Whilst there are many, many people that do just want the easy option of everything to be up, running and productive for them. I am one of those people that believe it is better to learn how to do things for themselves.

Please don’t get me wrong when i say that if all things were done and dusted for us all, we would all end up as non thinking zombies. We already live in a world where a lot of the manual skills have been taken over by machinery etc, but what happens in a time when something like a major catastrophe happens. We end up with no one knowing how these fundamental elements fit side by side to make the whole.

Here’s an instance to consider! I took my young son fishing, along with some friends. I set up his equipment and showed him how to bait his hook and cast his line. I decided to move further up stream to a spot just round a bend that i liked to fish. I had a great time and about an hour later i went to check on how my son was doing. When i got there, he was sat on his basket, looking really bored and unhappy. When i asked what was wrong, he stated that just after i had moved to my favorite spot, he got snagged and lost his hook and float. I had not shown him how to set up his equipment, i had done it for him and he did not know how to do it himself. He did not enjoy his day fishing and never went with me again, because he said that it was boring.

Maybe if i had shown him how to do things instead of doing the setting up for him, he would have put another float and hook on his line and enjoyed his first catch and the passion that builds from it.

The moral is: When things go wrong, if there is no one to fix it, it stays broken?

I hope you keep teaching people to FISH

Sooner or later, people might ‘get it’ - once they’ve either used up all that is in their pockets - or once they’ve had enough failures to LEARN to try something different than they’ve been doing (expecting everything for free with NO WORK attached). Sooner or later, people will have to learn to fish, I think. OR they’ll go away, go back to their day jobs, be unrewarded by that, and leave you alone so you can finish teaching ME TO FISH…

Got my tacklebox ready, Mike - what time does the bait store open up?

I’ll be there first thing in the mornin’, whether you show up or not. I’ll save you a spot.

teeray~~

So setting people up who want the setting up is fine, and is probably a good thing, but not everything, maybe leave out a few things for the person to do themselves, to give them a feeling of ownership of what they doing.

You know the old balancing act, do most of it, but not to much…..

A big difference between getting training like you have to do something better. The fish with rice etc is having someone create the blog, post the content and do everything for you.

You just pay for it all.

Then if you want to duplicate it you pay again.

And remember it’s similar to “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”

Warmly,
SilverStreak

Regarding the analogy, even though I “used your Service”, I am continuing to learn how to become more a “fisherman”, which wasa daily (yes daily event) when my children were home.

There is a time when the choice to get a “finished Horse” or “start one from Scratch” become one of priority….
If I need one in a Hurry I buy the BEST…
It is a Tool….

But I always kept a few around in the Training pen…
It takes focus, time and energy to get the finished product.

And the One you “start” is always better than someone elses.

No reflection on your superb performance on my Blog
Some changes have occured, thanks to you guidance
and the program.

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Thank you good Friend

I do agree with you that most people would rather pay someone else to do something for them rather than do it themselves. But most have a hard time producing the necessary cheddar. Then the question becomes does my intended market have the capital and lack of desire to pay me to do things for them? It’s a good question. And one worth answering. But another approach may be deciding to offer the fish dinner in addition to teaching people to fish. Put a value on it and market it. Marketing one service shouldn’t be any more expensive than another service.

You’d still be in a niche. For those that can and want to pay someone to do it they can now contact you. The hard part is coming up with a value. That’s just my two cents worth. I hope it helps ya out a bit. And if you find some time head over to my blog. I could use some comments too.