Skill: The ability to do something well. Yeah ok, I get it although I like to think about it a little differently. For me a skill is anything I can do whether I'm an expert at it or not; sure that probably doesn't align with the dictionary definition but who cares right? original im src
I have skills that are honed to expert level, most probably do. I almost have skills of the other kind, the ones that I'm not so good at but achieve a degree of competency, or sometimes not [I'm terrible at Jenga for instance.] There's also skills I don't have but would like, again, probably like most.
That's me up there playing with power tools; I was doing some modifications to my trailer that day using a few skills I've picked up over the years. I came across the photo this week, a selfie I took a few months ago for someone, and it made me smile because...Well, you know, a man and his power tools - No matter how badly used. Need I say more; Tools! It made me think about some of the skills I've got though, and the many I do not have and I figured it might make a good topic.
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Weekend-engagement topic week 62
In the comments below either tell us about:
➡️ A skill you have - explain it and drop an image if you like.
Or
➡️ A skill you would like to have - explain it and drop an image if you like.
It could be: Sports, technology, culinary, photography, technical, practical, craft, emotional, personal physical-skills, work-related, recreational, artistic, musical, gardening, outdoors, coaching, writing...Literally anything really, just tell us about a skill you have or would like and explain it.
✅ Drop your answer in the comments below
✅ Add a photo if you would like to
✅ Explain your answer please
✅ Be creative and fun, or boring and uninteresting - Your choice
✅ Get engaged with some of the others who comment
❌ Do not drop links to external posts as your answer
Read this bit so you know what to do.
That's the topic folks; you have until Sunday night to get your response into the comments below and I hope you'll stay around and get friendly with some of the others who participate as it'll be good to see you around over the weekend. Have a great weekend whether you engage or not though - Life's too short not to.
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The skill I would like is the ability to get rid of things that no longer serve a purpose in my life. I don't live in clutter. But I have too many things, and that creates psychological clutter. I tend to put things away in a drawer or a cabinet rather than removing them completely from my life. The thinking is that they may prove useful at some point. And in some cases that is certainly true. But much more often, the collections of things in the drawers and the cabinets just grow and grow!
Yard sales?
I like to go to them, but I gave up running them at my house several years ago. I discovered that it would take 2-3 days to prepare, 2-3 days to hold the sale, and at the end, you would have a few hundred dollars in your pocket and still have to clean up a bunch of stuff and haul many things to the donation center. Now I skip it all and go straight to the donation center! :-)
I'm here with you on this one! As a general rule I have had to move every one to two years, so I was constantly going through my things for the next place. I have been here a few years and I cannot believe the things I have accumulated. I could not possibly have all this stuff and so today I started sorting through a few things because nah, I had to clean out my dad's house and I decided right then and there nobody was going to have to go through my stuff and throw it out. I will do that myself.
@dswigle that's why we have very scarce furniture in our house Lady Denise, and we can move anywhere at a moment's notice.
I know, right? I can pack my entire house myself in two days. Wrapped, boxed, and stacked. Boom. I used to be able to do it in one, but, now I realize I don't have to work that hard. :) @papilloncharity
Exactly and one problem that I have is that I have a room full of tools that I am carting with everywhere that we go. My old carpentry tools, my welding machine and kit, plumbing, building and electrical tools only to mention a few. That I have used rarely, but I keep them to use for one day when I am old hahaha.
Always that something we cannot/do not want to let go of, almost like we are what we collect 😁
Well in that case if we are what we collect, I still have my priceless set of original Diston saws.
Then I also have a set of old brass gas blowlamps and many other old high quality tools.
I worked for many years in the trades before I moved into management and now in my charity world, there is hardly every use for the tools, except for small jons at the house, where I only need the basic stuff.
Maybe I am clinging onto my young past hahaha.
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Same here my friend and I have carted my tools with me for thousands of kilometers all over our country. But one day I will have to let go and I dread that day.
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So smart, @papilloncharity!
Thank you kindly Lady @jayna.
It means you have a free space to move about
That's what my life is all about my friend, the freedom of space to move anywhere.
I've lightened the load several times in my life. It'd be OK to think divorces and apartments or RVs. It seems like every time I perch some place for a while the stuff follows. Sooner or later it gets there and stays until the next move.
It's almost miraculous how that works.
That is a skill you should never lose! Imagine the money you could make on Craigs List? Especially when it follows you back.
I seriously agree with you. She should keep that because it is a skill amd the best for that matter.
It always comes creeping back! It is indeed miraculous how that works!
It does! Don't you ever wonder about that?
Maybe a topic for a sci fi story. Ha ha ha!
Idea is not to visit boot sales or second hand shops to keep it out!
Stop accepting family heirlooms for the next generation who more than likely don't want it, clean out soon, echoing in my head....
Yes! I haven't taken a family heirloom in years. If the kids want them, I let them.
Few and far between are taking, I might add.
I started asking family members, some has been with me all my life, now it is time to make the move, not looking forward to it either.
Have not bought anything nor brought anything in for years, still cluttered too much!
Moving is a perfect way to clear clutter, @dswigle. I've lived in my current house longer than any other home except the one I grew up in (after many years of moving every year or two). Next time it's going to be a true adventure!
Yup, rather clean through it yourself, Oh boy I have close on forty years in one place, nightmare in the happening!
Haha! The greatest motivator!
We arrive with nothing, we can take nothing with us...., yet here we are we all horde 😌 One task I have to do, soon, very soon!
I am fortunate to have been able to sort most of my adult life because of moving. In some ways, almost worse. I just pulled out 12 boxes of kids' memories from when they were little and they looked at me like I was a crazy woman going through some of their things that were from when they were born.
My things are sorted. But, theirs are so much harder.
Not a desirable task, but task it is that we have to do. Both sons looking to possibly get out of this country, nieces and nephews most are not married so it is going to be a task!
Really? Where do they want to move to? Would you consider going too? I hope its not too far, although the politics there is killing the country. :(
Sons are considering NZ, their Aunt, cousins and many friends there already, for us our age is against us so will stay put.
Perhaps with sister and sister-in-law sitting on their own, we move somewhere together like a family retirement home LOL, all thoughts being bantered about!
You have done the best because, hadn't been that you allow someone to do it for you, you might ended up losing some useful things.
You have done very well to have made the arrangements yourself in other to keep your things safe.
Yes, that is a very good motivator. I had to clean up my parents' house and after a month of daily work I had made a dent in it. Then there had to be sales and then donations. I do not want to put my kids through that!
You are right. What we are passing through, our children should not pass through that.
It is a great motivator! Somehow, I am the cleaner in the house. So guess what happens?
Right? It is easier for me Haha
Its good you gave them out as they caan serve as space collector in a the house. I also do give mine out because I don't want to take the whole of the space in my room
This is a GREAT thing to learn - especially when you can do it regularly. It's my favourite thing to do when I'm stressed - to release things that don't serve me and which being pleasure to someone else.
Just yesterday someone asked about paper magazines for an art project. And I happened to have a pile of home renovation mags someone had left in this house when we moved in. It made the day feel NICE that I was able to contribute something I didn't need to someone who wanted it, and had a use for it.
WE even have a "Buy Nothing" facebook group here in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where people share about things they're ready to release for no money. 😊
That's wonderful, @artemislives. I think it is very stress-reducing to get rid of things, and send them on their way to other uses and other people who need them more. We also have a local "Buy Nothing" Facebook group. You have inspired me! I'm going to start using it. I have several friends who swear by it. Thanks for engaging in this topic with your ideas!
You should, @jayna! I use it all the time. It is great! No tax deduction, but, I am more than okay with that if it is going to someone who can use it!
By the way, around here, the less fortunate who used to supplement their households with Salvation Army and Goodwill, (not so much St. Vincent de Paul) can no longer afford it, they have gone up so much in prices!
That's so sad. I have witnessed that at Goodwill. You put capitalists in charge of a business designed to support people in low-income brackets, and the dynamics instantly change. The good news is that it does employ a lot of people who need work.
We have that too @artmislives! It is on Facebook and we also have one call FreeCycle - things looking for a new home.
Ahh yes I can relate... It's not uncommen and I could be because we were taught to value material things a lot more than we needed. On the other hand I'm not a fan of just throwing things out either but maybe you can find a purpose for them by giving them away or donating them to charity?
Yes, exactly. I usually donate things I no longer need. But I have to keep working on changing the definition of what I "need." Ha ha.
Many people have the habit of selling things they no longer use but this is not the best .
Do we refer to that as a skill? I think some people just want to keep their stuff because they were never brought up that way, of trying to dispose of things they don't want any more. Some people just love to sell off or gift it away.
Until.i see the need to five an item I may not want to use again, it stays with me.
Looking at it in the other angle we cannot call it a skill because many people have the mind of keeping things or train them away.
To me, I don't like selling my stuffs. The best iasnto give them out instead of selling them.
I think somehow, we can still manage to refer that as a skill, but the one which is not yielding income.
I rather give them out to those I feel would need it.
Yes, exactly. I have friends who are very good at it, and when I go to their homes, it feels very serene. I love that feeling, but lack the skill to do what they do!
Bingo! You hit the nail on the head! Something in, something out is my rule!
Yes...you at right. People are there who always receive lecture on how to keep things instead off throwing them out.
I admired your analogy. The way you are analysed it is just too perfect
The best is to donate them to orphanage home to to the less privilege. This is what I think should be the best.
No matter what, those things you are willing to throw away may have some tangible uses later. So, the best is to keep them safe until they are useful. I'm also a fan of keeping things in other instead of throwing them away when I know they may have some use later.
At some point, you may just have wasted what you ought to have given out. Some could be clothes, shoes, books and so on. There is always someone around you who may need it.
This is exactly the perspective I have taken. If its no use to me, I remind myself that it could be of use to someone else.
It is not even good to waste your property instead give them out to those who need them most.
You arr nit using it does not mean someone should not use it. You are right
You summed it up pretty well!
Hahahahahaha Nine wellll for now I am not actively searching up for it but I should be on the lookout.
We have a Neighborhood House in my town. Anything you don't need, you can pack in a box and drop it off at the Neighborhood House. Volunteers go through it and organize it. Sometimes, you can see people walk up to the porch and collect stuff that's been left. It's much easier to let go of stuff when you see that. Sometimes I give away stuff now that I might have use for because I know it's better to see someone walk off with my almost new pair of shoes than to have that pair sit in a closet.
Neighborhood House is one of the best antidotes to hoarding:)
Wonderful. I love donating in ways that benefit others!
This will give room to those who need them to consult the neighbor's house. It is a best method to keep those things away from the house.
You are right. I just wish that there is a place of such right here in my country were one can drop used things which may still.be useful to people.
I think the person who built that place should receive kudos.
They are wonderful.
All volunteers.
That is brilliant, @nineclaws. It's a win-win for everyone. Can I stop by with several closets full of stuff? Ha ha.
That is a wonderful idea!
We have something similar in our community but, they put it in the community bulletin, which is sent electronically every Friday. Or people put it our curbside with a sign if it is big. Take me! :)
It is even ungodly to waist your properties when somebody is out there to make good use of them. So the best is to keep them and give them out or keep them for later use.
Yep. There is joy in the heart of the giver and the receiver. To act of giving is a good skill that can help our society grow.
This is why we have to give whatever we are not using any longer
For me, useless stuff is just garbage! I don’t keep old things.
The definition of useful vs. useless is the tough part. Is a picture frame that doesn't currently have a picture in it useful or useless? What about supplies for a hobby I only do from time to time, like candle making? Then there's the box of charging cables that will possibly be needed at some point, and the little portable tripod for the camera I only use when I travel. And books I haven't read yet, sudoku magazines I haven't yet used... etc. etc. etc. These are the things that trouble me.
What do you think do to them? Do you burn them or dispose of them?
Some things I give away and some just throw away.
Not keeping them is not the best. We all know that useless things our garbage, but keeping them or giving out those useless things to people that need them may go a long way.
Ah yes this is very recognizable. I have moved a lot in the past two years and I still keep finding things I don't need or don't use, but it is still difficult to part with these things
The worst is when you need it and cannot find it, so, you buy another. Now you have two to give away!
If you can find it again. @plint
I sometimes buy another one just so I can find the first one when I put the new one away!
Stamps. I'll bet I have at least 100 stamps in this house and don't know where a single one is. Maybe stamps morph into single socks?
Ha ha ha. Oh those stamps and single socks. They are so sneaky.
Sometimes I buy something and intend to bring it back to the store. But then I lose track of the item and rediscover it later. At that point, I don't need the hassle with a store, so I give away. Brand new! I like to think of someone getting that brand new thing. What a surprise that must be. Takes the edge off losing money.
I have been the recipient of your approach, @pokerm. I love finding a brand new thing at thrift prices.
With the tags on!
:)
Instead of throwing them out, you just need to give them out to those who need them, and when you need something like that on the long run, you have no choice other than to buy new ones.
You have found one good secret to keeping the clutter away — moving regularly!
Haha that is true but moving all the time is a lot of hassle!
I have given most of my things out to give space. I have moved a lot as well in the recent times. Despite the movement, I still have some things to give out.
Ah yes this is a good one, the skill of exiting stuff. We all need that one I think.
My problem is I might move an item on as I've not used it for a long time then...Yep, there weeks later so need it. So annoying! 😁
Lol, seems I share this kind of habit a bit too.
