversation?
August 16th: What would you like your legacy to be?
August 19th: Where is a childhood vacation place you’d like to return to and why?
August 20th: What’s been the biggest surprise of aging?
August 21st: What did you do the last time you threw caution to the wind?
August 22nd: What is the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
August 23rd: What are you ashamed of?
August 26th: If you could only learn one thing what would it be?
August 27th: What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
August 28th: What’s a basic etiquette rule that people have forgotten and you wish they hadn’t?
August 29th: What’s a “big thing” you’re waiting for to enjoy your life?
August 30th: What three things do you know now, but you wish you knew then?
If you’re already a writer, these are our August prompts – either answer the question in our comment section that day or write your own post about it and leave a comment with your link for everyone else to read.
If you don’t have a blog, we want you to share your story with us. Just use the comment section and share it!
We’re asking the questions…We’re Getting To Know You….
