An enlightening chapter from Seth Godin's Linchpin http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/ and is talked about in his blog, Seth's Blog
My Lizard Brain poem:
Lizard Brain,
in the way,
stopping shipping,
derailing the train.
My Lizard Brain hates getting out of it's comfort zone. I try to improve myself and the Lizard Brain screams at my own Self to shut up and get back in line.
Now I know my Lizard Brain exists and I gave it a name...Lizard Brain.
Lizard Brain, I found you.
Lizard Brain, I know you.
Lizard Brain, I talk to you.
Lizard Brain, I work with you.
Progress, as in the Art of Shipping, and at least for me, is hindered by Lizard Brain. Ok...I get it now.
So what do you say, Lizard Brain, let Self work on Progress. And when I'm finished, the two of us will go have a glass of wine with our Girlfriend as a reward and celebrate Shipping.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Color-rhyming taken down
I took www.Color-Rhyming.com off-line last month. There were no sales and that's because I didn't do any marketing with it at all. So, lots more to learn.
Working on what I need to do for getting my stories into Agent's hands. More reading involved and that is okay so I can have a fighting chance to get them read. Query letters are the key.
I will work on blogging for the 2011 year to better promote my thoughts. I'll also work on more Twisted Nursery Rhymes and other POV stories.
More later!
Working on what I need to do for getting my stories into Agent's hands. More reading involved and that is okay so I can have a fighting chance to get them read. Query letters are the key.
I will work on blogging for the 2011 year to better promote my thoughts. I'll also work on more Twisted Nursery Rhymes and other POV stories.
More later!
Monday, May 3, 2010
I posted a coloring ebook on the web that is also a rhyming story http://color-rhyming.com/ . To date, sales have not been stellar.
However, when I don't let anyone know it even exists, then it makes it hard to generate revenue.
What's the lesson?
Ship.
I will do the rest of the training that I paid for during the summer and move myself forward by leaning forward (this I'm learning from Seth Godin, http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ and his book, Linchpin).
Ship.
The art of my Twisted Nursery Rhymes are free for everyone to read and enjoy - This art I give away without any monetary obligation.
However, when I don't let anyone know it even exists, then it makes it hard to generate revenue.
What's the lesson?
Ship.
I will do the rest of the training that I paid for during the summer and move myself forward by leaning forward (this I'm learning from Seth Godin, http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ and his book, Linchpin).
Ship.
The art of my Twisted Nursery Rhymes are free for everyone to read and enjoy - This art I give away without any monetary obligation.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Is it just me, or have the Children of Today have no clue on how to color?
I was in a local restaraunt and a kid was given a few pages of a coloring book to color. I saw the pages he colored. He turned them in to the Server, and then the family left.
Someone asked, "How did he do?"
Server responded, "He's not too bright. He didn't stay in the lines..."
I think this says a lot about our current culture and the inablitiy of the Teaching System to teach our youth hand-eye-corridination. Many kids today can run a mouse on a computer at age 3. My son could do that 11 years ago with a Barney computer program.
Yet, he could still color within the lines.
What am I getting at?
HAND-EYE corridination on paper.
Attention to detail > do they even teach OUTLINING on the coloring sheets anymore? <
Focus on where your hand goes during coloring.
Motor skills that will be needed later in life.
Where does this lead?
go check out www.color-rhyming.com for a new way to teach kids to color.
Plus, the rhyming story will actually make sense with the pictures!
Have pride in your child's work.
Correct their mistakes using another page of their favorite picture - you're the parent. Act like one. Make it right.
Outline.
Color.
Read.
Put it on the Fridge.
Be proud.
DrWoody
I was in a local restaraunt and a kid was given a few pages of a coloring book to color. I saw the pages he colored. He turned them in to the Server, and then the family left.
Someone asked, "How did he do?"
Server responded, "He's not too bright. He didn't stay in the lines..."
I think this says a lot about our current culture and the inablitiy of the Teaching System to teach our youth hand-eye-corridination. Many kids today can run a mouse on a computer at age 3. My son could do that 11 years ago with a Barney
Yet, he could still color within the lines.