Ah, so I am not alone in this, @galenkp! :-)
Oh no not at all...We should start a club: You, me...Anyone else who suffers this
afflictionawesomeness.Doooood. There's 125 responses on just this comment. I don't think the community likes this engagement initiative thingy at all.
125126.Yeah, A few comments this week huh?
So I was gonna attach a gif, that was the plan. I was thinkin someone doing the little violin fingers where you can barely see through them, squinting like teeny tiny number of comments this week.
I searched "barely see it, gif." That's it. Got dang man!! I can't search anything anymore without getting pages full of ass. Back when I was a kid I had to stash the playboy inside the sports illustrated at the market. Lookin back now, of course the dudes workin there knew what we were up to.
My point is all kids have to do now is type "barely see it, gif!"
Lol, yeah it's a bit like that. One never knows what's going to come up on what should be a totally normal search. I'm not sure when things crossed over...nor where it'll lead. Sad really.
You made me a sign?!
Dope!!Is it a sign like banner sign, that's it, or is multi-use sign as in a spin off Simon Says and I'm the leader?
Wow. I think possessing that skill will help you put things in their right places and as at when due.
It is a bad habit I have, it annoys my family. :) When you are finished with something, I think it should go back where it belongs because then you will always find it. @mrenglish
That’s a very good skill! I’m learning it, too. And I like to throw away old useless things! That’s freedom!
Such a wonderful skill is called minimalism!
Donate it. One man's garbage and all that.... :)
Is getting rid of things that don't add positive value to your life a skill? I'm confused o, could you please explain?
Maybe some examples will help, @mhizerbee. How about a vase that you only use when you buy cut flowers? Some of us have one for small flowers and one for large flowers. Then someone brings us some flowers in a vase, and now we have a collection. These certainly add value when you need a vase to put flowers in. There are many things like that.
I don't understand sir😏
Then you must live a very simple life, with no excess. Not one thing in your life that is not needed. Good for you.
Thank you
Do have a wonderful weekend
I'm thinking of an economic purpose for this,a legit Pawn shop or outlet. You never know some people can find your personal collections amusing and Wana pay for it.
Absolutely, @oluwoleolaide. Giving things away, taking them to a pawn shop, selling them on eBay or Facebook... so many options. But the first step is the ability to say: I no longer need or want this, and I'm getting rid of it!
That's totally true, there has to be a resolution first
If you genuinely don't need it anymore, find someone who does. Otherwise if it fits in a drawer and might be useful, why not have it on hand?
Yes, that is my reasoning, @wrestlingdesires. But I think I say that to myself too many times. Why not have it on hand? And now I have many many things on hand. Ha ha.
lol I guess it depends on if it bothers you! If it makes you feel weighed down, give it away :) !
Exactly! I do so... but it's never enough. I am vowing to develop the skill to be much more selective in what I keep!
I wish you a lot of luck :) It might also help to "share" things? As in give them to friends and neighbors with the understanding that you might need to borrow them sometime? This would guarantee that the items are used and yet still allow you access should you need it.
My dad tells me a cluttered space is also a sign of a cluttered mind, I tell myself that there is order in my chaos but yeah both forms of decluttering are important.
You nailed it, @diebitch. I definitely have a cluttered mind! Ha ha.
Yes! me too!
When I was visiting my brother a couple of weeks ago he showed me a really cool thing. It is a shirt folder. A plastic form for folding a shirt perfectly and very flat. Prior to his retirement he traveled a lot for business so it was really handy.
When he showed it to me he was folding perhaps half a dozen shirts with collars and such. He said "I'm going to donate these to the homeless. They really do like precisely folded shirts."
I tried it with a clean T shirt out of my bag. Worked perfectly. Maybe you need a shirt folder? :)
Those are awesome, @bigtom13. Several of my family members use them for travel. I like the idea of using them for organizing what you need. Maybe that would help the decision making. If it doesn't fit in the the defined box spaces, out it goes!
I have definitely struggled with having too many things put away in cabinets and drawers. I use spring cleaning time as well as December break to remove any excess items that I don't need or sell and donate few things. Over the last two years, the clutter has accumulated way less than before.
That is clever, @moon-city. I think you really make a good point. One must make a very concerted effort, including setting time aside at certain points throughout the year, to declutter. It's a great feeling, isn't it?
Thank you for your comment Jayna! It feels extremely good. In fact sometimes when I am down, I find myself randomly cleaning up my space just to feel a little better.
Side note: there is no better feelimg than walking into a kitchen in the morning with no dishes to clean. Great feeling.
I agree completely, @moon-city. It's rarely the case around my house, as I have a family and the kids come and go and leave messes everywhere. But I often spend my first hour of the day clearing everything away and cleaning off all the counter tops. Even knowing it will quickly degrade, it's a great way to start the day.
In our house we have "baskets of catch alls!" The problem with baskets of catch alls is that they do indeed catch all. Once they have caught all the only recourse seems to be to get a new basket and repeat the process!
Ha ha. That made me laugh out loud, @wwwiebe. I can absolutely see that happening! I have several such baskets. They do help to tidy up counter tops... but they also fill up and then you've just got an overflowing basket!
It's true! Baskets are like solitary socks; they seem to keep multiplying. Looking around the room I'm in right now I see three baskets overflowing with Other Peoples Things (i.e., children's crap) and four baskets actually doing what they were designed to do (and are probably empty as a result!)
I started the same by getting rid of things that I can disassemble and scrap. Feeding my childhood passion about scrap collecting and selling.
By the way, iron is still too cheap over here. I read about prices of iron going up globally, but we seem to be still in the eighties or something ;). Alright, I'm kidding. It's 10 times higher than my childhood times but it hasn't moved for years.
I guess that's due to the fact that our country is one huge scrapyard.
Well, @manoldonchev, it seems you should hold onto your scrap metal until your country catches up. Then you will be able to reap a fortune!
If only getting rid of things were not the main goal here...
Ooff..I really had to learn this the hard way.
I used to be unable to get rid of my stuff either. I even got mad at my mom when she threw away an old dress of mine, even though it was worn out.
But in the past 3 years I had to move 4 times. And believe me, lugging all that stuff with you when you move again and again. It is no fun. So the universe sort of forced me to get rid of unnecessary stuff. And the most important thing: cleaning up my house is now much easier with all the unnecessary stuff. 😂
That is really true, @angie08. Moving is the absolute best way to clear out clutter. I haven't moved in 17 years, so I'm way overdue. I think I should probably start now clearing things out so when the time comes I don't have to hire an army to help!
@jayna hahaha.. good luck with it 😂😅
wow great skill that I also lack, I fill myself with a thousand things and no matter how much I want to throw away there is always something I leave for later, the idea of selling is good, but sometimes I would like someone else to come and take everything without me seeing it.
Oh yes, that would be ideal, @jennynas! Then we don't have to see it go out the door, and probably wouldn't miss it.
That's right, if you see it you put it away again, you can think of a thousand ways to use it and it stays in the same place again, hahaha. We can help each other, I'll take out your stuff and you take out mine .... Jajajaj
Ha ha. I like this plan, @jennynas! I have a great women's group, we call "House Girls." There are four of us and each month we meet at one of our houses to do a project. That means I get three turns a year. Sometimes we do gardening or room painting, but my favorite projects are decluttering. Four women can completely overhaul and declutter several rooms and closets in a few hours!
I just developed a new skill, it is called LOOKING!!!
I call it de-cluttering and it's the most rewarding and liberating feeling once I've thrown away those things; still have a long way to go, but I have started as we are getting to the stage in life where we will be selling up and moving to a smaller place! Just do it, start with small things like only clearing out a drawer at first; small beginnings make it less painful but one almost feels lighter when you've started throwing unnecessary things out!
Yes, that's it exactly, @lizelle. It's such a liberating feeling. And you do feel lighter when cupboards and closets are cleaned out, and you have just the things you need. I have vowed to myself multiple times to get better at this, as I do love the feeling it gives me to declutter. And we will also downsize our home at some point! I must start now.
Oh, my... Yes, getting rid of unnecessary things is a must have in life. But sometimes it feels unnatural to get those pesky treasures away. It's even worse with all the psychological and emotional clutter. I find myself remembering unimportant things all the time. I wish we had an erase button.
Spring clean, over due here as well @jayna don't use it, someone will appreciate it time to move it along...
Absolutely, @joanstewart. I basically need to do a spring cleaning, a summer cleaning, a fall cleaning and a winter cleaning. Maybe then I can keep the clutter at bay!
Tasks that become straight boring and tedious but have to be done....
Many people today do not have the habit of keeping things in a responsible and reasonable place but can try hard to leave things the way they are.
You truly have a great skill as nothing is wasted for sure. I love your courage and the way you love keeping things in other.
I think elves sneak in and leave us things that we never actually brought into our homes, @nineclaws.
I want to learn Spanish! Its a skill I don't possess. I can speak French, German, some Italian and a smattering of other languages. For some reason I have a mind block against Spanish. Nothing I can put my finger on. I lived in Spain, I lived on the Mexican border and I have spent a lot of time in South America, although they do speak a lot of Portuguese there. I cannot grasp the language. I have taken classes upon classes and I had merged myself into the culture. I think it's a lost cause but will somebody please give me a clue!
I've learnt french and I believe some root words for spanish are very similar, but maybe just download duolingo or talk to a friend here who knows spanish, how about dropping a spanish comment a day?
I have two sisters in law that are both Spanish. They think I'm an utter failure for Spanish. LOL
As a person who barely has a grasp on the single English language that I know, I personally would have thought that learning Spanish would be easy after French, with them both being romance languages. But, as I say, I barely speak English, and that's my mother tongue.
Seems ridiculous, doesn't it? I have this Mind Block and I've always had it with Spanish. For god sakes I have two sister-in-laws from Spanish countries. I have tried so hard and I do not understand it but there you have it. My big confession. I am Spanish illiterate.
If you're already hip to Italian, Spanish will be easy. There's cultural Spanish, though, like English here vs UK. Spanish in Costa Rica isn't like Spain. You know that.
Puras Spanish is stellar, far better than mine, but I was pleasantly surprised how well we could communicate in Italy because of the Spanish
weshe knows.Where did you stay on the Mexican border?
Oh, good morning, sorry... Where's my manners?!
It was in Del Rio by the Sea. OK, now I am being silly. It was a desert wasteland. It was just for 6 months. I was in Phoenix and a short time in Tuscan. I have two sisters in law that are Spanish. One is from Puerto Rico and the other Mexico City. So yes. But, I can remember it for the moment and ask me in ten and it will have vanished!
Please, just speak French or German or Italian to me. My Godparents were Italian and spoke no English. My grandfather and family only spoke bastardized French and lived in the US and I lived in Germany and had to learn it to mainstream with life.
Good morning from here!
That's an exciting upbringing.
Did you say Tucson? That's what you meant by near the border?!
Great Mexican food doesn't count. 😉
LOL No. Del Rio and El Paso are right on the border. I also lived in New Mexico and San Bernadino for a quick blink.
Not my upbringing, but, after I left home. I was born and raised on the coast of Connecticut.
Great Mexican food should count!
Vale la pena luchar por todas las cosas buenas, ¡no te rindas!
And also....
Maybe it's time to rethink the way you learn the language, maybe you can learn through games, series & movies or comic books?
Show off 😁 I agree though.
Hmmm. I have been immersed in it for years living on the Mexican border, living in Spain... traveling to Spanish-speaking countries. Flash cards. classes...
Give up Spanish and revert to the international language of love. Guaranteed success.
I think I had been going about it in all the wrong way. :)
Sometimes one just needs a push in the right direction.
As all good international-language-speakers will.
I think it should be the best, because it has happened to me. I am living in a land which is not mine or did not come from and yet just because of the passion I have in the language, I can now speak the language fluency without mistakes.
It's odd. I have an ear for most languages, but, with Spanish? It is like they are speaking pig Latin to me. It is one of the most important for me to learn as there are a lot of Spanish-speaking people in our country, and I have lived in Spanish countries.... Ugh! How embarrassing to look like the ugly American who won't try to speak their language. :(
It's not possible to learn through books. You can learn through living amongst them fluently without mistakes.
I have done that 4 times.
It means each of these trials you learnt several languages. ? You are a genius because to me I cannot try it. The place I am now is not my land and I have been here for over 15 years but yet cannot speak their language properly..
Wow. I had an opportunity to learn French in my first year at the university but constrained my ears and I wasn't able to continue. In the course, the rudiments of French was what mattered. French is a language that I got to know is beautiful, and ways taking note of the make and female gender.
Yes! I love French and all of the romance languages. They are beautifully melodic to my ears. Once I got over picking the right gender, I was golden. :)
I even have it in mind that my daughter will go for French language. I love that French speaking countries but passion cannot make me to speak French. I only did it a little when I was still in secondary school.
I would have love to speak Swahili instead.
Hmm, you sound like me! I know some languages, quite proficiently...
English, Australian, American, British, swear, a little Italian and French too...Also, the international language (of love). What can I say, boy got skillz.
I've heard Spanish is quite difficult to learn but I've never tried it myself. Well, I know one thing...Hola. And...That's all I got. :)
Haha! Yeah, that's my knuckleheadiness shining through. 🤔🤪
😂
Hahaha YES!
Hahahaha... It's a good language or languages if I may say. Thank god he can speak several languages.
