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November 23, 2018
The Sequence of Creative Success Step Two: Preparation
with Orna Ross
This month we'll explore the things you need to have in place in order to be creatively effective.
The Sequence of Creative Success Step Two: Preparation
Here are the key things you need to have in place in order to be creatively effective, and optimize your productivity and profit: Time and Space, Family and Friends, Tools and Techniques, Pace and Process.
We'll look at how to prepare for a lifetime in creative business and also for your next creative session.
Hello, everyone. Great to see you here. Hi Justine, I'll be seeing you tomorrow, just doing a check, first of all to make sure you can all hear me. Hopefully, you can and that you can see the screen OK. So you should be seeing me small down in the right hand corner and hopefully seeing my screen up on the left with the slides so if somebody could tell me that everything is OK that would be good.
Yes, thank you, Lorna. Hi Julie, Regina, Jas, good to see you here. This is brilliant. OK. So we are ready to go it seems. That is marvellous. So let's move away from next time and come back to today. So today we are looking at the sequence of creative business success again. And we are going to be working our way across months. We're going to be working our way all of these various stages to success. This is the recommended sequence. So those who are already well along, I know that many of you are, this is an opportunity to go back and just make sure that you didn't miss a step along the way or that it didn't, you know, that you haven't neglected something that's important.
So first of all, just for those of you who don't know me at all, I am Orna Ross, storyteller mostly, word lover mainly and creative connector, just also equally with all of that and I write novels and I write poetry and I am Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, and the Creativist Club, so essentially, the creative entrepreneur stuff, I'm on a mission now to end creative poverty through self publishing and creative business, helping people to establish digital micro businesses or adapt their existing business into a digital scalable businesses that can actually see them get the commercial rewards that they deserve. Too many creatives are too poor in my estimation, so we are all about changing that.
Great so these workshops, they happen normally on the third Tuesday of the month, but I was in Dublin, just back today and at 7 pm not 8, I keep sneaking in there, 7 o'clock this time on the third Tuesday. There's always replays available on my website and on my Facebook author page, so you can always catch up with them, they don't go away.
The idea is that you can go back if you need to. They're not leading on to anything else. They're not selling a course or anything like that they're just there for the learning that is in them though they are connected to the Creativist Club where you can download a lot of the PDFs as printables and so on and they are a complement to my books, the Go Creative series, and I'll be talking a little bit more about that in a while.
The workshop, essentially, each month we take a different theme and it's an opportunity for you to go a little bit deeper on something that might be bothering you about your business or sharing something that's really worked for you, a tool, technique, anything that's going on that might be of value to the other people here and also, obviously, an opportunity to raise questions and to put into practice some of the principles that are there in the book and that we talk about here in the Creativist Club closed Facebook group and generally in the Alliance of Independent Authors as well.
So if anybody has any questions about the workshops generally, please feel free to ask any question at anytime, specifically about the content that we're talking about today but also if you're carrying over anything from last time or if there's anything just bothering you, something you want to know an answer to, if I have an answer I'll give it to you there and then. If I don't have an answer, we can go away and find things out for you from people.
So if you're enjoying the workshops and you want to make sure that you get a reminder and you haven't already and I was trying to let people know through Facebook and everything but it seems to be horrendously confusing at your end, it all seemed very logical at my end but it wasn't working, so let's keep it simple. If you just register on my website, so go to Ornaross.com/workshops if you haven't already. If you got an email today, you're already on that list so you don't need to do it. But if you didn't get an email today, you're not. So if you want to go and sign up there, you will get an alert 48 hours before the workshop is due to happen and then another reminder of 2 hours before. So it should be simple and I hope it was easier for you to find your way here this evening and welcome your comments about that because I don't want it to be hard to find, obviously.
OK, so let's have a look at any questions, OK? Everything seems to be alright but do send your questions through. So, small recap on last time for those of you who didn't manage to see that workshop and also just because this stuff we always need reminding, it never, you know, it's never quite there. It's always like a ball we're throwing out in front of us and running after it to catch up.
So on those 7 stages, the 7 steps, the 7 whatever you want to call its in the sequence of success we began with the 1st one last time. And it was all about looking at your passion and your mission. Your passion: what you love to do and your mission: what you want to change in the world and all creative businesses have a passion and a mission kind of underlining them, sometimes consciously, and sometimes unconsciously.
We may not know it, we're just attracted to doing something, but if we search there we uncover what it is and when we come to the point of wanting to earn a living from doing what we love, understanding the passion and the mission becomes much more important because when you put the two together, at that point at which the two of them meet is what I call the massion: the mashup of passion and mission and when you get there, you get your microniche, you get your customer, your consumer, your followers, your fans, you get what you're offering and you get things like your categories, your keywords and you know, what you're going to put on to Google so they know what you do and so on.
So understanding, that's why it's the first stage and that's why if you are established and you're already doing stuff and particularly if you're struggling with stuff, going back here all the time you can get new insights and new revelations and you kind of fine tune it more and more as you go through the years. So, I've always known that I've wanted to write, I didn't have a clue why for many years and you know, I came to understand the exact nature of my own passion, my own mission and it has changed, I've done very different things.
Everything I've done, though, over those years, has fed into those and it's just got better and better and things have emerged that didn't even exist when I started out so knowing also this passion mission stuff keeps you on the straight and narrow. You don't get pulled off all the shiny lovely objects all over the Internet trying to distract you. You stay core and that's why it's really kind of important to go back there. So any questions about that, we can take some also today. We spoke last time as well by building a long term sustainable scalable business creative asset by creative asset and that's what we're going to work through in these workshops, that's worked through in book series and that's what we work through every day as we go so making sure that the work we're doing is actually building assets,
We spoke about the Goldilocks principle, all about, you know, not all profit, not all passion, but weighing them equally where it's just right and we also talked a little bit about the things that help to build your influence and impact and we break this down much more in this workshop series as we go through the seven steps but essentially, we're talking always as creatives about practice, about production, about process and about positioning ourselves in the marketplace.
And finally, we talked about how important it is that your business is you-shaped, that's the only thing that's going to last you for a lifetime and from here on out, our creative business can sustain us and grow with us. But it only can do that if we do it our way. So did anybody have anything arising out of last time, any of you that were there last time.
OK, Justine is saying that the email was better. It was easier for her to find her way in this time. I'm glad because I know you were wandering around the internet last time trying to find us, so that's good. I'm glad to know that. Hi Dee and Kim, good to see you here, Mala, all the way from Australia. Wonderful and yes, so if you have any questions, comments or anything on last time, feel free to come in with them now, also you are going to be doing a bit of freewriting today, so make sure you have now pen and paper close to hand if you don't have it, just scuttle off there and get it because you will miss out on a lot of the workshop if you don't actually do the exercises.
Lorna clicked through straight from the email, brilliant, that's how it should work then from now on, that seems to be much better. Thank you, Facebook, but you aren't much help. Alright then, OK, so pen and paper to the ready, we'll do a little bit of talking first and then we go through, you know, everybody will be sharing the various things I'm going to talk about tonight. Things like time and space and family and friends, we're all negotiating these as creatives but every single one of us is going to have a completely different experience around it and so it's important that you actually get drill down into what's important for you, what's happening for you, how these things are showing up for you at this time.
Regina is talking about being down but seeing the stats from Mark Dawson, his incredible success froze you for a day or two. Yeah, comparisons are odious always and especially for creative work, it's not an, it's really not, you know, it's really unhelpful and as you say, it freezes you, it stops you in your creative tracks. We're going to be looking at this in a little while, how important it is to surround yourself with what you need, not, you know, you know, being protective of yourself and giving your creative self what it needs.
Mark wasn't always superbly successful and he's the first person to say that. He found his way, his way may be your way. It's more likely that your way will be a variation of that or something perhaps that's completely different. The problem that we have in this abundant world that we're in at the moment is that there are so many ways being offered to us, there's so much great information, so many fantastic things you can do, the only way to kind of hone in and make sure that you don't, you know, get distracted and pulled off and frozen and knocked back in your tracks is to stay core and that's very much what we're going to be talking about tonight.
