I have learned about how I have the right approach in selling bookshops a membership for what I’m calling the Shadow Network. Business is really about common sense. The plan is to get myself a job while the angel investor works with me in running the show. This blog is primarily a marketing tool but also a journal. I got some excellent legal advice going from the legal advice clinic, which is very helpful to me right now. Shadow Network is free for the public to join. I’m wondering about the prices for bookstore membership, and the fact that I need to have a non-disclosure agreement when I get this business off the ground.
I have to work on the SWOT plan, or Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. I’m grateful to SCORE for free advice as well as classes although with my stimulus check I plan on enrolling in actual classes. I have found I need to start conducting direct market research, as in interviewing people to find out about what they need. The legal field is a great field for me to get into when I graduate from law school. SCORE is ultimately very useful.
My idea is about keeping metaphysical bookshops in business by getting angel investors to invest in them, since this will be a vast social network with less competition than you might think, as it is a way to keep bookshops up and running through economic hard times. The main point of my idea is to keep metaphysical bookshops up and running. I’m looking to recruit shamans, witchdoctors, witches, curanderas, etc. I need to start doing Zoom meetings for bookshops.
Rich people are perceived as selfish because those who have more get seen this way. A normal person with a stable income of $50,000 + a month is someone who has more money than the average person, who lives at $600 a month. SSI folks, we are especially poor because we have to stay that way in order to keep receiving our medical care, or we can see if we can maintain a stable job when we are looked at as coming across being stable. Those in a certain % category of money making can afford a nice big house, while those who are less well off, live within a strict budget. Not every rich person is going to be that selfish, but I imagine many to be since I haven’t hung out with them or their children except in high school. I remember some of their children were nice people but others weren’t so lucky since those kids were drug addicts. More middle class kids were nicer to me though, because they weren’t as stuck up.
I’m not looking at the news right now because I don’t want to scare myself, I’d rather just hide out at home being productive. I don’t need to waste my energy on germ phobia, illness paranoia, or even just on stress laced with what if thinking. I’m trying to make sure that I stay healthy, which means staying away from people, and that I’m fine with. I usually practice social distancing anyway in the winter because of many germs that get spread. I feel bad for the sick people, who are overwhelming emergency rooms, this is true. The benefits of this virus though is to make law makers realize just how badly we need to change our insurance situation in the United States, since Obama took out the pre-existing condition clause which the current administration is trying to put back in. This is playing dirty, so we the people have to play even dirtier.
What work-life balance could be is to maintain a specific amount of hours at work, while maintaining your life without letting work take it over. I need jobs with flexible schedules that fit in with the rest of my time. A stimulus check will go a long way to my being able to submit my writing to magazines and websites that have reading fees. It has become time to publish my book, because that will give me an advance, and then the royalties will come after should my book sell, if it sells at all in the current economic climate due to coronavirus. I’ll have to wait and see, I became a writer precisely because of work-life balance, and if you read my Facebook posts, I state that writers do work on commission, which is defined as a huge chunk of money. An advance is in the thousands, and then you get paid with royalties. Funny that my friends get this while my family doesn’t, unless they keep up with my Facebook, which has a link to my blog.
This book has changed my life forever, because for one, I do not subscribe to petty gender roles as imposed on me by the baby boomers I know. I didn’t want to wind up like my family, an OCD ridden people-pleaser. I refuse to please anybody for one. I ignore it when people try to squeeze me up the ass of traditional gender roles. Oh I’m sorry I’m not girly enough for you, let me drink my sass away to allow your manipulation. Alcohol helped me be more conforming for my family, who now won’t give me the time of day since I quit drinking. Then I realize: I’m badass because I intimidate others really well, and thus I quit hiding behind my alcoholism to become a formidable woman.
In high school, I tried way too hard to be a people pleaser at first; mostly by letting bullies get away with it. However it wasn’t until the premiere of Xena: Warrior Princess I really stopped letting people including my parents kick me around. I started watching Xena, which taught me how to protect myself from bullies, and taught me about what real friendship is supposed to be. This is because I was so nice to people who didn’t deserve it, but in my adult life, I’m able to give people shit. Why? Because I’ve come to realize I’m kind, and do not need to be rude to people on any level. Nor do I deserve what I get which is often not kindness.
iriavp 