Oh, my God.
The boy got skillz!
My grandfather could cuss you under the table in French. He taught my brothers everything he ever knew in that department.
I can't cuss in French, but when I do it in English but use a French accent...Makes dem laydeez swoon. 😂
Haha! That is French enough. :)
Lol...Figured.
:)
I'm a funny bugger....Or should I say strange?
I wish I can soeak french language as you people do, I would have love it.
Hahaha. I like to say I know Canadian, English, American, and BS, but the truth of the matter is, I'm really only proficient in the last of those.
Haha! Well, you know if you know American and English you might as well add Australian in as well...It's like American and English without the wacky accents! 😁
BS is a legit language too. I'm product.
So you mean America and English we make it wacky?
French language is interesting when compared to other languages. I just wish I can learn how to speak French. English and other languages are even more interesting than French what French is faster when spoken
I do! I even ensure that my phone's dictionary understands that "aboot" is, indeed, a correct spelling!
Hahahaha! I never heard it either, growing up. I moved to the east coast of the US some time ago and, aboot 7 years after living here when my mom came to visit I realised that, yes, we do indeed sound like hosers. 😂
Do they speak English as the general language? Or just Canada? I think they should have a common language with the Americans.
You even tried to have known several languages. I only got passion on speaking French but swayed away when I was still in secondary school just because of the way I saw the language to be.
I like French.
It is...And I'm proficient at the spoken and sign language versions. You know, the hands and all.
I was going to add it in there but then some smart ass might have said French so I left it out. In truth though, Canadian...Yeah, proficient.
Oh yeah, is like a second language to me. I'm very Canadaeristic.
So I felt relax when you see your fellow who speaks same language as you which is Canada.
I know a few of the colorfool phrases from 30 years of bumping the loading docks...
I really have no clue, but I think they are potty mouth Spanish..?
Haha!!! Sounds totally like it might be! :))
Yup, those are Mexican curse words. Pretty funny too. 🤣
I I they are Mexican, them you could be able to tell us what it means.
I'm Venezuelan but those are the equivalent to the "F" word.
The above should be a language but I think somebody supposed to know how to interpret it. Am I right?
They are bad words. Eff words.
I don't have the language bump. Not at all. I once had a little German but over the years I am reduced to cuss words. I've lived right up against the Mexican border and my Spanish is just slightly more than cuss words. But I pretty well have ALL of them...
Ha! And those are the only ones that people never seem to forget! What is up with that? The other is I love you because that hasn't gotten a lot of people in trouble! :)
That is great. You are a genius for still knowing those languages.
I have a friend who was a Fire Captain in Spokane. After his kids were grown and his wife tossed him (I'm not sure which of those came first) he decided he wanted to try something new so he took a years worth of Spanish at the local JC.
He then started spending his vacations in Mexico, Central and South America. He was just months from 30 years when he fell through a floor and screwed his back up something awful.
He finished his 30 without disability but the department left no doubt that he wouldn't be allowed to go on. So he rented a place in central Mexico and is writing his memoirs-in Spanish :)
No way! If that were me, I would probably have to hire someone to do it. It is that bad. :)
I know just one sentence in Spanish that's te quiero and te amo ❤️🙈
What does it mean!
It means I I LOVE YOU
See? In my head I love you was in Italian
It'll be Ti voglio bene in Italian
My favorite song is ti amo from money heist. Though I don't understand a single word but that language has surely some magical touch in it's words
Sometimes, I don't think you need to know the words. Sometimes it just sounds sexy.
If you really want to learn, you definitely should find a way to do so, @dswigle. I do as well and I keep thinking that one day I'm going to fully commit and listen to language lessons on Audible. Like you, I've tried a few things and failed, and I think it would take a complete commitment and daily practice. Gee, if we could just carve out an extra couple of hours daily...! No clue where they would come from!
You're probably not going to believe this. I have two sisters-in-law that are from Spanish speaking countries. I lived in Spain. I will send prayers and Spanish classes twice. I took an immersion program. I lived Mexican border states, New Mexico Texas and Arizona and California. I have not sure what I can do as I had no trouble with German or French nor Italian however, you can talk to me in Spanish and I'll answer you in Italian. I don't think Spanish. How bizarre
Hey! I can help you with that. I need someone to get back on my German learning and besides I'm a language teacher, so perks perks, ha, ha, ha. But seriously learn Spanish, it is a pretty cool language!
Running a relay of tone deaf in some languages, picking up a smattering helps go a long way, just be sure they not teaching you the wrong smatterings to repeat 😉
I have always been tone-deaf to Spanish. I cannot explain it. I have no trouble with any other languages including Italian, French, and Geman.
Thanks the best skills you have acquired. It is not easy to learn those languages, but you have dim it fit to learn those languages. I'm sure you will learn the Spanish language in due time, that is if you focus.
No! Don't say! Take it back! :)
Here! Let me help you!
Skills! We all want them 😁...
I like this topic of honest self assessment 😂...
I'm going to be modest and say I know how to play basketball!
My love for the game has been well documented (in weekend engagement posts), I've been playing since I was 11... But I also say this knowing there is so much I'm still learning. The past few years have not been my best in the court (I've always been a good shooter but it's not the same at the moment) and I've dealt with injuries and also dealt with the fact that things I could do back in the day don't come that easy any more. So I've been forced to adapt, forced to focus on preparation, eating, stretching and all that stuff that helps you play better...
But also its not just just teaching me about the game itself but also about passing on the knowledge to a younger generation (coaching).
So yes.. My skill is Basketball! 🏀❤️
Playing a sport, and coaching in it, are vastly different beasts. Well done you for opening yourself to learn about teaching and coaching. Dare I say a gamechanger?? 😆
Hahah gamechanger indeed.. And it did cause me to look at the game differently. Also I get a chance to make sure the kids don't have the same weaknesses i have... e.g. Train your off hand from the start!
Coaching is a great way to extend the longevity of your career with the sport! And of course you must also take care of yourself... stretch, eat well, and the other things you have found help you play better.
Stretching! Stretching is underrated!
Back in the day I could wake up and start jumping, hahaha now I have to think twice!
Eating well should be the best as playing basketball deserves that as it is stressful.
Basketball had been a dream sport for me until I discovered my height would work against me. However, I usually find solace each time I see Iverson in the basketball court dunking and making some nice shots.
Iverson! That's a hall of famer right there!
He used to out hustle everybody, just put it all on the line!
There are also other short players that play very well, so how bad do you want it?
You're right. Basketball is always meant for those with greater height but not for those short ones. There is passion been a basketball player.
You like all my topics bro! Lol.
Old age my brother, old age! 😁
I've never been much of a basketball player but don't mind the game. What I like about your comment is that you're taking what you know and paying forward which I know you've been doing for a while. So, you have two skills in one...The game and coaching/mentoring.
Nice work bro!
Haha true, you keep coming up with great stuff! !
(btw I think I need a refresher course on how to quote people again, makes the replies easier to follow).
Yes! It's been a great journey, and while I'm explaining things to the kids I remind myself of things I need to do better too.
On another note, come to think of it, I'm not sure I have any skills with tools. Which is weird cause it's very much in the whole "man's man" image society has. I mean I can use a wrench, hammer and screwdrivers but it's not like I can suddenly take apart a carburateur or carve wood 😂. Maybe I need to challenge myself...
Hey, doesn't matter if you know how to use tools, as long as you have them! Lol.
> (btw I think I need a refresher course on how to quote people again, makes the replies easier to follow).Use the '>' symbol.
It means he loves the game as passion and also loves coaching as a career. It's great to have the two combination but one must go and allow the remaining one to stay..
I could sling HOTDOGS in the arena where you are showing off those MADD SKILLZ.!!
Juss' Sayin'...
Haha oh man! The hot dogs again!
I'm not gonna say no to a few after the game tho 🤔😁😁😁
I am gonna have 1 for lunch, hell maybe 2. Like @galenkp with coffee and donuts.
Photographic proof to follow.
Throw one my way! With mustard and kraut! Please.
The Sno Cap Drive Inn at Seligman, AZ. Famous place, all the Grand Canyon tour busses stop there. He has a mustard bottle with a yellow string in it that he squirts on people a couple of times an hour. Great fun.
Nice...
You Can NOT go wrong with Hotdog Humour...
OK... Maybe I can... Lmao
Do You believe @bigtom13 some crazy ol knucklehead had the nerve to call me a Gif-over-user..?
The proper term is Gif-God
Or that I suffer from...
Giffalititus...
Those mouths!
I know right...
There are a lot worse skills to drag around with you than Basketball. It's a potential life skill when you pair the coaching with it.
Indeed!
I'm glad I got started on this journey!
Physical activities are definitely good skills to have! Too many people "don't know how" to stay active. Basketball is definitely a great one and, like soccer/futball, can be played aboot anywhere.
Hahah we can always walk right?
I think people just like couches a lot 😂
A pretty cool skill to have. I have a cousin who plays at professional level. He even went to the previous Olympics with the National team.
Thanks!
Yeah you mentioned it last time. There are also a few Venezuelan guys playing here now
Sometimes I forget! 😅
Passing on knowledge in game skills once obtained, is a great way to stay active in the sport itself.
Agreed!
Gave me some renewed energy!
Good kick start needed here...
Many people today are doing so well in their area of skills and yours is exceptional. Basketball is a selling skill and having that as a skill is the best as it can make you to exercise your body to the fullest.
Great skill
Thanks!
I'm a little confused at "selling skill"... What does it mean?
Skilling Up. A BIG question in my mind these last months as I ponder the fact that my life and business here in Thailand are unlikely to ever go back to "the way things were". And that I need to consider carefully how to move more easily in this changed world.
I've started actively working on my Dutch language again - my mother tongue. Why? To be able to sit the citizenship exam. Because being a non-resident discriminated-against migrant Australian who can't currently visit my elderly dying mother is showing me the values of the country my parents adopted, and which I do not share. Also my daughter hopes to go to University in Holland.
I'm ALSO beginning not one but 2 new languages - the Karen indigenous language, and Burmese. A HUGE step towards being more effective with the indigenous people I work with. Gamechanger.
In this impersonal online world, I'm wanting to learn about online retail that sidesteps our Zuckerish "friend". Effective sales through blogging, SEO on platforms other than google etc. This one is tricky. And so I decided getting back to ANY regular blogging habit 😆 was an essential starting point.
I'm "reading" (audio book via Hay House Publishing's AMAZING access program) The Intelligent Rebel - originally published in French and a Best Seller, about learning and education and how to adapt to a changing (digital) world in a climate of life long learning.
Grateful to you for continuing the weekend challenge - some constancy required in challenging times. For human and visual interest, here's me handing out meals at the daily "feeding of the 5,000" here in Chiang Mai. Depression level food handouts have become part of many people's reality here as Thailand remains effectively closed and most Thai people are battling a massive surge of Delta cases. Us? we're healthy and relatively isolated at home, deselecting from the being sick thing. 😆
Uhhhhh. I barely speak English.
I presume that Holland doesn't have a 'heritage' passport option? My brother is getting his Irish passport via his brother (and father) that he just found this year.
I like to think I'm an optimist with pragmatic leanings. I take some pleasure in things like you 'feeding the 5000' simply because somebody(ies) have stepped up and accepted the challenge. There's a lot to be said for that.
Duck Duck Go is your friend. I've never researched the SEO of the place but it doesn't collect any personal data OR advertising. I'd guess the SEO is just strictly organic.
Really glad to see you back at it. Your voice counts.
I personally shouldn't need a heritage option - I was a dutch citizen, still have my original papers and the citizenship was relinquished by my parents (while I was underage) since, at that time, dual citizenship was not possible. That has changed. So now a paperwork-exam-payment process for me. :) Then a paperwork process after that to claim citizenship by descent for my daughter. Not sure if she'll be allowed to have a 3rd nationality thought (she already has both Thai and Australian).
I'm off to find some content about SEO on Duck Duck Go. And yes, ultimately, organic keywords lasts, works across all platforms and is the best. I'm thinking, ultimately, there are no real short-cuts.
Hey Marike thanks for dropping back in; it seems you've go a great deal going on, I don't know where to start, and am reluctant to make massive comments anyway as I know peoples time is valuable to them.
You're planning on going back to Holland? I guess maybe you'll keep you business and go back and forth as required? I hope this works out, must be complicated to put together.
Learning languages and avoiding Zucks as well...That's a full-time job! Oh, and in the meantime just handing out food to the needy as if you haven't got enough to do. I hope you enjoy that 13 minutes sleep you get each night!
Great to have you back to the #weekend-engagement topic, come back again as time permits.
Not planning on going back to Holland - just wanting better citizenship privileges than Australia is offering. When we moved to Oz, dual citizenship wasn't possible. But now it is.
Planning to stay in SE Asia predominantly, with visits to Holland to settle my daughter into Uni. It makes sense to develop business there, and citizenship gives me a lot more privileges there.
I sometimes sleep more than 13 minutes... 😆 stops me from fretting too much about the chaos around me and the seeming quicksand that is the future for young people like my girl.
If anyone can make this all work out it's you. You seem to have a way of getting stuff done. Lol...Sometimes sleep for more that 13 minutes!
It means your plan it to take your daughter to Holland for schooling. Making citizen in where you are is the best.
Giving out food to thw needy very much necessary as this can go along way. And learning. I think this is hisbway of helping
I would have loved to speak Burmese, I like learning new languages.
