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The Entrepreneur Well it’s come to the close of the labor day holiday weekend. I’ve been working some long hours over the past few days, weeks and months..... Working to keep everything together with my business and personal life. I’m not complaining, just stating a fact of life when you are a business owner and a entrepreneur. I recently read an article by Scott Dinsmore who has a website and blog called “Live Your Legend - Change the world by doing work you love” Scott is an entrepreneur like myself. The article he wrote was titled “Full Disclosure: 12 Reasons You Probably Shouldn’t Be An Entrepreneur (The story no one tells)”. In it he cites the false starts and troubles he experienced as he started down the path of working for himself. Some of his full disclosure 12 reasons included: #3. I constantly have to be innovating and reinventing. I wonder if the way I’m doing things still makes sense or if it’s time to change. I don’t know what this business or my income will look like in a year. #4. And while no job or career is anywhere close to certain, as an entrepreneur I am very very aware of that uncertainty every day. Often times it excites me, but every now and again it brings me to my knees. #5. There is no being off the clock. If things need to get done then you keep working. #8. Self motivating can get unbelievably exhausting. Sometimes it’d be nice to have someone to just tell me exactly what to do next. #10. I wear more hats in a day than I thought I’d wear in a lifetime. I got into this business because I wanted to help people find and do work they love. I didn’t realize I was signing up to be part-time manager, CFO, artist, writer, event planner, designer, box checker and box creator. I’m now grateful to have a team, but that still doesn’t make all my hats go away. #11. Your identity can become so tied to your business that it’s hard to distinguish between the two. A decrease in sales or traffic or growth sometimes impacts my own confidence and self worth. Even though intellectually I know one is not the other. #12. Wondering how sustainable the business is can be incredibly terrifying. The pressure of thinking how my ideas will support my family over the years is intense. That can
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Our 12th year of Noon Book Reviews returns on Wednesday, September 17th with William Rainbolt – retired from 27 years of teaching at UAlbany’s Journalism Program. He will be reviewing The Death Class: A True Story About Life, by Erika Hayasaki. The class, officially, “Death in Perspective” – is taught by Professor Norma Bowe at Kean University in New Jersey. It has a three-year waiting list of students wanting to be admitted – in fact, it is one of the most popular courses at Kean. Says the publisher: “Under the guise of discussions about last wills and last breaths and visits to cemeteries and crematoriums, Norma teaches her students to find grace in one another.” The author, an award-winning narrative journalist, Hayasaki had personal and professional reasons for immersing herself in Dr. Bowe’s course. She had to agree to take the course and do all the assignments, which are included in her book; at the end, she produced a work of long-form journalism that, the Chicago Tribune noted, lets the reader “be rewarded with poetic passages and assorted revelations you’ll like not forget. . .[it is] a book that probes death [and] shines light on how to live well, how to live a life of meaning.” Since retirement, Mr. Rainbolt has become a Certified Lay Minister in the United Methodist Church, specializing in pastoral care, spiritual direction, pulpit supply, and programming; a Certified Spiritual Director; and a Clinical Pastoral Educationtrained volunteer chaplain at Albany Medical Center. The review begins at 12:15 PM; bring your lunch if you are on lunch hour.
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Film Series: American Cinema and WW II Lenny Zapala – film expert and Director of the Menands Public Library – will be hosting a monthly film series starting this month (you may also know Lenny from his recent book review/film presentation in June on the book Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War). Lenny will be showing a newsreel and short from the 1940s and then a feature film from that era. Up first: on Thursday night September 18th starting at 6:30 PM will be John Ford’s 1933 movie Pilgrimage, which is about a woman who tries to come to terms with the death of her son killed in World War I while visiting his grave in France. Many consider this Ford’s first great film. Lenny’s series is grouped under such topics as: The Legacy of the Great War; Hollywood Warns the Nation; Allies Against a Common Foe; The War at Home; The Cost of Victory; and The Boys Come Home. Upcoming films for 2014 will be: Confessions of a Nazi Spy on Thursday October 23rd; The Mortal Storm on Thursday November 20th; and Buck Privates on Thursday December 11th. From Lenny: “2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the ending of World War II. Through a series of 12 films shown on a monthly basis, I hope to show how the United States went from a Great Depression ridden isolationist nation to a nation cautiously trying to figure out its new role as a world power. I will present some brief remarks before each film to fill in the historical context. To try to capture to the movie experience pre-television, I will show a newsreel contemporary to that night’s film and a short.” Please join us!
We have some programs in the works for you to look forward to: I-Hsin Wu, Adjunct Professor of Sociology at UAlbany and a member of the NYS Office for the Aging’s Targeting Workgoup working with the Chinese-American community, will host a four-part film/discussion series starting in November titled “Introducing Chinese Culture Through Chinese Film.” Tentatively scheduled movies are: Raise the Red Lantern; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; The Joy Luck Club; and Eat Drink Man Woman. The music duo of Sonny and Perley (who always pack the Stedman Room) will be here on a Sunday afternoon in October. The concert theme is Brazillian Romance: The Bossa Nova Phenomenon. Dates and times for the Chinese film series and Sonny and Perley TBA.
The fiction book group will resume its monthly meeting schedule on Tuesday, September 30th at 7:00 PM. The group reads one book per month (provided by the library) and meets to informally discuss it on the last Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM in the library’s Youth Services Activity Room. The monthly meeting schedule is September through May with December off. If you want more information on the group or would like to join, please contact Paul Drezelo at drezelop@ colonielibrary.org Knitting Group Dates The knitting group will meet in the Youth Services Activity Room on Fridays, September 12th & 26th, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. For further information contact Gwen Gurien at 4751470 or hgurien@nycap.rr.com Upcoming English Language Tutor Training Sessions Literacy New York Greater Capital Region will offer two sixweek training sessions this fall on the Tutor Training Sequence for English language tutors. The tutors assist people from other countries in learning English. The first session will meet on Wednesdays, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, starting September 3rd and ending October 8th. The second session (also Wednesdays) begins October 15th and concludes November 19th, also from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. For class details and to register call Jeanne Laiacona at 452-3384. Career Classes Schedule a one-on-one “job interview” session with library volunteer Sharon Parkis. Sharon has been presenting a monthly group interview class for the past year and has a background in both training and human resources. Call the Information Desk at 810-0314 to schedule a session. Schedule a one-on-one session to learn how to create your resume in our new software “WinWay Resume Deluxe.” Save your resume to a flash drive or download the WinWay App for iPhone and send a PDF version of your resume to your phone. Applying online for employment with local grocers or fastfood employers? Schedule a one-on-one help session with a librarian. Email us at careers@colonielibrary.org for more information.
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