Tag: Ideas

Ideas when learning 

Learning a new skill can be a real challenge but with the right mindset and approach, anyone can master a new skill. Here are some tips and tricks for success: 

  1. Before learning a new skill, set a clear goal of what you want to achieve. Keeping a specific goal in mind will help you stay focused and motivated. 
  1. Once you have your goal in mind, make a plan of action. Break down the skill into smaller, manageable steps and set deadlines for each step. 
  1. Consistency is key in learning new skills. Make sure to practice regularly, even if it’s just for a Feedback is essential for improving your skills. Whether it’s from a teacher, mentor, or friend, seek out constructive criticism to help you grow. 
  1. Learning a new skill is not always easy, and it’s important to accept failure as part of the process. Everyone makes mistakes which are opportunities to learn and grow. 
  1. Learning a new skill is sometimes a challenge, but it’s important to stay motivated. Celebrate your progress along the way and remember why you started in the first place. 

Anyone can successfully learn a new skill. Remember to stay patient and persistent, and most importantly, have fun! 

Good Things Are Coming

The days are growing shorter, and time has to be adjusted to enjoy the sun. We have no snow yet in our drought country and can hardly wait for that covering of white. Yet, we find ways to have a little fun and be a little bit productive.

Good things are coming our way, yet nothing happens without some hard work. Even Christmas requires a Black Friday to precede it, and if that wasn’t enough, there’s a Cyber Monday thrown in there also.

It seems the elves at Reveille.Rocks are working a little overtime. There will definitely be a book, and hopefully, a course ready for Santa’s helpers to place under the tree for somebody looking for a new job.

I don’t want to spoil the fun. I’m just here to say, please keep your eyes open because good things always abound in a season of miracles.

Who do you know that could use a little joy and help this season?

Change The World

Dreams are important. Unfortunately, they don’t accomplish much.

Plans are needed. And yet, any project that’s in your hard drive or your notebook does not change the world.

The most remarkable ideas that anyone ever devised go nowhere just by talking about them.

Want to make something happen? You must connect, persuade and educate. Then you need to touch, move, and build. Then you have to market, change minds and sell ideas. Then you need to sell the product, save, and grow.

 By the time you get to that point, you know you no longer have a false feeling that everything is perfect.  By that time, you know which three things are coming next.

What are you going to do that will change the world?

Do You Believe

Do you Believe?

Do you Believe in You?

Do you Believe in your Ideas?

Do you Believe in Ideas that soar?

Do you Believe that the right Idea will make you fly?

Do you Believe in soaring on the wings of a Great Idea?

Do you Believe?

New Possibilities

They say that some of the best companies are born out of times of economic hardship.  I tend to believe that.  I look at blue chips such as IBM, and others and I can see the results.  And, I know what the reason could be.

When we are in a depression or a major recession, there is a little more time to work the project and get it right.  You need to have a good idea to start.  The extra time allows honing for how the product presents itself and what it can do for the buyer.  It will enable the company to make the concept better before the need skyrockets, and all you can do is fight to keep up.

If the product is right, the demand will be there as the downturn in the market ebbs, and the nation recovers.  There are many reasons.  Some include some old and unhealthy companies that may fall by the wayside, and new commerce will step up to take in the slack.  New companies are more likely to purchase new ways, ideas, and machines to keep up with new demand.

I am not encouraging you to wait for a significant fall in the market to start your enterprise.  I am only showing you what happened in the past.  I am also encouraging you not to let a recession or depression hold you back from giving the world its next big timesaver.

Thank you for being with me today.  I hope to be with you again tomorrow.

Putting It All Together

Thank you for being with me this week as we look at alternative ways to learn when time is in short supply. I just want to remind you of the old saying about getting something done. If you wish to do something, people will help you to find a thousand reasons why you can’t do it. All you need do is find one reason why you can.

The Wright brothers didn’t build an airplane by starting off with figuring out how a jet engine works. They looked at nature, watching those things that fly. They communicated with others who were working along the same lines and did so without an iPhone nor messenger to help them out. They came up with ideas and theories of what should work, and then they tested those theories to find which ones really worked. And their first working craft looked nothing like a Boeing 747.

Learning often means paying dues. This does not mean you have to pay them all at once. Sometimes the best knowledge is learned by sharing, asking questions, providing ideas, and yes, a lot of research. Those who want to do this can find their way by utilizing the time that runs through their fingers. Time playing games, time watching uninteresting television shows, and time staring into space are just three items that could easily be traded for knowledge.

Please think of these ideas the next time you really want to learn something and just feel trapped by all the things you already hold on your plate. They say that a busy person is the one you ask to get something done. And everything being equal this is true. Because a busy person doesn’t have time to waste on something and will do it just to get it out of the way.  Are you or could you be that busy person?

Thank you for being with me today. I hope to be with you again tomorrow.