I think this should be the first time I will be hearing this language name that you just mentioned. I don't even know how it sounds.
Learning stuff is the most important skill to have. That's how you build up new skills and get to higher tiers of awesomeness. These are some excellent things to do. Getting into knew languages is like earning a new life in another culture. It gives you more contact with things you might not have considered before and so on. Pretty good things to show. The last part, well, we all need businesses to keep our heads above water.
I felt your passion in this one. Good morning Artemislives. One language is challenging, I admire your ambition. Don't be a stranger!
It means your own side of your skill he is languages. Learning those languages you mentioned above are very much paramount and important as this will go a long way to bring people together.
I am quite happy with my creative skills. Creating makes me happy and it seems that people like my art. But I don't think that I have the best skills to sell. I tried doing discounts, changing prices, in nft showroom I tried making either 1 more expensive version or multiple cheaper ones... I have gifted many of my pieces and despite that I still have many unsold pieces:
Those ,,people skills'' would be useful not only in selling my art but also here on Hive. I know that I could earn more if I would be more social and at times I try to do that but soon I go back to my old ways. Interacting only with few people I already know, focused on making my own posts and rarely commenting anything... I don't think that I will ever change. super introvert is just who I am.
I would like to get better at playing splinterlands. Increasing my winning percentage seems more realistic than becoming someone else. It doesn't require much of interaction. Patience for slowly getting better and imagination for new combinations...belief in myself and my success...And a stubbornness to not give up. I think that these requirements and conditions are made for me.
How about you make it a game?
A challenge if you will...
Talk/comment to one new person on Hive every week... It's doesn't have to be a full blown conversation (unless it flow naturally), but just a well thought out comment on their post...
You in?
I could try that.
He just needs to try if you can make it a contest yeh kaun hive. I think it's the best way to start it.
In the contrary, int ink what you do continuously plays out to become skill for you. If you keep doing the same thing over and again, it becomes a part of you, a skill is coined from that.
Keep bringing you designs and think of what you could add to make it come out better than the previous ones you have had. That's how skill are birthed.
you are right thank you very much.
If I stop he will never get the best but when he make 8 continuous then he can be able to get the best out of it.
Just like they say, learning brings perfection.
I thought you'd mention your art and creativity, as you should!
I know nothing about Splinterlands but having a skill that can also return some income is a legit skill for sure!
This is a skill in itself. ✅
@tarazkp started playing just recently so maybe one day you will try as well? Now would be a perfect time to start because for a year we are getting a daily airdrop(today is only 18 day of the airdrop do you still have a lot of time).
Oh yeah, my brother has been getting into it...We haven't spoken about it yet but maybe we will...I might get on there and do some battles of whatever they're called. I'm handy in a battle. :)
A viking warrior in splinterlands🏹
I might get confused between a digital axe and real life one...Could get messy for those I battle.
I am sure when they see you, they will surrender. No one will take a chance to fight a well trained viking warrior.
And a few brave ones, who have armors and shields will get on defensive mode😅
Would be fun to see you talk about viking and war strategies combined with splinterlands battles.
I have played some battles recently. It's fun. But I am already playing few games like Dcity and Dcrops. Splinterlands takes a lot of time daily. So, I stopped. Might come back once I have disciplined my day more, or the value of cards drop a little.
Anyways, it would be fun to watch you play and then read about your battle stories🤠
In as far that this one can return income for him, I think it is the best skill so far..
Me too😅
I didn't know that I had a twin.
😅
Selling art is not an easy task; there is a reason the "starving artist" persona is so well known.
I, too, am an introvert. I have found that it helps to make that known right up front when interactive with new people. I once volunteered on a sailing ship and, at the team's first dinner, I introduced myself by outright admitting that meeting new people sends me into internal hysterics and that one of the reasons for volunteering was to help manage that. It worked! It helped me, and the others on the team were very welcoming about it.
At least now gamers can thrive...
Were you on that ship for long?
I left a job to attempt a career at professional photography. That lasted as long as it took to realise I still had to support my family, so it wasn't very long. I had then decided that it would be "a side hustle." It never turned into that, and it is just now a hobby I enjoy, much like writing or designing games.
It is true that no matter how hard we try not all your ideas are gonna succeed. At times just wishing for something to happen is not enough to turn them in reality.
Yeah, let's get on the commenting train. I have neglected that part of Hive interaction and it's missing a lot from the whole experience. Around here, the more the merrier. Let's get commenting! That's how the magic begins around here.
Ok I will start writingcommenting...Ha, ha, ha. My...It's been so long since I saw that. Sometimes just telling people they did a good job with their posts is enough. At least it's a start.
As I age the more introverted I become. Growing up I was sup extrovert. Your humor is fantastic whatever vert you claim, just sayin.
Tjisnis s great choice and great skill you have here. Although, I don't know what is called splinterland.
Thank you.
Keep winning and keep keeping your dreams as this will go along way to bring you success on the quest of winning. Be determined to obtain ypur goal
You are right.
When I was a kid I would never answer the phone. Instead I used to bring phone to my parents. Even now I get nervous when I have to call someone I don't know.
I can be glad when I meet friends. When someone visits my home. Few hours later I am already thinking ,,Shouldn't you go home already?''. Interacting with people tires and drains me very quickly.
Watching basketball games is just about the only time when I really enjoy being with many other people.
I made progress but I am not likely to live long enough to completely change.😜
The skill I would want to learn is baking and catering. I would love to bake cakes and cook different kinds of food, don't get me wrong, I actually know how to cook but I'd like to learn all those international dishes so I can be cooking delicious meals for myself and my husband 😀😀😀.
I could bake my wedding cake, and all other ceremonies I would have. I would also open my own restaurant and prepare delicious meals for people to come buy and eat.
It's what I'm planning to do and by God's grace, I'll start it next month.
Baking, confectionary in general is lucrative and for a lady, it will your husband or guy at home with your. A good cook or baker makes a good home, don't you think?
Talking about international dishes, the meals in the menu of world-class restaurants or hotels is a big job I must confess. A lesson or two with some big institutes would be needed.
Exactly
So I made the right choice?
The choice you made easy choice others are winning to make but are finding it difficult. You have made the right choice buddy...
Wow
Thank you so much
I'm so happy and I can't wait to start
Heheheh... I have seen many homes gotten broken just because of food. Ladies should always learn how to cook in order to make a better home. this is because men always love food being on their tables instead of coming home saying nothing to eat after long work.
Baking is a great skill indeed! I can't bake, well, I can but am not that great at it. I can make good scones though. I'm a better eater than I am a baker. Eating comes naturally to me.
I hope you get to get to acquire the skill of baking and can open up your restaurant!
Amazing ✨✨✨
Eating is natural, I can eat a lot as well. I'm just being hopeful that God will provide all the resources I need to actualize it
I think if you take the right actions you'll be able to make your goals come to fruit. 😉
Right
It's true
Thanks for the tips
Taking the right action to me I think is the best otherwise all actions will be put on hold
Everybody loves eating but we should also learn how to make those food possible.
Hahahaha 😀
Exactly dear
@galenkp I totally relate to the 'I'm a better eater than I am a baker'. 😂
Eating is far easier than baking right? More fun too. 🤪
Hehehehe... So, you are a better water that a baker. I only learnt how to bake when I saw my co-teacher bacon on a particular day.
That’s a great skill!
I’m thinking the same thing...
Now they sell candy and bad quality cookies in shops...
Besides, these products are pricey.
Better bake the cookies and the pies yourself!
This is why you must make it a mandatory to learn how to cook and how to bake so that you will not be able to eat those rubbish which are very much costly out there.
I usually take a note of the ingredients and flavours of the food I try out at different international restaurants on my phone (I use Google Keep) and then I try to re-create them at home. I wish you the best of luck with your baking and catering journey! A lot of friends I know here started their own at home baking businesses.
Wow
This is amazing
I'm glad I have friends who actually support me. Thank you so much
No worries at all 😊. I hope you become the best baker and caterer in town!
Awwwwn 🤗🤗🤗
Thank you so much
@mhizerbee Omg that sounds amazing! I don't love cooking, I only make quick meals..I just don't have that patience in the kitchen.🤣. That's why I really look up on people that can spent hours cooking meals. I wish you good luck with all your plans. You know what they say...where there is a will, there is always a way.💚
Awwwwn 🤗🤗
I love cooking and I can cook for Africa. Thank you for your wishes.
Oh, that's great! Baking is one of those satisfying things. When you see the cake or bread rise, you feel like the best human on the planet. When you taste it and it's good, well, it's another level of accomplishment. Try it out! There's tons of good resources on the internet that can help you with it. Catering also works as a business, so there might also be some money in there when done properly! In both cases, I know you'll do your best!
Awww
Thank you so much
You're very welcome! 😄
Also post pictures of anything you bake!
This is a good one as many today are having the mind of this kind of skill. They are finding it difficult to learn . It's a great skill.
Thank you dear for the encouragement
The skill and the passion of baking and cooking you have is the best as this can fetch you income. You could also own your restaurants if need be. So this passion is so much selling. It is good you also learn how to cook some foreign dishes which will be an added advantage to your cooking career.
Wow
This is great
I was looking for an adventure to err out my thoughts and I must say I'm impressed with what you guys are telling me here. Thank you so much
Skills! I've said on more than on occasion "I have skillz!", but that has usually been in response to something completely spur-of-the-moment and happenstance that I'll never do again (like all-but-netting a one-armed 20 foot basketball hoop in a one-on-one game with my son).
I'm more like a jack-of-all-trades; or, in my case, a Vic-of-all-trades. Like you I've got power tools which are more fun to use than they ought to be, but I also like to dabble with photography, wood carving, and other craftsy type things. On occasion I mess with technology (I've built motion-sensors into clown paintings, for instance) and, really, work on whatever strikes me at the moment.
Here's a game I made from wood for one of my boys a couple Christmases ago:
I know I cannot sing well. I love to sing. Love it. My boys hate it, so I've promised to only sing to them when I'm angry at them.
All that power tooling, photography and wood carving...You must be my grandfather! Those things were what he did and I've enduring memories of many days spent in his workshop helping (getting underfoot). Good skills though, working with one's hands is becoming a list art.
Singing...I hope I never get on your bad side and have to endure your singing-punishment although I have to warn you, I'm equally bad at singing so...Maybe a sing-off might occur. A battle-royale of salvo after salvo of terrible singing hurled at each other. It's called sing-martial-arts. SMA...Like MMA but way more brutal and effective.
Singing is one thing I did not like. Others may be ok but I don't have a voice to sing. Although one can still undergo training in order to know how to sing better
I sing like a deranged hippopotamus with a sore throat and bad attitude.
I think you have mad skills at just about anything you turn your hand to, Victor!
I love that you only sing to your boys when you are angry. That's one of the coolest skills ever...
I think he called himself jack of all trades. So, he is capable at all cost.
My, my, my... are you friends with Anne of all Trades? Jokes aside, that looks like a sweet game. I love to know about people who enjoy doing many things.
You can join the G-dog and myself in our steampunk zombie band of people who can get in tune. 🤣
Hey, thank you very much! I've really got some high hopes for that game and that it can be more than just a labour of love.
Steampunk zombie band! 😂 That sounds epic!
Hey, Richard Garfield didn't know his game was going to be the #1 trading card game in the world when he started out, so anything is possible!
Hell yeah! 😎
I like all the colors and that fact you built it is cooler than that but how is the game played?
It's The Royal Game of Ur. I wish I could say I designed the game, but I only physically constructed this one. I build games for my children each Christmas, and this was one of them. More details on the game are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur
You're a shoe-in for the dad of the year.
Aw, thanks! I love doing it, and I think it's such a nice change from the electronics that they get everywhere else. This year is going to be a 3D chess set, with subterranean, land, and air levels.
Are you psychic or have we met or wtf is it and how'd you know I'm a chess player?
Hahaha. My standard answer lately has been "Black Magic." I'll definitely post up about it when I am further along. If you want to take a peek at my other chess-inspired game, take a peek here: https://peakd.com/hive-176981/@wwwiebe/frogs-of-war
There is no harm in trying. You can try to learn how to sing better instead of saying that you do not know how to sing. Somi I cannot sing because I don't have the voice. But when you learn it you will know it the
Oh, I love to sing, and I do try to sing my best. It's the boys issue that they don't like it. 😃
skills: STand up paddling boarding, yoga, gardening, cooking
Non skills
Painting, undoing screws, nuts and bolts of any kind, opening a door with keys, getting lids off jars without dropping them on the kitchen floor.
I have tried out a lot of skills during the lockdown in 2020. I found out I could cook and fish too. So, every other morning, if inherent in the kitchen, I would be in the swamp casting my hooks 🪝 for the huge catfish. I did caught some and ever since, I haven't let go of that skill. Fishing is fun.
if inherent in the kitchen, I fish for lids..
Fishing skill is just too simple except going to the sea to do it.
Fishing isn't as simple as you presume.
To me fishong is simple, except when you proceed to the river. This is where I cannot follow you to.
I'm not in the least bit surprised about your skills but let's address the elephant in the room...Your non-skills.
Painting: You're a nutbag.
Undoing screws, nuts and bolts of any kind: Nutbag.
Opening a door with keys: Nutbag
Getting lids off jars without dropping them on the kitchen floor: And...Nutbag.
