YOUR SKILLS AND YOUR INDEPENDENCE

You can use your skill(s) to increase your independence.

Be a skill hoarder : ) In the sense that, if there are short courses / workshops around, and you like the subjects, I say don't miss the opportunities and learn about them.

What I mean is the more skills you have, the more you CAN CONTROL LIFE. It is true!!!!

The more you can control life, the more carefree you will be.


Let me give you an example. This shows you how having a skill is a valuable thing. It also shows you that most people are well intending.


One of those rare times, I left the kids with my husband and went out to run an errand. On the way back, I stopped to get gas (petrol if you live outside of the U.S.). I filled up the tank and as I was trying to leave, the car wouldn't start! Oh no, what do I do? Calling my husband, getting the road service people come by , waiting around...all these things crossed my mind. Not fun stuff.

Anyway, next to me there were these young handsome boys, they were getting gas, getting stuff from the convenience store and I think they were returning their empty beer bottles : ) but wait these guys had the skill.

They knew about cars. When they noticed that I'm trying to start the car and it is not starting, one of them ,who was cleaning the windshield of his car, said , "let me take a look when I'm done".

 He and  one of his friends came by, opened the front hood, tightened the bolts on the battery that were loosened, and jump started the car. They said I needed to change the battery (some advice on what needed to be fixed,  I can't remember now but it was like I was talking to mechanics!)

They exactly figured the problem out, fixed it and I was on my way within 3-4 minutes  from the time they touched my car. I don't know what you would consider this but I would consider it freaking
 A-MAZ-ING!!

These guys were fast, helpful and confident. God bless them!

My point is, societies need cool people like that...handsomeness/beauty is one thing, but skill is another, more valuable.

I want you think  how you could help yourself and others if you had one (or more) of these skills....

Conventional construction,
Cars (mechanical skill)
Non-conventional construction (building Straw Bale and Cob type of structures)
Art
Wood work (knowing how to build furniture, cabinets, house frame, decoration items etc)
Paper Making
Writing
Acting and Entertainment
Gardening (growing vegetable and  other plants)
Landscaping
Electric (including solar panel system or any other system)
Electronics (setting up a device)
Sewing
Pottery
Tiling
Computers (creating web sites, giving information to your folks about what is what )
Jewelry Making
Plumbing
Mechanics/Inventing
Publishing
Movie Making
Documentary Making
Organizer (of events)
Motivator (for success)
Healthy Living Adviser ( I especially mean alkaline and organic living)
Shoe Maker
Fabric Maker (weaver)
Basket Weaver (or weaving other items)
Glass Blower
Language
Design (on the computer, clothing, furniture, house....)
......
.....

If you had one or more of these skills, would you start a business on the skill that you love?
Would you gather your family, friends and community members  in your backyard and give them lectures?
Would you use your knowledge to help somebody else?

Think about these. : )

JUST SO YOU KNOW

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I had a post titled Bring Back The Glory not too long ago.

I wanted to let you know that, just because I am encouraging the American Citizens to produce and sell their products within the country and outside the country doesn't mean I want American Domination over world. I wanted to clarify that.

In case someone from France or another country read my post and said "you fake-pigg American" : ) : )

I  would want every able individual IN THE WORLD to produce and market his product and expand his/her business as much as possible. That post was for American Citizens specifically,it has its purpose.

I'm not for domination, taking over, abuse, tricks etc. I don't believe in politics.

I believe that if individuals in whatever country they live in, felt CONFIDENT ENOUGH to take part in producing and selling , there would be no economic crisis, poor countries,                                         "oh  you are in need" and we gotta come and "support" you financially (loan you money) and you gotta follow my political orders etc. All the BS' that you are aware of...

Because PRODUCING AND SELLING ARE THE ECONOMY (even if your product is jewelry made out of beads), not your local stock market, not the banks, not the politicians, not the big and "important" worldwide organizations or someone's Yale or Standford diploma....

These are the false ideas filling people's heads about economy. Toss them out.

Your purpose in creating a business is to be productive so you can make a living (survive)  and in the meantime you are supporting your community with a useful product. It could be for a "need" or "want". Survival products meet the need. Want products bring fun and beauty in our lives. Such as decoration items, jewelry, bikes etc.

Let's say you live in a very small village. You don't have bread at home, nor the ingredients to make it. Wouldn't you wish that someone had some bread or at least flour so you don't starve?
You would hope , oh my God, I hope that neighbor wasn't lazy this summer and cut his wheat and grinded it in his stone mill into flour...that would be the first thought. The second thought is "I hope he'll give me some flour!" third "what can I exchange? ".

Well that's the bottom of the economy, someone making something somewhere that somebody else might need. If most people stopped making things, we would have challenging economies. And that's what we have.