[Blindtlk] Going forward

[Julie Johnson]

What do you mean?  I'm a bit uncertain of what you are getting at here.

If you are asking about blindness skills...I had the opportunity to attend a 
training center for 3 months, where I learned all sorts of things.  Probably 
most important among them was to face the fear and do the thing anyway. You 
can't possibly learn everything you'll ever need to know at a training 
center, but if you learn how to figure things out for yourself, you're 
pretty much set.

If you mean in employment...I'm highly motivated by learning new things.  So 
every few years I change jobs/careers.  Right now I run my own business.  I 
like it a lot because if some interesting opportunity comes up I am free to 
explore it without needing anyone's permission.  Also seeing sales numbers 
is motivating because it's a very tangible way to know how well I'm doing 
and how much I'm improving.  I struggled with this when working for others. 
The yearly review was one person's opinion and too infrequent to be of real 
use to me.

If you mean the day to day mundane things, cleaning, paying bills, cooking 
etc...honestly I'm not good at staying motivated with these.  As much as I 
possibly can I try to do minimum effort required.  I have bills set up to be 
taken care of automatically.  I put reminders in my phone of when the dogs 
will need a bath or whatever.  I tend to do marathon sessions of cleaning 
out closets because then I can get it done and over with.

I tend to prefer project based work, where there's a specific goal and a 
time frame of a few weeks to a few months.  So I structure my life around 
how I know I work best.  This year I started a shop in the blind mice mall 
in the beginning of the year, I was a vendor at convention and now the next 
goal is to start selling on a new platform like eBay or Etsy.  I'll get that 
going by the end of the year.

Perhaps my best advice is to capitalize on strengths and to delegate or 
automate the rest as much as possible.   Your question is interesting.  I 
hope I guessed at what you meant at least a little.  Looking forward to 
understanding your situation a bit better and seeing what others have to 
say.

Julie
On The Go with Guide-and-Service-Dogs.com
http://www.guide-and-service-dogs.com
also find my products in the Blind Mice Mega Mall
<https://www.blindmicemegamall.com/bmm/shop/Directory_Departments?storeid=1916046>
-----Original Message----- 
From: adrijana prokopenko via blindtlk
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 6:06 AM
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Subject: [Blindtlk] Going forward

I am sure that there are many people here of all ages, from different
professions and with different experiences, so it would be interesting
to find out about what it is that usually helped you and still helps
you go forward in whatever it is that you do?

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