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    The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most
    The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most
    The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most
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    The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most

    By Christine Cowley

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    The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most contains 24 engaging exercises to guide readers through the steps of creating a legacy statement; easy lessons help recall and relate life experiences, moral and ethical values, personal recollections, and family stories. Writing exercises help facilitate the composition of engaging narratives that inform, illustrate and leave a lasting imprint.

    The Gift Companion Workbook provides ample space for recording answers to questions, or for lengthier sharing and storytelling; pages are lined and unlined to allow for illustrations or other images. The workbook can serve as a rough copy for a future manuscript, but is attractive enough to be passed on as the finished product. Instructions for self-publishing help readers create their own books as treasured heirlooms for future generations. The workbook is sold separately. The Gift Companion Workbook provides ample space for recording answers to questions, or for lengthier sharing and storytelling. Visit The Gift Legacy website for more details.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristine Cowley
    Release dateDec 5, 2012
    ISBN9780978493271
    The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most
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    Christine Cowley

    Christine E. Cowley Christine Cowley is an author, collaborator, editor and/or publisher of over 30 books. She is founder and Managing Editor of LifeGems Personal Histories, which produces personal, family and corporate histories. Christine’s latest book, The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most, released in November 2010, is a "how-to" book for creating your legacy statement. A legacy statement is simply an expression of who you are and what is important to you; it provides a unique opportunity to leave a personal statement for future generations. The message of The Gift is: "Our lives will be defined by what we leave behind." Butchers, Bakers and Building the Lakers: Voices of Collingwood, Cowley’s award-winning oral/pictorial history, shares the stories of many generations of residents of Collingwood, ON, once hailed as the "Chicago of the North."

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      Book preview

      The Gift - Christine Cowley

      THE GIFT: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most

      By Christine E Cowley

      THIS BOOK HAS BEEN REFORMATTED AS AN E-BOOK. diagrams and tables may appear differently than the original print or pdf versions.

      A PDF version with A WORKBOOK is available for purchase and download at

      www.thegiftlegacy.com

      Print copies of book & workbook kit available at www.thegiftlegacy.com

      Published by LifeGems Personal Histories

      Collingwood, ON Canada, 2010

      www.lifegemsbio.com

      Published by Christine Cowley at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval

      system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,

      mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise,

      without prior written permission of the Publisher.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only.

      This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people.

      If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an

      additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it,

      or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com

      and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Cowley, Christine E., 1957-

      The gift : something I've been meaning to say : sharing your life

      lessons with the people you love most / Christine E. Cowley.

      ISBN 9780978493271

      1. Autobiography--Moral and ethical aspects. 2. Conduct of life.

      I. Title.

      CT25.C69 2010 808'.06692 C2010-905815-1

      THE GIFT

      Something I’ve Been Meaning to Say. . .

      sharing your life lessons with the people you love most

      Christine e. Cowley

      Dedication

      For Aron

      who never knew

      we would always remember

      with gratitude

      In creating The Gift I have drawn on more than 30 years of reading, writing, observation, falling down and getting up, meditation, falling down again, friendly (or not so) advice and professional counselling. Like most people, I am a product of all of these experiences and modes of learning. Though my intention has been to provide an easily accessible and original format to help others in drawing together the threads of their lives to create The Gift, it is unavoidable that past teachings and deeply embedded mental exercises or processes will be reflected in some of the material presented here. Let me assure my readers that any resemblance to any pre-existing material is completely unintentional. Let me further assure all of the many teachers and mentors from whose wisdom I have benefitted (far too many to include all of you, therefore I leave the list unwritten) that any similarities should be seen as the highest of compliments, and for any borrowed element(s) please accept my deepest gratitude.

      Special thanks to my husband, Marcus, and friends Susan McCallan and Ian Chadwick for reviewing, commenting, editing and encouraging every step of the way.

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

      TOOLS YOU WILL NEED

      SKILLS REQUIRED

      INTENTIONS

      PART 1

      MINING THE GEMS

      PART 2

      WHAT TO SAY & HOW TO SAY IT

      PART 3

      ARRANGING, POLISHING AND FINISHING

      Introduction

      The concepts put forward in this book have been with me for so long I can’t remember how, where, or when they first began impressing themselves upon me. Even before I began writing personal and family histories, I felt passionate about writing letters—and teaching others to write letters—as an easy and enduring method of sharing significant thoughts, memories and (sometimes awkward) feelings with loved ones. One of the greatest benefits to doing the exercises in The Gift is the opportunity to conduct a life review—an enlightening and encouraging experience of personal rediscovery. Writing down what we learn or relearn about life and ourselves is a treasure for all time, revealing ourselves in ways that only we can express.

      The Gift is your time machine; propelling you into the future aboard a vehicle of your own creation: airy musings, lines of poetry or song, or your deepest thoughts, feelings, dreams, longings and

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