Personal Narrative Examples - Making Your Story Real

Personal narrative examples can be powerful tools for the writer or public speaker. These narratives give the writer or speaker the opportunity to relay a personal experience to their audience, showing them exactly how they were effected and what the outcome was. These tales are more than just short anecdotes, they can be full, impactful episodes that drive home a message or creates a connection between the speaker and their audience.

When giving a personal narrative, it is extremely important to explain things in detail. Saying "I got up in the morning and went to school," isn't enough to create the interest needed in the story. Give a detailed description of the events. " Each day, the alarm rang at 5:30. After shivering in bed for a few moments, I dashed to the heater to feel the warmth while I dressed. I then began the frigid 3 mile walk to the dilapidated high school." This will give your readers or listeners an image of the events that you are trying to portray.

One of the reasons that personal narratives come across so well in storytelling is that they give the audience a sensory experience, when told correctly. The audience should be able to picture the backdrop, imaging the physical sensations, hear the sounds, and feel each emotion. This allows them to connect with the subject and have a deeper interest in the message that they are sharing with the story. Even if they do not listen, they will have heard and considered your words. They will remember the tales you have told and will continue to think back on the message, even if they did not connect with it immediately.

Personal Narrative Examples - Making Your Story Real

People thrive on personal interaction and respect and listen to those with whom they can connect. By using personal narrative examples to communicate an important point or address a sensitive topic, speakers can have a very high success rate of reaching their target audience. Telling tales in this form does take quite a bit of practice, and should be done in front of an audience to get feedback and suggestions for making your narratives more impactful.

Personal Narrative Examples - Making Your Story Real
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Personal Core Values

Each of us has our own set of values. These are what determine which aspects of life we regard as important or beneficial. Our values help determine our tastes, our way of life, our entertainment, our social, political and religious interactions. Each of us holds many values and these values are liable to change as we grow, reach different stages of life or have different experiences or influences in life. Some of the values we hold may be 'superficial', transitory or fitting solely the moment in which we find ourselves. Other values are more fixed and may stay with us through our life; these are our 'core values'.

Our values come from a range of sources. Our parents are a key influence upon our values as we grow as children. So, too, is any church or religious background we experience. Our society, our neighbours, friends and colleagues, too, can have an influence upon our values. So, too, can our teachers and our schooling.

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Often, school can be a place of conflict for it is there that we experience other values perhaps for the first time. Some of the values we experience in school can be in conflict with or contradict the values of our parents. As we go through high school, we start to experience values in ourselves and our peers that conflict both with school and our parents. Conflicting and unfixed values can be a major problem for adolescent and teenage years.

Personal Core Values

As we grow in years and experience, our values become more fixed, especially a set of 6 to 10 'core' values. It is these core values that determine what is really important to us as an individual. The surprising thing is that if you ask most people what their values are, many would not be able to give you an answer.

A good many people are leading lives unconnected with their core values. This can lead to a life of unhappiness, discontent and lack of fulfilment. Sometimes it can lead to conflict. Often the person does not know why their life seems unhappy, unfulfilled and sometimes full of conflict. Often, the cause is that the life they are living is not in accordance with their personal values.

For some people a conflict can arise within them because they are trying to live a life according to the values of a company, an organisation, a religious or political organisation, the values of their friends or colleagues or partner, rather than living a life according to their own core values. In doing this, the values of the other people or organisations are being met but the person's own values are being left unfulfilled.

This is not to say that a person is always wrong to seek to support and fulfil the values of other people or organisations. However, leaving your own values unfulfilled can lead to frustration and unhappiness. A key issue in this, though, is that the person may believe they are doing the right thing by working to the values of others and yet still feel a sense of frustration and unfulfilment; -the reason being that they may be unaware of their own values or, maybe, feel guilty of their own values where they conflict with the values of others.
So, if you feel your life is unfulfilled, unhappy, or maybe has too much conflict, then it could be that you are leading a life that does not accord with your core values. The question is; do you know your own personal core values?

Hiring a personal life coach can certainly help you to discover your personal values but for those who want to start the discovery for themselves, try answering the following question;

What, in life, is important to you?

Don't think about your answers (yes, there's likely to be more than one thing that's important to you), at least don't think about them at first. Just write down whatever comes into your head, no matter how strange, amusing or worrying they may seem. These first answers are probably your 'gut' or 'intuitive' answers; sometimes these are closer to the truth than answers that you 'think' about. Next, think about what is important in life for you. Take some time to consider your answers before writing them down in a word or short phrase. Don't worry if the some of the same answers appear in your first list; - just write them down again.

Now you have two lists. Take a look at them; is there anything there that surprises you or anything that worries you? Sometimes people can be quite surprised by what they write down and occasionally they may write down something that shocks them or they feel guilty about.

Quite common words that people put on their list of values include ; 'money', 'success', 'family', 'wife/husband/partner', 'growth', 'power'. If you find one, or more, of these words on your list, ask yourself another question;

What does (the word) mean for me?

So you may ask, 'what does money mean for me'. To which the answer could be; money means security, or money means success, or money means freedom, or money means being able to provide for my family.

By answering the second question you can help uncover the real or underlying value for you. So for you, money is not the real value, it is 'security' or 'being successful' or 'being independent' or 'being able to provide for my family' that is the real value.

So, by doing these simple exercises, you are beginning to discover your personal core values. The next exercise is to ask your self 'how do my life, my work and my relationships help fulfil my personal values?' If you find that they do not help you fulfil your personal values then perhaps you should consider changing your life. To do that; get a life coach.

Personal Core Values

Douglas Woods is a qualified life coach who works with individuals and couples seeking to improve their life or relationships. You can read more about his work at http://www.dougwoods.com.

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