I still think back to the public speaking mentor who said to me “Write a story about your life everyday”. At the time, it seemed like a daunting task. “I’m not that interesting”, “There is nothing inspiring about me”, and “Who cares about the small moments in my life” were all the things that went through my mind. Surely, there won’t be many stories for me to tell.

Now I have to get help sort through stories to be able to do on stage. When it comes to telling personal narrative stories, finding stories to tell is just a skill. A skill that as I do it more, I get better at. I may have great stories to tell, but I don’t have your stories to tell. If you use the ideals I spoke about in this blog series, then great. If you use some other method, then that’s great too. I implore you to go find your stories. The world will be a better place by hearing your story on purpose.

Published by Nick Baskerville

After years of being an instructor in the military and the and the fire service, I realized I needed to improve my delivery. My students needed me to improve delivery. But how do I improve my delivery? Simple. I finally took a member of Toastmasters up on the invitation to come to a meeting. It wasn't long until I joined. Along the way of improving my skills at delivering a message, I came to understand that of all the ways to get a point across, telling stories is the best way to get it done. Around this time, another friend from Toastmasters told me about The Moth monthly story telling shows. What better way to test out my theories on storytelling. It's in my travels there to the shows that I found more and more shows, and classes, and events centered around storytelling. Despite how many people know about the storytelling world, not many people know about the storytelling world. So now, I'm out to tell the world about storytelling.

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