Yes, as Susanne says, he didn't out that way. Absolutely, Susanne, well said. Mark would be the first person to say that he shares hugely and you know, how he got there in the hope that it will help others. OK so, Nick found the way from the newsletter, thank you for generous offer, yes, it's great, we all love it. OK, so let's start then thinking about first of all, I think this is our most precious resource and so let's look at this first of all.
Time. OK, so time and yeah, time is spoken about so much by people in business as if it is linear and it always makes me kind of want to laugh and I would laugh, except it's tragic because it gives us completely the wrong impression and it's really, really bad for us and it makes us feel impoverished and tight and anxious and essentially just, it's a clenching fist around our creativity because time isn't linear. I mean, one part of time is, so I call that clock time. Yes there are 24 hours in the day, there are 60 minutes in an hour, in that sense, and you know, you were born on such and such a day, you're going to die on such and such a day and in that sense, yes, time is linear and time is limited.
But as any of us who have ever been there and we all have, you know, we know that time is also limitless, because when you go into the creative zone you actually feel a huge expansion of time and you're in the what they call the eternal infinite moment that you're in and that's a completely different perception and experience. If you've ever had, as I have had, the experience of thinking you are going to die, I had a guy jump into a tent in Paris once with a knife in his hand and I had that experience that so many people talk about where everything slows down and my whole life up to then was just laid out before me all in an instant but it seemed like forever and there are loads and loads and loads of examples of this. Time, what I'm saying, the short version of what I'm saying is time is perceptual as much as it is linear.
When we feed ourselves this story we don't have enough time, that we're too busy, you know that time is da da da da, it's very similar to when we feed ourselves a line that we don't have enough money and da da da da da da, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
So it's really important when it comes to time to understand that it is actually a mind creation a lot of the time, how you feel how you feel about time, how you feel about today and the amount of time you have in today is very, very much about how you feel it, how you experience it in your mind and there are ways for you to know that you have a lot more time than your busy surface mind thinks it has and one of those of course is meditation and another is free writing because you prioritize and another is effortless exercise, which also takes you into the infinite now moment.
So, what I'd like you to do, just a couple of moments, thinking about how time shows up for you at the moment, are you always feeling like you're over busy and that's a very common with creative entrepreneurs, a very, very common thing, this sort of slight anxiety all the time that you're not doing what you should be doing and that you haven't got enough time to do it and time is going to run out and you know, you've too many deadlines, too many projects, that kind of thing, is that going on with you, timewise?
What helps, you know, what gets you into the right sort of relationship with time and I want to introduce you to the principle of return on investment time wise. So the difference between success as a creative entrepreneur is very much down to certain core kinds of behaviors and habits and one of those pertains to time and it's something that you really need to kind of get hold of, this idea that ROI as they call it is not just on money, but it's also on time.
So, return on your time investment. Those who are doing things well are investing their time so doing something today, spend time today on things that you know will give you more time tomorrow. So, for example, that might be training a VA into some task that is time consuming for you and your time would be better spent doing something else, it might be making an evergreen product that, you know, can sell again and again and again, rather than investing your time in some chore or something that has to be done over and over and is never done.
So, ROTI, return on your time investment, so we just take three minutes free writing about time. So that's a very limited amount of time for writing about time but it's amazing what you can write in that amount of time. Do we have anybody who doesn't, anybody who doesn't know about free writing or how to do free writing?
Nick, this is your first time here so perhaps you, I'm not sure if you have done the free writing, if not I will talk about it. No, OK, so freewriting is writing fast, it's writing raw, it's writing exact and it's writing easy. We practice it 4 days a week in the Go Creative in Business Facebook group at 7:30 each morning, which again, you can catch up on the replays, OK Nick know about it. So, pens to the ready then, get ready to free write about time, start writing now. Write just a little faster. And just finish the sentence you're writing now. And put down your pen.
So we're going to be moving kind of rapidly through these various things that you do in order to prepare for, you know, creative entrepreneurship, whether that is preparing for a whole lifetime of it, which is, you know, what we're doing we're talking about passion and mission and stuff like that, and also investigating our relationship with time or else whether we are preparing just for the session that's coming up next so we know that in our next session we are going to work on ABC.
Generally, the research would show almost without exception, I mean, there are always exceptions, those crazy days where crazy things happen but always when you prepare for a session and you know what you're going to do, it's far more productive than if you don't and the research is indicating that if you prepare by thinking about it as you end one session, before you start the next, you write down what you're going to do in that session and then, when you begin that next session, you write down again what you're going to do.
So sometimes it'll be the same thing. sometimes the fact that you've been away for a while. particularly if you've slept on it overnight, the idea of what's going to happen in that session may well be refined. You know, doing it twice is, I have found, this has made a great difference in terms of productivity. It's one of those kind of mysterious ones, not quite sure why or how this works, but it does work and the opposite thing, which is something that, you know, we find ourselves doing, turning up, not really quite sure, on the way getting distracted by a Facebook post and you know, that kind of stuff, working out what we're going to do in the session, why we're actually sitting there supposed to be doing it and then finding that it's over and we haven't done anything or we've done very little.
So, today I'm not talking about focus on productivity and all that kind of thing, I'm just talking about simple act of preparing in advance for the session, but also preparing in advance for the business. So last comment there on time which Justine just said, "My friend said to me today, there are so many things to do and not enough time" I said, "You can always make time to do the things we want to do" and we can. Very often it's not about time, it's about priorities, it's about what we're prioritizing, and whatever you're doing is the thing you've prioritized. So, you know, be aware of that, what we talk about is not our priority necessarily, what we say is our priority is only revealed when we actually do it.
So, yeah and Justine also mentions meditation which I can't recommend highly enough as people know, certain meditations work better for creative minds than others and again, we do practice a meditation together each morning, Monday to Thursday for those of you who would like to join in on that.
Susanne is talking about having enough time but not doing what she wants to be doing. I'd like to hear a little bit more about that Susanne, if you would and so I'm taking maybe that you're in a day job and so your time for your creative work is curtailed perhaps.
So when we're talking about time here, we are talking about the time that we're getting to devote to our stuff, so to devote to our creative business,` to devote to our own stuff, not OPS's, as I call it, other people's stuff, so think about that. Bee's been getting up an hour earlier for the last 6 months, go, Bee! Yes, that really does help I find early mornings are the most productive time for me, for sure. Regina spends too much time trying to decide which books to promote, went to network, whether to do a little bit of everything every day and this, exactly, brilliant, I'm delighted you raised that, Regina, because I think this is really, really common and this is exactly what we're talking about now.
The, you give yourself the preparation time to work that out in advance. The first time you work it out in advance it takes ages, but the second time it becomes quicker and the third time but what you don't do is go into this trying to work that out at the same time, it's about that preparation in advance, it's about investing the time and you think about that time investment.
I invest now in those decisions offline as at it were, I'm actually choosing my priorities, what I'm going to do and so on and what sort of return on investment and my investment in that time management and I don't like the word time management, time creation, time allocation, time decisions, time priorities, you know, what return on investment will I get if it isn't going to be a great return on investment, first of all, have you worked out, like we talked about last week, that balancing of the profit and the passion, you know, if you've worked, have you worked out, have you profit proofed it, you know, we can end up doing a lot of things that actually don't yield an awful lot either commercially or creatively before deciding that something is a priority and that you are going to invest time in it, make sure that it is something that does actually give you the return on investment creatively, the return on investment commercially that you deserve, and if you happen to find that you're not sure, you haven't really worked it out, that's a sign that you needs to do a bit more thinking and a bit more preparation on that.
It can feel kind of frustrating, maybe, if you're anxious about getting on with the task and that is the, you know, conventional anxiety stuff again, that it's much more creatively satisfying and rewarding and in the long term, so it can be hard to make yourself do it but in the long term, the payback is huge. So you're better off getting all these things sorted up front than spending 2 years doing something that doesn't actually work, or it doesn't yield or it yields a bit, but not enough or isn't yielding in quite the direction you want to go in, so thinking about that.
