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CHAPTER 5
If you are reading this booklet, it means that you bought it, are considering buying it, or perhaps someone else bought it for you. It proves that this idea or any idea has a market. You are holding the proof in your hands. I have written it and put it up for sale and I thank you for buying it. I believe that you can do it also, but that is unimportant. WHAT IS IMPORTANT is that YOU believe that you can do it. It only requires that you have the vision and stamina to TAKE ACTION on your idea or dream. Normally it is relatively easy to follow your dream, but that depends how committed to chasing your dream. Are you a dreamer or a dream chaser? Do you BELIEVE that you can overcome most or all of the obstacles that will get in the way of ACHIEVING YOUR DREAM? For those obstacles you can’t get over on your own, can you find someone to help you over it? So you have your dream, what is stopping you from chasing it? Do you need some help with finding a topic to write about? What do you love to do in life? What is your favorite recreational activity? What do you do at work? What do you think of and about your co-workers? What is humorous to you? Do you see an opportunity that no one else can see? Do you know how to balance financial records? All of these are possible subjects to write about, but the list is limited only by your IMAGINATION.
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A book is ten percent imagination and ninety percent perspiration. Of course if you have a computer with a good word processing program that changes to ten percent
Imagination, sixty percent perspiration and thirty percent watching the computer correct your spelling mistakes. Imagination is useful in more than just book writing. It is very useful in every day life also. Your imagination is just like a knife sharpener; the more you use it the sharper your knife is. YOU HAVE AN IMAGINATION, USE IT. Use it fore more than just writing; use it in all aspects of your life. With your imagination sharpened you will see opportunities that most other people miss.
Once you have used your imagination to perceive something no one else has or created something new or a new way of using something someone else has created, you can then imagine your plan to take advantage of what you have dreamed up. You might imagine your plan in reverse order to make it easier to achieve your planned goal. This is the concept of what I am saying: 1. Think about what it is you really want to do and write it down, that is your final objective. 2. Think about where you are now. 3. Think about the obstacle that is closest to your final objective that is keeping you from reaching your final objective and formulate a plan to overcome it. 4. Think about what is the
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second closest obstacle to your objective that is keeping you from achieving your objective and devise a plan to overcome that obstacle. 5. Keep repeating this process until you reach where you are now. Each time you practice this process it becomes easier to use.
Your imagination allows you to be different and quite possibly wealthier than the rest of the thundering herd. Though I have never met any of the following famous people, they obviously have or had at least some imagination. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ely Whitney, Samuel Colt, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Sun Tzu, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet.
While huge dreams for your book can and do provide great profit, they normally require great amounts of physical and mental labor, not to mention great amounts of capital. The capital I am talking about is the capital of publishing contacts or money to pay for publishing if you do not have a publisher that is currently willing to publish your work.
If you do not have that type of capital, you can always do like I am doing and start small by imagining IDEA SEEDS to plant in your idea woods. Over a relatively short time you will probably discover that you have an IDEA FOREST. You can harvest the more mature of those Ideas,
take them to the sawmill (typewriter) and process them for
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sale. The finished product (your book) can be self published at various places and in variable forms at a local printing company or a nationally recognized brand such as Kinko’s or Staples just to name a couple.
A few of the markets available might be or are: College Book stores, consignment stores, local grocery stores, local book stores, your own web site store, eBay, Amazon.com, or Kindle to name just a few. Use your imagination to find or create the market you want or need to use.
I feel that it is time to change gears and start using the education gear. While education is too large to adequately discuss, in this short a book, I am going to give you my fact deprived OPINION. If you are going to become a writer you need at least a high school education to write and maintain a reasonable amount of credibility. Of course if all you have is a high school education (like me) the result is probably going to be a poor product like this. A college or technical school education with a Major in the English or whichever other language is your favorite language to write in is VITAL.
In general, though, I believe that the education system as it exists in this country is geared entirely towards training all persons to be the best possible EMPLOYEE. I am not trying to insult anyone who is happy as an employee or just
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wants to be left alone as employee. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING AN EMPLOYEE. Employees are vital to any company. My belief is that if more people were properly educated in basic financial education, there would be many more small businesses and higher employment. I believe this to be true because people in general would be aware of how to handle their personal finances and could run a business because they would know how to plan for and handle the financial part of the business. They would also tend to have the disposable income to finance the start up process of their business. Instead the current “education system” does very little or nothing to encourage the entrepreneur or small business owner in the earliest, most easily trained stages. The American education system is a double edged sword. On the one edge, it DOES teach the basic skills to gain knowledge. The other side of the sword is that it only teaches skills that will be valuable to you as an employee.
Basic education (K-12) teaches advancing levels of basic employee skills and the advanced education system only provides more advanced “employee only” skills.
Education can be formal, such as a technical school, college or other educational programs; some ran by your employer. Someone has to pay for this type of education.
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Education can be self directed by reading and studying on your own and has the advantage of letting you concentrate on what you need to find out at that time. This education can be much less expensive because it is entirely possible to visit your local public library and borrow them for FREE. They will likely have many other resources available that are available only at the local level. Another very low cost measure for finding the books you want to study is to buy them at yard sales, consignment stores, and Good Will or Salvation Army stores. I am going to make another suggestion that I feel is very important. You need to read several books by several different authors about financial matters. Personally, two of my favorite financial Authors are Robert Kiyosaki and Robert G. Allen. The more you are exposed to the thoughts of financially successful people, the more opportunities you will recognize when you see them. The more exposed you are, the more likely you are to conduct your personal life and personal business in a financially sound manner. Financial education is like the imagination, the more it is exercised the stronger it will get. A strong financial sense is probably second in importance only to your imagination and both in combination are nearly absolutely invaluable. Now go and get your exercise.
It is time to change mental gears yet again and discuss marketing. Marketing is about much more than just selling a product or products. Selling is just a small part of
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marketing and a strong education in marketing is definitively invaluable. Marketing is much more about the strategies and specialized concepts of selling than about the selling of individual items themselves. An education in will teach you how to think about who your market actually is and even more importantly, what it is that they want to buy. It does however have a direct impact on how and where you sell your book.
I hope that this book has inspired you to try to do what it is that I have done here and that you are able to do it more expansively and better than I have done here. I hope that this book has caused you many feelings since you first received it. Most of all, I hope that you have thoroughly
enjoyed this book.
Entrepreneurship is a challenging field of endeavor, but is probably the best game in town. In a lot of ways, it requires a gambler to even attempt it. You may amass a fortune or fortunes and you may just as easily lose it. This all part of the game and what makes it so fascinating. Unless you are going to work for someone else, YOU are an entrepreneur. Enjoy and good luck.
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