I'm doing 34 things
I’m a small business owner who contracts with businesses to do technical work and marketing. What I found is I’m not a manager, I’m more of a contract employee. What I need to learn is how to make those clients delegate more and in turn how I can step up and take over without making them feel nervous or out of control. Feeling in control is what every company wants, but the problem is when they are in control of the things I do, they aren’t spending the time doing the things they need to focus on, like products, sales and services. I’ve put this task on my list of things because I think I could learn a lot about being a manager rather than being an employee.
Stephen Frick's Life List
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1. Glorify God and enjoy him forever
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2. have $1000 in savings
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3. loose Weight
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4. Memorize Scripture
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5. love and educate my children in a God-honoring way
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6. Be a great husband
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7. Save money
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8. be more focused
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9. become debt free
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10. get in shape
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11. Clean My House and Keep It Clean
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12. write more love letters
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13. Become a better programmer
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14. Help my wife start a buisness
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15. write a documentary
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16. build my own house
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17. make a home inventory
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18. organize my stamp collection
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19. learn Latin
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20. Collect 30 First Day Covers
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21. fix my car
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22. Read Aristotle
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23. Raise chickens
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24. be more frugal
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25. read st. augustine's "confessions"
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26. Read Web design for ROI by Lance Loveday & Sandra Niehaus
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27. Read Getting Things Done by David Allen
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28. Read Search Egine Marketing, INc. by Mike Moran and Bill Hunt
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29. List only the things I plan to do
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30. build a yurt
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31. gtd
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32. be a better teacher
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33. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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34. become a manager
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How I did it
It made me
Estatic 
How I did it: The CEO of my company introduced me to GTD or "Getting Things Done" by David Allan. I had been using 43things for years, and never realized that the concept came from this book. I read through the book and realized I had a very bad system for organization, and I would rely on my memory to keep things in order, and thus I would fail and nothing would be in order. In the GTD methodology you create a system to keep th… Read how I did it…
It made me
Happy
How I did it: I started knowing only a little bit about my mother's side of the family and a little bit about my father's side. Of course I knew all my close relatives, but I didn't know the extended family members. I mapped this information together and visited with my grandmother. She pulled a book off the shelf which was a family history with her father (my great grand father). With this book I was able to build out a h… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
This is one of those things I want to do someday with my wife. It’s hard now since I’ve got four kids, but it would be a fun vacation to just drive with no destination. Not this year. As a newbie the things I would like to know are:
*what’s a good budget for this kind of trip
*what tools or technology do you use (i.e. Iphone, wifi,maps, etc.)
*what do you pack? (food, camping supplies, types of clothing, firstaid kit, etc.)
*how do you decided what direction to go (coin flip, random number generator)
Actually, I find that my real job is being a teacher. Though my focus is creating, designing, and building technology my struggle is teaching people to use it. This could be teaching customers to order products themselves, or just teaching my boss about what I did and how I make him money. I see teaching as more than communication, because communication is one sided – it’s output. Teaching requires output and input, I need to communicate out, then accept input so I can learn and adjust my message to the student. My goal is to be a teacher, a person people come to and get answers that make sense to them. I’ve found just in teaching my own kids that everyone learns differently, so making the content adaptable to the student is my number one job. What I need is help learning about teaching styles, tools and techniques that match to learning styles.