Just kidding Rivvy. You're ok.
Take a look at my #whatsupwednesday post from a couple days ago if you get 3 minutes to skim it.
My husband also thinks I'm a nutbag, so I'll take that. Now where did I put the lid to the vegemite....
Seriously. They just fly out of my hand. Jamie just laughs every time. Neither of us know how I do it. 'Where's the lid' is a daily phrase in this house.
And whenever I offee to paint anything, Jamie says: please don't.
Could you get a more manly photo for your cover image?
Riv...Nutbag! Yeah you!
Haha, that last comment and gif. Yeah, it's a bit that way huh? Captured myself in a rare moment of manliness.
You should update the community tag on her name, just sayin...
It has been considered. She would not mind.
I always wonder how people balance on paddle boards. It seems so difficult to me 😄
Hey, those are some sweet skills you have gotten yourself. About the other things, can I say you're clumsy yet you do some stuff that requires a lot body control? It is a little bit vexing, but hey, I can play instrument but I can't sing even if my life depended on it. So I get it. 😂
I can spot priorities from an ocean away. Tightening hardware is overrated.
If you are not careful, you will drop down and infact fall. Except of you are to paint without the paint dropping down..this one is a great skill. I knew of someone who can paint large hall without seeing single paint on the floor.
I did paint a wall once drunk. That did not end well.
I think if you try it again, it will be great without a drop in tje floor.
Yoi have lots of skills. But, you should have one particular one you so much cherish. Anyways, you skills are superb
To be honest, I am very interested in my ability to ride a motorbike and I think it is a very important skill in life. Especially in Vietnam, more than 80% of people own a motorbike as their main transport
When I explored or visited some places, I rented a motorbike, I have gone through the most difficult slopes or passes. Sometimes I fell off but luckily the injury was not too big. The truth is that we want to discover interesting land in Vietnam, the first skill we need to know is riding a motorbike carefully
Motorbikes are very cool and a lot of fun. I've had many with my last being a Yamaha R1; riding it was sort of like getting shot out of a gun. So much fun, but probably way too dangerous. I've been to Vietnam and yep, there's certainly a lot of motorbikes there. I hope you get to learn.
I thought Vietnam had more bikes...
Loads of bicycles and motorbikes, both. Millions of them.
The only country that has lots of bikes is India. You can see any kind of bike in India.
I learned with CD 195. You can imagine how heavy the bike is, but yet I made it through. I can ride any kind of bike given to me.
I learned on a Suzuki GS 500. Had a Honda 250 for economy purposes for a few months then Yamaha TRX 850 Twin. From there I stuck with Yamaha's. The R6 (600) and the R1 (1000). I didn't have them to commute though, they were for fun.
Wow amazing about that. You had a nice collection of motorbike
Riding a bike is great. Acquiring skill in it could help you stroll around and in case of emergencies solve a problem with such a skill.
You are right. It is not bulky and so, can go to any kind.of corner.
Exactly. The most interesting benefit of motorbikes is cycling every corner instead of cars
Motorcycles are a good life skill!
Seriously good life skill. It's great to ride it andd you will feel great while riding it
Oh, yeah. I remember reading about that. It sounds kinda dangerous, but necessary. I think it's a balance skill. It also requires courage because one might fall off or even worse. Just be careful doing it.
Yes. Vietnamese have to ride motorbike carefully because of the busy street
Also makes it twice as dangerous for people on the sidewalks or trying to cross the street.
:time out:
What the hell do you mean "sometimes i fell off?" You fall off as the passenger and the driver has to turn around and get you or you fall off while operating the handlebars. And by "sometimes," how many times are we talking here?
I learnt how to ride a motorbike with my dad's motorcycle. It was very simple and very easy to ride. You have a great skill but can you ride to a long distance?
I can ride a long distance very well
But when i faced up with difficult street or pass (muddy, rocks) I need more skill
Oh I got SKILLZ...
HUGE SKILLZ.!!
Monkeys can NOT do what I do...
Err... Ok.And if these Assbuckets ever get my trailer unloaded, I will...
D R I V E
Home, pop the top on a frosty adult beverage and tell You "WEES" all about it...
Wees = #Weekend-Engagement -ers
Anyone wanna guess what my skill is.??
After being a Giphy Posting GOD of course...
Excellent skills, I do not posses it, yet. But people drive like crazy here so it makes it less attractive to me. 😅
Well, I was going to say gif-over-user was your skill but instead I'm just going to go with driving a big ass vehicle and not dying from truckstop food.
Your a WINNER WINNER..!
Chicken DinnerEither way You Win my Man. I am a Survivor, I am a Damn Good Driver...
Do not have any idea what You are talking about with that Giphy Accusation.
Handling this kind of vehicle will be like a paper. So, truck is the real deal.
Flashback..!
Haaaa.. I drove the Prime Mover before this one home like that one day.
Fucking full sized Florida Condor (buzzard) was eating lunch, (roadkill) and flew up into my windscreen. Damn near ended up inside that cab.
And STINK..!
Those nasty bugger's reek.!!
Lol...If only you had the pictures. #epicpost
He would have been thinking that you have skills on making gif.
Everyone supposed to know what you meant by @galenkp has truly won for guessing right.
You got a skill correctly. He is good at driving if there is such as truck. That is a nice skill
My 'new' brother collects trucks. We took his '38 Hall Scott Kenworth for a drive. The horn pull was in the center which begs the question. Is that monkey ambidextrous?
Nice... I started in a rig like BJ and the Bear were chasin' tail and trouble in. Good ol' 70's. When Truckers were still cool...
I forgot, you (@bigtom13), are no longer a Castaway. Long road to drive in life to find your family. Glad the road led you back to them.
Back there in the second row are a pair you might be interested in. A '64 Autocar that is completely restored (it's the parade truck) and a '75 Kenworth that is the first truck Larry bought after his Dad was killed.
The Autocar is show grade, and it's now grafted to a '97 Peterbuilt. Our nephew is a genuine car restoration guy and he was basically responsible for those two.
Thats awesome and I believe you can drive any kind of truck that comes your way.
You lost me at "after."
One who follows your postings, on a regular basis, may consider you a...
In a thundering voice...G O D..!
Found Ya...
Dude, thank you. I've been looking for me since the third Saturday senior year in college. Friday was... well that's the day we.. you know maybe I'm mixing my days up.
It is not easy to drive a big truck but since you have the skills to drive then you are the best. You are selected the best skill among all.
I have a man who has been driving truck for years, and when he handled a car, it was like a piece of paper to him. You have AA great skill, because it is not easy to drive truck.
Funnily enough I have been thinking about this a lot the last weeks. Currently "reading" a great book called The Intellient Rebel - about learning in an ever changing world. Look forward to commenting after some more reflection. Re-finding my Hiving sea legs after a challenging wobble.
You know, that book the Intelligent Rebel (I suppose) is right on time. Skills development is what makes you become a stakeholder in decision taken in the sphere of your operation.
Absolutely! The idea of life-long learning is relatively new - the one-off MBA that prepares you for the business world of yesteryear is very has-been. I'm reconsidering my ideas about many things - about one career, about what is a good investment, about how the skills needed to survive & succeed in this brave (?) new world are changing so rapidly.
And we don't know what we don't know.
!ENGAGE 25
Wow. The skills for each phase of life must be built in order to have it peaceful and achieve move.
Wobbles happen but so great to see you here and know that you're getting back to it. We've missed you. I look forward to your skills comment.
My first big wobble since I started on Hive. 😌 Making me rethink a LOT about all the people who haven't continued on Hive, and why, and how that could be different. All a learning and growing experience.
Skills for the post-Covid world VERY much on my heart right now. More later. x
I get it...I miss many who were here but are not, but I stay in my own lane and do my own thing. I can't control what others do or how they feel and rarely can I influence them so I don't try. Post, engage and have some fun is my process, the rest will do what they do. It's good to have you back.
With what you are doing alone is enough to bring people together. This is engagement and we are all here to face it together because Bean interactive is like being together as one.
Thanks mate, much appreciated.
All we can do to change that is make it even more fun around here. An addictive Hive is a good thing!
We should be patiently waiting for the skill you have to present. Anyways learning is very much important most especially when you learn from a platform like this and also learn to know people the more.
Indeed we should be waiting for insta skill or skills. Maybe he has more than one skills to give to us..
Well. I'm glad you are re-finding your legs. I'm not sure if I am or not, but I've always appreciated your point of view.
It sounds like an important skill to have not only learning but how to adapt learning in this kind of overgrowing-technical-development world. Also, coming back around it great! Welcome back!
This means you have skill to learn. Learning should be part of it and learning has no limit instead is a continuous process. Having a skill to read that book you just mentioned is an intelligence.
Do you mean to say that reading is your hobby? Because you have a novel you are reading right now
Hello friends, I have some skills but the one that I have developed the most over the years is photography, there is not a day in my life for the last 15 years that I don't take pictures, it is my daily life with my cell phone or my camera, it has become my favorite toy and companion because I have a lot of fun when I take pictures and live every moment, each picture is a story and I like that.
The skill I would like to develop is learning Arabic dance and singing. I have never been able to learn a complete song, that was frustrating in my youth so I threw in the towel, and dancing I sometimes hide and practice in my closet.
Today with this dynamic I had fun because I got dressed up and came out of my closet and my husband told me where did you get that costume hahahaha.....
I put my phone and started dancing to take this picture and my husband just looked at me hahaha as if to say he went crazy.
The truth is that I laughed a lot thanks for such a nice moment doing today what I like to take pictures and dance.
Photography is a skill I've never been able to learn very well. I can point a camera and click the button but as far as anything that resembles skill...Nope, I have none.
Thanks for taking the time to photograph the image of you in the costume and sharing the skill you would like to have...Dancing? I'm even worse at dancing than I am at photography! 🤪
Photography is more of an artistic skill that develops with time. I find you as an interesting person habibti(friend in Arabic) 😄
Oh! How fun!
We need to relax and have fun as often as possible!
"Be like children" is in the Bible!
That second photo is really cool looking. 💖
Comment # 768.!!
Dammit Man!!
You Wee's...
( #weekend-engagement 'ers)
Are Kicking Ass..!
I got MADD SKILLZ...
And I threw up a post about it... Go √ it out.
No not that kind of...
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I won't be ordering whatever he had.
Hello, I have several skills that come from my grandmothers.... I am a confectioner and I make cakes, cookies, sighs and sweets in general.... But also, I am a seamstress I like to make different projects in sewing, from intimate apparel for ladies to handbags, currently I have dedicated myself to make bags and create different models... Here is a sample of what I do....
A and my mom is the artist of all those paintings that are behind... She also has this wonderful ability
Hmm, I'd say you'd be a handy person to know...All those cakes and all. However, I'd probably get sick if you lived too close as I'd eat too much of your baking!
You're obviously very creative and that's a good thing to be I think as it means life will probably be quite interesting with loads of variety!
Well, we talked a bit about it a few weeks ago, but I definitely want to learn some basic survival skills. I go into the idea of learning about it, then life gets in the way, drama at work, Hattie stuff, Mabel stuff, and then here I am, weeks out since we chatted about it. Do you know how much time I've put into it? Maybe a few minutes browsing for a multipurpose knife on Amazon, lol. So that would be a skill set I'd love to pick up: basic surviving skills.
Good skills to have and, as one who has them, I feel they are essential. You need to put some time aside, like an apointment for yourself. There's loads of survival websites that can help home it down quickly so you get the most value for your time. Then you get some stuff and head into the wilderness. Seems like a pretty fun process to me really.
You're on the right track, you want to learn, so I hope you get it started.
Oh, sweet! I almost miss this this week. I think I'll go with a skill I have. So, I'm very anxious. I've always been, but through my angsty life I have learned how to keep anxiety in a beneficial degree. Someone I have managed to give the impression I'm a very relaxed person. Friends and teachers have asked me from time to time "How can you be so relaxed all the time?" As a matter of fact I can't, but I stopped worrying about petty things. When I feel anxious, I go about doing something. It might not be something important but it helps me drive all of these stuff away. During all this time in the house I've learned I got it from my father. But unlike him, who doesn't seem to find a way to keep it at bay and my brother who had to go to the doctor because of anxiety attacks, I came about my thing and got the gist of it. This is a pretty cool skill to have. I think. 😅
This is an excellent skill to have indeed and one most do not ever attain it. It shows strength of character and effort. It goes to prove that if one finds a why that is compelling enough one can make things happen.
This is the other major skill I have developed through my life. The first one is learning stuff. But I think these are my main skills and others derive from the fact that I can tweak these two. And about finding a reason, I think not being stopped by your own nerves is compelling enough to learn how to control it.
That's a good why mate, for sure. The motivation we find within is often more powerful than externally.
But external motivation can help us get going from time to time.
Of course. I only meant that people look for external motivation so much that they ignore looking within and finding it there.
One skill I have and have had for a very long time is crocheting, I like to make granny squares every now and then or other things. It comes in real handy on those super stressed out days and nothing else will help me unwind. So I grab a hook and some yarn and just make granny squares, or some other pattern. After one or two stress is gone, I spend all my time thinking and worrying about the yarn tension, the know tension and thinking about what am i going to do with it. (they end up in a drawer or my yarn tote, I don't really make them to make something).