What am I getting at?
HAND-EYE corridination on paper.
Attention to detail > do they even teach OUTLINING on the coloring sheets anymore? <
Focus on where your hand goes during coloring.
Motor skills that will be needed later in life.
Where does this lead?
go check out www.color-rhyming.com for a new way to teach kids to color.
Plus, the rhyming story will actually make sense with the pictures!
Have pride in your child's work.
Correct their mistakes using another page of their favorite picture - you're the parent. Act like one. Make it right.
Outline.
Color.
Read.
Put it on the Fridge.
Be proud.
DrWoody
Monday, September 14, 2009
Random Thoughts: Flies, Cars, Interstates
Have you ever had a fly buzzing around in your car,while you're driving down the interstate at 83 mph?
And you roll down your window juuuuust enough to let the fly out...
What happens to the fly's wings as its sucked outta the car?
Random thoughts,
DrWoody007
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Bite Ditsy Prissy
Nursery Rhyme Twist to delight your *.children and stump-the-chumps (yes, you...the adults!). Try to figure out the answer before the end of the Twist. If you get stumped (and I win), I'll give you a hint...just leave me a question in the comment. It may take me a bit to get back, but I'll respond.
Bite Ditsy Prissy
"Wooowww!" I said to myself, "look at that cool cave!"
It seems I'm always talking to myself. Even when others are around me, I always talk to myself. Kind of like Dory does before she meets Marlin and Nemo.
"I wonder what's in there?" I ask to no one. "Maybe this is the place I want to live in because it looks so comfy!"
I walk up to the mouth of the cave. It is very dark; like the dark of you blackest crayon scribbled with your strongest strength to make the paper as black as possible.
"I hope nothing grabs me when I walk in here..." I say, hesitating at the black abyss portal in front of me.
Gingerly, and ever so slightly, I put my leg into the inky, space-void black hole.
"Whew!" I exclaim, "nothing grabbed me from inside!" I'm panting as I move further into the darkness because I'm acutely aware of any sound. I'm in what appears to be a tunnel because the walls are smooth all around me wherever I touch them.
"OK. Let's see where this tunnel goes," I say to myself...again.
"Forward HOOOOO!" Yeah, I know, too many Western shows.
Carefully, gently, cautiously, and with abandonment, I move forward into the black hole of my little space. I'm doing pretty good as my eyes get adjusted to the darkness and I notice a speck of light.
"Hmmm," I say, approaching a bend in the tunnel, "I wonder where that tiny bit of light's coming from? I thought Black Holes didn't emit light."
*ZZZZZZZZKKKKKKKTTT!*
"OOOWWWWW!" I yell because that brilliant flash of light just blinded me from above in the tunnel.
I mean, this light is worse than the eye Dr. uses when they make you put your chin in the chin-thingy and 'not' look at the light.... Like you can't LOOK at the light when its burning a hole in your retina, blinding you so much that you see spots for a couple of minutes. Oh no, this light was waaaayyy worser than that by infinity-squared.
*KaaaaBOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!* went the concussion sound outside the tunnel.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" I scream, almost wetting myself as I'm hurling down the tunnel, tumbling and twisting and flogging my arms and legs to land right-side-up. "What the heck was that?!?!"
* drip......drip.......drip........drip...drip...drip.. drip-drop.. drip-drop.. drip-drop-drip-drop...*
"Hey," I said to the tunnel, "what's with the water?"
Tunnels are so stupid...they never answer. But this was an answer I didn't like at all.
*drippity-droppity..drippity-droppity..WHOOSHK!*
Screaming, I yell, "Make it Stop!! Make it Stop!!" as the torrential flood of water hits me in the face.
As if things can't be any worse, the water knocked me off my feet again and I'm being swept down the tunnel in a gush of water. I've never seen this much water before in my 5 weeks of life. I don't think even Lou from Survivor Man or Bear will be able to withstand the onslaught of force from the water's push that I'm feeling right now.
