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- Regular Order: Natural Law According to the Dog - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithRegular Order According to the Dog All actions by my humans must be done the same way every day. Just as the sun rises and sets each day, our canine companions feel that their humans should also keep the same schedule and become disquieted when we are not compliant with what they view as ...
Views: 1077 - Self-Evaluation For Starting Own Businesses - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2022 from Wm. Hovey SmithAs 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 ...
Views: 385 - Spring Break is THE Time for Authors to Sell to Universities - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2022 from Wm. Hovey SmithSpring Break Is THE Time For Authors to Sell to Universities I have just returned from my nearest component of my state’s University System to sell my most recent books to libraries and arrange speaking events with the library and two University Departments. Although fewer librarians and ...
Views: 490 - Starting a Business While Working for Someone Else - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithStarting Another Business While Working for Someone Else Ethical ways to start another company or create a new job while working for someone else. “When you take the King’s shilling, you are the King’s man.” Is a quote from Old English that still resonates today. When you are employed by ...
Views: 1191 - Stay or Move With Your Job: Increasing Your Options - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithStay or Move with Your Job: Increasing Your Options When you work for the largest company in your city or town and they decide to close their production lines and move elsewhere, do you move with your job, or stay put and hope you can find work at another company? When you went to work for a ...
Views: 950 - Taking Control of Your Own Life: Making the Transition from Punching Bag to Fighter - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithTaking 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. If you ever played high school ...
Views: 898 - The Case for a Child Parent Hunt - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithThe Case for a Child-Parent Hunt Wm. Hovey Smith November 4, 2019 By the end of the third day of Georgia’s Primitive Weapons hunt on Ossabaw ...
Views: 816 - The Concluding Make Your Own Job Lesson - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2023 from Wm. Hovey SmithThe 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 ...
Views: 393 - The Return of Coal - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithThe 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 ...
Views: 748 - Triumph of the Snake Oil - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2022 from Wm. Hovey SmithTriumph of the Snake Oil In the United States starting with the expansion of the country to the Mississippi River and westwards during the early 19th Century the traveling Medicine Shows toured towns and cities selling exotic-sounding concoctions generally categorizes by the medical ...
Views: 446 - Truck Drivers as Potential Entrepreneurs - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithTruck Drivers as Potential Entrepreneurs A life on the road teaches many things that are useful for starting new businesses. The image of the American truck driver as a white, cigar smoking, fat, bigoted slob, is unfortunately what comes to mind to most potential employers when they see ...
Views: 1029 - Untangling the Knotty Problems of Life - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithUntangling 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 ...
Views: 900 - Wealth - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithWealth 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 ...
Views: 623 - What is a One-Sheet and Why An Author Needs Them - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2021 from Wm. Hovey SmithWhen institutional buyers are considering purchasing books for their organizations, libraries, or bookstores, the thing that they are NOT going to do is to sit down and read every book they might consider. In fact, some buyers almost never read books, and are not going to lug them around at ...
Views: 701 - When is is Appropriate for a Writer to Make a Foreign Trip? - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithForeign 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 ...
Views: 988 - When To Do A New Website - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2022 from Wm. Hovey SmithTechnology 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 ...
Views: 491 - Wines and Spirits in Screenplays and Movies - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2022 from Wm. Hovey SmithWins and Spirits In the Blood Ties Screenplay It would be very difficult for an author to set a screenplay in Italy without showing or discussing some aspect of Italy’s wine culture which goes back at least 3,000 years. Wine is consumed at lunch and dinner, during celebrations, Catholic mass ...
Views: 482 - Working Through Sick Days - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithWorking 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 ...
Views: 1118 - Wrap Up Wednesdays - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithWrap Up Wednesdays Consolidate Plans for End of Week Presentations. Everything regarding your coming presentation to the public or company officials needs to be checked and finalized. If postponed until the day before there is a danger that in the rush to pack up that a needed piece of ...
Views: 1084 - Writing Fiction while Sitting Before the Bogwood Fire - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithWriting 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. Just as the captive ...
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