Now the skill I would like to have and every now and then with sometimes years in between tries is to Knit. Twenty five years plus off and on I have tried to learn to knit. I have yet to complete a single knitting project, but that does not stop me from trying. It is one of those skills that I will likely never learn, but the learning process is fun, once again a very good stress reliever.
Now how many of the 645 comments can I read?
Weird, I was talking about this exact thing a few days ago with a couple people at work. It was a chat about shedding stress and one, a man, said he knits. I hadn't expected it from that particular person but he said he finds such great relaxation in it.
I've never done either to be honest, but the familiar motion and click clack of needles together is familiar as my mum used to knit. A pleasing memory to think of her sitting there near the fire on a cold day or night doing so.
Legit skills you mention, thanks for joining in.
Yeah, a few comments huh?
Yes just a few comments, I don't know how you keep up with them all.
Sometimes I worry I do not. I think occasionally I miss some but I work hard to make sure I capture the top-level comments as a rule, throw a vote on and show my respect and appreciation for those who take the time to engage. I really look forward to the weekly topic posts.
Galen!
Don’t worry about it!
It’s gonna be okay!
😬
☀️🐦🐚😺😉
I'm trying to get into making more of my digital art from scratch, without any psd or free for commercial use pictures. Obviously some things call for a more traditional approach though. Here's an original one that I did from scratch for Hive:
Cool! Reminds me of the view through a kaleidoscope actually. I don't do any art, unless one may consider the art of bullshitting a legit art.
Hmm, screw it, I'm counting it! 🤔
lol, it's a fine art! Let's not forget about the art of writing! You practice that all the time too :)
Writing can be an art, I'll pay that. I'm not sure how good at it I am, but I enjoy it and that's important.
If you have written? You are a writer!!!
This is simple but impactful. True also.
I've no idea how this works but it must be a fun thing 😄
It is fun, but this method is also a little difficult :)
Difficult things often have an adventurous outcome 😉
That's what I am hoping for :) Adventurous and perhaps a lot of fun!!!
Best of luck with that😄🙏
Thanks so much, I will need it :)
It is truly a fun and a fun to the core. You need to see how her is making it happen
This is truly amazing and great skill you have right here. I cherish your skin
I'm glad you like it :) There are a couple more here as cover imimages too
I want to be more meticulous, currently I'm always in a hurry and rarely proof read the finer details.
Attention to detail is a skill indeed, especially in a society that's always moving so quickly. Scanning endless feeds on social media and trying to do so many things all at once leads to a certain degree of carelessness maybe?
What do you think?
Short attention span does add to it, but its been a drawback my entire life, cutting corners, I'm not proud of it but I'm starting to work on it. For eg just spell checking my blog before posting seemed such a chore but I do that now.
You're probably not the only one who feels this way but as we go through life different things begin to take priority and other things that were once maybe very important fall away. It's normal I think, just as ones taste in food changes over time.
I've a similar habit of doing proof reading
You have a great skill here which can bring fault people together. Being meticulous is indeed the best you have gotten.
Introspection.
You can't fix a problem till you've properly diagnosed it, and as the stoics pointed out, it's pointless to worry about things outside your control. So, when something goes sideways, the first person I look at to find fault is myself. Not to beat myself up, but to learn where I went wrong so I can make the correction and improve.
It takes practice to train your mind to work that way by default, and I'm not perfect, but it yields positive results!
I like this ethos. I have a firm control the controllable things ethos myself, meaning that I don't try to control what I cannot. Leaves more energy for things that way. Better results.
Exactly...I think this is where many go wrong. They beat themselves up rather than simply evaluate, strategise, plan and redeploy.
Thanks for adding your skill and getting involved this week. :)
Good conversation starter! Thanks for the post! I've enjoyed reading the replies!
Thanks mate, I do a different topic each week as a place to get people engaging with each other and some fun and a few get involved. Thanks for coming by this week and feel free to drop in again. :)
One skill I would like to have and it also happens to be something that I am working on is becoming more patient with the smaller details of a task. Often times, I focus heavily on the bigger details of a task and quickly brush off the smaller details out of impatience and the mentality to just get the task done.
Attention to detail is an awesome skill to have, probably quite important too! It's good your acknowledged the need for it in yourself and are working that way and I'm sure you'll see many benefits come from it.
Nice work!
Thank you! As I was scrolling, I found someone else who mentioned the same thing and added the part about skim reading.
Being a bit detail oriented in general will also help me out with being more self aware as well. I will be able to pay attention to the smaller details or changes I need to make to improve.
Skim-reading is what most do here, if even that. That's why I shifted my expectations, removed them actually, and now write only for myself. If people read and engage then great. If not then I still gain the reward I get from the writing itself.
I am glad you brought this point up! Few weeks ago, I did think the same that people want something they can quickly read over. I began changing up my style to make it as concise as possible and cut down my writing. Now, I am considering your point.
I would rather take pleasure from my own writing than cater to changing styles of other people.
This is a good state to be in. My enjoyment comes through my writing and so I'm in control of my destiny and feelings. I love people reading and engaging of course, but better that I find the value from my own actions rather than the expectation of other people's.
You nailed it with this statement. In the long run, I find this approach will have me coming back to hive for my own pleasure.
Patience is what everyone needs while doing something important. I've worked on it because I was so impatient 😂
Absolutely agree with you abrar! I am glad you were working on it. Its all a learning process pretty much but we will gwt better at it.
Whatever we learn eventually becomes a part of us❤️
Greetings Miss Moon-City. Certainly that ability can be as useful as a total nightmare. In my case, I'm too detailed about things.
Maybe you are aware that I make sculptures, I don't know if I've mentioned it, but when I'm making these figures I concentrate so much on the details that I take too long completing the smallest detail, even the ones you can't see.
I am very detail oriented and, as I said, it can be a very good thing, but sometimes a nightmare if you don't have a balanced point on this point.
Greetings!
Good afternoon Gabo! Super thrilled to hear from you 😀. I have seen your sculptures and I can definitely tell that you take time to ensure all details look great!
Glad that you brought up the point that it van be a blessing and a nightmare. I suppose the key thing is to find balance.
I have some skills. Hell, at my age, a certain skill set has to be assumed. Remembering to breathe with regularity fits in there.
I'd say my favorite skill I have acquired is the ability to ride a motorcycle with out dying. I've done it for 55 years, I think I'll keep at it.
I'm not saying I'm the best rider around, I'm not. Lots of guys are better than I am at many parts of riding. My claim to fame is to be just good enough to not die. It's a little like surviving in bear country. You don't have to be able to out run the bear, you just have to be able to out run one person in your group.
I don't have to be the best rider around. Just the one still riding...
One of my favorite places that didn't survive the pandemic. It's almost exactly 100 miles from my house which made it perfect for breakfast. Sigh
Breathing is a good skill to have. I know many people who have it.
Dude, riding motorcycles and not dying is a definite skill! Been there done that or I probably wouldn't be writing this comment I suppose. 🤪
I hope you're well brah.
I AM well. Had a wonderful vacation and spent lots of time with family and friends. Saw a few new places, too.
Now all I have to do is write about it :)
Sounds good. Write if you like, or not. Just good to have you back around.
Riding a motorbike without dying must go a long way to bring about carefulness. One must be very careful why driving a motorbike most especially at the Long distance.
Word up to that! Survival of the
fastestfittest at its best!I love this skill of yours as driving on a motorbike is a good one. I also love to drive on a motorbike although I can at least drive some motorbikes perfectly.
Whenever I hear/read the word skills, the only thing that pops up in my mind is Photography. Everyone can click photos and there are thousands out there who're far better at this art. However what I consider as my skill is I capture photos with cellphones and not with those expensive cameras with huge lenses. Those photos are liked by so many people. This picture is a demonstration of my skill. I took it with my Nokia 7.3. This is my personal favorite
The Skill I would love to bring in myself is making others feel comfortable in the first meeting. I have a social anxiety, I can not communicate with people fluently and that leaves a mark on how others perceive me as a person 😄
The topic is great, I'll get a chance to learn what different skills are possessed by these beautiful people 😄❤️
This is a great snap, you should use more like these on your posts.
Mate, most people have some social anxiety myself included. I think understanding that can help one overcome it. That person you're talking with maybe feels exact the same.
Good comment though, and making people feel comfortable is a good skill to possess.
I use such snaps but in other communities and thank you for the appreciation.
I've tried to overcome my social anxiety several times. Sometimes by making myself familiar to the surrounding, sometimes by showing curiosity to the other person. It sometimes helps and sometimes it doesn't. Skilled are those people who know how to establish an effective communication.
Yours is extra-ordinary because you have a way of communicating with people which is photography. You should always use that to make people happy and to communicate with people.
I do that most of the times brother and it helps sometimes but not everyone has similar taste 😄
Never knew that a person like you who writes so well and is an adventurous soul, goes through social anxiety 😄
I'm the same as everyone else and have similar issues and idiosyncrasies. It's what makes me human.
😄
Anxiety is something we must cast out from our mind but must follow the other way around. Anxiety cannot make you to feel free with people but will make you remain at a spot. The best is to remove anxiety.
You're right sir. Anxiety is a hindrance between between our progress and us.
I think she is trying to make people comfortable through the surrounding of photography. This is his skill and it is perfect making use of photography to bring out people's smile.
Understanding that you have social anxiety is the key to living with it. One does not defeat it; one manages it. Most people, when made aware, are more than happy to assist at least.
Living with it is often a hurdle because we can not share what goes on in our mind
Uuuuhhh... @abrarhussain that is an amazing picture!😍
Thanks Angie, you're an amazing person
Awww 😅 thank you 💚
You're always welcome
Everyone feels awkward meeting the first time but a joke even if it is stupid, breaks the ice for me at least and another thing I do is ask questions since I can't talk much as well
You already said out the skill you have which happens to be photography. I can't really see through the picture you uploaded above to be real and took after the skill you have. I love that skill photography.
Thanks pal, I feel honored 💞🥺
Great, skills.
If you take a look at my blog, you'll find many of the things I'm good at. I'm a graphic designer, I'm a sculptor and I love writing stories; however, there is one thing I am VERY bad at and that is drawing.
Since I was a child I was attracted by the whole drawing thing, but I'm simply bad at it, at least using my hands, because when I try to draw digitally (on the pc, using a mouse and keys), I do it very well.
Previously, I think in the topic two weeks ago, I shared the following image, one in which I showed a digital drawing made by myself:
Although I did it digitally, I would love to be able to do something like this with my hands, on paper with a brush or just a charcoal, unfortunately my pulse sucks and my hands shake too much to do things like this....
I can do very small and detailed things with my sculptures, but they are not the drawing. I guess it's a matter of practice or I'm just good at one thing and not the other.
Creativity is creativity I guess whether it's done with paints of digitally. I can't do either to be honest. My dad was an artist and was very good at it, made his living from it, and he was also pretty good at sculpture. I should do a post about some of his stuff one of these days.
Thanks for sharing your skill this week, I appreciate the support.
Oh sure I agree with you on that, but that's what I'm trying to say, I'd love to have a skill like that with a brush or pencil....
You know, I've seen draftsmen and painters who are also sculptors, I think it's easier for them to do sculpture being painters. In fact, I have a friend who started that way, making paintings and then started making sculptures with clay. He did fantastic things.
And yes, I would love to see some of your father's works, these were surely great.
I've put a few of my dad's paintings on the blockchain in the past, never a sculpture though. I'll get it done. Pick up a brush or pencil mate, you've got nothing to loose.
The problem is that I have done it before. I've done some HORRIBLE things, at least I didn't like them hahaha but one of these days I'm going to start painting, let's see what comes out... I have a very bad pulse.
The other day I was with my little cousin painting and even she paints with the brush better than me, can you believe that? hahaha.
You should own it as your particular style.. Come up with a name and away you go! 😊
It’s a beautiful drawing!
Thank you very much. It is a drawing I made with the Photoshop tool. It is very handy and allows you to do very interesting things in terms of digital drawing.
Nice to meet you, by the way <3
That's a very nice design sir. I'm scrolling through all gajillion of these comments now and your design stopped me.
Oh thank you very much. As Galenlk was told, I'm better at drawing on the computer than by hand with a pencil or brush. That design is an example of that hahaha
Thanks for stopping to look at my drawing, best regards!
I have a list of skills as long as my arm in several trades and management, but I have always been trained for the charity fields that I occupy for the last 20 years.
There is a friend @jayna in the comments here that likes de-cluttering and we love people like that as one of my skills is distribution.
Businesses and factories will close down here and then they would call Papillon to come and fetch their stuff.
Our truck loading donated desks to deliver to small businesses in the townships.
We also used to get many bags of clothing, kitchen appliances and and and.
This was taken by us to the poor areas.
So I think that my greatest skill is the gift to give freely with no strings attached.
This is our full car on it's way to some or other home for the poor.
The Papillon Foundation holds the unbelievable audited record of distributing 425 tons of goods to poor areas of all races over the past 20 years.
This seems like a skill others should learn because I think it has the ability to bring a good degree of change.
An amazingly easy skill to learn as many of us have an inherent desire to do good, but we are constrained by having to work for survival.
I simply unshackled myself and I have never looked back.
An unshackling is a good idea. Most will never though.
Oh yes, there are also very few here, as so many will not be happy with a tiny salary. It's all about serving the money god mate.
Agreed.
