Category: Honey I Can Explain!
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An Ode to Pursuit – A Happy One Year of Conzpiring
An Ode to my fellow co-Conzpirators. A year (and 51 posts) ago on the 4th of July 2014, Conzpire published its first post. I’m very proud to be in company of such amazing and determined co-Conzpirators who are in pursuit of their own personal “obsession” projects where we get to share ideas, experiences, interviews and…
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Turning Your Consulting Service Into a Product – A Short Five Year Plan
If you are working as a service seller and thought that selling a product might be a much better alternative than selling your time for money, then here’s a long and hard plan to get you there. While most plans focus on compressing your milestones, these shortcuts often rob you of deep domain knowledge that…
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The Creative Life: The Old Man and The Pen
In an effort to keep some of the personal projects that I’ve started from dying out, I’ve set a theme-of-the-month to help me focus. This month I will be going back to fundamentals and practice my jump shots in 3D space. It has been almost 5 months since I ended my 30-day challenge to learn…
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The 3 Buckets That Make Your Boat Sail
The year is off to a good start and ideas are flowing. Growing a consulting service from a part time side-hustle into a full time enterprise is top of mind. Next thing you know, we are midway in March and the effort can get overwhelming. And March could be your metaphor for any point in time…
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8 Steps to Get More Qualified Leads for Your Service
Hello February! This post will be ultra short and will serve as an outline for the tasks I am to tackle in the months ahead. In my last post, we recapped on an 8-step plan for transitioning into a new career and the perils of relying too much on a narrow source of freelance income.…
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Hacking Into a New Career With No Experience – A Year 3 Report
Three short years ago I participated in a challenge to hack into a new career without any formal credentials. On December 29, 2011, I sent in my half-assed entry, which you can read here, to a challenge that came at an opportune time as I started to contemplate on the idea of breaking into motion…
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Blowing Up The Mineshaft! Learning 3D Modeling and Animation in 30 Days – Finale
Over thirty days ago, I started an experiment to find an effective approach on how to learn a new skill, partly to help challenge myself to learn 3D animation with Cinema4D. Within 30 days, my goal was to get the basics down on how to use the software with at least 20 hours of learning time…
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It’s A Mineshaft! A Half-Mark Update On The ‘Learn A New Skill In 30 Days’ Challenge
In my last post I wrote a simple outline on how to learn something new in 30 days. Focusing on the contents of your first 20 hours of practice as a foundation for better results. In this experiment, I chose to learn 3D modeling and animation using Cinema4D as my objective. Setting October 11, 2014…
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A Simple Way To Learn A New Skill Fast – In 4 Steps
This is a 30-day challenge and a case study to test this four-step method as I apply it to a specific objective: To learn 3D modeling and animation using Cinema4D. My goal is to find out what works well and what doesn’t, what results I’ll get after this experiment and see what foundations are transferable…
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Choosing A Path With Heart
Adding my comic interpretation to a beautiful quote by Carlos Castaneda. A very inspiring quote that has helped me navigate life’s many complex paths. I hope your journeys are filled with heart, wonder and laughter. Enjoy! Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of…