Hey friends today. I am back at the Magic Kingdom This is the second time I've been here since it reopened And I decided to come out and just take a look at some of the cool classic Disney attractions last time I was here. I was with Super enthused and out on the woo and we knocked out, you know, the big Thunder mountain and space mountain and Seven doors mine train today. I wanted to take things just a little bit slower. So Let's go do this The parks are still eerily empty. It's actually really awesome to see it like this Especially when you're walking through main streets shops and stores It kind of blows your mind like inside the confectionary. I've never seen it like that before There is nobody interested in getting candy or any sweet treats today Or there's just very little amount of people here, but usually it's very crowded here always crowded Speaking of shops, I think I'm gonna head over to the Emporium because it is time for a new seasonal hat This one is getting way too hot for July So we're gonna switch it up and see if we get a nice fancy summertime hat And would you look? at that oh Yes, now that is a summertime hat with a little golden Mickey. I think we've got a winner Up and here we go I'm bald Oh, yes, I feel absolutely cooler. I could tell you that already this one is 88% paper So that means I'm probably gonna have to buy quite a few of them This one was polyester and about maybe about seven or eight of them But let me know if you guys like the new summertime hat And let me know if you like this hat. Maybe I'll bring this back for when fall and winter comes That might be the single coolest thing I have ever seen in my life Wow This is amazing Holy moly look at all those birds And speaking of hats I think we're gonna do a spin on the mad tea party Only because like I said, I want to stick to the classics and this is an opening day attraction here at disney world It is also one of my favorite holiday layovers for christmas and especially for halloween And there's actually nobody waiting in line So that's pretty awesome. I guess Oh now we're starting to get some people in line with us. Maybe the cups will be half full You see what I did there? Oh, yes I'm so excited. I'm the first one. I get the pick of the litter here Which one should I go with pink? Oh, she said uh anyone I like so Oh boy this one I have rode the tea cups with many people and I feel like there's different types of tea cup riders I kind of like the slow steady spin. There's other people that will just go to town and they'll spin They'll spin other people just won't spin at all. Which one are you? Let me know in the comments Slow and steady That's how I like it. Oh, I can see one of those mad spinners over there This really is cooling me off though, I could tell you that It's very nice and relaxing No, that was a great spin Definitely want to sanitize after that one though That was super awesome. That's the ticket little spin around Usually I feel like a little like blah after that but I actually feel great Maybe it was because it was just me and like I said I was going at my casual spin pace I have to point out everybody's all about the front of the castle pigs But this is just as beautiful back here I never actually came back and appreciated it after it got its fresh paint job I love it. There's a lot more blue right here in the second layer Wow And in traditions of opening day attractions Peter Pan's flight because it's 10 minutes long I mean the line looks very long, but that's not the case. I'm so excited because I haven't walked through the queue Probably in three years I've always just planned if I wanted to ride Peter Pan. I would just book a fast pass So I never went in the standby I did go in when they remodeled the standby and did the actual queue But that was the last time and I think it was like two years ago And it's really interesting because the queue is basically outside and they're going exactly by the six foot markers But then once you get on the inside, it's just kind of walking straight through it And look at how cool it is in here I forgot how much I loved it Look at tink right there. Oh, this is my favorite part right here Here's my shadow. There it is Look at all the butterflies And right here it's time to get pixie dusted so we can fly Thank you My favorite parts Hello I'm very fancy like that Here we go I got tired of carrying my other hat so Now we're gonna head on into liberty square Oh, I love it over here too Especially right now. I know that a lot of people are focusing on the low crowds and the open spaces But it's just something amazing to see especially when you're such a diehard disney parks fan. It's amazing But that Is definitely not amazing to see No, no, no, no Still blows my mind that I just recently Discovered that you can see the contemporary from right here in liberty square I think that was the last time I was here. I was like, what never even noticed it peeking right there I have a feeling and I actually hope I'm not right that when we get to our next attraction We're going to come out and this beautiful sunshine is going to be gone and it's going to be raining I really hope that's not the case, but We're going to go for it. Anyway Because we are heading to the country bear Jamboree Another opening day attraction and of course starring big al. He is my absolute favorite So let's go have a wild woolly good time Oh, nice to see a lot of people in here. The country bears deserve the appreciation of the fans Oh I always sit to the farthest left Just so I can get a great view A big al Yeah, go one two three Give me a little intro there Guess what it didn't actually rain. Oh, no now I feel the drops But at least we didn't walk out of country bears to a downpour. I'd