Jas says "There's so much to do, I just end up getting overwhelmed and end up not doing much." That's pace, Jas, and we are going to be talking about that in a little while. OK, and before we get to pace and some other things, the next one here on the list is space.
And space is the very practical thing of where you're going to do the work and making sure that the space you have supports the creative work and your business work that you want to do and giving yourself that, you know, working out a way where you can actually have the things you need would really make a difference to you, but I put this nice picture up there as well because space is also very, very much about mental creative space and again a plug for meditation here but there are other ways to create space.
You need, as somebody in creative business, time set aside for solitude and quiet, silence. We get so little quiet time in this noisy distract-able world, you have to carve that time out. That's very much part of your preparation and Julie says, in a comment earlier, that she does a lot of planning for her work activities but never for her leisure time and I'm just wondering if you mean by work activities whether you're including your writing and your writing business work in that, Julie, or whether you mean your day job and if you do a lot of planning in work but you're not doing it for the creative stuff then I think you have an advantage because you know how to plan, it's just a matter now of taking that skill and turning the light over here and perhaps you don't like the feeling of that, it might feel like "Ugh, I'm planned to death over here and I don't want to plan over here" and I think the way through that is actually this idea of the return on investment and also, when you do your prep work, which is all the stuff I'm talking about today, around time and space and so on, when you're doing that sort of preparation work, get away from the desk, go somewhere lovely, go to your favorite cafe, go outside, you know, well, not today, not in England, but you know what I mean, don't be doing it in sort of a horrible, harsh, tough, you know, environment where I have to plan this now and I have to bring in the discipline and I have to make sure that I do what I should do, you know, all that anti-creative sort of approach yields far less than if you say, "OK, how am I'm going to enjoy this? How's this going to be fun and you know, what makes me feel free here?"
So sometimes the people who are thinking that they have too much to do, sometimes the best thing you can do is just let some of it go completely, we'll talk about pace in a bit, about how you pace things, but sometimes it's a matter of you've got too much on, you're trying to do too much all at once. And realize there is space for it all over a lifetime, so we're talking always here about long term sustainable business growth, month on month, year on year, asset by asset and you know, you can breathe, you can relax, you don't have to do everything now, you should only be doing the top priority now and your days, or your hours, however much time you have devoted to your creative work, should have a bit of space in there. Don't cram everything up together into this week, this month, because actually, you'll get far less done in the end.
OK, Susanne is talking about having a lot of unstructured time in each day. Day job only takes 2 or 3 hours. That's great. Brilliant. So, I think the quarterly planner which Jane is working, my designer's working on at the moment, will be helpful to you, Susanne, because it's, you know, conventional planners are not great for us, I think, when it comes to our creative business, when it comes to our creative work, we don't want to get too linear and too structured and too scheduled. We want to keep that openness and we want to keep that creative sort of feeling around it and so, I think the creative schedule in a different sort of way. Nick finds her center when she goes for a beach walk on her own, that's lovely.
Julie means, yes, you do mean your writing activities, you mean, you structure, sorry I'm still not quite sure, you structure your writing activities, Julie, but not your leisure time is that what you mean? Justine is saying "This is making me think of my revision timetable. I feel like setting up a timetable for work tasks. I used to give myself an hour or so on each subject." Yeah, absolutely. Why not? If it feels good, if it feels and if it feels helpful, definitely I would try it and a lot of these things are about experimenting and seeing what works. Always, always we do it to see if it works. We don't just think about maybe I should do this, maybe I should do that, we try it for 21 days, you can't get a clear picture until you've done something for 21 days, then at the end of the 21 days you review and you see, "What have I learned from doing this in this new way? Is this a habit I want to keep going? No, but I learned A.B.C. Yes, I'm taking this forward into the rest of my business."
So, it's, you know, that's the way to approach it otherwise we're endlessly thinking, is this going to work? Is that going to work? You know, and looking, seeking, hopping for more "experts" to another, looking for somebody to give us the golden answer which only we have the answer to.
Just going to bring Bee's comment up and she's addressing Susanne, but I think she's addressing us all, "For the last year, I started time blocking my calendar. To avoid burnout, put personal time in first then the work tasks go in." She works for herself so she has more flexibility but she has clients and deadlines and there's always so much to do. Takes a walk each day to balance the screen time and she's talking about taking breaks and that's something that we've talked about a lot here in these workshops, that creative rest is not even a break from the process, it is the process. You must break away and you must get outside and you must move your body because we're all screen bound and it's really important to do that and you get a huge amount creatively when you do that, it's really, really useful.
Justine blew out an event tonight to do this, that's amazing and OK, take time out from work. Yeah, so we've got to help ourselves here, folks. We've got to realize that a creative business and one that we're going to create that is going to be sustainable for the long time isn't as replicating conventional work practices. It really isn't, it's about finding out what is optimal creatively for you and again, we will work through these things and the tool we're putting together will help with these things but ultimately, only you know, I can't tell you, nobody can tell you, you're the only person who knows. Not our event she wasn't at, I would hope not.
OK let's look a little bit at family. OK, so for some of us, our family is a support when it comes to creative business. Whatever we want to do they are there for us, they're supportive when it goes wrong and they are encouraging all the time. They understand what it is to be creative and that it is different, they respect that and so on. And for lots of us, it's not like that at all.
For some of us, our family may resent the time we take away from them to pursue our creative business. They may fear for us and this may come out in all sorts of ways that don't seem particularly positive. They may not understand at all what is to be creative, the urges and needs that drive us. And all sorts of other things and there's only one thing, really, about dealing with family and ensuring, what we're talking about here, this is about preparation for creative work and, you know, it might seem an unusual thing to bring in here, but actually it's really important.
Preparing our families for what to expect, I think, that's really, really key for a lot of us. Sometimes we're not really confident enough ourselves in what we're doing, we're fearful ourselves, we find it hard to self identify as creative maybe, or we find it hard to believe that we will make a success of this and so their doubts and their worries and their fears can kind of feed off ours in a way that is really unhealthy and the only person who can break this, again, is us. We have to take that stand.
So, I'd like to take two minutes this time, freewriting, where you just write about your current family situation with regard to your creative business. Do they know about it? What do they know? Are they supportive? What do you need from them that you're not getting? What do you get that's fantastic. 2 minutes starting now. Go! And finish the sentence you're writing and put down your pen.
This is a huge, huge topic. And we're only scratching the surface here, but I think it's just wanted put it in there in the context of preparation for our creative work and how important it is to prepare our loved ones and let them understand what to expect so that nobody's getting some serious frights.
So if anybody wants to share anything around family or and also friends I'm talking about now. It's important that we surround ourselves and you guys are doing this by virtue of the fact that you are here or you're in the Facebook group or you've joined an association or whatever it may be, but you know, we can't do enough of this.
We surround ourselves with people who nurture us around this stuff, who get it, who get what we're trying to do, who are possibly trying to do similar things themselves, who holds themselves accountable, who are making steps forward and there's a famous research that says, you know, your income and your achievement is the sum of the 5 people who are closest to you.
And you know, it's problematic in lots of ways to think about things this way, but just as a useful tool to think for a moment about who those people are and you know, how much they know about what you're doing. If you get firm around some of this stuff, if you actually start to, you know, if you have somebody, for example, in your friendship group who makes you feel "Ugh" or if you have, you know, like we were talking about earlier at the beginning there with Regina, if you're actually tapping into stuff online that may be useful in one way, but actually deflates you in another, well, you might have to think about letting that go for a while.
You can go back when you're in a different place, maybe or whatever but it is very important to think about the people who are around you in terms of supporting this, because you don't need energy suckers around you, you need your creative energy to stay stay centered and focused. You don't need people who belittle, or, you know, who are smart about creatives, or who don't get it or are trying to undermine it in any sort of way, just let it go and you can see them for other things, but make sure that you have people around you who get it and who support you.