And then..."Weeeeeeeee!!!!"
Hey, if you can't make a bad thing into a good thing without a little bit of creativity, what kind of being are you? Instead of fighting the water, I chose to make it my buddy. I put my feet down and I'm surfing the water waves!
*Weeeeeeee!*
"Heeheeheeheehee!"I giggle like Dash did running on the water.
"Dude!" I shout to the tunnel in my best Valley voice, "look at me hang!"
"Ohhh poop..." I sighed because my life just hit another snag.
My surfing water in the tunnel just now turned into a water fall out of the tunnel. "Ahhhhhhhh!" I scream again. "I wasn't meant to vertical-surf!!! This isn't the X-Games!!!!!!"
Out of the corner of my eye, I see a branch coming towards me as I'm flushing down the toilet of my life.
*ssshhhhhkkkkktt*
"Yessss!" I exclaim like Napoleon, grabbing the branch and stopping my fall to certain death-splat. Dangling on the branch, I catch my breath and wonder how I'll get out of this situation.
But, Gia never ceases to amaze me. Just when she seems to be the cruelist, she blesses me. I look up and the great big bright blob-in-the-sky is warming me up. It's also making the water fall out of the tunnel's ominuous black gaping mouth slow to a dribble. I only feel the occasional drop of water as it hits my body. The Great Sky-Blob seems to be fixing that problem too!
"Well," I say (my friends always kid me cuz they say I sound like Ronald Regan, whoever that is), "I'd better go back into the tunnel-cave and really figure out what's in there."
I hoof it over and start climbing through the black portal to the unknown.
"Maybe," I say to myself while slogging through the tunnel's dank, dark, cold, amoeba-infested water, "there is hidden treasure in here just for me!!"
"Bring it on, Tunnel!"
The End
Did you figure out the Twisted Nursery Rhyme?
\Who's telling the story?.
Bite Ditsy Prissy
"Wooowww!" I said to myself, "look at that cool cave!"
It seems I'm always talking to myself. Even when others are around me, I always talk to myself. Kind of like Dory does before she meets Marlin and Nemo.
"I wonder what's in there?" I ask to no one. "Maybe this is the place I want to live in because it looks so comfy!"
I walk up to the mouth of the cave. It is very dark; like the dark of you blackest crayon scribbled with your strongest strength to make the paper as black as possible.
"I hope nothing grabs me when I walk in here..." I say, hesitating at the black abyss portal in front of me.
Gingerly, and ever so slightly, I put my leg into the inky, space-void black hole.
"Whew!" I exclaim, "nothing grabbed me from inside!" I'm panting as I move further into the darkness because I'm acutely aware of any sound. I'm in what appears to be a tunnel because the walls are smooth all around me wherever I touch them.
"OK. Let's see where this tunnel goes," I say to myself...again.
"Forward HOOOOO!" Yeah, I know, too many Western shows.
Carefully, gently, cautiously, and with abandonment, I move forward into the black hole of my little space. I'm doing pretty good as my eyes get adjusted to the darkness and I notice a speck of light.
"Hmmm," I say, approaching a bend in the tunnel, "I wonder where that tiny bit of light's coming from? I thought Black Holes didn't emit light."
*ZZZZZZZZKKKKKKKTTT!*
"OOOWWWWW!" I yell because that brilliant flash of light just blinded me from above in the tunnel.
I mean, this light is worse than the eye Dr. uses when they make you put your chin in the chin-thingy and 'not' look at the light.... Like you can't LOOK at the light when its burning a hole in your retina, blinding you so much that you see spots for a couple of minutes. Oh no, this light was waaaayyy worser than that by infinity-squared.
*KaaaaBOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!* went the concussion sound outside the tunnel.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" I scream, almost wetting myself as I'm hurling down the tunnel, tumbling and twisting and flogging my arms and legs to land right-side-up. "What the heck was that?!?!"
* drip......drip.......drip........drip...drip...drip.. drip-drop.. drip-drop.. drip-drop-drip-drop...*
"Hey," I said to the tunnel, "what's with the water?"
