This year I am posting the #52Stories Project links from FamilySearch.org. Using these prompts helps each of us become a positive INfluence on our family’s inter-generational narrative.
The idea is to follow a weekly prompt to write down just one story every week for a year. By the end of a year’s time , you will be 52 steps and 52 stories closer to having written your personal history.
I use Personal Historian 2 Software to record and organize my personal history by topic as well as my daily journal entries.
Challenge: Write down the details of your life to “define the dash” that exists between your birth date and death date.
Here’s the #52Stories life journey prompts by theme that will take us through the summer:
April’s theme is: Home and Health. Click here for more questions to answer for April.
May’s theme is: Mothers and Motherhood. Click here for more questions to answer for May.
June’s theme is: Fathers and Fatherhood. Click here for more questions to answer for June.
July’s theme is: Events and Milestones. Click here for more questions to answer for July.
August’s theme is: Travel and Vacations. Click here for more questions to answer for August.
Why write down your experiences?
Your experiences as TODAY’s ChangeMaker™ are of great worth. Be sure to write them down.
Ordinary events help people know who you really are from the INside out and how you think and operate in the world. Happy times uplift us. Many of us have come through or are coming through some real rough patches along the way, too. The steps you take and courage you muster to do the almost-impossible has value for those who may follow in your footsteps as they traverse their own path in life. Never underestimate the value of lessons learned through experiencing difficulty, adversity and personal trials. Also, sharing happy times brings hope to others when they see that there’s more to life than drudging through it.
Through writing down your life experiences and observations, it may become crystal clear to you and others how an individual can become their best, most happy and capable selves. You may learn what personal character traits contribute to strong, safe, secure family relationships, and in contract, you can see what detracts from and destroys them. This knowledge can help you develop a healthy concern about contributing positively to the future of your family line. It can become a major driver for living a purpose-filled life. It can help bring direction to the course of life. You may be able to see thought patterns, habit patterns and family patterns through writing things down that help you see what helps you stay strong and, on the other hand, you will be better positioned to identify what is destructive so you can take steps to help change it.
Ready, Set, GROW!
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Personal History Tool Tips for Spring and Summer:
Flip-Pal™ mobile scanner – Portable, easy flip-and-scan-technology. You can even scan pictures in the frame or while they remain in their photo albums! I sit on the sofa in comfort and scan to my hearts delight. My grandson’s love to help. This is a great summer project that connects the whole family to their positive memories.
Legacy Family Tree Software– is the software I use to easily preserve my genealogical information. It is important to have a software on your computer for your records. Don’t rely on online record-keeping alone.
Family ChartMasters– Create a beautiful, Family Tree Chart for your home to strengthen your posterity. Remember your roots and also your one-and-only, unique and vital place on your family tree.
JOURNALriffic– Use the journaling method—the 4 Steps of Discovery—in the ebook I authored. It was written specifically for TODAY’s ChangeMakers like you. It will you how to put an end to negative thinking and destructive tendencies in yourself or your family line in order to enjoy more peace-of-mind and happiness.
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About Family Tree Gal, Carolyn Calton Carolyn Calton
Serving people who have hidden heartaches and unresolved personal struggles, Carolyn Calton is the founder of FamilyTreeQuest.com and HealingYourFamily.com. As a ReNEW YOU Self Worth and Relationship Revitalization educator and coach, Carolyn teaches individuals and families how to turn from heartache to happiness in themselves, their families and family lines by understanding how to live true to who they really are as TODAY’s ChangeMakers. Those who join her ReNEW YOU Classes and Joyful Breakthrough Membership Circles learn how to turn stress, anxious-thinking, anger and dysfunction to hope, direction, happiness and peace. She is a teacher and facilitator of principles that can set the hearts of men and women free from the pain and chains of guilt, toxic shame and the effects of oppression. Her students are then empowered to walk forward with courage and confidence as they fill their highest priorities with stability and full purpose of heart.
