An overall note:

I received an example newsletter from someone else that had several subject areas - and had a read-along posting that enabled people to click over and read the long-format post.

That then helps solve my recurring problem of having more content than space to display it in.

While I can't (yet) link directly to the sub-section, this longish post will allow me to keep you updated on what you're interested in - just scroll down.

Our four featured Libraries:

Restoring the Land
Completely Change Your Life
Becoming a Writer: Audience First
Breakthrough Advertising
New Projects Upcoming.

Again, just scroll down...

Restoring the Land

Here's why I don't worry much about losing ear tags:

Reading from top to bottom, this is for Valentine's Day. (All these photo's were taken the same morning.)

As I've mentioned before, those white stripes are from our Galloway Bull, who has left us a couple of bull calves to carry on his legacy. The white faces are from their own heritage, or our Pharo Hereford bull. This double combination gives us what I call "belted baldies" or white-striped, white-faced, and otherwise black calves. No two are exactly alike, even twins.

But I saw a video on how simple it is to ear-tag new calves, so I'll add this to my picture-taking documentation this year.

Spring has come early, while we missed a couple of nasty February storms this year. The third/fourth week of February is our worst winter storm patterns. This year, the snow went north west, and the freezing rain went south east. We got some sprinkles, but nothing major. Enough to fill the ditches for a couple of hours.

With the warmer weather, the pastures are greening up, and the cows are nibbling off the small tops as they get long enough. So I have the cows shut out of all but a couple of small paddocks and keep hay in front of them. Soon, they'll quit eating hay at all, once they can fill up on grass. At that point, I'll put out a few bales so they can have roughage during the rest of the year, and shut off the rest of the bales I laid out. Eventually, they'll clean everything down to the sod again. But I'll be rotating them into the taller grass again, so that's no big issue.

Last week, I laid out the basics of my business plan for this small farm. I hope to write that up as a post into this library, which post will later wind up as an update to "Farm Less, Profit More."

New video added: Mob Grazing is Rotational Grazing

Available on the Regenerative Agriculture channel on Rumble.

Tiny Home Progress

Finished the string lights and moved a shelf above that small reading nook.

I've still got to finish off the counter-end by the front door, with a sliding or removable panel that allows me to access the water jugs behind/below the sink.

I've yet to get the battery below the cabin floor, along with it's maintainer box.

The whole point of having and building these Tiny Homes on Wheels (THOW) is to be able to move these off-grid units anywhere I want on the farm, with little or no impact on the land itself. The two I've talked about are the cozy cottage where two of us can enjoy, plus my mini-office, which is where I'll be able to work on my books just next door.

As well, I have a pickup camper which needs some repair (but is an excellent learning adventure in how to put all the modern conveniences in a single space) and a travel trailer someone else gutted and rebuilt the interior (floors and walls) leaving a big box space that is towable. I've got another tandem trailer, which is too narrow (as I found out) to move the tiny office over to (it's on a farm wagon "running gear" currently, too high and impractical to do anything but tow - impossible to back up without cussing.)

So: plenty of projects. I'm checking into getting a trailer that I can put the mini-office on, which needs to be something fairly rudimentary, but sturdy - and can be backed and maneuvered into tight spaces.

The travel trailer and pickup camper will most probably be fixed up and sold as hunting cabins this next fall (time permitting.)

At some point, I'm going to assemble the photos to give a time-lapse construction view of this. I don't think what I know will much translate into more than a video. Once these four projects are wrapped up, I probably won't be doing any more of these. But I will be documenting my progress on each of them as I go, so we've got about another year of hearing about these...

Completely Change Your Life

New videos added this week:

Clothed by Your Habits
The Road to Peace of Mind
Finding the Mysterious Trigger

(Found under the Living Sensical channel on Rumble)

I'm a bit behind on these transcripts, but they should arrive soon.

As you can see, I post these MWF every week. Usually scheduled for early in the morning (about 2am or so).

These are going through the "Change Your Life Compleat" book, where I have roughly enough for 2 years at this rate. And after that, I have several more recordings to transcribe, and may also go into the other reference books in this Library.

For now, the Nightingale materials are very intriguing and educational on their own.

