ABEIFY, the literal acronym, was only developed relatively recently. But what it stands for, Artistic, Businessperson, Educator, Innovator, Facilitator, Yourself, describes a kind of person that may have been around since ancient times.
As a concept, it ties in with the desire to create an online educational resource or sites for learning, in the arts, business and education.
Understanding the Use of ABEIFY Inspiration for Community Building Powered by the Process To Leverage You
ABEIFY (Artist Businessperson Educator Innovator Facilitator You) has solutions for you the ABEIFY as well as Archives resources.
‘Leader of Community’
Your expertise, whether it is in the Arts, Business or Education, is a valuable tool for community building. Why? Because you as a ‘Leader of Community’ can truly help the ‘Members of Community’ with your knowledge, experience and perspective to solve their pressing problems by providing them with your monthly ‘Solution of Leader’.
The Idea of ‘AI Do Good’ is an Important One in this Day and Age When it Comes ‘To Leverage You’
Some in the field of Artificial Intelligence are in pursuit of ‘AI Do Good’ when they engage in the ‘To Leverage You’ process, understanding the importance that AI be used to do good. This is critical since one of the tools in the ‘Make a Community’ ‘Website Ecosystem’ toolkit is AI.
Making a Difference for Others
Another method ‘To Leverage You’ and your life can be found on the AI Do Good Awards site where you can also learn about people, some who are alive and others who are no longer with us, who were prior engaged in or are currently pursuing the objective of ‘AI Do Good’.
Potential of Humanity
Each was/is a ‘Leader of Community’ who had/has the courage to leverage their thoughts, do testing, enact experimentation, source their knowledge thereby making an invaluable contribution to the potential of humanity.
Pushing into Place a Thought Process?
‘AI How to To’ has a new article entitled To Leverage You and Your Imagination is Easy if You Know How. But can something like leveraging your imagination and becoming more creative actually be accomplished just through a thought process?
What Can You Do that Other People Find Valuable?
Rather than focusing on things you feel you need to change (like to become more creative), it can sometimes make more sense to figure out what unique abilities you intrinsically have that other people find valuable. One approach to begin to explore this area is ‘To Leverage You’ using a thought process.
‘To Leverage You’ to ‘Make a Community’
‘To Leverage You’ to ‘Make a Community’ is an ongoing journey of evolving your ‘Make a Community’ ‘Website Ecosystem’. One method to gaining insight into how to get on this pathway, might be to look at examples of those both past and present whose work contributed to the ‘Make a Community’ process as seen on the Make a Community Awards website. Learning from those before you is vital, because remember, if you are a leader with an expertise in the Arts, Business or Education, an inspiration is the realization that ‘To Leverage You’ means that you are leveraging your most important resource…you.
Book
It is early in the day on December 31, New Year’s Eve, moving soon into 2024 and I have started reading a very long book. It is about the relatively recent history of human beings and the cycles of conflict that we go through.
Sides?
It comes as no surprise to most of us that we are living in especially splintered times as Americans, with very little agreement between the ‘two sides’. And they are now not the same two sides one would have thought of, as recently as only 5 years ago or so.
Worse Before Better?
Make a community of the U.S.? Sounds good in practice. But the book I have begun pouring over begs to differ. It theorizes that the past tells us that things are going to get worse before they get better.
New Year’s Eve into a Happy AI Year?
We’ve had a full year of expanding awareness of the disruption as well as the positives of AI. This in turn has led to discussions about AI versus humanity. Is there anything we can do in the New Year to help things?
Resolutions?
I mean, this a bit ‘tongue in cheek’ of course, but can joining a gym help? Or going on a diet? Or how about ‘Make a Community’?
Make a Community?
You see, whether we are conscious of it or not we are continually, throughout our lives, engaged in the process to ‘Make a Community’.
Doing it without Realizing
Without even being aware of it, we ‘Make a Community’ with family, friends and coworkers again and again in ever changing configurations.
Do You have an Expertise?
And if you are fortunate enough to have developed an expertise in areas like the Arts or Business or Education, more opportunities to ‘Make a Community’ await.
Share with Others
It is an honorable decision to ‘Make a Community’ especially if you have something of value to others to share.
Give Recognition
That’s why the ‘Make a Community Awards’ site was just started with a posting of those who either have or are, making an impact when it comes to ‘Make a Community’. It is important to recognize and honor those both living, as well as those no longer with us, who consciously chose to ‘Make a Community’ and as a result helped or are helping humanity.