OK, tools, tools, again is a huge topic but I bring it up in terms of preparation because having the right tools makes a huge difference. The example I always cite here is speech to text. The difference that made in my life as a writer and how much better I was able to write and how much more writing I was able to get done just by having that tool and there are so many fabulous digital tools now.
Again, I think if it's something that really appeals to you, the 21 day rule is a good rule to give it a go for 21 days, see does it actually, you know, how comfortable are you with it and if it isn't for you, letting it go. Get good recommendations from other people. I'm drawing together a list of recommended tools for writers, not of much the writing end of things, but the production and business end of things and also for creative entrepreneurs generally, so if any of you have a big tools recommendation, I'd be really keen to hear that.
Lots of our tools are digital. They allow us to be micro businesses, very light, very low cost, you know, the kinds of suites that we have from the media multimedia center that we carry in our pockets on our phones to things that manage our finances and our processes, google docs, you know, we've got so many fantastic tools available to us that are free of charge. Again, the problem is not finding a good tool, it's about being overwhelmed by too many and not knowing which ones are best. So, again that's a discussion that I think we should be having in the Facebook group and we will, we will be doing that.
And now, pace. Pace is super important for creatives and we often have just one pace and that's not optimal. It's really not. "Comment is obscuring the screen, please can it be removed?" Sorry, certainly. There you go. There's not a huge amount to see on the screen in terms of text but there you go. Yeah, pace. So, yeah, we often as I said, we often approach things, you know, we just have one pace and we do everything at the same pace and that is not optimal for creatives.
When you're preparing your session, you should decide is it going to be slow or is it going to be fast? Or sometimes, it's going to be in between but actually ask yourself "Slow or fast?" to start. So, when we do free writing, for example, we do it as fast as we can, that gives us a certain effect, gets beyond the thinking mind, goes deeper into the subconscious, a flow is set up that is difficult when our thinking mind is too much in control.
Some of the things I was talking about earlier is about slowing down, meditation does that but also, just stepping away, slowing down, not feeling the gnaw of anxiety to keep on hurtling forward, to actually take times where you deliberately go very slowly, do things very slowly. When you do that, certain things rise up that are deeper, you know, come from a more knowledgeable place that of the person who's in a different pace, operating at a different pace.
It also helps to remove that constant nagging feeling that you're never quite caught up by doing things at different paces and by doing them at a decided pace. The other thing to remember is that whatever work session you set up for yourself it should have a starting time and a finishing time and when you finish, you finish and you go and enjoy yourself. You don't keep going because you're on a roll, you actually finish with the the sort of memo to self about what you're going to do next time and then you walk away.
It's really important to do that. Because if when we're on a roll we do keep on going we can deplete ourselves and we haven't got enough next time out. Hemingway used to leading from ink in the well, which I think is a really, really good image for that.
So think about your pace. Think about the most creative pace for you, what is it? So we have in the indie author community, we've a lot of people who have really pushed their production pace to put out an awful lot more words faster. Some people been really successful in doing that. For other people, trying to push the pace like that has had a detrimental effect on their quality of work and it's by no means inevitable that it will do that but some people have found that it does. In other words, it's like everything else in creativity, there is the perfect optimal place which is yours and you have to find that by experimentation and exploration. Again, nobody else can can do that for you.
So, OK, good, Julie likes this pace idea. So it's a simple thing, it's a huge thing, it makes a big difference and when get this right. So yeah, just experiment with this lots, play with it, have fun with it, have with speeding up and have fun with slowing down. Look for fun and freedom all the time, because the whatever is light and free is actually more creative, it's more productive, you get richer stuff, you get better stuff and so you have more fun and you get a better outcome.
And that's why everybody wants to be more creative, but still we're kind of pushing ourselves in this relentless sort of way which isn't creative at all, doesn't lead to optimal creativity and even if you feel you're a procrastinator and you don't work hard enough, or if you feel "Oh my God, I overwork and I really, really need to stop" or "My days are too full" or whatever, one way or the other, this applies and finally it's about thinking about our process.
So we all have a process, it's a 7 stage creative process which we talked about in another workshop. I'm not really referring to that so much here now as the process you have for getting your stuff out the door. Is it effective? Is it actually the best process you could have? Are there things you could do that would make it easier? Are there parts of it you could offload a little and so you keep parts that you like more, does it all connect up properly, do you have the right tools, are they talking well to each other, it's well, well worth doing some time investment into getting your process right and getting very clear about it. Taking any confusion out of it.
Don't use tools that you feel uncomfortable with after 21 days. After you've given them a proper time to see are they right for you? Some tools suit us better than others. It's well worth putting the time in to find out which ones are yours. Tools and process go very closely together for a digital creative entrepreneur, so getting those aligned is very important and think about your processes.
Process that will produce the core, your core offering, and that's your, how you practice that is important, where you're doing, what we were talking about earlier, the time devoted to the space you're going to do it in and also, you know, how you actually go about it. Look, observe your process as if you're one of those, you know, time and motion guys from years ago. Break down how you do what you do, just observe yourself for a while and see how the process works for you and then just think about things that make it feel lighter, more free, more fun, more effective.
And money, of course, the great resource. Very often if you're feeling harassed about time or feeling harassed about money and it's the harassment itself creates more of itself, if you like, so it is sort of, worry in advance sometimes, where you're bringing a future into now or sometimes there are money things that are kind of weighing on you and the process, the time, the space, the pace, all of these things that I've been talking about need to be considered in terms of money and we will do a workshop purely on profit and on how important it is to think of your activities in terms of commercial profit as well as creative advancement.
The two go hand in hand, when you get, it's like when you get the passion and the mission combining in a certain place, when you get the time and the money, the creative and the commercial working together is so, when you consider an asset that you might be considering making, for example, you think about it in terms of the creative stuff but you also think about it in terms of the commercial stuff. You think about its value to other people, who's going to buy it, you know, how much they would spend on it, how you would put it together to make more money from it.
These kinds of questions can actually change the shape of what you're going to put out there in a really positive way because if it doesn't have value for other people, if they're not prepared to exchange some money for it, then you may not, it may not be the best possible thing that you could put together and it may well be creatively more rewarding to actually go with what is of more value to others.
Yes, the reverse can happen. There can be just this creative impulse that you have to follow through, never mind the money, you just gotta do it, you don't know why it's coming up and that's fine, I'm not, you know those kinds of impulses, when they're real and when they're deep and they're honest and they're open and they're, you know, truly felt, you go with those and I'm not suggesting for a second that you wouldn't, but very often we just decide we're going to do something, we don't have a great impulse, it's really " I'd like to do such and such" and we don't think any more about, we don't profit proof it and we don't think about the consumer of it enough and we just kind of go and do it our way and put it out there and then are disappointed when it just doesn't get scored, it doesn't reach people who want it and so that's what I'm suggesting, that some of the preparation process of thinking about money and how it intersects with what you're making can be really rewarding at every level.
So you can be rewarded creatively for that commercial thinking and rewarded commercially for it as well and rewarded commercially for the creative thinking that comes out of it and so I hope that makes sense to you.
So, any questions? Need arms going, we're all going, yes, it's an hour now and so just a quick thing about what we'll be talking about next time. Any questions arising out of today's workshop, you know, you'll sleep on it, you may have things during the month, please just put them out in the Facebook group, so it's Facebook.com/groups/gocreativeinbusiness. The title of the group, name has been changed so just be aware of that.
Next time, we're going to be looking at, sorry all of that, the lineup is today, we're going to be looking pitching. This is about getting a pitch that actually inspires others to take action, so if you don't and if you can't answer comfortably the question "What do you do?" in a way that inspires the other person to take action then you'll find that workshop useful and as I said, any questions that you have please bring them to our closed creative group on Facebook. We will have a creative meditation in the morning, free writing session if any of you are free to come along at 7:30 tomorrow morning and our next workshop will be on the third, oh there is none, there is no workshop now until the start of the new year. I'm going to carry December's workshop forward into the 1st of January, because I reckon on the 18th of December there's not going to be a lot of people interested in thinking about pitching and calls to action but on the 1st of January, you're probably very much going to think about things like that.