Tunnels are so stupid...they never answer. But this was an answer I didn't like at all.
*drippity-droppity..drippity-droppity..WHOOSHK!*
Screaming, I yell, "Make it Stop!! Make it Stop!!" as the torrential flood of water hits me in the face.
As if things can't be any worse, the water knocked me off my feet again and I'm being swept down the tunnel in a gush of water. I've never seen this much water before in my 5 weeks of life. I don't think even Lou from Survivor Man or Bear will be able to withstand the onslaught of force from the water's push that I'm feeling right now.
And then..."Weeeeeeeee!!!!"
Hey, if you can't make a bad thing into a good thing without a little bit of creativity, what kind of being are you? Instead of fighting the water, I chose to make it my buddy. I put my feet down and I'm surfing the water waves!
*Weeeeeeee!*
"Heeheeheeheehee!"I giggle like Dash did running on the water.
"Dude!" I shout to the tunnel in my best Valley voice, "look at me hang!"
"Ohhh poop..." I sighed because my life just hit another snag.
My surfing water in the tunnel just now turned into a water fall out of the tunnel. "Ahhhhhhhh!" I scream again. "I wasn't meant to vertical-surf!!! This isn't the X-Games!!!!!!"
Out of the corner of my eye, I see a branch coming towards me as I'm flushing down the toilet of my life.
*ssshhhhhkkkkktt*
"Yessss!" I exclaim like Napoleon, grabbing the branch and stopping my fall to certain death-splat. Dangling on the branch, I catch my breath and wonder how I'll get out of this situation.
But, Gia never ceases to amaze me. Just when she seems to be the cruelist, she blesses me. I look up and the great big bright blob-in-the-sky is warming me up. It's also making the water fall out of the tunnel's ominuous black gaping mouth slow to a dribble. I only feel the occasional drop of water as it hits my body. The Great Sky-Blob seems to be fixing that problem too!
"Well," I say (my friends always kid me cuz they say I sound like Ronald Regan, whoever that is), "I'd better go back into the tunnel-cave and really figure out what's in there."
I hoof it over and start climbing through the black portal to the unknown.
"Maybe," I say to myself while slogging through the tunnel's dank, dark, cold, amoeba-infested water, "there is hidden treasure in here just for me!!"
"Bring it on, Tunnel!"
The End
Did you figure out the Twisted Nursery Rhyme?
\Who's telling the story?.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Deed Died Hide Dilly
Nursery Rhyme Twist...guess the Rhyme before the end of the Story!
...Guess who's Telling the Story for Extra Fun!!
Deed Died Hide Dilly
Hi!
My name is Dilly.
I am 4 years old. I go on many adventures, but none were as spectacular as the one I'm going to tell you about...here's my tale......
I'm trotting down the trail and minding my own business. I check out the trees and the shrubs for bad-guys, but none are present. So, I keep trotting along and come to this crazy intersection on the path.
One part of the intersection goes to the left...normal.
One part of the intersection goes to the right...normal.
I look to the left and rub my eyes because I can't believe what I see! This is NOT normal!
Dancing around is Mittens, the local barn cat. But that's not the strange part...no way!
What's strange is she's standing on her hind legs and walking! But there's an even stranger part:
Mittens has this wooden thing in her paw and under her chin. In her other paw is a piece of wood with hair stolen from Francie's tail, the Mare in the Barn. Mittens is sliding the hair across the stings of the wooden thing and making....I can't believe it...Music! Mittens is making beautiful music!! Even the Mice are dancing with Mittens! And Bessy, the farmer's cow is dancing, too!
But Bessy's dancing in a strange way...kinda in a way that I've never seen....
Bessy dances and prances and twirls down the trail. But instead of going left or right, SHE GOES UP!!!!! It's like the Space Shuttle launch!
