Brummet's Conscious Blog

* Source: The Moss is Columbia Land Trust's monthly e-newsletter. This August, Columbia Land Trust conserved 40 acres of agricultural land in Trout Lake, Washington using an innovative new approach to farm conservation called Buy-Protect-Sell. A partnership between the Washington State Conservation Commission and the Washington State Housing Finance Commission , Buy-Protect-Sell makes it possible for land trusts to conserve farms facing imminent threat of conversion by accessing the necessary funding much more quickly than was possible using traditional funding sources.      Working with the Schmid Family, who have run an organic dairy farm here since the late 1800s, Columbia Land Trust used a loan and grant funding to purchase the farmland, place a permanent agricultural conservation easement on it, and promptly sell the land back to two of the Schmid sons. The land was able to be sold to the farmers at an affordable price since the new easement extinguished the d...

Previously, in part-1 of Understanding Business Basics published on Sept 9th (2023), we shared a somewhat involved task - creating keyword and keyword phrase lists. Today we are continuing with the next 2 steps: #2 - Keyword phrases about your book(s)/writing career #3 - Develop a contact list Step 2: This homework assignment involves creating list of keywords will involve the tropes, nouns, keywords and phrases that describe your professional journey. Ask yourself why you do the work, how it affects you, why you continue and you'll find even more keyword phrases to add to your list.   This would include things like :  The type of business you are involved in Your personal entrepreneurial journey  The services or products you offer, or have been involved with in the past Past or current memberships with organizations/groups Education  Challenges you have overcome Advice you may be able to offer someone looking to walk a similar path For an author, your product...

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This monthly series began nearly 2 years ago offering advice, tips, resources and marketing opportunities for our friends in the world of writing. It is published around the middle of each month, making it easy for people to check out the archives. -- Resources --  Brummet Media's Youtube Channel   offers quite a few videos on several different topics ranging from entrepreneur & writing, answering submitted questions, book trailers, & more. In this next recommended resource below, the video discusses what networking is, how starting out with the right mind-set makes all the difference in the efficacy of your networking activities: https://youtu.be/nmDgXxlBeeE -- Author Interviews --  Actor & prolific author of more than 20 books, Ken Farmer, joined us in '21 to share his amazing journey as a writer, & how he overcomes challenges. He also shared his book trailer video - which is a great example for authors.  https://consciousdiscussions.blogspot.c...

Two personality traits that all entrepreneurs need to have is a sense of self-discipline and the ability to be tenacious. Too much, like anything, can of course lead to problems and sometimes it can be difficult to decide if the actions you plan to take will come across in an abrasive way.  For example: A period of time has passed since you sent that query out and you have not received a reply - and now your mind is reeling with wondering thoughts like: • Did it arrive? • Perhaps your message got lost in a spam or junk folder. • Maybe they have had too many messages and haven't had a chance to respond. • It could be they saw it and meant to reply, but then forgot about it. The next question that will pop us is whether you should reach out yet. The answer is: "Yes, it is ok to be tenacious - but do so respectfully".  Be sure to check the list below before reaching out: • Scan email and message centres, texts and chats for any communications from them. Just becaus...

Richard Fireman has been writing for over fifty years and enjoys providing readings at several libraries, bookstores, and even fairs located near New Jersey, (USA) - where he lives.  Quite a few of his articles have been published in  local magazines and in chess publications and websites, such as the U.S. Chess Federation’s Chess Life , chessvibes.com, and kasparovchess.com.  In 2009 he contributed a chapter to the book Writing Away the Demons , a compendium of thirteen writers’ stories of how each of them used their writing to cope with life crises Today we have the honour of helping Richard celebrate his book   Constellations which you can find on Amazon .  Unbound The kite-flyer does not move but soars, kisses the air, makes vicarious love to the sun. He stands patiently at the edge of the sky unreeling his bound self, sensing the shifts of the wind like a blind lover, and takes what shapes emerge. We are so far from God, so near. No Way No, there will nev...

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