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Oh, I'm a skill hoarder, I love skills. I try a little bit of everything. I have the Jack Of All Trades kind of mentality and that's that.
I'd like to share a story or two about both topics. The skills I've got learned well and the skills I need to learn and soon.
Recently, I've been busy with the family business. I decided to take that path and leave my freelancing stuff in the background. I had no commissions, neither the time for any such for many a month. I finally got a weekend free and I went shooting for old clients who have always been nice persons during our interactions. Yeah, I am quite picky about my clients now and those are among the very few on my whitelist.
I told them when I took the job that I would only have one day or even less - only half a day to edit photos after the event was over. So I would only be able to send like 50 or so edited photos and all the rest would be as they were since they entered the camera's memory card.
They said that 50 would be perfectly fine with them. Nice people, remember?
Cutting to the end of the story, I hadn't edited more than a few images a day for many months and I did not know if I were still in shape but...I edited more than 200 in half a day. What I did differently than before was I only saved them in one size, instead of both small and large. Large only. Sorry, too busy. It turned out that skill has been buried deep into my long-term memory.
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I still need to learn how to talk convincingly to strangers. I have so much theory and a couple of university degrees...and still more theory provided by many a book and many a video on the subject. But I do lack practice and the confidence that comes with it. Currently, I am forcing myself to say the things I know I need to say in some scripted-like situations. More like a robot would do them. No passion so no fear of failure but also...no passion. Not my nature...yet.
...
Also, some ****ing time management.
Hey mate, thanks for joining in and describing a couple things. It's interesting,the talking to strangers/interacting one. In my job I talk to strangers all the time and whilst I've had a little training on communication I certainly don't have two degrees. There's nothing like practice though, and I've found its the best way to overcome some of the hurdles towards good/effective communication.
Your last line on time management also...Yep, that's something people need to learn for sure as most are pretty poor with it. That and prioritising tasks, effort and focus.
Yeah, I consider those last three the same category. We'll either get there on time...or not.
Hmm, I have always wanted to be a Marksman. A sharpshooter, a sniper. It goes by so many names. But I got color blindness, but that never stopped me from trying to join the Army and Airforce a couple of times in my country to actualize this imaginary skills I often fantasize about.
Although, I have a straight hand. I mean I could hit a flying bird with a stone if I aim well. Unfortunately I don't have any picture to back this up.😔
And I really don't think there's a real time economical purpose for being a sniper except if I join the elite underworld assassin's coven lol.
I like this one because it's what I do; maybe you've seen some of my posts on it? Maybe not.
I think I saw one, about been a Army veteran. Not so sure, it's a while back ☺️. So you were a Marksman, that's just pure awesomeness.
I shoot at long range to this day and love it. There's something pretty satisfying about putting a round on a target from a long way off.
The way you describe it even gives me more attachment lol. You must be a fantastic game hunter then.
I hunt yes. Feral animals mainly.
Been in the military is not easy and this is what I don't like becoming
I hope you are not a military Man too @galenkp. It's a great skill, though.
He might have seen some of your posts on this same skills.
Being a sniper or a sharpshooter needs a training which you must undergo. I hope you're not ready to be a military man because with this skills of yours it calls for military field as gun is involved.
I think I explained well in my comment...
Yes truly you explained it. Having the dream to become an air force and army is a good one. Keep trying because you shall join one day.
Although, I would want a number of skills like to be better at negotiations or to calm down other people who are going mad, or be good at photography etc.
One skill I would definitely like to have is to be funny.
A lot of times, I try to be funny, and people take it as a sarcastic comment and get irritated😅
I guess I am bad at being funny.
It would have helped me during my childhood days, when I was a real introvert, and wouldn't talk to anyone at all.
Maybe, I would have made more friends being funny. As everyone wants to be around funny people...like you😅
Having a sense of humour is an important attribute I think; it disarms people and can open relationships nicely. I don't know you other than on hive but I'd still say that you could be funny, you sort of are with some of your comments. I wonder why you say your not?
It's funny you think I'm funny. I guess I am but I can be way too serious too! I'm many different things and work hard to be the right thing at the right time. Oh, just so you know, a lot of my humorous side is people laughing at me. I don't mind; the ability to accept people laughing at me is a strength I think. Also, I'm terrible at telling jokes. Definitely not my thing.
I guess this is one of your best skill, to do the right thing at the right time.
It might not help to be funny at work when you have to be serious and lead people, teach them, or to be funny at gun range might result in accidents.
You know when to be serious, when to be calm, and when to be funny. You have got that ability, I know.
I was just saying, you have a sense of humor when you interact with people here, on your posts and on others. And that's a rare ability. Being wise, funny, humorous, hard working.
Maybeyou are a man of multiple talentsYeah, being funny at the gun range might not go so well but there's places for it...Sometimes I'm funny when I shouldn't be but I mostly get away with it...Because I'm cute. 😂
In truth mate, I just be me and [mostly] choose the appropriate version for each occasion. Sometimes my versions cross over boundaries and...Yeah, I get in trouble. 😊
True that🤠
Hahaha he is truly a man of multiple talents because making people to laugh and all sorts of other talents in mentioned is nothing other than multiple talents.
In a real sense when people laugh at you it will give you more effort to push ahead. Being funny is indeed the best skill he has up there.
To be a mediator is a great skill. I know of people who are professionals in this act or skill. First of, such people are very diplomatic and neutral in their bids to bringing a peàceful.co-existence among people or nations who had been torn apart by one form of disagreement or the other.
Many people have made it great with this very skill he has up there. They have made people who were sad to be happy again. This is just more than skill but talent
Hi, I think this is great what you are saying. Really being funny is a very good thing thinking of others. I mean, to make someone laugh is to make them feel happy for just a moment and that's enough.
I usually tell a lot of jokes when I'm with colleagues or friends, but like you, these are bad jokes and end up creating the opposite effect of what a good joke would create. Although sometimes I tell jokes so bad, but so bad, that in the end these are good hahaha.
Lol, yeah. Happens with me too. My jokes are sometimes so bad that they start laughing at me instead of the jokes. But it get the job done. The motive was to make them laugh right😅
Maybe this happes with everyone.
Come on, if you make someone laugh, for whatever reason, you've already done a good deed for the day.
We should try to be people who have a good influence on others, so that when they remember us, those memories evoke good feelings instead of negative ones...
True...push for the positivity and a good joke...or a bad one😅
You have chosen the best skill so far because making people to laugh and also being funny can bring happiness and joy on people's face. This is amazing skill you got right there. In another way you can also news this skill of yours to make income.
Ok please promise me you are not going to laugh at me.🤣
But when I read this topic if, the first thing that came to mind was 'I need to learn how to change my own car tire. And how to hitch me car battery myself. And well, just how to maintain my car.'
Of course I can do certain little things already. But some things I still can't. How depressing. Sigh. 😒😂
No laughter from me, when I was younger, a hell of a lot younger, I enjoyed being a back-yard car guy helping friends and doing some work on my own car. Now-a-days, forget it, cars are just to sensitive to everything. So changing tires is a need when out in the boonies and jump starting a dead battery, beyond that, I simply gave up on.
No laughter at all!
This is a good skill to have and one that so many do not have. I did a post on it a while back actually.
So many people who drive cars have no idea how to swap out tyres but I think they should - It should be taught as part of the learning to drive process. Same with other basic car maintenance items.
I hope you learn how to do it.
Thanks for sharing and don't worry,you're not the only one who doesn't know. It's common.
Haha, I think it's a shame not to know those things.😅
I always thought that this was a women's 'problem' uhh, but recently I was with a friend (a guy)..there was a problem with his car and he totally panicked. I realized that day that I knew more about cars than him.
I totally agree with you..they should learn us these things at the driving school.
It's a good thing that I'm writing about it today though.
Because of all the lockdowns lately, I kept putting it off and I kept forgetting about it, but I just made an appointment with a friend who is going to teach me how to change my car tire. So, I am making the first step...😂😅
Yay! You've taken a step towards acquiring a new skill and once learned you'll know it forever. Different cars have different elements but essentially the process is the same and so you'll be able to change a tyre on any car once you learn how to do it.
Yes, hopefully I'll be good in it.😂
That isn't depressing at all 😄 that's cute. We all face difficulties in doing what others consider easy. For Instance I can not maintain a single phone for more than a month or two. Every now and then my phone keeps on falling from my hand and kaboom it's broken 😂
Hahaha..I know🤣 I am being dramatic.
Omg🤣 you just sound like my friend who breaks his phone every time. Only he has anger issues and throws away his phone when angry. 😖
I hope your current phone will last longer though...maybe we should challenge you for that🤣
I have similar rage issues as well 😂 I guess that challenge will be helpful for me 😂😄
Oopsie...hahaha 😂😂
Ahhh! This old trick. One of my absolute most hated interview questions is the ole, 'What's your best attribute?', question. It invariably rears its ugly head every time you suit-up and prepare to explain how good you are for a position.
Self-reflection can often be the most difficult of all things to accomplish, and yet, I suspect that it's also one of the most valuable things we can do. Not necessarily for ourselves, but for those around us. Without self-reflection/rumination/analysis/whatever-you-like-to-call-it, we are most likely to become selfish jerks. At least, I am!
Having said all of that, I'd like to believe that my greatest skill lies in my ability to tell a good yarn, and by tell, I don't mean orate. No, no, no, no, no, no! I mean write. Like, really write. I have tabs on myself! No, not really.
What I do hope that I can accomplish, though, is to engage an audience through the written word. It is important to be able to do this. Especially in the digital age. I'm always grateful that I grew up in a time where I was forced to learn how to spell and wasn't able to simply rely on the in-built spell checker of all word processors.
I'm in the process of writing a book about my experience as an adoptee in the hopes of helping other adoptees understand the intricacies of this complicated process and to find peace in the fact that they are not at all to blame for the situation that they find themselves in, and to do this, I really need to be good at communicating through writing.
(Shameless self-plug, I know!!)
...anyway, have a great weekend, everyone. Looking forward to seeing some of the skills you all have!
I always say my long eyelashes. [Not really.]
The ability to capture and engage an audience with the written word is incredibly difficult indeed, or so I feel. Still, it's an awesome skill and is one that reaches, and often touches, so many people. That book you're writing sounds interesting and I'd say would have wide appeal in society. I know many adoptees, some of whom have dealt with it well and some not so. Interesting stuff Steve.
Sadly, there are al great many adoptees who have not been able to deal with the hand they were dealt. A great deal of guilt and remorse that is unwarranted, but they don't have the ability to reconcile this.
I'll have to see your long eyelashes before I vote on that one, I think! I'm sure they're amazing!!!
Thanks for another engaging weekend topic.
Writing is a believable skill that can turn the world around. When you have an audience, no matter how small it looks, word gathering, if it served a purpose would become a huge venture when the audience can increase and become a skill for the writer.
I would like to acquire two skills.
Actually, there are more such desires! Because there are many interesting and useful things in our life! A lot of skills to learn!
But for starters...
I have a simple Sony digital camera.
The pictures on this camera don’t come of very good quality.
So I need to learn how to process and edit photos with special programs.
I want my pictures to be beautiful and bright!
Graphic design is really cool!
There are lots of programs that can make amusing pictures, banners and logos.
I didn’t know how to use these skills before...
I don’t want to sell my photos and digital pictures because it’s too long. And there’s a lot of competition with the vendors.
But now I have a blockchain Hive! I know that beautiful photos and pictures here will attract interest!
So I’m eager to learn these two skills again!
Photo-editing is something I have no clue how to do either...It tried to learn once, on Photoshop, but I got
boredannoyed because it wasn't working very well and I gave up. I've made peace with the fact I'm never going to know how.You make a good point about better photos gaining more interest for you on hive. Humans think in pictures and not words so a decent image is critical to capture interest and hopefully draw people to your post. I hope you can get these two skills happening.
Ha-ha, Galen))
Actually, I also like to write interesting texts more!
A beautiful picture and one sentence in a blog is not my favorite option...
It’s just that I don’t know English at all 😞
So it’s hard for me to write a good post with literary meanings!
Don’t tell me to learn English!
If I was younger, I might have learned the language.
But why do I need English now?
We must think of Eternity in other worlds...😀
Well, I think we're even; you don't know English and I don't know Russian...And yet here we are communicating. What a world we live in!
Um...
I want to say, "Oh, brave new world!"👽
Hello, friend, how about if I motivate you to learn English, I tell you that I dreamed that in the other world that is the only language they speak, that is in eternity, so I started to learn it little by little, because I don't want to be mute there.
It would be great to see you there and talk about this platform and how much fun we have in this community with the proposals from galenkp .😀
Thank you for this help in learning English!
But as long as I don’t have time...
Maybe I’ll try it later!
I only got just a little idea on photo editing when I happened to be with a friend who edited our schools photos. I was with him until he was done with the editing. Although it is somehow stressful but very much easy to know
Photos and graphics designs are quite a skill to be learned this season. When one has the skill, a lot can be achieved. Graphics designing in particular can be very enterprising if one has a skill in it. Good thoughts!!
Yes, it is so!
Autumn soon, and then winter...
It’ll be time to learn graphic design!
I had tried learning graphics using phone but I discovered it is a different ball game entirely
Do you mean you want to learn how to process photo's from film, or do you want to learn how to use a photo editing program, like Photoshop, to make your images a little more appealing?
