Melva Gifford

This panel was presented by the creators of a new game called Planet Mercenary. These are my notes form LTUE 2016.  This is the section of the presentation where they discussed how to measure success in a project. The previous week I discussed the planning and execution of doing a project.

Any inaccuracies in these notes are the fault of the not4e taker.

• You need to be willing to make the effort and spend the time to become a success.
• People who are successful treat writing as a career that means you clock in each day work lockout. You also need to produce.
• Your career will rise and fall so you need to handle your money to carry you during the low time to your career.
• Move focus on the book and writing not about yourself.
• There will be others who will actually cut others down people who like controlling others in Boston them around. Determine in advance with your values are so this can sustain you during potential tax. Focus on fundamentals of what you want to accomplish. The author’s job is to please the reader.
• There will always be readers will find a mistake.
• You need to learn to how to laugh to laugh at yourself
• If you write when you only have them use you interfere with your success. Sit down each day and deliberately write. Always right even if you’re practicing until you become published. Authors live their lives raising families working and writing.
• Keep improving.
• Each time Terry Brooks begins a new book he started determine how to make it a better book.
• Have a good jade the job sustain you it will take years to build your audience
• The average mid-list author earns $35,000 a year on the top 1% as over 10,000. One of the panelists has athletic a list of authors success.
• Be prolific. For when someone buys your latest book and they like it they will live by your past books. It is from your back list that you earn your yearly salary.
• Don’t be afraid to delete or combined characters. Everything that comes out is not gold.
• When you get advice, feeling your heart if you feel that advice is good. Create a filter and only follow what feels right.
• Lucky people fail more frequently until they succeed.
• You need to decide your goal and route to publish
• Success is not the same for each person.

More notes on how family search such as setting up an account.

• When you’re teaching others you need to find out what their goal and motivation is and then help them accomplish that goal.
• If your student shares a family event, invite them to type it up and post that story up on family search under the name of that person who the memory references.
• Facilitate with your students their family story and promoting the holy spirt.
• When creating an account that will be viewed by others, ladies will sometimes use their maiden names so that relatives can find their association with that person.
• When setting up an account you will need to provide an email or a phone that can receive a text, as those will be the two ways to retrieve a password if you need to get a reminder.
• Same account for familysearch.org matches with the name used for lds.org. Make sure you have a great password.
• Parents can find the church number of their children by going to LDS tools and parents menu.
• Teacher can create a ‘helper’ account for their students and use the last 5 characters of their church id number. Prior to a consultation, a ‘helper’ may go into their students account and find some opportunities that can provide success to provide early encouragements for their student in doing their history. The church is not trying to create a bunch of gemologists but to help members do work for their ancestors.

More next week.

I attended the Eagle form and took notes on the various speakers. This is what a speaker had to say education. Any miss information provided in these notes is the fault of the note taker.

• The 10^th amendment talks about rights that are not specifically listed for the federal government or rights for the states. We need to use our state rights
• The 2011 Gov. Herbert said Utah is not a colony. Might be related to getting education funding.

• Problems with Utah leadership.

1. The adoption of common core.
2. Medicaid expansion with federal strings. Alternative Utah access plans where doctors would be pay for those in need. But that cost to be then transferred over to the patient’s that do pay insurance.

• Eight years ago Gov. Herbert took office and at the time lesson 5.2 a federal money came from the federal government. Now 7%. (Not sure if I wrote these notes down accurately)
• if we wanted to not have the federal government control our schools in Utah that we could deny the 300 million that we get from the feds. 300 million is half of our current excess budget
• state rights mean that we need to claim our state sovereignty.
• When freedom flourishes businesses grow
• Reagan was once asked: what have you learned about America. His answer “all great changes begin at the dinner table.”

Good: Hearth

Bad:    Herth.

I keep forgetting the E. One way to remember is that hEARTH is usually made of stone and earth so remember to put EARTH is in hEARTH.

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This panel was presented by the creators of a new game called Planet Mercenary. These are my notes form LTUE 2016.

