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Introducing Funny Fridays!
My humor posts tend to rank among the highest on the blog, but I’ve been lax about including humor regularly.
No more.
In the next few months I’ll add a bit of humor to your Fridays!
If you have the time, drop by and see what’s going on, or add a link with something that amused you recently.
Today’s feature wasn’t originally meant to be funny at all.
BACKGROUND:
This video is part of an extended series of educational videos from Mississippi State University in the early 1950s. Parts of them of still useful today, but only if you can get over the heavy-hand teaching method and the very antiquated feel. I can, but only barely.
Upside:
The goals should still be taught today: good manners, consideration of others, and socially pleasant behavior. It’s crazy though because it’s so far removed from our own time and ways of interacting that it seems like satire, (that’s why it’s a Funny Friday feature.)
• But seriously, it made me stop to consider how I might be more polite. (Gosh, Beaver, maybe good manners are important!)
• Most of these actors would have turned into anti-establishment, long-haired, sexually uninhibited hippies about a decade later. (So much for a cutting edge education delivery method with expected outcomes. HA!)
Downside:
• The angle seems poorly positioned at the beginning as “a way to get what you what” instead of how to be mature or enjoyable to be around.
• It has nothing about texting etiquette. Major oversight! ;)
• Is it about practicing pretenses and inauthenticity? A bit. BLECKkk!
VIEWING TIP:
Try to not be cynical when you watch this. It’s easy sometimes to disparage things from other eras. We live in a cynical time! if you can manage it, try to appreciate this as a “time-capsule” of another time and a culture removed from ours today (for better and for worse).
The next post will go live on Sunday. It starts a series I’m really interested in and, golly, I hope to see you soon! That would be swell!
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Find your Niche in 5 Minutes [VIDEO]
I made this video below because it’s hard to secure a niche.
Getting your writing starting or getting your business going requires that you identify your unique niche to do well. As you draw your distinctions, you stand out.
Most everybody agrees on that, but rare is the precise advice on how to make that happen.
No more.
I worked to create a method that is simple and quick.
Don’t continue in your business or writing pursuits without nailing down the perfect, and more importantly–the specific–niche for you. It’s crucial to help you promote what you are doing well. It’s important to gain the traction you need to really succeed. I have all the details to make drilling down a snap.
More more thing! The great part about HOW I worked this out for us…my “purple cow” as Seth Godin puts it…is the affiliate sharing program integrated in.
[I’m not going to mince words. It’s really generous. Most affiliate programs give you a 10% sharing reward. Mine is 50%. So, not only can you gain some useful knowledge by viewing the short Tututorial, at a very reasonable price, but once you share the video tutorial, you can reap a hefty 50% reward each time someone pays to watch it. Extra cash is good, right? Exactly.]
Below is the preview. (To be an affiliate partner, and help me spread the word and also line your pockets, follow the link button in the video screen to sign up at youreeeka.com.)
So here it is: The video!
To watch on YOUTUBE click HERE.
HOW TO FIND YOU NICHE IN 5 MINUTES –
The preview gives you the method in basic terms. Downloadable Learning Materials (worksheets, see sidebar) are free once you pay to view the tutorial. They assure the success of the method!
Would you pay just $2.99 to nail down your niche in a few minutes? Trust me, it’s WORTH IT. (please pass along this article to anyone you know who’s a writer or who’s starting a business.
The password for the Free companion learning materials is shown the Tutorial. See what you think!
[FYI-This may not be viewable on a mobile device. Use link to access the video on my channel.]
Protected: Discernment Series: Lent, Fasting, and Discernment, part 1
5 Ways Others Sabotage Your Creative Mojo
When you’re doing a project, starting something creative, or otherwise trying to upgrade your life, sabotage comes at you from many angles.
Think of it as a sign that you’re on the right track.
A little prep work can serve to inoculate you from intentional or unintentional sabotage.
5 Ways Others Sabotage Your Creative Mojo
1. Diversion. Fun opportunities, a needy spouse or friend, or a buzz of busyness will pervade your surroundings splitting your energies, and stretching you too far. Sometimes your focus and determination will draw others to you like a magnet. But instead of giving useable support, they’ll be agents of distraction. Strict boundaries are the best defense.
2. Guilt-trips. Phrases like,
“You don’t seem to have time for me.”
“I never see you anymore.”
“You seem so busy.” give you the sense that you’re not being a good person as you pursue your project. Reassure these saboteurs while claiming ground. Tell them you have to balance your life differently now.
3. Bargain-makers. “If you do “this” for me, I’ll do “this” for you,” type phrases signal that your creative energy or determination is being met with a subtle attack. It’s a way to be manipulated away from your task at hand, too. You might need to clarify you needs succinctly and repeatedly: “I’m sorry I can’y get off-task right now. I’ll be able to do more in a month (or whatever time you decide).
Just in writing this very post, I’ll had to say this to my two children 8 times in the last 15 minutes. The “broken record” tactic sends a solid message like only repetition can. But, you must persist!
4. Punitive Words and Deeds. Be it the “cold shoulder”, the passive aggressive responses, yelling and confrontation, or subtle bullying, when others pushback at what you’re doing you must muster the mental toughness to soldier on. Do it before the punishment comes from them.
5. Threats.
When others say, “If you do that, this will happen.” Or, “I don’t think I can support you if you go in this direction,” they may be trying to manipulate your creative mojo off-task for selfish reasons. If/then statements offer a tipoff that all or nothing attitudes pervade your interactions and risk derailing you. Minimize threats with a calm resolved response and carry on.
Surely there are others. What trips you up?