So yeah, 1st January is a Tuesday, so December's will be on the 1st and then January's will be on the 19th or something like that and anyway, you will get your email which will let you know. So, thank you very much for coming along and yeah, I hope some of that was useful for you in your own creative of businesses. Take care now.
Yes, Justine, I'm looking forward to it, our meeting tomorrow with the ALCS talking about author income. So I'll see you then, I think, if you're going to be there. Okay, everyone, thank you very much. Go creative. Bye now!


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Wallet is the compulsory accessory of women when they go out. They have to use wallets to hold their cash, their cellphone, cosmetic. Depend on the type and design, you can bring tons of items, as well as keeping them organized in order to find it quickly. Some women like to bring a small, nice wallet when they go for shopping at the supermarket or stopping at the grocery store. Others prefer using the women bifold wallet as one fashionable thing comes with their dress on special occasions.
So, what is the best wallet for women? It depends on how to use your wallet. Based on demand and plan to determine the materials, styles, special features and especially, the size of the wallet she will buy. A wallet doesn't have to just be a place to carry your ID, credit cards, and cash—the best ones are stylish, useful, light, and affordable. The ladies bifold wallet is a good choice for people who need the convenience as well as the fashion on daily style.
A wallet should look attractive as well as be functional, because wallets are frequently on view. In order to choose the right women bifold wallet, we'd like to introduce you all the Best and beautiful women bi-fold wallet to give you some specific idea in your mind when you are looking for a replacement.
Criteria to keep in mind when buying the women bifold wallet:
Similar to clothes or other items in our wardrobe, one wallet features several criteria and standards. If you spend time wandering around shops, you will see there are canvas wallet that sold at such a cheap price; while premium wallets offered by heritage makers tend to be sold for upwards of a few hundred dollars. To grab yourself the best bifold wallet for women, please pay attention to these basic elements:
- Leather quality: By looking for the pores, you will soon know whether leather is pigment-coated or not. For mens and womens leather bifold wallet appears with fine pores, then it is likely not pigment coated. In this case, you can bend the leather back and forth for checking.
- Sewn edges: Normal wallets often feature the single fold edges that are cut once folded. On the other hand, premium wallet appears to have double fold on both the shell and the lining. This method is rare and worth the price as it requires more time and skilled craftsman.
- Durability: Have you ever considered about the durability between these best women bifold wallet? One normal wallet with affordable price may last a few years, while the high-quality one can last for a lifetime if you pay good maintenance.
- Rounded corners: Women bifold wallet with rounded corners not only brings the sophisticated look but limits the wear of the corners as well. It also reduces the resistance when taking wallet in and out of your pockets.
Stunning ladies bifold wallet you may wanna check out:
01. Lethnic Zip Around Wallet, Genuine Leather Metal Zipper With Front Pocket, RFID Blocking
The first women bifold wallet in this collection takes advantage of plain genuine cowhide leather. Lethnic Zip Around Wallet not only delivers the intense durability, but also gives a classy look, especially mixing with the moderate shine of metal zipper, very luxury and expensive. Wondering about the size? It measures 5 x 3.2 inches, convenient for keeping inside both the front and back pockets.
Apart from their on-point yet elegant look, the wallet has strikingly large space to hold not only the most basic valuables like cards and cash, but also keys or coins due to personal preference and needs. The highlight is its tight lining seams and precise cutting to deliver great durability. Lethnic billfold wallet womens features 1 zippered pocket and 1 inner compartment. Also, there are 3 outer card slots where you can save your most-used cards there.
On the other hand, they also attach to RFID Blocking material for supreme security. It has been tested for 13.56 MHz frequency that hi-tech thieves can't approach your bank cards, ID cards as well as driver's license.
If you look for a present for mom, wife, or girlfriend, this is a go-to choose as the manufacturer also encloses a nice and elegant gift box, as well. The beauty is also expressed through colors in the palette that Lethnic provides. There are four at all: black, brown, special brown and navy blue. They are classic and basic, though, these four colors are timeless and easy to mix with many kinds of clothes.
02. Mini Leather Bifold Wallet For Women – MINI COSY
When mentioning about womens accessories, people prefer the compact item which stays neatly in their hands. This Mini Cosy Wallet For Women features the mini bifold size, which measures roughly 3.15 x 4.13 x 0.5 inches. Feel free to carry on your hands or leave inside pant pockets without any burden. This is also a must-have item for travelers as you can keep your things well-organized in such a compact item.
Known as the "mini version", but it still offers adequate space for your essentials including 1 full-length compartment, 2 hidden pockets, 3 card slots and 1 transparent ID window. Lethnic wallet utilizes the premium Italian leather, one kind of material that brings the excellent performance and durability.
In case you are seeking for one special gift, this minimalist card holder comes along with one gift box set. Perfect for any occasions such as wedding day, birthday party or reunion event. In case this size is a bit small to you, Lethnic offers one bigger version with more compartments and card slots.
03. Big Skinny Taxicat Women Bifold Wallet
This wallet design is inspired by the fast pace and size constraints of the big city. The Women Bifold Wallet Taxicat from Big Skinny is made of nylon microfiber. This material is thin and light-weight for you to carry around (5 – 7 times thinner than the real leather). For those who haven't known, the nylon microfiber allows you to wash with machine after a hard use.
Taxicat women bifold wallet measures 4 5/8 x 3 1/8 inches, convenient to carry on hands or inside bags, small pouches. Take a closer look, there are 3 card pockets, 2 extra-deep storage pockets and an ID pocket with a clear plastic window. For those pockets, they were designed with the rubbery coating so that cards won't slide out when storing in the wallet. Big Skinny billfold wallet womens emphasizes the strong and firm design by using solid – contrasting stitches.
In fact, most wallet often gets old after being used for a short time. Some will have to purchase a new one whenever they don't have to. But with this women's bi-fold leather wallet, you can wash it with machine or gently by hands after a hard use.
04. Damara Women Long Faux Leather Bifold Large Bow Design Wallet Handbag
Damara Women Long Faux Leather Bifold totally exceeds your expectations. It brings a beautiful shade of pink to make you look so sweet in any occasion. The wallet is available in several colors, which are suitable for women at all ages. Take advantage of premium leather, bi-fold wallet for women delivers the sophisticated look. When covered by one layer synthetic, it helps protect the material from accidental flashes of water.
Take a deeper look, the beautiful women bifold wallet contains up to 8 slots for keeping the card and 1 transparent ID window. Besides, there are 5 full-length compartments and 2 inner pockets, perfect for keeping cash and important papers. No more worry about losing your receipts, kindly store them inside the zipper slot. Feature the long bifold design, this one measures 7.28 x 3.54 x 1.38 inches (L x W x H). The Damara women's billfolds grab most women heart thanks to the golden metal bow that brings femininity.
These leather wallets for women ensure to offer good size and space for all essentials. You will have things well-organized inside compartments, card slots and an ID window. However, the quality is not good as most customers have expected. If you are looking for something cheap for the time been, it might be for you.
05. Lethnic Mens Women Bifold Wallet Vertical/Horizontal, Crocodile Embossed Cowhide Genuine Leather
Among all the design, womens bifold wallet are always designed to be perfectly simple. Let's take a look at this Lethnic Crocodile Embossed Cowhide Genuine Leather, we sure it won't make you feel disappointed. Utilize the high-quality cowhide genuine leather, wallet delivers the long-lasted lifespan and perfect performance. For those who prefer the exotic design, this ladies bifold wallet features the soft texture as embossed crocodile pattern. It will definitely grab people attention from the very first time.
The Lethnic Crocodile Embossed Cowhide Genuine Leather measures roughly 3.73 x 4.52, convenient for you to put inside both the front and back pocket. Although feature the slim construction, it ensures to offer adequate space for credit cards, money, ID driver license. There is 1 full-length compartment, 4 functional pockets for receipts and important papers. Bifold wallet for women offers up to 6 card slots, such a great number for keeping your cards well-organized. No more worry about information loss while this one equips a strong RFID blocking system.