Becoming a Writer: Audience First

Videos added this week:

Fact with Passion
The Four Rules of Style

(Also available on the Becoming A Writer channel on Rumble.)

This wraps up the section on Walter S. Campbell's Writing Non-Fiction. And is an approach no one else I know of has written down. These videos are excerpts from this college texts by that name. Again, Campbell ran the most effective writer-training course on the planet in his day. And that course only lasted 10 years - he passed on and the course was at first under the Journalism school and sometime later dropped entirely. His book is out of print.

Next is to bring up excerpts from two other texts of his, The Professional Writer, and Writing Magazine Fiction. Again, he covers material that no one else does - and it's written so that the author researches the market to get his works sold, before sitting down to write much of anything. Like his other works, these are out of print (written during the 1940's).

There are a few dozen short videos to produce, which are coming out Tues/Thurs each week, along with the transcripts (which sometimes lag.)

Once I get through the Campbell materials, then I'll be shifting over to the next book in this series, "Learning the Author's Craft" - which will include all the Campbell material above, as well as my own discoveries found in "What I Learned From My First Year of Writing Fiction", as well as other materials such as Dorothea Brande's book "Becoming A Writer".

Breakthrough Advertising

Video added this week:

The Heart of Copywriting

(Available on the Breakthrough Advertising channel on Rumble)

These videos are from the course of this name inside my store.livingsensical.com site.

Once these are all published, I'll start in creating videos based on my next top-selling classic - probably Robert Collier. Then continue with other classic copywriters.

These are coming out one per week, usually Saturdays.

New Projects Upcoming

What's had my interest and attention in any otherwise free time, is building a book "Magic of Believing Field Guide" - which strips away a lot of the excess that last edition which was revised posthumously. I've edited it into a format which has only 2K words per chapter so that those can each be converted into 10-minute videos.

The core material is very powerful and has kept his original voice as much as possible. I went back to his "TNT - It Rocks the Earth" brochure and pulled salient excerpts from the Magic of Believing book to expand on his original writing.

MOB itself explains why Think and Grow Rich was such a success.

Following this will probably be a series of Field Guides where I take the various classics and "Reader's Digest" them into video-ready formats.

One underlying project is a book titled "The Expectancy Factor" - and this is driving my work on that MOB Field Guide. The core idea is based on a natural rule, common throughout our literature and religions, which briefly is: "As We Expect, We Receive." Yes, that's similar to, but not identical to or derivative from the Golden Rule. And it's quite exciting, since you can learn to tell what expectancies people around you have by just listening to them. So this book is a tool for business managers and anyone who deals with people, family, friends, associates. Basically, all of us. Once you know their expectancy, you can tell how valuable they are as staff, how much you can trust them, and meanwhile improve your own success by leaps and bounds.

Always lots of projects to work on - because I've collected lots of materials in my decades of research. I'm sitting on several gold mines...

Rumble Videos by Library

These are ad-supported video channels. Ad-free versions are available as published in each library (paid level). Transcripts are there as well, although these come from the books, which are free downloads in each library.

Change Your Life (Living Sensical)

Becoming A Writer

Breakthrough Advertising

Restoring the Land (Regenerative Agriculture)

Oh - wait, there's more:

Again, recent life-test results continue to confirm that you can actually get/attain/acquire anything and everything you want out of life. Really. Anything and everything. Whether it's finding a dear companion or a million-dollar salary. And it's all in that "Strangest Secret Collection" (my characters named it the "decoder ring"). You only have to take the leap of faith and test it for yourself...

(Again, to get your updated copy, just reply to this and ask - I'll send you the most recent edition if you don't have yours or misplaced it.) As well, I do need to get some courses up, so I'll start working these in once I get all the major non-fiction books republished.

Thanks again for opening this. And reading these books.

And leaving a rating on the Living Sensical site for the stuff you buy there.

As well as leaving recommendations on Bookbub in addition to reviews anywhere else.

You know, that "paying it forward" kinda thing.

Do keep sharing these books with your friends, too.

I hope your life is not too interesting to be overwhelming, but sufficiently engaging to keep you amused. (Like some of us here...)

Robert

PS. Again, you can always email me about anything.

What you're here for is to enjoy life. If you're not enjoying every single moment, then you're working too hard at living. Relax. Let go. Follow your bliss.

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