Because, I always thought that processing film would be an amazing skill to have! All of those chemical solution's you need to wash them through, and then having a photo that you took, and processed. You'd feel like a 'real' photographer then!!
If you're after some basic photo editing skills through Photoshop (or something similar), I could maybe make some videos and link them to you. I teach Digital Tech and have a few (limited) skills in this sort of thing.
Let me know if you're interested, and I'll see what I can organise.
Steve, I meant Photoshop and stuff like that!
Thank you for your concern and interesting offer to teach Photoshop!
But unfortunately, I don’t know English...
No language except Russian))
I’ll find a video in Russian when I’m ready to Photoshop!
Thank you for that!
I think you have a great point there because being a graphics it's not an easy job not even to talk off to organise photos. This is great one you have there. I just wish your dreams come to reality.
Skills are essential part of life. Through it you can become relevant or irrelevant in the scheme of things. It's skill that makes a difference.
Aside what i can do already, things I have built up skills at, I would love to have a skill in styling hair for both mem and women. My daughter has always been on my neck to help her loose her braids or comb her hair. She finds my touch succulent on her, sons he would always run to me.
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This isn't what I expected but it's a good skill to have I guess. When I have a bad hair day I just put a hat on and that's about the extent of my hair-styling skill. Lol.
Ahaha🤣😅That's a skill too, covering your bad hair with a heart. I love to make the hair and would love to acquire a skill in it.
How will you make the hair grow? Will it be possible?
Hahahah...do you then mean, that ypur hat is your hairstyling?
You remind me of...
A childhood sensation!
When I had my hair stroked, it felt really good!
Murrr, Murrr))
Hahaha. Unfortunately, in Africa, our hair texture is quite hard, it is a big job to grow long hair strands unlike those who originated in lands where their weather favors the growth of hair.
Never mind, as your stylist, your hair will never go broken.
This skill of yours is amazing, you know.? I have seen many male who became hairstyling in many locations and they are doing so great and even more that the females.
Nice topic! I think a skill I posses is my skill for languages. I just have a knack for them and can work out how grammar works and how words relate to each other pretty quickly. Over the years I have learned English, French, German, Spanish, Latin and a bit of Portuguese and of course my native tongue Dutch. I like learning languages, it's like a puzzle.
A skill I would like to posses it to be able to do anything really with numbers. I have put countless hours in but math is a complete mystery to me. I also have no ability to judge distances or sizes and it's a skill that I would like to have. After many many frustrated years of grinding away and still having no clue I gave up, but a little magical sprinkle of understanding would be very welcome
Language is a big thing here in Africa. We have hundreds of languages unlike in Europe where the languages are just English, Portuguese, Spanish, French or German.
Here, in every three hours drive, you'd find a new language that you may not find easy to understand except you have an ear for it.
Nigeria is full of different languages and indeed from town to town you hear different ones.
Languages is probably high on many peoples desired skills list I'd say. My own included. You have a good deal of languages there. Did you read the comment from @dswigle? She's struggling with Spanish...Maybe she needs a tutor.
Also, the numbers/math thing...I have ten fingers and ten toes so counting to twenty is no problem for me at all...Further than that and I'm quite incompetent I'm afraid. :)
Haha yeah I get confused with simple counting already! But I could do some Spanish tutoring indeed!
If only we have twenty more fingers, we'd be able to count to...Umm...Erm...47?
We just need 8 arms like that Indian deity!
Haha! Yeah, we'll be able to count up to...Damn it, where's my abacus when I need it?!
What is 8 in Spanish. May be I may need tutor as well
Do you mean to tutor @galenkp Spanish?
No there was someone in this sub who didn't have a knack for languages but wanted to learn Spanish
Hehehe...he can tutor her to speak Spanish, I guess
Sorry mate, you write me so many comments I simply cannot respond to them all. I just don't know what to say all the time.
That's a great skill, I love learning languages too, for math I would suggest install apps for measuring distance and sizes, it comes with experience and not theory
If you have skills in language, then you are a genius. In my country here where we have as much as possible languages, it will be difficult for one to have skill on hearing them one by each.
Skill is that technique you have in making things happen. Sometimes the skill you have can make your dream comes to reality. Many today are enjoying through the skills they have.
We have different kinds of skills but mine is quite different from others. Mine is in the educational line. Mathematics is what everyone has been running from, but to me, it is something so simple. Mathematics is simple if and only if you have the mind to make it simple.
I have the skills to make my students understand mathematics to the fullest. One thing is to teach and another thing is for the students you are teaching to understand the way you handled them. I can make them understand mathematics to the fullest. Ever since I have been teaching, non of my student has failed in their exams and they are excelling in all ways deep in mathematical.
While teaching, I never for once told them that mathematics is difficult, even after they have said it that it is their generational problems, I always tell them tos stop making such statement as to what they profess shall they see in the future. So, they do not have the habit ofakimg such statement but tried to be focus.
Speaking about teaching, not many people would love to go to teach. Sometimes, the intricacy of getting to pass or impart knowledge is a huge task.
To find a skill in teaching, one must be passionate about imparting others, then the skill grow from one level to another.
There isn't a math teacher on the planet that could teach me how to be good at mathematics! Maybe you could be the one though although I have to warn you, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed so things take a long time to sink in.
Wow! A nice one there. I never liked that subject since I was a kid but how I do pass them is what baffles me. Do you know that, I got admission to study English and I was okay that I won't get to offer mathematics as a course, but to my greatest surprise, It was a compulsory course for everyone to do despite what you're studying. I wasn't happy but then I had to force myself and learn it. Thank God today I'm done with that course
Fantastic! That's some pretty complex looking math you have on the board, and the fact that your students are able to understand it all is a credit to your skills as a mathematician and a teacher. Keep it up. The world needs more teachers as dedicated to their craft as you are.
I'm very happy to call you a colleague. (Although, my math teaching only extends to year 7's, so nothing more taxing than some basic algebra!!)
Hey a math buddy!😅 I have very few people in my immediate circle who like math. So I am so happy to meet mathematicians on hive. Math is an intriguing subject and I always say 'if you don't like math, you just don't have the right teacher.'
Good job you're doing @cool08 !💚
I'm indeed grateful for the compliment. The fact remains that I'm truly passionate on my field. I love mathematics to the brim.
Maths is truly an intriguing subject, but many are running away from it.
hahaha, sometimes I can't understand why people don't like math. But that's another beautiful thing in this world: not everyone is the same. 😃
¡Hello cool08! , is definitely an art and few have that gift, I like mathematics, and understanding it has been easy for me when I was studying because I had excellent teachers. It's good that you have that ability.
That's an admirable skill. I'm no mathematician or anything but I'm well aware once you can compute numbers using formulas, techniques and a mind, you can do anything.
It's all numbers after that.
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Yeah, by the way, I forgot to mention the skill I already have!
My favorite skill is !laziness! ))
The habit of sleeping longer, the skill of doing nothing but just lying on the sofa and looking up at the ceiling))
The laziness skill is a good one. Did you have to work hard at getting it or did it come naturally?
Laziness is very easy to acquire!
There is not much work needed here...
But still I had to work on this skill!
When I needed to do something, I improved my laziness. I told myself - it needs to be done, but I will do it NEXT TIME!)))
Lol. Get more lazy each time and pretty soon you'll be an expert.
I’ll try not to be lazy!
Oh, laziness! The skill of the gods!! Is it a unique skill, or is it a skill we all possess!?! I know I have that ability as well.
I remember once, when I was in my early twenties, the remote control to our VCR (yes, VCR!) broke, so I crafted a nifty replacement out of a broom handle and a blunted nail. It worked a treat, and I became (self-dubbed) the Jedi of the remote stick!
Laziness, indeed!!!
This is certainly a crafty way to be lazy! You still managed to creatively fix the issue.
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STOPhello happy weekend, excellent theme of sharing skills or talents, i will tell you about the ones i have. i like your photo, you look tough... hahahaha
Hey Jenny, thanks, I'll look out for it and...Thanks, I'm just me, for better or worse...Not sure if I'm tough...Can be I guess but sometimes not. :)
Itsy Glitzy photography skills, you know those high quality ones the pop out of a page when you visit.
Need to practice, practice makes perfect so they say, finding the right photo.., the one in a million when you review you get goosebumps!
Heck perhaps one day I will find the patience, I kinda like click on the go...
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STOPTomato-skills are incredibly important, especially if one wants tasty tomatoes on bruschetta and pizza and in tomato salad!
It's good to have some growing skills; I used to love gardening as a kid and growing up in the country we had a rather large vegetable garden and a fruit tree orchard, chickens and all. It was cool as my parents, grandparents [who lived with us] my elder brother and would all get in there and help out. I miss those simple days.
I've just bought a couple of these https://vegepod.com.au/ to do some gardening here with. two each at 2m x 1m and will plant them out with various things I'll use, not too much of anything, just what I can eat myself. I'll probably give stuff away also, swap for eggs or whatever. They're not cheap but are super good and if done right produce quite well. I have room for probably eight all up but will start with these two and see how I go. I could dig up the ground and make beds but I'm reluctant as I don't know how long I'm staying and these things can be transported elsewhere. I'm looking forward to it.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your tomatoeyness and getting involved this week. Damn it I need to come up with another topic...Getting harder each week.
Gardening is certainly relaxing and when one is cooking with, and eating, that stuff one has produced it is also very satisfying.
The plan is to plant as per the season of course so initially salad vegetables mainly, herbs and all. I'd like to find varieties that are non-GM also, you know, the old seeds although that will be difficult to do 100% I think. I won't be able to grow pumpkins and all considering their size but will have a good selection I think. I have a whole thing planned out and will possibly do some posts about it, the pod set-up, what I've planted and the produce. Should be good and a new element for my blog-feed also.
My youth was spent doing all sorts of things that mainly involved working with my hands. We had a very large property and there was always something to do so from a young age I was involved. I really miss it now. I live on the city-fringe, about 12-15 minutes from the CBD and whilst I have a decent-sized allotment it's not big enough, or remote enough, for my liking. I do have a massive scrubland-recreation park across the road, like *directly across the road. I go there a lot to feel like I'm in the country. Kangaroos, koalas and all...I'm lucky.
Any subject ideas would be welcome...I was thinking an AMA for next week actually. Not sure if people would care enough to ask me anything though. Lol.
That's the word I couldn't remember. Lol. I know there are places that do them here and am keen to go that way. Part of the fun is bringing it all together; there'll be failures I'm sure, but I'm ok with that. I like failing and what it does to me.
You gotta cuddle a koala once at least! Good huggers. I'll be honest though, I'm the worlds best hugger, it is known worldwide. I taught those koalas everything they know!
The AMA seems like a good idea although I'll get questions I won't answer here I guess...Still, a little disclaimer will take care of that. Shh, don't tell anyone.
Yes, feel free to send ideas. I look for simple things, easy things that the majority of people can answer easily and that promote some byplay.
Truly you are relaxing just because your garden is in your backyard. You have great talent indeed and planting of tomatoes and also making good good use of the tomatoes you have planted can't really go a long way to keep you busy. It is indeed a skill you have developed. I hope you can also convert the tomato seed into tomato paste as well?
Container gardening and patio gardening are not easy. Everything dries out faster when it's not in the ground. And as you say, tomatoes are very fussy. It sounds like you have nearly mastered the art!
This is a skill so he must learn how to master it to the fullest. It is not easy to have skill on tomato.
Do you have any other farming skill apart from tomato?
Nine-tomatoes-claws girl...
I found your skill more than interesting because I also share a certain love for agriculture, in fact, this week I have made several posts on my blog where I share some of my experiences growing different types of plants.
Tomatoes to me get damaged a lot so I do not use to plant them, besides, I have an iguana that comes to visit my garden and eats the tomato plants without any mercy :'(
But what I do know is that tomatoes require a LOT of care, so much so that it is, as you say, almost an art to grow them. Here in my country there are places where tomatoes are only grown in greenhouses, producing really beautiful tomatoes. In my case, I do not grow such delicate tomatoes but a kind of wild tomato that produces a very small tomato but resistant to pests and diseases, here is a photo:
It depends on the way you plant the tomato and also how you water them. Except if you are not an expert, you will loose concentration
True, but the tomato is a delicate plant. The thing about watering the leaves is very true, if the leaves are watered they get sick, if they are not good seeds, the plant does not thrive and even if it has a lot of care, sometimes the same insects spread diseases.
I have my experience growing and tomatoes are one of the plants that require more care. There are certified seeds that allow you to grow certain tomatoes that will not get sick as much, but those are modified seeds and that is another subject. Tomato growing also depends a lot on the type of climate.
Tomato skills are the gangsta skills of gardening. Man if they are fickle plants. Those are some pretty nice things to show off.
Yeah, challenges are half the fun of everything. If it weren't, then there's not actual gain from it.
One can also get into this kind of situations where the challenges are too steep for the current level of skills and need to double down. But that makes it even more interesting and satisfying to achieve!
Next time, if there is a next time, consider big bright red ones. Or fire red head backdrop if you're carvin what I'm climbin. Something, anything. It went against everything I know to stop on green!
You have a great talent because it is not easy to plant tomatoes. I cherish your courage. It is just that you have more opened up your talent to us all here.
You said you have come up with your own way of dealing with pest and insects instead of the use of chemicals. I think you should clarify us better so that we can be able to use your method instead of insecticide or pesticide.