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Equestrian sport is a fascinating subject. However, these days I have to indulge my passion in front of the television, because my mare is “indisposed”. After three years of trying, getting more desperate with every passing year, my gorgeous pure-bred Friesian mare has finally managed to get herself pregnant. At the grand old age of eight, she is expecting her first foal in the spring.

Of course, insemination by one of the breath-taking registered Friesian stallions was just not good enough for her. She had to fall for an unregistered pure-bred stud, probably because he was on-hand and available. Never mind, she is in foal at last, and had lots of fun getting there.

Somewhere along the line (it may have been due to all the vet’s bills while she was trying to conceive) it dawned on me that this was going to be an expensive undertaking. Not one to be daunted by such an insignificant obstacle to my mare’s happiness, I decided to find a way to earn some extra cash.

The internet seemed to provide the ideal opportunity. Lots of scope, on first examination. Everywhere you surf there are promises about making loads of money in the shortest time. Strangely enough, it always involves investing a fair amount of money in either a product or a service first. Not having a lot of money to start off with, protected me from the internet sharks, but also forced me to learn the hard way.

I found out that:

1. There is no miraculous bullet; no magic wand that will make you rich overnight and that earning money online involves as much work as it does off-line.

2. There is a lot to learn and figure out and all this takes a lot of time.

3. Contrary to all the get-rich-quick claims, earning money online is not about following a “secret” formula, but about coming up with your own original idea ASAP.

4. Funding a mare and foal is a very expensive enterprise indeed.

5. It is very difficult to find accurate up-to-date information that doesn’t cost a fortune.

6. Advice and support from other internet marketers is worth its weight in gold.

7. Unless you are passionate about your subject, you are wasting your time.

Horseback riders are passionate about their horses and often enthusiastic about helping other people. All the internet gurus say that to be successful online you have to over-deliver. It is certainly no effort to over-deliver to horse people. To make money online you have to invest more than you get out. And I do not mean money! You must invest your time and some of yourself. Stamp your business with your own personality. Make it unique and characteristic. That shouldn’t be too difficult for most horse riders.

We all need the support and advice of our mentors, but eventually we have to come up with our own ideas. Just as learning to understand your horse is fundamentally down to your own insight, ideas and efforts, so is building a successful business on the internet.

The most effective way for equestrians to learn the ropes online is to join an online community of equestrians that are interested in either starting a business online or taking their off-line business online. Currently the choice is limited, but there are a few excellent websites, blogs and membership sites that specialise in providing horse people who want to earn an income online with accurate information and a place to network with other equestrians.

The Millionaire Equestrian Information Membership Site MEIMS and the “I want a Horse!” equestrian magazine provide horse people with the information and support they need to earn serious money online. Find out more at http://www.equestrian-life-coaching.com/equestrian-membershipsite.html

The very idea of maintaining an online resource tends to bugger the shoulders of almost anyone, yet maintaining an efficient employment software program paves a critical pathway to success. All it means, after all, is ensuring that functions behave the way they’re supposed to and that requests are fulfilled as planned. However whether a detailed analysis of specific maintenance procedures is warranted or not isn’t what this article is about. The emphasis is instead on why maintenance is important rather than the “who, what, when, where, and how.”

We thus introduce the importance OF maintaining the equipment used with employment software. Depending on the size of the clientele you service, your equipment may range from the sole spare computer in the den to a full-fledge network housed in an entire office of working professionals. By owning and operating your own personal computer, you should already have a good idea of what’s required to operate an adequate maintenance routine. However the timing in which running a defrag program, disk scan, or virus checker for a personal machine is quite different from running them on equipment that’s responsible for the finances and careers of strangers.

These programs not only attempt to protect the information that’s housed on the equipment that serves it, they also attempt to protect the information dispersed to perhaps a thousand to a hundred thousand of other networked computers as well. There are no short cuts and the responsibility of keeping a responsible employment software system is phenomenally critical.

As the administrator of a busy employment software system, you’re going to have to think about the time, work, and expense involved in running one that’s efficient and essentially safe for others to use. Normally, running a defrag program, disk scan, or virus checker once a month on a sole desktop PC would be sufficient. However the employment software administrator may need to run these programs weekly or even more frequently than that.

But there’s more to maintenance than merely running a few software programs. The employment software administrator must also perform regular hardware diagnostics to ensure that (1) the employment software system serves up requested information within a reasonable amount of time and (2) ensure that this information is accurate. The schedules in which these tasks are required depend again, on the size of the clientele that accesses the employment software system. Though this schedule is subject to operate within specific time frames, all maintenance measures – whether hardware or software – should operate within the hours of least activity occurring outside of the network.

