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Pick Up Tuesdays

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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Wealth

Wealth Many strive throughout their lives to accumulate wealth to escape misery. Yet, once obtained, they discover that great wealth was a bubble that burst once it had been achieved and became meaningless even while it was still accumulating. For those who are less well off, there is a wish to be able to live a life of ease with private jets, fast cars, fancy clothes, jewels, and the ability to go and come as they pleases and associate with those who are similarly well placed in life.

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A Business Book for Everyone, Everywhere

In an era where jobs are frequently disrupted by wars, natural disasters, mergers, and a rapidly evolving marketplace, many workers have come to realize that the only job security they have is what they can create for themselves. "Using AI to Make Your Own Job Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" uniquely explains in 175 pages how to derive an original job idea, test the concept, and then goes step-by-step on how to start their own businesses in the U.S. The book concludes with a chapter on how to write a book if your product is knowledge, rather than a physical object.

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Choose Your Partners as Carefully as You Would Choose Your Parents

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?”

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Overcoming Mental Blocks to Career Advancement

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.

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Self-Evaluation For Starting Own Businesses

As part of a series of twelve videos I am doing for a LearnDesk School I attempted to create one using photographs to illustrate my points. To do this I had to re-photograph more than 70 prints into digital format, record the voice and edit using Audacity and try two video production programs to see which was the most compatible with this approach.

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The Return of Coal

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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Chat GBT's Limitations on Screenplay Writing

The current Writers and Actor's strikes in the movie industry is partly out of a conce of the present and coming ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace working writers. At present Google's Bard does not work well with Final Draft formatted screenplays, but Chat GBT does. If you want to find out something, ask. I did. This is what Chat replied. What Limitations Does Chat-BGT Have in Screenwriting?

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Autism and the Questioning Child

At 84, I must use a cane. I was shopping at a grocery store, and a mother with her three-year-old daughter was ahead of me. I heard running steps behind me and which stopped when a slim eight-year-old boy approached from behind. He stopped and asked, "Why do you use a cane?" I answered that I needed to use it to keep me from falling because I had lost my sense of balance. He gave me a look, as if not quite believing that a slim adult, even an older adult, could not run as easily as he could.

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Recreating a Sicilian Terror Weapon of 1000 B.C.

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.

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Promo Video lFolr Your Screenplay-Movie Project

In Hollywood screenplays are like assholes, everybody's got one. One relatively new wrinkle in screenplay presentation is the video pitch which is a short, 3-5-minute video that is seen in mass screenings by studio executives who select those they think are worth further attention - like actually having someone read the script.

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The Concluding Make Your Own Job Lesson

The Concluding Make Your Own Job Lesson The last of 12 LearnDesk lessons on conceiving of and starting a new business in the United States has been posted as a free YouTube video on the Hovey Smith Channel. Lesson 12 summarizes the course which presented the need for everyone to have a self-generated means of making money in these uncertain economic times, taught how to derive original business concepts from one’s experiences, rank those concepts by their timeliness and money-making potential, and implement them according to their needs and desires.

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Alte ate Reality: True, False or Somewhere in Between

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?

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Getting to Know Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Many people are rightly conce ed with the present and exponential impacts that AI is having on work and life. There is no field whether in competitiveness in retail trade, manufacturing, military activities, law enforcement, education, health care, or in the creative arts where the impacts of AI are not already being felt and may become even more indispensable to modern life - much as the smartphone is today.

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Lost Your Job? Remote Work Could Be the Answer

Since the publication of my book "Create Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" I have occasionally received correspondence from others working in the same field. The following article is by Amy Collett who requested that I post it on some of my sites. She was in the corporate world for 17 years and then struck out on her own to help care for her grandmother and is doing consulting in the areas of Personal Branding, Resume Developing, Logo-Messaging-Website Development, and Social Media Evaluation.

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How to Write Your Book

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

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Last Screenplay from The Goldfarb Trilogy

Final Screenplay from The Goldfarb Trilogy Starting the Roundsr Texas Justice, the last of three screenplays derived from my soon-to-be-published novel, "The Goldfarb Trilogy" has been submitted to the Wiki Screenplay Contest as well as to the Austin Film Festival. An ad will go out to thousands of film festivals early next month who may request that I also submit to them. Some few hundred requests may be expected to which I will submit to about a dozen.

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Is The Goldfarb Chronicles the Worst Book Of the Year?

Writers very quickly learn to take criticism. Almost any day any working writer will have his article, book, or screenplay rejected, and sometimes very harshly. Over the past half-century, this has happened to me many times, but yesterday I received a Kirkus review of my new novel "The Goldfarb Chronicles: Moving With Baby, The Solitario, Brewster County Law" that reached a new high or low depending on your point of view.

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Learning to Write a Movie Script Without Taking College Classes

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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Muddling Mondays

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

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Evaluate Skills Before Starting Business

If you don’t know where you are, you can’t know where to go. One of the most difficult tasks that beginning entrepreneurs have is to make a realistic evaluation of their own abilities. Lesson 4 of my LearnDesk series covers a series of points from personal appearance to communication skills. No one likely has all the skills to run a successful business. The objective of this lesson is to have viewers systematically evaluate different aspects of the business world to determine which aspects they need to improve, and which are best farmed out to others.

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When To Do A New Website

Technology and activities change throughout life. When I posted my first website a decade ago I had written a series of self-published books, sold one to a conventional publisher and was writing others. Because my newest book "Backyard Deer Hunting: Converting Deer To Dinner For Pennies Per Pound" was to be self-published and lacked the support of a publishing house, I started my first web site, titled "Backyard Deer Hunting" to match the theme of the book.

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Business Ed at the Movies

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.

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Recommendations for Reducing Depression While Recovering from Potentially Deadly Accidents and Diseases

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.

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LearnDesk 12-Video Business Creation Course Launches Feb. 7, 2023

Hovey Smith's School of Self-Reliance will offer its first LearnDesk business creation and training program on February 7, 2023.The course "Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" will consist of 12 videos presented on the basis of two a week for six weeks which will explain how to create and rank business concepts and start a business in the United States.

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Increased Productivity in the Time of Coronavirus

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

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Hemingway Award Winning Screenplay Seeking Producers

“Blood Ties” by Wm. Hovey Smith was the Hemingway Screenplay Writing Award winner of the L.A. Live Festival in 2023. The citation for the prize commented “’Blood Ties’ is definitely a feature film that would attract large audiences at even larger venues. The Hemingway Award is our highest award for a feature length screenplay. We have many winners for category and genre for feature length screenplays, but only one yearly will win the ‘Hemingway Award’ our most coveted award for literary works of art in the form of a screenplay.

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Importance of Reviews

It is always an ego-stroke to receive an honest, but favorable review on one of your books. This is one received today on my book "Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age." It has also received excellent reviews from Kirkus and the U.S. Review of books.

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