And Don’t Forget AI
And because of what is at stake for humans when it comes to AI, both positive and negative, it behooves us to be aware of those who have, or had, impact on the development of Artificial Intelligence.
AI Do Good
The new website known as the ‘AI Do Good Awards’ also has a list up today on New Year’s Eve. This list recognizes those who made, as well as those who are making, a difference when it comes to the goal of ‘AI Do Good’.
Resolutions for Humanity
The very long book I started reading about the relatively recent history of human beings and the cycles of conflict that we go through, has made me think about what might be New Year’s Resolutions to consider. Make a Community? AI Do Good? I for one would be happy to even just find a nearby NYC gym that has yoga classes!
My friend, like many in business, was seeking a way to be more succesful.
This friend in the early ’80s was in L.A. and lead a life such that all around him were people becoming rich and famous. Literally.
My friend had an interesting and helpful insight.
He talks about how he probably should have been more surprised that success seemed so simple. Because the bottom line is to be successful takes a lot of work. Though, some are smarter on how they approach their entrepreneurial ventures.
But I my friend thought that “Making It” in the movie industry was going to be a piece of cake. And yes, my pal was a Startup Introvert.
He had always assumed that there was a “Method How” to become well known as an expert who was wealthy. Something we have in common is a fascination regarding uncovering formulas that once invented in a series of steps, would get the person using the blueprint to attain what they wanted to, in a less taxing experience.
Such is the key to embarking on a journey in which you go from “Concept to Real.”
At the time of speaking to my friend, I was coincidently spending time on my own doing research through observation. I contemplated on why no one had written a book like “Method How to Become a Celeb in Your Spare Time.” I am kidding of course.
But hearing stories from my friend about filmmakers, movie starts and such, it was puzzling to him as it is with me, why some folks appear to have an innate ability to climb the ladder?
Why is getting what you want appears to require no effort on the part of certain individuals while for others seems impossible?
I wanted to figure out why status building for “climbers” seemed effortless, while for others they tried and tried and tried again, but with no result?
Yet again through research it is once more reinforced that for Startup Introverts versus Business Extraverts, the former quits easily while the latter finds achievement simple.
The “Method How” is to keep climbing the cliff. And at any moment the rock you are holding onto might break. Just don’t look down.
And even if you do feel fearful, continue climbing up regardless.
Getting from “concept to real” is really a lot simpler than most of us think. Simple to know the “Method How.” Not so simple to stomach!
There is always something new to use to use when it comes to the internet. Trying to stay on top of it can be challenging. Thankfully much of it happens in one place…Your phone.
Why complicate things when they can be much simpler?
Hi, Yianni Stamas is present.. Yes, it is I. I am about to share something that has been plaguing me for months, the solution for which came quite unexpectedly.
One thing that I am known for among friends is making things way more complicated than they need to be. For example, and I kid you not, up until yesterday I had spent literally months trying to put together a workflow to help me use my time more efficiently each week.
Weekly I am engaged with a great many technological methodologies that overlap each other at several junctions. I get by, but I know I am wasting time and could have a better system for doing the things that I do during the workweek.
For example, among other tasks I had to do today, was to come up with brief posts for the websites Media Administration and USA Go Digital.
The Goal
My objective was to put together a workflow to make use of my time weekly more efficiently. In short, I wanted to get clarity and work smarter not harder, as the saying goes.
So who came knocking at my door? Digital of course. Still a friend after all these years, streamlining digital is the key to the new processes I will be introducing.
But as is the case with many things, this tale’s backstory shows how being unnecessarily complicated does not help when trying to devise a shorter path.
100 hours or 7 minutes?
So anyway, after spending hours and hours trying to put together the best possible workflow, with all kinds of steps within steps within steps, in a flash I realized a much simpler way to accomplish my major goal.
Then, I sat at my laptop and within 10 minutes had written off the top of my head, a complete 26 step method, each step being only three words long. I had figured out in around 7 minutes a much better and complete solution than the one that was still not completed and had taken me close to one 100 hours to come up with.
Could the 100 hours have been a waste of time and effort?
There are some who would say that had I not spent 100 hours trying to reach the destination, I would not have been able to do so, so quickly. I would like to think that is the case, but in truth I am not so certain.
Here is what I figured out:
Goals for today are:
1. Get Clarity
2. Work More Efficiently
3. Maximize Digital
Thanks for tuning in,
It Landed on Top of Us
As always, we have an ear to the development of new cultural phenomenon. In January of 2020 we still sought out in-person experiences including movies, events, yoga lessons and so on. But then as recently as the early 2020s, things began to change rapidly.
