2 Tips on Telling Your Story

It's baseball season.  Most of us watch from the bleachers in the comfort of Dodger dogs, popcorn and cold water bottles.

Sadly, the majority of us approach life the same way. We watch from afar, comfortable on our no-risk recliners. Watching the stories of others - movies, insipid sit-coms and dreadful reality shows of rich people we could care less about.  (Really! I was an Orange County housewife from Newport Beach and I look at those scalpel lifted, botox plumped, saline busting bodies and it seems like they're more from Mars than California)!!

We can either sit on the sidelines or step up to the plate.

At some point it's high time to do the latter.

Enough of watching everyone else, hearing everyone else and cheering everyone else.

We want to see your swing. We want to see you hit the ball!!!

So, how do you tell your story?

1.   Get up

Then give it all you've got and

 

2.  SWING......!!!

You may hit a home run, or just make it to 1st base. You may pop fly or bunt. You may simply run around the bases. Either way, you're destined to advance in the line-up!

With a little room for creativity your story may come out as a poem, prose or a song, painting, play or sculpture. Yours will not be just another bland autobiography. But a meaningful memoir.

Let me say it once more, with feeling:  https://soundcloud.com/a-marbury-shaw

 

Everybody Has a Story To Tell

Everybody has a story to tell
An epic tale
That inspires, compels
Everybody, Everybody has a story to tell

Everybody has a message to share

Full of courage and hope

As our souls we bare

Everybody, Everybody has a message to share

Let the words fly
Don't hold it in
Tell your beginning, your middle and end
Lift up your voice
Come out of your shell
Cause everybody has a story, A Story to tell

Doot doo doo doo, Doot doo doo doo

A beautiful Love Story

Doot  doo doo doo, Doot doo doo doo

And He gets all the glory

Everybody has a story to tell
You’re an open book
Tears and laughter-filled
Everybody, Everybody has a story to tell

Everybody has a novel to write

That will show our God

In His power and might

Everybody, Everybody has a novel to write

Stand up and take the microphone and

Declare what you and you alone can

In the middle of our mending

We go on, cause we read the ending.

                                

                                                                                

Copyright 2013 A. Shaw