Sometimes, the best stories are hidden in events and moments in our past. In this exercise, use prompts to reflect on the last few days in your life and identify moments that are storyworthy.

• Did someone from your past pop up in your life unexpectedly?
• Did you hear a story from a friend or loved one that you had never heard before?
• Pay attention to your text messages this week. Did anyone text you something worth capturing?
• Did you react to something in the news this week? Your reactions and feelings about moments in history are often worthy of a story.
• Did something annoy you recently? Pay attention to the things that annoy you this week. Strong emotions make for excellent stories.

Reflecting on questions like these creates an opportunity to identify moments that have the potential to become great stories.

A great way to resurrect old and forgotten memories is to jog your brain through a stream-of-consciousness writing exercise. Over time, you will start to trigger memories that will add to your arsenal of events and moments from your life that could be stories worth telling.

With a timer set for 10 minutes, write down whatever words come to your mind, linking words and ideas together if it helps, but without any need for what you write to make any sense.

One of the most fun ways to trigger storyworthy memories is to play with random words that capture stories from the past.

You get a set of 3 random words (e.g. apple, turtle, silver) that trigger a memory and allow you to deposit a "storyworthy" moment into your Memory Bank. Rather than cast a wide net (e.g. topic of love), this game is designed to be very specific.

There is no limit to how often you can practice. And if you don't like any of the words, just refresh the page to get new words.

At the end of the day take a moment and reflect on the moments that stood out as the potential to be “storyworthy”. Ask yourself - if I had to tell a story from today — a five-minute story onstage about something that took place over this day — what would it be?

Make it a habit. It's a quick and easy exercise designed to be like brushing your teeth, something you are not going to skip. Capture just a sentence or two that will help you remember the m oment and recall it clearly at a later date.

When you sign up for StoryCoach, you will get a daily email reminding you to save your moment from the day. Simply reply to that email with a sentence or two about a moment from the day, and it will be saved for you in your Memory Bank.