Since this women bifold wallet is a brand new product, why don't you give it a try and share with us? In case individuals are not satisfied with the item, Lethnic offers 180-day risk-free trial with a full refund or free replacement.
For more products from Lethnic, check out this collection: Best Wallet Collection By Lethnic Brand
06. Travelambo Womens Walllet RFID Blocking Bifold Multi Card Case Wallet with Zipper Pocket
Among those beautiful women bifold wallets, this one seems to be the most stunning and convenient one. One more bonus point for this Travelambo Womens Wallet RFID is the wide range of color; from bright to darker shades, matte hues that suit your taste. With the aim to emphasize the high quality, Travelambo takes advantage of genuine leather and top-quality hardware. Leather wallets for women are handcrafted by skillful and experienced craftsmen, so no need to worry about the quality.
Available in the unique construction, the dimension for this item measures 7.5 x 4 x 1 inches. This a great option for most businessman, as you will have 16 card slots and an ID window. Moreover, there are 2 extra zipper compartments in case you want to pay cash when shopping, going to coffee shop. Your belongings will be secured thanks to two button closures. Use the inner buttons when you are holding a few things, and the outer once empty.
Women bi-fold wallet is pretty nice and receives compliments from customers. One funny aspect is that the ID window stays on the left, so it would be awkward for right-handers. Some customers also complain on the zipper quality, as it is easy to break.
07. Lavemi RFID Blocking Small Compact Mini Credit Card Holder Leather Pocket Bifold Wallets for Women
You may have seen lots of Lavemi items on our site, but with this new design. This would be an AWESOME DEBACK!! Feature the excellent combination of colors, sure it will make you look more elegant than ever. Make of genuine leather, you will experience the high-end enjoyment without needing to spend lots of money. Following the European style, women bifold wallet covers its outer performance with one layer of lining. This is such a great way to prevent water and other outer impacts.
If you are a fan of mini size wallet, the size and appearance of Lavemi Women's RFID Blocking Small Compact Bifold will win your heart. Its size measures roughly 3.54 x 4.13 x 0.59 inches; convenient to put inside coat, pant pockets. When opening, there are 6 card slots, 1 full-length currency pocket, and an ID window. There is one more zipper pocket for bringing coins. Also, to prevent the rise of electrical thieves, you can count on the RFID Blocking Technology which offers the high protection to secure your private info.
Women bi-fold wallet wins its customer's heart. So, you will mostly see positive comments or compliments. The Lavemi ladies bifold wallet has its package as one elegant box to give on birthday, reunion or any special events.
08. LETHNIC Handmade Leather Wallet For Women – Mini Bifold Wallet – JOY
If your purpose is focusing on the card holder design with compact construction – then don't miss out this Lethnic Mens and Womens Holder JOY Wallet. Its size features big enough to fit one normal card, which measures 3.2 x 4.3 inches. Emphasize the flat form, this bifold wallet for women is super convenient when carrying around or even keep inside your pant pockets. No matter how small your purse is, the JOY card holder still fits inside easily.
Take a closer look, you will have 6 card slots designed in both vertical and horizontal direction. For better convenience, the brand places one extra card slot at the back. So just grab your most-used cards and leave there for making fast payment. We highly recommend the Lethnic Joy womens card case if you love making card transaction rather cash. Otherwise, you can take advantage of its space for name cars as well.
There are 2 different colors including the brown and wine. Lethnic women wallet highlights the solidness of their wallet by using meticulously stitched seams in contrasting colors along the edges.
09. Women's Wallet – Genuine Italian Leather Long Bifold RFID Blocking Wallet
Dislike messy items or rough accessory? This Women's Wallet – Genuine Italian Leather Long Bifold embraces the slim construction no matter how many things you keep in. Utilize high-quality cowhide leather; wallet brings the luxury and comfortable feeling from the very first touch. If you select the bright color, use it carefully to avoid scratches or unexpected wear on the surface.
In term of size, GDTK women bi-fold wallet measures 7.61 x 4.21 x 0.39; quite slim for you to put inside bags, pouch. When opening, you will find 3 currency compartments, 1 ID window and 12 card slots. Focus on offering safety, there is one layer of advanced unique military grade proprietary blocking material attaches inside. Therefore, no more worry about the loss of information. One special thing is that it fits the iPhone 6S / 7 Plus perfectly.
When purchasing this wallet, you will receive one item, a luxury package and fabric dust bag in case you may not use in the future. According to most customers, card slots are a bit tight which require you to put much effort when taking things in / out.
10. Vegan Leather 17 Card Slots Card Holder Long Big Women Bifold Wallet
Wallets all remind us about items with traditional black, brown. Let's refresh your appearance with this dark blue one; the Vegan Leather Checkbook Women Bifold Wallet. Take advantage of the highest-quality PU leather, best women wallets highlight the comfortable and fine texture. Item features the edge stitches that skillfully crafted. It brings not only the finest workmanship but ensures long-lasted lifespan.
The luxury clutch measures roughly 7.68 x 3.74 x 1.33 inches, available to carry conveniently for all occasions. When opening, you can put things neatly inside 5 large compartments, 1 ID window, back sleeve pocket and up to 17 card slots. For those who have the habit of storing coins, Cyanure provides on one additional zippered pocket to prevent them from falling around. Wallet takes advantages of contrasting stitches along the edges to embrace its firmness.
You may think these bifold wallets for women feature their snap from the top, but actually it's at the bottom. Be sure to carry following the right direction to avoid things falling out all over the place. Wallet highlights its best with roomy compartments. Yet, putting too much inside will make it hard for you to close the snap.
11. Lethnic Handmade Bifold Womens Wallet – Pasic
These days, we believe you guys prefer accessories which are compact, slim and useful of course. Then this brand will bring you these characteristics combined in just one item – the PASIC Bifold Wallet For Men. Skillfully crafted by artisans, wallet emphasizes its durability and solidness through the stitches in contrasting colors. Utilize the genuine wax-leather, this mens and womens wallet remains its beauty over time. The more you use, the better your wallet becomes.
Wondering about the size? This handmade wallet for women measures 3.4 x 4.4 inches, feel free to keep inside pant pockets or small purses. Like other mens bifold wallet, you will have roomy space for all the belongings, which can hold up to 40 cash and several credit cards.
Bring you the nice and creative package, you can choose it as a gift on special occasions. We believe the rustic look will please all customers, even the pickiest individuals. Also, to ensures your satisfaction, just return it within 30 days for a replacement or a full refund of your purchase price in case you are not happy with the product.
12. Damara Female Faux Leather Card Holder Mini Wallet Clutch
Besides the elegant style, why don't try on the feminine and adorable to see whether it matches you or not. This Damara Card Holder Mini Wallet Clutch is also a good option for teenagers. Using faux leather, women bi-fold wallet delivers their long-lasted lifespan. Combining to solid stitches, it prevents tear, wears after a long time using. Yet, these elements still ensure the harmony in design.
Feature the small size, wallet measures 4.1 x 3.1 x 1.3 inches; convenient to carry on hands or put inside a tiny pouch. When opening, you will find a compartment for cash, 11 card slots, 1 card pocket and 2 transparent ID windows. This is one perfect item, especially for women who have the habit of using coins. All your essentials receive the high secure thanks to a hasp-closure pocket with a sparkling golden metal frame.
According to customers, the clasp is absolutely tight which requires you to but effort when opening. Hope you will receive compliments when choosing this bi-fold wallet for women. Anyways, it's also a great item for people who love small wallet design.
Check out some latest small designs: Best and beautiful small wallets for women.
