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Greetings! It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is this week! And I am thankful that I'm not doing the cooking.
Yesterday a guest on the Today Show said that with the right coupons and careful planning, you can serve a Thanksgiving meal for only $41.50. I'm only bringing the pies (from the diner--yum!!) and hors d'oeuvres to my sister's house, and I've already spent that much. I'm sure my sister is spending a lot more than that. So how can anyone spend only $41.50?
The point is, I am sure that finding bargains is this lady's passion, and I'm sure she can do exactly as she says she can.
That is what this week's article is about--not finding your passion, but speaking about your passion, hobby, or skill. I would pay to enroll in a class that taught me how to save a lot of money.
I'm sure she holds workshops and seminars for those who are interested. Plus she got on the morning Today Show with Matt Lauer.
I
would enroll in a cooking class if my sister held one. She's good!! And
she loves cooking. With seven kids and a hungry husband, she had better be!
Look at the long list of skill listed below. What do you love doing? Can someone teach me how to garden? I'd pay! How about figuring out my income tax return? If I get a puppy, can you train me how to train him? I'd love to know how to knit and crochet or even sew.
At the reunion I met up with a classmate who sat next to me at a lab table. She constantly doodled, and I was in awe. I couldn't begin to make anything that I'd allow someone to see. Were she to hold one, I'd enroll in her art class.
Workshops and seminars are fun to give. I learn more and laugh more in these classes because everyone who attends wants to be there. I invariably learn from my participants as they learn from me.
When you celebrate Thanksgiving with your friends and/or family this week, take a look around the table and see what talent there is sitting there. When you consciously look for it, you'll find it.
My holiday challenge to you is FIND A TOPIC ON WHICH YOU CAN GIVE A SEMINAR OR WORKSHOP--OR JUST A TALK!!
Happy Thanksgiving,
Gail
P.S. I had quite a few comments about last week's letter. The funniest was in reference to my saying that one person at the reunion told me I looked better than when I was in high school--believe me--that's not a compliment!! My friend wrote in response and said that someone looked at her I.D. card and complimented the picture and then said, "It doesn't even look like you!" I'm sure both of their intentions were good. :-)
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Feature Article:
EARN MONEY FROM YOUR HOBBIES & SKILLS
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by Gail Cassidy
Last week I wrote about Causes and Issues you may feel strongly about and know enough about that you'd like to share with an audience or workshop. Today we'll look at what comes naturally to you, things you enjoy doing.
HOBBIES: What do you do that would be of interest to others? Are you a ham radio addict, a race car fan, a builder of bird houses, a person who mentors young boys and girls, a singer, dancer, painter?
If you really enjoy what you do in your spare time, there are others out there would would like to do the same.
The first weekend in August every year, residents of our shore town hold their annual garage sale/tag sale, and we always participate by walking from house to house. Our favorite place we never miss is the home of a retired gentleman who makes lawn decorations--duck planters, pelicans, birdhouses, etc. He spends the entire year in his garage making these beautiful objects, and we are always a customer. We love what he does, and he gets tremendous satisfaction talking to each of his customers every summer.
Do you have a hobby or a skill that you could share with others?
SKILLS: Perhaps you have a skill you could pass on to others.
What skills do you most enjoy using?
SAMPLE SKILLS
(Cross out those skills that do not interest you or you do not understand.
Look at what is left and determine if you'd like to share what you know.)
(Please pardon my uneven columns)
Achieving goals Engineering Measuring Repairing
Administrating Entertaining Mechanical Researching
Advertising Evaluating Mediating Representing
Agriculture Experimenting Monitoring Science
Analyzing Financial Motivating Selling
Artistic Fund raising Naturalist Simplifying
Banking Grants writing Negotiating Social Service
Cleaning Graphic arts Numerical Problem Solving
Clerical Growing things Nurturing Supervising
Coaching Healing/treating Observing Teaching/training
Communicating Hospitality Operating equipment Technical
Competing Influencing Organizing Implementing
Computing Interpersonal/social Personal Service Visual Arts
Constructing Intervening Personnel Working with:
Consulting Imagining/visualizingPerforming people
Counseling Importing/exporting Persuading animals
Creating Instructional Design Physical activity data
Curriculum Development Planning things
Decision-Making Judging (moral) Policy Development Writing
Delegating Leading Politicking Investigating
Designing Using language Presenting Transporting
Developing Managing Promoting
Economics Manufacturing Protecting/defending
Editing Marketing Public Relations
Educating Mathematics Publishing OTHER SKILLS:
There are many things I'd like to do and would like to be good at, but I'm not. But, there are also things I feel I do rather well. We all have natural gifts and abilities. What is most important, however, is for you to zero in on what you ENJOY doing. I love teaching and writing. I abhor anything to do with math.
Check out these skills and circle at least three that could be the basis of a seminar or workshop, paid or unpaid. Decide which skill you could share with others. Adults schools are great places to practice!
I wrote Discover Your Passion many, many years after I had developed an outline of what I had learned from reading every book I could find on the subject and after I had taught the course at our local adult school for well over a decade. I had developed a passion for helping people find their own strengths, skills, and abilities--that's how the book came to be written.
What do you know so well that you could share with others? What is your passion?
For more about discovering your passion, look at Discover Your Passion, or the updated version, Profit From Your Passion
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Quote of the Day
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"The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where are you going? What are you doing?"
~~ Richard Bach
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NEXT WEEK
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DETERMINING THE PURPOSE OF YOUR TALK
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I am currently enrolled in Bob Proctor's Six Minutes to Success Program, and I find it very interesting. Anything in my "recommendation" section will only be something I have been involved with and have been totally satisfied with. The nice thing with this program is you get 7 days free. If you don't like it, cancel.
This program is about being just one step away from reaching your goal of flooding your life with success, either in the form of health, wealth, or happiness. Would you take that step?
How do you know, right now, that you're not?
What a shame it would be to stop making the effort, when just a little bit more would make it all worthwhile. I'm into my fourth week.
What a shame it would be to have taken all those steps, only to miss this very last one.
This next step you take may very well be the one that makes all the others count.
You owe it to yourself, and the efforts you've made, to take this step.
It's simple... go to this website and read Bob Proctor's entire letter from top to bottom. He promises you - you'll be a changed person for the better.
http://store.sixminutestosuccess.com/?aid=581522
Warmly,
Gail
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Gail Cassidy
http://www.Coachability.com
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