Travel Always Gives a True Light

I find it is travel that renews our spirits. It allows us to learn new customs, meet new people, and see new sites. My wife and I were blessed to enjoy such a trip this last week. I thank you for your patience when I went into areas and actions where daily blogging would be hard to accomplish.

I traveled for hours through the desert enjoying the cool air and the snow which was still present in crevices and washes where the sun had not yet shined on it. I had initially been worried about the heat I remembered from being stationed in Del Rio, Texas. I was very grateful to the kind people of Arizona who arranged a little snow and temperatures in the ’30s for us.

Part of my trip took me to Douglas, Arizona where I attended my son’s wedding and welcomed a wonderful new son-in-law into the family. I was also very privileged to meet his wonderful extended family and enjoy their gracious company.

I will tell you more of the grand hotel we stayed in later. It was the technical wonder of its day when first built, and even today, as it is being restored to former glory, all of the history and narrative of the local area is still visible and felt within its walls.

I will have much more to tell you about in upcoming blogs. For now, I wish to thank the people of Douglas. While I was there, I went out and walked the town. I always felt safe in this border crossing town. And the people were very friendly. I saw nice small shops, and I ate delicious local cuisine.

The hype I see on TV about terrorists, drug smugglers, rapists, and other terrors, I have learned is made up TV hype. I have been there and what I see in this nice border town is a community where people are living and enjoying daily life.

I want to thank all those I met, and all those I had a chance to talk with. Because of all these interactions, I have grown and hopefully become a better person because I have new ways to look at things.  Travel always helps to see things in a true light.

Thanks for being with me today. I hope to be with you again tomorrow.

Needed Improvements

Have you ever had an irritating problem that just threw you off your whole day’s activities? Something significant enough to be a thorn in your side and yet should’ve been small enough that you would handle it in due course? I had one of those this morning. And it disrupted my whole morning routine.

My cell phone died. The end had been coming for the last few weeks. And although with technical help, I had been able to breathe life back into it for a little while, it had died. It had been an excellent 2014 phone which had lasted me just shy of four years. It’s the longest time I had ever had the same cell phone.

There was no reason to get hung up about the problem. It was just an inanimate object whose time for replacement had come, and yet it started my whole week off by having to cancel the weekly call with my accountability partner. And although I’ve had problems like this before, I don’t know why this one took me over the edge.

I think it might have been the fact that, I believe I should’ve been more active in staying ahead of the problems and not letting them come to fruition. Rather than trying to squeeze every penny out of every item in use, I need to pay closer attention to functional lifespan and staying ahead of the curve on needed improvements.

Our business, personal, and family life, all deserve upgrades as needed.

I do not believe I’m the only one to ever face the need for positive change either and what I use or what I do. If you have a story about a needed change, please share with us. I would be glad to see that it gets posted.

Thank you for being here. I hope to be with you again tomorrow.

Got Help?

It is okay to need or offer help.

One day or another, on one question or another each of us needs assistance in finding the answers. Help sometimes comes in the form of knowing something the other person does not and sharing that knowledge. Other times, it is the ability to do something that another person cannot do for themselves.

Once again, we see significant weather phenomena, affecting our coastline. With wind and rain, and devastation to buildings and infrastructure, we see people in the middle of the storm bringing in their boats and going out to help people. We think those people and praise them for risking their own life and limb to save others.

Most of the time, help does not require anything quite so dramatic. Help is often two friends having a talk, sharing information, knowing that one would gladly give another a hand. Help is often someone just listening to another person and giving them a suggestion or two.

In many instances, the person being helped today may be giving the help tomorrow or the next day. After all, as the poets remind us, we are not islands, and we were never designed to live in solitude. Help and being helped is part of our inherited destiny. And, we should participate in that destiny when needed.

Marketing?

I am cleaning up a new class which I wrote and am republishing this week. I love to write courses that help people. I hate to pester people or nag them. This leaves me in a small quandary; how do I market my new product?

I have done some studying in marketing. As a solopreneur, I have a lot of people who market to me incessantly. With marketing funnels, emails, and even showing up as advertisements in my game apps, I wish not to cause anyone else the anguish that all the marketing focused on me causes. So, as I go through this week of questions to my audience, I have to ask a question. How do you prefer to be marketed to?

I don’t ask this to be trite. Instead, I’m asking because I really like to know, I am very curious. I am looking for and trying to design a marketing system for my products which is as noninvasive as possible. I would not market at all except for the fact that after four years of not marketing, nothing has sold. This proves the theory that if a course is developed in the woods, nobody hears it.

If you have any good ideas or find you have an idea which you think the public might like, please let me know. In the meantime, I am going to work hard at getting information of the course out to the public while trying not to disturb the public’s Qi.

Thank you for thinking about this and helping me.  Please send a comment with any thoughts you may have.