13. Leather Clutch Wallets For Women Accordion – RFID Womens Wallet Organizer With Checkbook Holder
You may become familiar with Access Denied – one famous wallet brand aims to bring you the best quality and capacity. Made of genuine full-grain leather, wallet delivers the intense durability and softness from the very first touch. Wondering about its size? Access Denied Women's Bifold Leather Wallet measures 7.5 x 3.8 inches, which stays firmly in the palm of your hands or inside womens purse. The long bifold design ensures to give roomy space if you want to put your smartphone inside.
Take a closer look, these women's billfolds measure 3 cash compartments, 12 card slots, 1 removable checkbook cover and one ID window with a thumb cut-out. In case you are a coin collector, then just keep them safe in the 2 zippered pockets (one stays inside, and another is outside). This product offers the best protection thanks to the RFID blocking system that blocks 13.56 MHz frequencies. Access Denied offers a 1 YEAR WARRANTY for a full-refund or replacement in case you are not happy with the wallet.
Seeking for one impressive gift on your friend's birthday? This long women bifold wallet comes with an elegant gift box set. Most customers are not happy when there is a crinkle noise when using their wallet. The card slot is a little bit tight at the beginning; however, it will stretch out after time using.
14. YALUXE Women's RFID Blocking Small Compact Leather Wallet Ladies Mini Purse with ID Window
Besides the traditional long design, women also prefer the mini purse with adequate space for their belongings. This YALUXE RFID Small Women Bifold Wallet will grab your attention with various colors, from the dark to brighter ones, and matte hues. Made of cowhide leather, you will sure feel the slim and long-lasted lifespan during the using time. In term of sizing, it measures 3.54 x 4.13 x 0.59 inches.
YALUXE women bifold wallet ensures to keep your cards stay like new with the microfiber layer inside. Even though wallet appears with mini sizing, it features 7 card slots, 1 full-length compartment, 1 ID window. Coin collectors will have one zippered pocket to avoid them from falling over around. No more worry about electrical pick-pocketer as this women's bifold leather wallet equips to the strong RFID blocking system.
In case you experience the strange odor smell, kindly leave it in a ventilated area to get rid of the smell. This is one small women bifold wallet for some basic essentials. If you are seeking for a large space, then this is not a good option!
Above are the stunning bifold wallets for women in 2019. They are available and preferred by lots of women at the moment. All items come with unique design and catchy pattern which help reveal the elegance when using for outdoor dating. With many colors and designs which is suitable for women of all kind and all age. Hopefully, this collection of women bi-fold wallet can help you to choose what is yours.


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4 April 2017
Mr Leon Perera
Non-Constituency Member of Parliament
To ask the Minister for Social and Family
Development (a) how many Maintenance Record Officers (MROs) have
been appointed to date; (b) how many cases of potentially recalcitrant
defaulters have they investigated to date; and (c) whether the outcome
of MRO investigations have succeeded in identifying cases where
maintenance payments have been extracted from defaulters who were
able but unwilling to pay and, if so, what is the number of such cases to
The maintenance record officer (MRO) pilot project had been
initiated to assist the Court in its fact-finding process by obtaining
information on parties' financial circumstances, and identifying
recalcitrant defaulters who refuse to pay maintenance even though they
are able to afford it. Where appropriate, the Court can then impose
harsher penalties against such defaulters.
The MRO is not part of the Court process and only deployed in
cases directed by the judge. To date we have appointed two MROs, and
they have assisted the Court in four cases, with one pending. The
respondents in these cases were assessed to be unable to keep up with
their maintenance obligations due to financial difficulties, rather than
being unwilling to pay maintenance. For such cases, further to providing
a report on its findings to the Court, the MRO will also refer parties to the
relevant organisations for assistance.
The MRO pilot is a recent initiative, having just been implemented
a couple of months ago. We will continue to review its effectiveness so
that the MRO is able to assist more litigants.
I would like to assure this House that we will continue to work with
relevant stakeholders to improve our efforts to assist those who face
maintenance-related issues.


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Worship Ministries
Ushers Ministry (4)
Creative Arts Ministry
The focus of the Creative Arts Minsitry is to praise and glorify God through artistic expression.
The Greeters Ministry welcomes and serves Central Baptist Church disciples, visitors and guests as they enter the sanctuary building for Sunday worship services and on other occasions
Health Ministry
The Health Ministry delivers emergency first aid and nursing services to Central disciples and visitors who are injured or become ill during Sunday worship services and other occasions.
Media Ministry
Meetings 1st Sunday of the month,10:35 AM
Central is blessed to have "state of the art" audio and video technology that enhances our Sunday morning worship services and other services held in our sanctuary.


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Hello everyone… NYSOEA's 50th Anniversary Conference is officially 'open for business'!
We have been working towards this announcement for a long time and happy to send it to you. This conference truly celebrates our past and helps chart a course for our future. The overall program from start to finish stays true to our philosophy and theme to 'Learn It … Live It … Pay it Forward'. We are taking this opportunity in Pathways to introduce you to the Conference and provide everything you need to know to entice you to join us.
All of the Conference information you see here is also available in more detail on NYSOEA's web site www.nysoea.org including: an introduction to The Brandwein Institute and the American Nature Study Society, Conference FAQ's and complete descriptions for the programs, speakers, workshops, special events, the member's art exhibit, pre-conference trainings, field trips, advertisers, exhibitors and sponsors, registration, lodging, meals and more.
The 'Conference FAQ's' provides information for anyone interested in participating and/or registering for the Conference including; members, workshop leaders, past presidents, commuters, full time students & interns, SCA members, EEAC-NYC members, advertisers, exhibitors, sponsors, artists, authors…phew!
Registration for the Conference is available now in both on-line and 'write-in' opportunities at www.nysoea.org.
The YMCA's Greenkill Outdoor Education and Retreat Center in Huguenot, NY is the host site for this year's Annual Conference. If you are planning on lodging or camping at Greenkill for the Conference, please register early as some options are limited. For more information about Greenkill, its facilities and lodging/camping opportunities for the Conference visit Greenkill Retreat Center, New York YMCA Camp.
Join us!! Come to the Conference, become an exhibitor, take out an ad, donate to the raffles, sponsor an event or scholarship…help celebrate the past and chart a course for the future. We will continue to post information and updates on the Association's facebook platform and the website.
We look forward to seeing you all September 20-23, 2018,
Flo Mauro & Nancy Reichert
The 2018 conference supported in part by a grant from The Brandwein Institute & The American Nature Study Society.
NYSOEA is partnering with EEAC-NYC, The Environmental Education Advisory Council in New York City


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Title: Killer Wallpaper True Cases Of Deadly Poisonings
Author: Prokos, Anna.
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Publisher: Franklin Watts,
Publication Year: 2007
Description: This book explains how forensic toxicologists help investigators and medical examiners solve crimes, discussing the types of cases they work on, and presents an overview of this field of criminal science.
Subject: Poisons. Toxicology.
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about green sultanas
and the Italian take on a lardy cake
To my big surprise one day I just bought a bag of green sultanas in the local Turkish shop. I cant explain why, they just looked different, long and thin, juicy and beautifully green.. I was simply drawn to them and then I forgot about them and they spent a good few months in the cupboard waiting for the right moment to show me what they've got .
While I was reading the recipe and later while I was making them I couldn't help it but think that they reminded me of something I previously saw or made, just couldn't remember what; until I saw Paul Hollywood making a lardy cake. That was it.. stylish Italian recreation of a lardy cake, with one "little" twist - butter, instead of lard. Or it's all just my way of seeing it? My English friends disapprove of my view. Well, one way or another, we all loved them. But I still see them as an Italian version of English lardy cake made with Turkish green sultana.
Dolce Milanese
500g sultana or raisins
soaked over night ( water reserved)
205 g flour
1 tsp dry yeast
2 tbsp sugar
150 g cup of sultana's water
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp rum or brandy
1 tbsp orange zest
100 g butter
1 egg
1 tbsp water
Soak the sultanas in plenty of water and leave overnight. Drain them and reserve the water in separate cup. Put the flour in a bowl, sprinkle over with dry yeast and cover with warm reserved sultana water. Cover with a little bit of flour and leave to rest for 1 hour.