Bessy flies so fast and furious, I nearly lose sight of her! Thank goodness she is a Holstein and not an Angus; otherwise, I surely would have lost sight of her. But you know what...this isn't the most amazing part...oh no. The amazing part is:
Bessy mooned the Moon!! Can you believe it! And you should see the Man in the Moon's face when he saw THAT sight!! I can't stop laughing...HA HA HA HEE HEE HAA HAAA HAAAAAA! *pant* .. *pant*! ....*sigh*!!!
I think this should be a new sporting event in the X-Games! I'm still laughing at the sight of this new sport! I wonder if Tony Hawk can even pull this trick off!! HEE HEEE HEEE HAA HAA HAA!! *whew*! I wonder if this is where Michael Jackson figured out his new dance move from the 80s!!!!! *snickkkk*!
*gasp*...Man! I need to lay off the Bones!
As I'm collecting my thoughts and regaining what little control of my bladder is left, I notice something out of the corner of my eye to the right. No Way!
China, the ex-wrestling woman from TV, is running away with Snoop! At least I think it's Snoop...maybe changing places with the 'n' and 'p'....but I'm telling ya...It looks like Snoop from where I'm standing! This is one Crazy Intersection! And, I've had enough!
I'm going to my house, lick my bowl clean, drink out of the toilet, and go to bed!!!
Good Night!!!!!
Did you guess the Nursery Rhyme before the end?
Did you figure out who's telling the Story??
...Guess who's Telling the Story for Extra Fun!!
Deed Died Hide Dilly
Hi!
My name is Dilly.
I am 4 years old. I go on many adventures, but none were as spectacular as the one I'm going to tell you about...here's my tale......
I'm trotting down the trail and minding my own business. I check out the trees and the shrubs for bad-guys, but none are present. So, I keep trotting along and come to this crazy intersection on the path.
One part of the intersection goes to the left...normal.
One part of the intersection goes to the right...normal.
I look to the left and rub my eyes because I can't believe what I see! This is NOT normal!
Dancing around is Mittens, the local barn cat. But that's not the strange part...no way!
What's strange is she's standing on her hind legs and walking! But there's an even stranger part:
Mittens has this wooden thing in her paw and under her chin. In her other paw is a piece of wood with hair stolen from Francie's tail, the Mare in the Barn. Mittens is sliding the hair across the stings of the wooden thing and making....I can't believe it...Music! Mittens is making beautiful music!! Even the Mice are dancing with Mittens! And Bessy, the farmer's cow is dancing, too!
But Bessy's dancing in a strange way...kinda in a way that I've never seen....
Bessy dances and prances and twirls down the trail. But instead of going left or right, SHE GOES UP!!!!! It's like the Space Shuttle launch!
Bessy flies so fast and furious, I nearly lose sight of her! Thank goodness she is a Holstein and not an Angus; otherwise, I surely would have lost sight of her. But you know what...this isn't the most amazing part...oh no. The amazing part is:
Bessy mooned the Moon!! Can you believe it! And you should see the Man in the Moon's face when he saw THAT sight!! I can't stop laughing...HA HA HA HEE HEE HAA HAAA HAAAAAA! *pant* .. *pant*! ....*sigh*!!!
I think this should be a new sporting event in the X-Games! I'm still laughing at the sight of this new sport! I wonder if Tony Hawk can even pull this trick off!! HEE HEEE HEEE HAA HAA HAA!! *whew*! I wonder if this is where Michael Jackson figured out his new dance move from the 80s!!!!! *snickkkk*!
*gasp*...Man! I need to lay off the Bones!
As I'm collecting my thoughts and regaining what little control of my bladder is left, I notice something out of the corner of my eye to the right. No Way!
China, the ex-wrestling woman from TV, is running away with Snoop! At least I think it's Snoop...maybe changing places with the 'n' and 'p'....but I'm telling ya...It looks like Snoop from where I'm standing! This is one Crazy Intersection! And, I've had enough!
I'm going to my house, lick my bowl clean, drink out of the toilet, and go to bed!!!
Good Night!!!!!
Did you guess the Nursery Rhyme before the end?
Did you figure out who's telling the Story??
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