When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.
We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.