Add the salt, rum and orange zest and bring everything together in a ball; knead for about 10 minutes, then add the butter, bit by bit while kneading until all the butter is incorporated. Allow to rest for 6 hours.
Roll the dough into a rectangle about 5 mm thick, scatter a third of the soaked sultanas over it, fold one of the long sides into the middle of the dough, then do the same with the other side so they meet ( see below).
Now roll it out to widen it into a rectangle and scatter over another third of sultanas, fold and roll again, then repeat once more. Pinch the edges together and flip it over so it is seam side down. Allow it to rest for 20 minutes.
Cut the dough into 2 long strips then cut each strip into 10 pieces, place in the baking sheet, cover and allow to rest for another 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 220C/425F.
Mix the ingredients for the glaze together and brush the buns before putting them in the oven. Bake for 20 minutes. Cover them with some aluminium foil towards the end if they are getting too brown.
Allow them to cool completely before serving.


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Daily Dish: Is it time for Pay-to-Play leagues to collect the player fees? Junior Hockey News
Thursday, 13 Feb 2020
Stephen Heisler
Every year we have to hear about operators that are unable to maintain their end of the bargain at the pay-to-play level of junior hockey. Has the time has come for the leagues to take over the player fee collection and distribution process?
I think so and here is why. The league becomes the entity that ensures that the fee is being collected from the player. If the player chooses the pay by the month option, and misses a payment, it's not the team putting the player on financial suspension, it's the league.
The system would essentially eliminate the temptation to allow certain players to play for free in an effort to gain a competitive advantage.
The distribution of funds to the teams should also be on a per-game basis. I've grown very tired of fly-by-night operators having to collect player fees and deposits all summer in order to stay afloat. If the team owner can't sustain the operation during the off-season, maybe he really should not be involved at the level of play.
This system also eliminates player hoarding while creating a more balanced platform of operation. It also forces team owners to maintain their end of the bargain, something that often appears to be optional at best.
There are alternative revenue sources available to junior hockey clubs. The problem is the extreme dependence on the player fee. Maybe it's time to market the team properly. If that can't be done, raise the player fee to a point that can sustain the operation over the summer.
Some suggest that a league collection of fees system would force many undercapitalized operators out of business. I like the idea of all the bad operators being forced out at once. Less teams means more competition for junior roster spots. That's one very way to raise the system's overall level of play.
Let the unsanctioned yahoos do what they want, maybe a league guaranteed standard of development and operation is just what sanctioned pay-to-play hockey needs to gain the advantage.
Stephen Heisler
Stephen Heisler has spent a lifetime in the game of hockey. Stephen is also working with individual teams, coaches, and players as a director with Victorious Hockey Company. Stephen, his wife Deysi, and four children reside in Orlando, Florida.
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IFSC Code is the short form of Indian Financial System Code. IFSC Codes system has been developed by Reserve Bank of India in order to facilitate transfer payements within banks in India. IFSC Codes are also known as IFS Codes. IFSC Codes or IFS Codes are required for the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and the National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT) systems. IFSC Codes uniquely identifies each bank branch participating in the online Payment and settlements in India.
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Like Mother, Like Son
// October 9th, 2007 // Kids, Life
Yesterday Archie walked in the door from school, put Prince on the stereo and then sat at the kitchen table to read "Habitat" magazine. He is a rather unusual six year old! He discovered an old Prince compilation of mine and it's currently his favourite. It is pleasant after the unending rounds of Bob the Builder and other tv themes that were popular a week ago. And luckily he's non-verbal so he won't be repeating the lyrics to "Erotic City" or "Irresistable Bitch" in the school playground… hmm…
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August 13, 2018
West Hills Hospital & Medical Center, a full-service acute care facility, welcomes Yale D. Podnos, M.D., MPH, FACS, as its new chief medical officer (CMO) beginning Aug. 1, 2018.
Dr. Podnos is joining West Hills Hospital from University of North Carolina (UNC) REX Healthcare, where he served most recently as chairman of the department of surgery for the last two years and chief of the division of surgical oncology for nine years. He also served on the medical faculty at Duke University School of Medicine for three years and spent nine years on the medical faculty at UNC. His specialties include liver and pancreas cancer and melanoma.
"I am pleased to announce Yale as our new CMO," said Douglas Long, chief executive officer of West Hills Hospital. "He brings exceptional leadership and medical experience to our management team, and his expertise will help us continue to provide the high-quality, compassionate care our community deserves."
In his new role, Dr. Podnos will provide leadership and serve as the liaison between the medical staff and the hospital administration, reporting to the CEO. In addition, he will oversee numerous hospital initiatives focusing on patient care and quality measures.
"It is an honor to take on the role of chief medical officer," Podnos said. "I'm looking forward to working collectively with our physicians as we continue to grow our high-quality health care services and distinguish our facility as the hospital of choice in our community."
Dr. Podnos attended graduate school at Harvard University and medical school at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, where he also completed his residency in general surgery. He then completed a fellowship in surgical oncology at City of Hope. When he isn't performing his professional duties at the hospital, he enjoys cooking, golfing and playing with his 10-year-old son.
For more information about West Hills Hospital and its staff, please visit http://www.westhillshospital.com.
About West Hills Hospital & Medical Center
West Hills Hospital & Medical Center, a full-service acute care facility, has served the West San Fernando Valley for more than 50 years. With 450 expert physicians and a staff of more than 900 that brings outstanding service to every bedside, the hospital offers a full complement of advanced technology, compassion and responsive care for the improvement of human life. West Hills Hospital was the first Accredited Chest Pain Center in Los Angeles County and also provides specialized care in the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, Outpatient Services, Cardiac Catheterization Labs and The Grossman Burn Center. For more information on quality care, close to home, visit http://www.westhillshospital.com.


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Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you. (Psalm 5:10 ESV)
God does not tolerate rebellion against His will. From Adam and Eve to the present and into the future until time ends, people mutiny against God. Those who strive against Him, who disobey His will, are finally separated from Him. God told Adam to not eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil "for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17 ESV). God actually said, "die die." Eat this fruit and you will die spiritually after you die physically. Spiritual death is separation from Him who gives spiritual life, while continuing to exist. To exist eternally without spiritual nourishment is hell. Psalm 5 is God warning people of the consequences of rebelling against Him.
People do not commit just one sin. Those who are enslaved to sin can only sin. Everything they do springs from the thinking of their hearts, which is corrupted. Every thought, emotion and motivation is against God. Jesus tells those who would believe in Him the truth about sin and salvation. Everyone sins because it is their nature and are therefore under the judgment and wrath of God. In Jesus, God sets people free from the eternal consequences of sin. "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:34-36 ESV). Instead of accepting freedom from sin people chose continued bondage.
One sin brings separation from God. One act of righteousness brings God's grace and forgiveness to all. "Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men" (Romans 5:18 ESV; see Romans 5:12-21). After there is an understanding of what God has done, and God's grace is rejected, only one sin is enough to separate the unrepentant sinner from God.
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. (Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV)
God gives everyone His image because He wants a relationship with everyone. It is the image of God, through the prompting of the Holy Spirit, which draws people toward God, commanding them to turn away from sin. Those who reject the prompting of the Holy Spirit disobey the command of God. They continue to mutiny and fight against God.
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. (Matthew 12:30-21 ESV; see also Mark 3:28-29, Luke 12:8-10, 1 John 5:15-16).
God does not ask for obedience, begging those who are His by creation to stop sinning and be holy. He commands obedience. God never ask any to obey. He expects obedience because He is God. For any to continue to rebel, after knowing what God expects and demands, is an in-His-face act of insubordination.
People are without excuse in their rebellion. Those who are enslaved by sin are given the opportunity of freedom and choose continued slavery. It is the image of God in each person that is the catalyst for change. This change is ignited by the Holy Spirit, who wants relationship, who shows all their place before God. Choosing sin over God means separation from God.
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (Romans 1:18-21 ESV)


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