Waking Up
COVID-19 overturned our lives forcing us to stay at home. Now relegated to being shut-ins due to the Coronavirus, we had extra time to become conscious of the large divide that existed between us and our fellow Americans.
Umbilical Cord
In March of 2020 things took an extreme turn. We then found ourselves staying home much of the time with the only relief from this difficult adjustment coming to us in the form of digital access. Digital became our connection to entertainment and communication.
Sorting it Out
Many of us did our shopping for food and more via the internet. The longer we stayed indoors, the more we feared that the virus that could catch up to us. But with extra time available to us on the computer, we sorted things out in a way we had never done before. We got more organized than ever about the important things in our lives.
Every End Seems to have another End
Now with variants of COVID on the rise, we ask ourselves will this ever end? Is the “new normal” that everyone was talking about (several months ago), happening now? Just when hope pops up, another negative force pushes us back down again. And thus, digital grows and grows as businesses that were not set up originally to be digital, now must adapt or close.
Moments of Panic
We hope that things will be better for our children when they grow up. Will they have access to the same freedoms and enjoyment that we had when we could safely travel outside?
Art Versus Commercials
Today’s date is special and soon we are going to tell you why. Meanwhile, every step taken is a step closer the realization of our passion which is to make a difference by helping others to make a difference through our challenge: USA Make a Difference! There’s no reason why commerce can not participate in doing things for the common good while simultaneously creating visibility for their business offerings. I was raised in a household in which marketing was considered bad. It was due to the fear of being brainwashed by television commercials that my hippie parents had. And speaking of commercials, as I write this, the music I’m listening to on YouTube is being interrupted by commercials. Annoying I must admit.
History in the Making
All right, time now to focus on why this day is a special one. Welcome to December 17, 2020, otherwise known as Wright Brothers Day. That’s right, on this day in 1903 there were two brothers who changed the world’s transportation means forever. Near Kitty Hawk North Carolina (now known as Kill Devil Hills!?) is where they did their famous launch of a plane that marked the first time in history that a heavier than air contraption actually flew.
Escaping the Pandemic
And not that long after, my idol Erik Weisz, better known as Harry Houdini, did his escape while on a plane’s wing! But airplane’s of course were not just about magicians doing stunts on them, the Wright Brothers revolutionized travel. The irony today of course is that air transportation has a hit a wall due to the lovely Pandemic that most of us want to remove ourselves from, a prison of sorts that even Mr. Houdini would not be able to escape.
Soundtracks Can Set the Mood
I’m listening to house trance psychedelic on headphones as I write this. I find that sometimes I don’t just block out other noise going on near my home office (sitting cross legged on a bed with a laptop) but it can gives the illusion to me of typing things that are profound, because they have a soundtrack to go along with them. But when the music is shut off, it is really just another blog entry.
You’ve probably heard it spoken to you, or maybe you’ve spoken to others the phrase “I’m too busy.” Well the fact is, if you have prioritized your life and business, you may very well be too busy. But don’t let yourself off quite yet. What is it you really want to be doing? Have you made time for that or are you “too busy” to work on it. I know that I do this frequently. There are projects that are pressing, such as writing for this blog at least once a month, that I almost let myself off the hook today.
As I thought about being “too busy” to put up a post here, I pulled back for a minute. Why am I too busy to do a blog entry? Isn’t this what it’s all about? Of course it is. You can motivate yourself even if you are too busy to do so. How? Put everything into perspective and look at the stuff that matters. Family of course matters first and foremost. Friends are up there. Business is too. So why would I want to write in this blog?
I’ll let you in on a little secret, I motivated myself to write in this blog using a technique myself and my brother talk about frequently that we call “Monetize your life.” The premise is simple. There are things you do and could well have to do, that could be used in some kind of product, service or art piece. Keeping a blog at one time or another has either been one of these or even all three. I turned “being too busy” into a motivator telling myself that doing this blog is important to me. And it is! Excuse me now as I go and say “good morning” to my family!
CommunityI am fortunate to be a part of a creative community that meets regularly online via Zoom. It makes a difference in this pandemic to be in contact with like minded people. I also have been looking a lot at quotes of well known individuals. This includes Albert Einstein, who was the subject of a book by a dear friend of mine who sadly passed last year. One of my favorite saying of Einstein is:
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
This resonates with me. We as a culture do get caught up with “success” that is based on monetary gain and can forget the bigger picture. What matters most is our relationship with ourselves in which we deem what matters to us. I believe we do have a choice and that what you think about can have an impact on what you encounter. I believe it is vital to focus on the positive.
