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Increase Your Wealth and Happiness by Tapping Multiple Sources of Income Generating multiple income streams through starting several small-scale businesses can help you keep your paychecks coming in this rapidly changing economy.
Presentation Fridays Days that involve travel to an event followed by a presentation are often the most stressful.
From Dublin to Duluth with the Ford Ranger
Muddling Mondays You have returned to work on Monday after making a presentation at a trade show and a 4-to- 12 hour flight back home. After making a presentation at a trade show or other event and a long flight back home the body, mind and spirit are going to take time to recover, whether it is convenient for you or not. Your objective on returning back to work is to muddle through the day without making any major mistakes, or in more direct language, without fucking up too badly. At work: Avoid immediate commitments • Retire to the quietest place you can findr
Starting Another Business While Working for Someone Else Ethical ways to start another company or create a new job while working for someone else.
From Creation to Realization: A Case Study I consulted with a client who had a large number of business ideas, but did not have the equipment or skills to properly present them to potential backers.
Working Through Sick Days How you can continue productive work through your annual bout with colds, flu and sinus infections. An annual debilitating fight with colds and other respiratory diseases is something that impacts everyone from the CEO to the worker who is contracted to clean the toilets with each employee losing an average of five day’s work a year. The pressure is on to continue work, either because of project requirements or to pay bills; even though you may be feeling more dead than alive. Coping with Infectious Diseases
Crystallography as a Way to Discover the “Unknown Unknowns” Regarding any Process or Question Crystallography with its rigid rules of form and symmetry provides a way to consider undiscovered facts and properties of complex problems.
Wrap Up Wednesdays Consolidate Plans for End of Week Presentations.
Ask for a Raise or Change Jobs? Mid-level employees with two years or more of experience have never been in a better position to ask for a raise.
Regular Order According to the Dog All actions by my humans must be done the same way every day.
Jobs for Laid-Off Assembly Line Workers Automation has replaced hundreds of thousands of assembly line workers and Human Resource Departments have not succeeded in finding jobs for many of them.
Choose Your Partners as Carefully as You Would Choose Your Parents While sex appeal and lust-driven emotional responses likely played a large part in your being conceived, such responses need to be set aside when taking on a business partner. Maybe a sex partner can be a business partner, but the first determination in partnership is “What can you bring to the business that I cannot?”
Wm. Hovey Smith is a registered Professional Geologist in Georgia. He is also a member of several writers’ organizations including the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) and the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association (GOWA). He is the author of 18 books with his most recent title being “Create Your Own Job Security: Plan to Start Your Own Business at Midlife.” He has been a radio host and does public speaking on work and environmental topics with appearances in the U.S., Europe and China.
Avoid Financial Disaster when Selling Your Company Is selling your company going to reward you financially or leave you with a bankrupt company and debts that you cannot repay? Thus far your entrepreneurial enterprises have gone well. You started a company, made it a success, ran it for decades and now would like to cash out to move on onto something else. You have solicited offers and some have been received. How to you evaluate which one to accept? A range of options are offered. These include: • Cash Purchase with A One-Time Paymentr
Truck Drivers as Potential Entrepreneurs A life on the road teaches many things that are useful for starting new businesses.
Foreign travel on an intercontinental scale is time consuming, tiring and expensive. Flight times from the U.S. to China can be 30 hours and 12-15 hours to most locations in Europe. Those living in Australia, New Zealand, Africa, South America and India also face many hours in an aircraft to reach destinations in Europe or the Americas.r
Writing Fiction while Sitting by the Bogwood Fire Bogwood.n. Darkly colored wood that may be 10s of thousands of years old recovered from marshes and bogs in typically northern latitudes that is dried and used for fuel in areas where other wood is scarce or absent.
Increased Productivity in the Time of Coronavirus Writing is by its nature a generally solitary occupation where for many of us a self-isolation is generally desired during at least part of the process. Now being 78 and a widower it is just me and Hector, my Lab, at home, and I do not have any great difficulty with that. Just as is the case when a plant under stress produces more fruit, I am producing more books. Most of my books are of interest to my fellow outdoor enthusiasts, but my business books are applicable to all. Finish Old Projects
Canine Supervision: Natural Law According to Your Dog For the safety and wellbeing of the household no human should be allowed to work except under the close supervision of one or more canine supervisors.
Ads for Your Business or Services that Pay You Money You can have ads for your business or service that circulate worldwide, contain exactly the content that you want, stay up forever and pay you money.
An Older Guy Balances His Physical, Intellectual and Social Life
An extract from my forthcoming book "Make Your Own Jobr Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" to be published in February, 2020 Writing a Book Often the most rapid way to establish credibility in a field is to write a book about a hot topic and use this book as a springboard to access members of the print and broadcast media. This initial exposure will not only help you sell copies of your book, but will also open the much more lucrative market as a paid lecturer and self-help guru. You will then be able to do group consultations with industry in addition to attracting private clients.r
Stay or Move with Your Job: Increasing Your Options
Pick Up Tuesdays Most creative people who are not endowed with the “neatness gene” live a messy existence. Pick Up Tuesdays budgets one day a week to restore a degree of order to their environments. To the frequent dismay of those whose motto is, “Everything has its place and everything is in its’ place,” many creative people had rather create than clean up after themselves. Their desks are often messy, their houses are cluttered and their workshops often have half-finished projects on the workbench.
