Book Process Continues…& other stuff

And so...

   I am still continuing through the process of publishing a 
children's book.
  I have been working with my 3rd illustrator found on Fiverr.com, and 
 while the pictures,so far, have been produced slowly, I plan to  
continue working with the same artist because the value per 
  dollar is high.

   In the mean time, I have more work to do, such as placing the  
words of the story appropriately beside boxes which will be
  replaced with illustrated images of the same size.

 I also plan to set up and continue this blog on WordPress.org, so
that I can have my blog set up as I want it to be, and
 also so that I can post some things like 'pay per click' for
anyone  who wants to find something interesting other than what
  I write. 

   During the past 7 days, I was at a cottage, where I enjoyed 
doing different things like playing cards and walking through 
  shallow water to an Island.

I also got to find out that my cell phone is hooked up to the
 wrong service provider for where I went.  And that other people inthe household were connected to the 'right' provider. They were
  able to make their long & short distance calls.

This is something I will check out first before I travel next time. I had foolishly thought that since we had WiFi, that the cells
would work too (for calls).  Anyway at least it was possible to
  make calls over the internet.

This is just more ‘Bleep’ for the record

Yes, This is just more ‘bleep’  for when I or someone else looks back and sees that my life wasn’t always easy, or that I wasn’t always so… confidant, self assured, etc.

So…I am still having problems with some of the same issues with my computer as when I started this site. And…the Mac software, “Pages” that I downloaded from the Apple store is not only not working properly, but it is missing things that should clearly be there, and Apple didn’t send me an email receipt that I bought it from them.

And where’s my credit card bill?  Who knows.  It is coincidentally missing as well.

I have GAINED some patience and perseverance.

But presently, it’s looking like I’ll have to take my computer in once again, And have them fix it, so that if it still has problems, more money doesn’t come out of my pocket.  This is the deal that I will make sure happens.  None of this,”You need more memory, but we don’t sell it here.”stuff.   Sure, the memory helped mostly solved one issue (but not the rest), but it would have been better if I got them to test their solution theory before I spent the money buying the solution (new memory).

I do keep remembering that Michael Jordan said something to the effect that he did make a lot of baskets but he also missed a lot too.

Either I’m going to have find a way to except all the missing, making mistakes, and learning some things the hard way, or else I’m going to have to look for a more repetitive, less learning, type of career and lifestyle.

Avoid Looking Down

And so it has happened what I did not want to happen…

I have been to a number of business lectures, where a successful entrepreneur heads to the middle of the stage to say how she/he did it.

Quite often, they said they finally managed to speak with the CEO of the (large) company, and then following deals were a result of that one ‘big’ call.

Before the phone call, many of the entrepreneurs  described how it took great hard work including doing what they feared and doing what they hated.

I found many of these lectures to be negative.

I was longing for someone to stand up and say,” It was easy. All we had  to do was…”

–
And so that is part of my intention, of this blog.  To keep a record of how easy it really is to make a lot of money.

So far, I’m failing though, as I am once again faced with doing things that I rather dislike.  I could pay someone to do what I’m doing but this would cut a big chunk of my profit.

I could quit, and say that it just isn’t worth terrorizing myself (it’s not that bad) to earn a small amount of money, but really I am learning a lot about communication and project management -knowledge that will come in very handy as my learning, experiences, and cash flow builds up.

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Now, I tell myself that it will get easier, because it will get easier.  What I learn from what I experience will compound.  The practice of learning, including facing my fears, will/is becoming a daily habit.  Things that were stressful will/are becoming less stressful.

(Sure I got sick for a couple of days, which at this time, caused me to slow down.)  But really, I believe that all anyone has to do is to keep going,  don’t stop, (except for occasional breaks), don’t look down, accept to look for a nice view, and keep climbing up until we reach the top of the mountain we’re climbing.

Today,I…8/3/13

The children's book I'm trying to publish...
         Definitely, the advice I received 
                                     to not do fiction,
was good advice.
I'm doing fiction because I had written a story
           and all I had to do,
                 so I thought,             was to add pictures.            

Wow!  My trying to get artists to draw a picture of a kid by 
showing them pictures of different kids, proved to 
nearly be futile.
                  Basically, I didn't get what I wanted.

I started with 4 artists on Fiverr.com, cut 2, then paid for
pictures from the other two artists to see which artist was
the most suitable for doing the whole book.

Neither of the two remaining artists were suitable.
                   So I'm going to take a short break
                      from trying to communicate what I want
                             in my children's book.

Hopefully, when I find some more possible suitable artists,
         both,
        my communication skills
         and
        the new artists' communication skills will be better than
those expressed during the past 7 days.
           -or, maybe the artists just need to have better artistic skills.                                        I don't know.
                                             

Yesterday, I looked at horse racing and the odds of winning.  I had hoped that if I bet on all the horses that I would win no matter
  which horse came first.
   But no.  It doesn't work that way. In fACT, IT isn't even close!

The past two weeks I have been reading and learning about trading 
  and the stock market.
   I had been thinking that eventually I would end up growing my
    large earnings via the trading,  
     but lately, with my frustration with technology, communicating      to the artists, and lack of enjoyment of doing something 
       creative, I've been more interested in just getting money 
        without working way too hard trying to do something to get          it.

       I do still have to learn more about trading, but my
         learning about how I'm going to possibly make money,
           seems to be a lot more fun than learning how to try to 
             make something from which I possibly can make money. 

There still is my list of things I want to make.
But, at this time,I would say that if I continue to spend lots of 
time learning how to make something, and then try to make it, and 
then, try to sell it for a small amount of money, or worse, don't
even finish it, I may never get enough money, or have enough time,
to make the things that are on my list!

So, the plan right now, is,1)to get other people to finish my 
    children's book, including publishing it;
                           2)  get other people to finish my other 
    books, including publishing them;
                           2-3)get other people to make money for      me from "Now We Shall Begin;"
                           1-3)continue to learn about trading;
                           4)  trade to make more money;
                           1-6)make sleep a priority;
                           1-6)continue socializing 4-5 times/week
    for fun, for making friends for fun, for making friends who I 
    can contract work to; 
                           5-6)get people to build the things on my    list and appropriately sell them so that I keep part ownership;
                           6)  do the other things that are on my 
    list;

(LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS! :-)