Photo & Story Treasures: don't have time?

"Those who prepare create their own luck." ~anonymous

Find some helpful nuggets here to help you make time for memory-keeping. Don't forget to click the "our community" tab to find memory-keeping events, too--putting it on your calendar is a great way to make sure it gets done.

"Life is long if you know how to use it." ~Seneca

Below are some excellent resources to help you find and create time. Bookmark and revisit this page, because this resource list keeps growing.

Wish You Had Time? Here's How to Make it. (including how to make more time for the things you love)
Are You Too Busy to Be Productive? (new perspectives on "busy" that can change your mind about it)
"Time Flies, But You're The Pilot." (why time management isn't a thing and how to approach it instead, plus 3 big productivity tips)
Mythbusting: Busting Memory-Keeping Myth #3 ("I don't have enough time")
Free Time and Memory Keeping (How to GET more free time!)
5 Time Management Techniques (strategies for spending time effectively so it's not wasted)
Tips on Bringing Your Photos to Life (including suggestions on how to make time for preserving pictures)
Busy is the New Stupid (an enlightening perspective!)
How Do You Find Time for Memory-Keeping? ("If we didn't have too much to do, we wouldn't know what was important.")
The Badge of Busyness ("We're all too busy to be productive.")
Getting Back on Track When You're Overwhelmed (ideas for beating overwhelm)
The Boring Secret to Being Happy (how to organize your life without unnecessary stress)
Removing Online Distractions Provides Space for Change (how to step up to being who you were meant to be by not being sucked in by social media)
10 Ways to Add Time to Your Day (ten ways to prioritize, focus, and intelligently plan)
Time Saver Hack: Use Your Phone as a Phone (gain an hour or more a day)

"A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." ~Charles Darwin

Another fantastic option is to gather your own group of friends for regular memory-keeping.

I suggest hosting a class (in person or online) to start where I can teach you and your friends about the many benefits of preserving photos and memories using either Forever or Heritage Makers-YPhoto (or both) and actual ways to do it consistently that will match your time and interests. Once you all have a great system, then you just get together regularly with your friends to get it done.

"How did it get so late so soon?" ~Dr. Seuss

And remember that I hire out my experience and services. I can do all or part of a project, help with organization, or anything you need to get you on your way. You can find details by {clicking this link}.

"...As if we could kill time without injuring eternity." ~Henry David Thoreau

Everyone has a story. What's yours?

"Every photo tells a story, but always remember this: there was a story teller behind the lens." -Belinda Taylor

"Bridges built between generations are not built by accident. If I want my children and grandchildren to know those who still live in my memory, then I must build the bridge between them. I alone am the link to the generations that stand on either side of me." -Dennis Neuenschwander

"The sheer volume and lack of organization of digital photos for personal memories discourages many people from accessing and reminiscing about them. In order to remember, we have to access and interact with the photos, rather than just amass them." -Linda Henkel, psychological scientist

"Every life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers." -Hans Christian Andersen (inspiration behind LifeTales Books)

"You can make yourself live forever through writing. Do not pass through life without leaving something behind for others to learn from your experience--even if no one but your children read it. You may discover a you you've never known." ~Antwone Fisher

"A birth certificate shows that we were born. A death certificate shows that we died. Pictures show that we lived! Storybooks tell the stories behind the pictures!"

"A book is a gift that can be opened again and again." -Garrison Keillor

"History will be kind to me because I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill

“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.” -Walt Disney

"The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it... We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates." -Robert Coover

"If history were told in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."-Rudyard Kipling

"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by." -Harvey Cox

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." ~Carl Sagan

"My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once to young to remember. Now I make scrapbooks because one day I may be too old to remember." ~unknown

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this." ~Dave Eggars

"People say that a time machine can't be invented, but they've already invented a device that can stop time. Cameras are the world's first time machines." ~Rebecca McNutt

Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts. ~unknown

"If remembering a few miraculous moments strengthens you a little bit, then remembering a lot of miraculous moments will strengthen you a lot." ~Alan Wright

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