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Recommendations for Reducing Depression While Recovering from Potentially Deadly Accidents and Diseases Interesting, exciting and productive intellectual work can help reduce feelings of depression and lessen the need for drugs while undergoing treatment and rehab. A former U.S. Marine and fellow outdoor writer who always prided himself with being a self-sufficient individual, let a foot infection go untreated for too long. The result was a life-threatening infection that will result in amputation of the foot and a recovery process that will take months.
You can overcome self-doubt and knowledge deficiencies to increase earnings by designing a job that fits your unique mix of talents and abilities. All of us have a unique set of knowledge and experiences. In modern regimented business models it is common to attempt to place people into jobs that don’t suite them with the result that some workers are forced into jobs where they do not fit. While specialized training is necessary to function in almost any part of today’s economy, the benefits may be relatively short-term, as one technology is replace by another within a few years.
Untangling Life’s Knotty Problems Wm. Hovey Smith, Nov., 2019 “Don’t sweat the small stuff” is an often heard admonition. Cleaning up after a camping trip brought this lesson into focus in a powerful way as I attempted to untangle a knot of three different sizes of ropes and cords after a trip through my washer and dryer.r
Recreating a Sicilian Terror Weapon of 1000 B.C. Luigi, The Claw, one of the characters in the novel I am writing, Father of The Grooms, has been an active Mafia member since World War II. As a boy he participated in the resistance against the Germans and suffered the loss of his left hand because of a bomb explosion. In recognition of his service he was given work as a draftsman for American sponsored archaeological excavations that took place on the island as the war debris were being cleared from Sicily’s historic towns.
Overcoming Shyness in Life and Business Perhaps the best example of a person who has overcome shyness is the performing artist who stands naked on stage and presents his art before an audience of half-drunk New Yorkers in the wee hours of the morning.
Protecting Yourself and Financial Position from Coronavirus
Taking Control of Your Own Life: Making the Transition from Punching Bag to Fighter A fighter who quits can never win. A fighter who stays in the ring may win and will learn from the experience. Wm. Hovey Smith, Author of Create Your Own Job Security.
Alte ative Reality: True, False or Somewhere in Between? Alte ative reality is an opinion that may or may not be supported by facts. A new phrase, alte ative reality, entered the language with the Trump administration. It is used to describe statements often issued by the president that he may believe to be true, but do not correspond with reported facts or commonly held beliefs. Where is this term on the spectrum between truth and falsehood?
Entrepreneurship As a Means of Combating the Epidemic of Loneliness Useful work to fill the hours of our days is what your body would tell you it wants if it could speak.
Job Options if You Are/Were a Shutdown Impacted Federal Employee or Retail Worker
Property Rights: Natural Law According to the Dog What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine and what’s theirs is mine if I can get it.
Create Your Own Job with Your Present Company, Another Company or On Your Own With today’s rapid advances in IT technology, science, marketing and an ever-evolving art world it is possible to invent marketable jobs to capitalize on in a variety of ways.
A Georgia Spineless Eatable Cactus asr A Potential Source of Animal and Human Food
Be Prepared for YES Proper prior preparation prevents piss poor performance. Rule of the seven “Ps,” U.S. Army, c. 1970 and possibly long before.
Generating Scenesr The Backbone of the Screenplay
The Case for a Child-Parent Huntr Wm. Hovey Smith November 4, 2019
Stay at home rules and closing colleges has interrupted educational activities for many people. However, resources are available to enable you to learn how to write a movie without being on campus. I have completed a 30-minute video listing books, a writing program, and two college courses that are that you may order today. I have no financial connection with any of these writers or companies and these are the best resources that I have found while writing my own screenplay.
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Reaching potential audiences where they are with business books is best done by offering products on a multiplicity of platforms as author Wm. Hovey Smith has done with his new business title, "Make Your Own Job: Anywhere, Anytime, At Any Age." which was nearly simultaneously published as a softcover, e-book, and audio book through two different publishers. The softcover and e-book were done with Stratton Press and the e-book with Liste Up Productions, in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Return of Coal Straight off the Graveyard Shift the 6-foot 200 lb. guy on my back steps was at the point of tears. The contrast between him and me at now less than 5-foot 7-inches and about 165 pounds was striking as I opened my back door in response to his rap. I appreciated that he had come around noon, because I had a lawnmower tire to get repaired and a trip to Macon to the Georgia Board of State Registrations to make before their office close to renew my license as a Professional Geologist.
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Incorporating Outdoor Materials into Novelsr Wm. Hovey Smith
An Effective Library Appeal For Your Book
As a writer I have written more than 20 books on outdoor and business topics. "Until Death Do You Part: An American Family Meets Their Sicilian Relatives" is now available as an audio book and is to be followed by an e-book, softcover, and perhaps ultimately a movie.