Storyworthy Summary (C3): Homework for Life

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Believe it or not, your life is filled with storyworthy moments.

All you need to do is collect and craft them.

How to craft your everyday moments into compelling stories will come soon.

First, you’ll learn how to collect and identify potential stories from the seemingly ordinary moments from your life.

You probably think that the time you were in an airplane crash or when you saved a kid from drowning are your best stories, but they’re not.

While these ‘big’ stories can be entertaining (if told correctly), they are very hard to relate to. When you tell a big story like this, not many people can imagine themselves in your shoes, because they haven’t experienced the same thing.

On the other hand, a heartwarming moment set around the kitchen table with your family is something that many people can connect with. You may think it is a tiny thing that no one else will be interested in, but they are. Of course, the tiny story must have the elements of a good story, such as a moment of change.

That’s not to say that you can’t tell the big stories. You can, but you must structure them so they are more about the little moments that just happen to occur during the big story. The moment of personal change. For example, as the plane was going down, you realized that the one person you wanted to see again was the girlfriend you broke up with the week before. You realized that you loved her all along.

Homework for Life is a daily 5-minute assignment that will help you identify the small stories that happen in your life.

At the end of each day, ask yourself this question:

If I had to tell a five-minute story about something that happened in my life today, what would it be?

In other words: what was the most storyworthy moment from your day?

The key to this is to not write down the entire story. That would take too long and you will be more inclined to skip days or not do it at all. Instead, jot down the date and one or two sentences about the event so that when you read it later you’ll remember what it’s about.

A good way to do this is in a spreadsheet. One column for the date and one for the story snippet. This has a number of benefits:

• It acts as a limit. Don’t write more than can fit in the cell.
• It makes it easy to organize. You can copy and paste ideas into other places and easily filter out the truly storyworthy ideas.
• You will see patterns in your life. A spreadsheet allows you to easily shift rows next to each other so you can group them and those grouped stories can be molded together into better stories if need be.

Even if you never plan on telling a story, doing ‘Homework for Life’ is still useful. It’s a way to reflect on your day.

Soon enough, you’ll start noticing storyworthy moments in real-time. You’ll start to appreciate all those seemingly insignificant personal changes that happen all the time which went completely unnoticed before.

It’s like accelerated personal growth where you learn lessons from life itself.

You’ll also start remembering storyworthy moments from the past. Meaningful things that you probably never would have recalled otherwise. You can jot these down in your ‘Homework for Life’ spreadsheet also.

Finally, by noticing the memorable (storyworthy) moments in your day, time will begin to slow down for you. You’ll start to appreciate ‘the little things’ more, and it’s the little things that make life worth living.

In order to reap the benefits from ‘Homework for Life’ you need two things: commitment and faith.

Commitment to do it every day and faith that it will work.

This exercise takes less than 5-minutes a day and has profound results. Still, most people won’t do it.

Don’t be one of those people.

Do ‘Homework for Life’ every day and don’t give up. It may take weeks, months, or even years before you start to really appreciate all the storyworthy moments in your life, but once it starts to happen, your life will be changed forever.

Read the next chapter here.

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