• Game began by finding partners/ team members who share a common interest.
• You can’t do everything, you don’t know everything. Find people who are good at the part of the job you don’t know.
• The management person needs to have material ready for the creators. For they will create in spurts and need to have tasks ready when the ready to do creative actions.
• In advance you need to define a role of who does what.
• Have a weekly meeting. You need to know what needs to be done and each person needs to get a report of what they’ve accomplished and what they need to do next. Everyone needs to have an idea of what to get out of the meeting. If you don’t have a weekly meeting then your project stalls. Each project has stages. Each of them have individual goals for each stage. As each person must reach a goal there also prerequisites to reaching that goal.
• You need to give yourself time to work.
• Creating planet mercenary took 10 years to create from concept to reality
• They invested $1500 to commission work from artists. Then you can find out who you like the commission becomes a audition. Every project has multiple moments of doubt.
• If you emotional about a topic don’t respond emotionally. Stop maybe sleep on it before making the decision.
• Accountability, each member needs to be self-accountable. One example of this is it when you send an email to somebody do they respond quickly.. One communication challenge is that certain creative people need specifics on what they need to accomplish. The writer needed specific word count per page because gives them the idea of how to feel the page with the illustrations etc. and the manager of the project didn’t realize they had to do preliminary sketch to give the author an idea what is expected
• You may have a wide base of fans but only certain fans will be interested in a specific project. Realized that certain fans will not be happy with the end result. Most of the acceptance of the project you can’t control but deliver what you promise.
• Used kick starter before do the project..
• In this game the characters of the dissipate of those the speak first. One could expect that the loudmouth could then take over the game. But as they make a decision that is wrong they get punished for it. And they may be discouraged from the domineering. You want to design your game so that even those that are more reserved and are not loudmouths still can participate.
• You need outside eyes because creators cannot recognize all perspectives and having beta players gives you those possessions. You can see how you need to plan for the unplanned response
• In bound market is when you have beta players play the game and they give feedback. Then you change the product by the things you learn to improve it. Give it back to the players and you create a feedback loop marketing is about giving out information.
• Tools of the project: Google drop box, Skype and Google docs. Google docs lets two people share the one document at the same time. Dropbox let you put a file folder that is labeled in the works. That means don’t touch that file until the creators finished working on one at greater person is done they moved the file from the in the works folder.
• Be careful of not willing to spend money for the use of a tool when you to spend $100 and become more effective in your tasks by the use that tool.
• How to maintain morel. You can do this by creating milestones and as you accomplish those milestones you feel successful. You can feel discouraged if the project starts to feel uninteresting. That may be because now you have do the hard work and not just a fun work. Another possibility is that your building something that is boring. Another example of this is in the writing if nothing is happening in the chapter that you may need to remove the chapter.
• A contract between the dispense Nice to be clearly defined responsibilities that define roles and jobs as well as deadlines.
• Find people who are interested in capable in the project not just because they’re your friends.

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The next few teaching embellishments will be on the topic of family history work.

Family history is the second most popular hobby in the world so my notes will helpfully have universal interest.

• The Holy Ghost can help us find our ancestors.
• Family history can tell us where we came from and us let us know who you are.
• Avoid the “if only” scenario by recording stories of family members before they pass on. It gives you a chance to ask of their personal experiences. Such as how they met their partner, their relationship to God etc.
• Family history is the second most popular hobby in the world second to gardening
• God will help you find the ancestors as you make the effort. Holy Ghost will guide you.

Sources to check out

1. LDS.org
2. family and individuals
3. family history
4. callings
5. Family history callings

Or

1. https://familysearch.org/
2. the family search login
3. get help (top right side)
4. and find these options: quick search; family search; gettiing started ; help center; learning center; live chat; call us; find local help.

More notes coming next week.

I went to Town hall meeting was several members of the legislature talked about different bills. Much of the meeting was dominated by some very impassioned people who are for legalized marijuana.

Sen. Dayton talked about her water bills HB 80: which wants to have half the 1.8 tax that was posted be divided between water projects and conservation and transportation but much of it has been going over to transportation. The bill is to get more work done toward our water concerns of the state. We were once a 1 million people and are now up to 3 million people and we need to improve our infrastructure. The bill also means that you use more water you pay more money.

Sen. Stratton talked about land rights for the state. 62% of Utah land is controlled by the federal government. The bill is to protect the resources. Five of the nine justices voted that control the land should go to the states.

She also talked about a safe technology bill so that children would not see inappropriate material in school. And would let a school Council determine what is appropriate rather than the federal government.

There’s also a sex abuse education bill where a committee can review the content of the curriculum. Parents can also opt in to have their children Receive sex education rather than opt out. The purpose of the bill is to have parents more responsible for the education of their parents in certain areas

Sen. ramble talked about Utah County having the highest job growth in the country

From this point on the rest of the meeting was on medical marijuana. Four key people in the audience were very vocal about sharing their views that marijuana should be legalized. Different senators talked about the benefits of medical marijuana but said this bill had several areas of concern. One was that with marijuana being illegal at the federal level so police officers are handicapped in maintaining the law. Another part of the bill is the concern that doctors would not be liable for prescribing marijuana in inaccurately. They would be exempt from being liable.

The legislature wants to get more research done and get the backing of the medical community. Most of the research done on medical marijuana has been out of the country because marijuana is identified as a level I drug and this so it’s illegal to test with it. The recommendation is to have marijuana changed to a level two drug so it’ll be legal to test in medical labs.

The one of the legislators in the front of the room talked about people he met who were helped with marijuana and the consequences of extended family who was hurt through drug abuse

One of the frustrations shared in the meeting was how the LDS church will give feedback on a certain topic late into the legislature session rather than early in the session. And that people don’t have an opportunity to approach the lobbyists who act on behalf of the LDS church.

I had to go to work so this is all the notes I took.

Good: Vicarious

Bad:   vacarious

vIcarIous means to represent another so the first I is me. The second I is someone else I represented in a vicarious relationship. Thus two Is.

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