rather it start raining when I'm walking around So now we're gonna might as well get wet might as well go splash mountain I mean we're gonna get wet in the rain. So Might as well take a dive or a plunge on splash mountain And 10 minutes look at that These ac ducks are the best ac blasters On property. I have to tell you that I love it You may get wet you may but we're already gonna get wet. We're gonna get wet because of the rain And I just luckily got carried up with Taylor We were just in line and they're like one and one and then they said one Look at those storm clouds approaching And they turned off the splashers right here luckily because we begin hit right now You hear it ready? Oh, yes, it is looking so gloomy at this point I'm excited that we actually got on the ride instead of just getting wet for no reason And remember my thoughts What do you want to kiss? I don't know It's really good shows you're both How do you do? The laughing place Oh, yes We on the whole entire time it didn't folks. Don't don't do that.  You might lose them Most people think the drop is where you get the wet is they're wrong Don't sit on this side I mean Well, I think that's gonna do it for me I'm glad that I got out before the rain actually started. I mean so technically I didn't have to ride splash mountain because I still would have gotten wet but actually I wouldn't because the rain never happened I'll probably make it to my car safe and sound but oh well. I hope you guys enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time Bye


Hi friends, welcome to my channel. I am Arapata Karwa and in this video lecture I am going to talk about how you can remember whatever you learn during your UGC net English preparation. Guys, when you start your course and you start preparing for UGC net English, you find that you come across so many writers, so many works, so many dates. Like there are writers whose works are very similar. We have Edmund Spencer writing Astrophil, we have Phillip Sydney writing Astrophil and Stella. So you need to remember that these are two separate works written by two different writers. At the same time there are so many characters and there is this work by Markle Prost who has written in search of lost time and that work has more than 2000 characters. So you will find so many novels and so many plays having so many characters and you need to remember all those characters. At the same time there are dates like English literature is flooded with dates. You need to remember that also. So during your preparation you sometimes struggle in remembering all those things and even after studying really hard and for long hours you end up getting frustrated and you end up feeling as if you will never be able to clear a net exam. So what helps is knowing how to study. Guys, rote learning which is memorizing basically when you are looking at the page and you are memorizing that is called rote learning. Rote learning is not effective. Psychology says that if you use study techniques and different study methods you will be able to retain more and you will be able to retain them for a longer duration of time and also it will be very fun. So rather than having that monotonous study drill in which you end up losing interest and you end up checking your Instagram just because you don't feel like reading the text anymore it's better that we use certain study techniques which will help us not only to retain better but also to remember things easily fast and to remember them for a longer period of time and also these activities are really fun filled so you will never get bored of your study routine. So let's get started. The first important thing that you can do in your study routine is creating an exposure effect. If you have ever played the logo game, game called logo game in which they will give you half logos and you need to find out the company of which that logo is. So if you have ever played that logo game you will find that you will be able to easily identify logos of companies that you encounter on a daily basis like McDonald's. We can see half logo of McDonald's and we can easily figure out that it's McDonald's. Why? Because of the exposure effect. If you are exposed to a same thing repeatedly you will be able to retain it and you will be able to remember it very easily. And that is why in our childhood we used to write the tables, two-car table, three-car table and we used to paste it on the study table so that every time we sit to study we are able to get exposed to that table and memorize them easily. What I did during my preparation was that I used to have these sticky notes pasted all over my room and I used to keep on going through my room and I used to move from one corner to the other corner and keep on glancing at that sticky note. Like I used sticky notes for learning the movements and groups. I used to have this table in which I used to divide them under different different ears and then I used to remember the names of all the people associated to that literary movement. The same thing I did for literary theories because for literary theory each theory we have so many writers associated to it, so many theorists associated to it. So what I did was that I used to have these charts pasted everywhere in my room and every day I used to look at those writers, look at those authors associated with that literary movement and that literary theory and I used to retain them for a longer period of time. This is one thing that you can use if you are preparing for a net exam. The second important thing that you can use is using study tools. Like I'll show you how I used to study. I'll show you all my copies and my registers and how I used to make notes. I've already talked about a video