Perhaps the most important concern among the clientele that uses an employment software system is the timeliness in which it’s available and functioning. The very success of an employment software system is directly dependent on its capability to handle hundreds to thousands of requests per day. Things such as downed servers, database errors, or security breaches are enough to bring instant failure. So every effort must be made to ensure that an employment software system is safe to use, secure enough to store private information (and keep it private), and operate within at least a 20-hour time frame of each day.

The decision not to adhere to a rigid maintenance schedule is a risk that no serious employment software administrator would make, yet it’s not uncommon to experience apparent maintenance failures or even downright neglect as witnessed on even some of the most popular employment software systems. To understand the importance of such a laborious chore (and to avoid the aforementioned failures), you must realize that your employment software system will be home to some of the most prestigious freelancers and clients around. Their success literally depends on the capabilities of your equipment.

No reasonable freelancer or client would remain dedicated to a system that continually serves up errors or fails to operate on the critical day-to-day basis that employment software systems and their clientele need to thrive. There just aren’t any alternatives and frankly, it’s useless to look for them.

We teach our youngsters the importance of maintaining a schedule, a clean environment, and good healthy friendships. Yet when it comes to computers, we ignore the values of maintenance that we grew up with. We may assume that the inanimate nature of computers or their leniency on automation are sufficient to sustain a working employment software system. But truth be told, there really isn’t much difference between maintaining a healthy environment and group of important relationships offline – and doing the same, online.

Ron McNeil promotes employment software that allows you to run your own job software powered by WebScribble software located at http://www.webscribble.com/products/webjobs/

Last week after a presentation, we had the standard networking post presentation event. In a bid to ensure that he was communicating with all potential clients, a presenter sidled up and asked the standard what do you do question.

Standing next to a gentleman whose business consisted of plumbed in water systems, on hearing water, the presenter asked and answered his own questions at least four times about what aspects of the water business the owner was in, that had absolutely nothing to do with plumbed in systems. Out of courtesy the business man stood in silence.

The presenter had no clue when to leave so his attention turned to the nearby canapes!

We were given two ears but only one mouth. Is this because the creator knew that listening was twice as hard as talking?

The first skill that you can practice to be a good listener is to act like a good listener. We have spent a lot of our modern lives working at tuning out all of the information that is thrust at us.

It therefore becomes important to change our physical body language from that of a deflector to that of a receiver, much like a satellite dish. Our faces contain most of the receptive equipment in our bodies, so it is only natural that we should tilt our faces towards the channel of information.

A second skill is to use the other bodily receptors besides your ears. You can be a better listener when you look at the other person. Your eyes pick up the non-verbal signals that all people send out when they are speaking. By looking at the speaker, your eyes will also complete the eye contact that speakers are trying to make. A speaker will work harder at sending out the information when they see a receptive audience in attendance. Your eyes help complete the communication circuit that must be established between speaker and listener.

When you have established eye and face contact with your speaker, you must then react to the speaker by sending out non-verbal signals. Your face must move and give the range of emotions that indicate whether you are following what the speaker has to say. By moving your face to the information, you can better concentrate on what the person is saying. Your face must become an active and contoured catcher of information.

It is extremely difficult to receive information when your mouth is moving information out at the same time.

A good listener will stop talking and use receptive language instead. Depending on where you are, the noises change from the I see , to the. un hunh to the oh really words and phrases that follow and encourage your speaker’s train of thought. This forces you to react to the ideas presented, rather than the person.

You can then move to asking questions, instead of giving your opinion on the information being presented. It is a true listening skill to use your mouth as a moving receptor of information rather than a broadcaster.

A final skill is to move your mind to concentrate on what the speaker is saying. You cannot fully hear their point of view or process information when you argue mentally or judge what they are saying before they have completed. An open mind is a mind that is receiving and listening to information.

If you really want to listen, you will act like a good listener. Good listeners are good catchers because they give their speakers a target and then move that target to capture the information that is being sent. When good listeners are not understanding their speakers, they will send signals to the speaker about what they expect next, or how the speaker can change the speed of information delivery to suit the listener. Above all, a good listener involves all of their face to be an active moving listener.

THINGS TO REMEMBER

1. If you are really listening intently, you should feel tired after your speaker has finished. Effective listening is an active rather than a passive activity.
2. When you find yourself drifting away during a listening session, change your body position and concentrate on using one of the above skills. Once one of the skills is being used, the other active skills will come into place as well.
3. Your body position defines whether you will have the chance of being a good listener or a good deflector. Good listeners are like poor boxers: they lead with their faces.
4. Meaning cannot just be transmitted as a tangible substance by the speaker. It must also be stimulated or aroused in the receiver. The receiver must therefore be an active participant for the cycle of communication to be complete.

Marcia Granger creates life and passion at work so that her clients are buzzing so much that they only have only one question – “how much joy can I stand?” Want joy in your life? Visit us at http://wwww.megamorphose.com

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