wherein I've talked about the websites I referred to when I was preparing for a net exam and in those websites I used to find certain things. I used to write down in my registers and I used to prepare complete notes. I've already made a video on websites. I've made a video on how to make notes. In this video I'm going to show you all my notebooks and I'll show you how I use different study tools. These are like my notebook, few of my notebooks. This notebook is on paper one. Then we have this notebook on history of British literature from Victorian to post-modern. Then I have a notebook on European, American, Indian and post-colonial, world literature basically. Then I have a notebook on lectures. Then I have a notebook on theory and criticism. So when you look at all these notebooks you'll find that I have used these flags in order to divide them in the different chapters so that every time I have to revise I need to just open that particular chapter and I'll get the notes. So these were the notes. Now you need to also understand that if you look at any of my notebooks I'll show you one. For example if I go to Victorian and post-modern you'll find that I have used these sticky notes in order to write some important pointers so that when I just go through this page I'll be able to find the important pointers in the sticky note. Also I have used certain colors. You can see that I have used yellow color in order to mark the author. Then I have used pink color in order to mark the work and then I have used green color in order to underline and mark the important things that I must remember. And this is how I go about with my notes and this is how I have prepared all my notes. So you can also use search things. It will make your notes beautiful. You'll feel like studying them. More organized you'll be able to locate. Like this is a chapter on modern writer. I have marked it with this flag called pink. So I have these different markers. Then I used to use certain bullet points in pencil. I used to draw certain diagrams so that I can remember them. So this is how I used to go about with my notes making. And these are the study tools that I used. There are other tools. I used mind maps in order to make notes of different writers and different works so that I can just link them and then I can understand what the story is saying. Also I used cue cards. So cue cards help you to revise. They are very portable so you can take it anywhere and then you can just keep on flipping it and you can revise things very easily. So these were certain study tools that I used. So you can use these study tools and then start your preparation. You will definitely fall in love with learning. Now let's look at the third study technique that you can use and it is called rule of 50-10. Now this is a rule based on a psychological principle which says that average attention span of a person is 50 minutes. A person can keep himself or herself attracted to doing a task for not more than 50 minutes. And after 50 minutes your brain gets drained out and it doesn't want to concentrate any further. And that is why in schools we have periods of about 40 to 50 minutes and then we have next period so that a student gets a break from the studies. At the same time you must remember that there's a very famous saying which says that you need break before you break down. So before you break down and you don't feel like studying it's good to have study breaks in between.  So all these things will help you to distract from your studies so that after 50 minutes again, after 10 minutes break you can again have a 50 minute session and you can again get attracted to studies. So for that I always have the stretchily app on my desktop. Basically I make all my notes now on my desktop so I have the stretchily app. In stretchily app you can make changes in your study routine and after every 50 minutes it will make your screen blank. So you cannot work on your desktop, you have to stand up and you have to do something for next 5 minutes or 10 minutes and only after 10 minutes your desktop will open and the desktop window will open again. So you can download this app, it is a beautiful app, it will help you to keep yourself motivated and you keep yourself distracted so that you are attracted again to your study routine. Now the fourth important point that I would like to mention here is that know your kind of study personality. Everybody is blessed with different kind of personality. Certain people remember more when they look at a thing, they can remember more when they see a visual of certain things. Certain people can remember more when they say something aloud and certain people remember more when they write down that thing. So that depends on the study personality. Now all the brilliant students on all the toppers they use all the three study methods in order to retain better. The three study methods are visual, audio and kinesthetic. So there are people who are visual learners who have photographic memory like I am a visual learner, I learn more when I see things. So I am a visual learner, I get the pictures in my mind and whenever I see a movie or I see a video I am able to retain better. So I am a visual learner. For visual learners what you need to do is that you need to make your own notes because when you will keep on looking at those notes you will keep on exposing yourself to those notes, you will be able to retain better. Then the second category is audio learners. Audio learners are people who are able to understand things better when they listen to it. And audio learners are also people who are able to learn better when they study in group or when they study by speaking aloud and they listen to their own voice. The third kind of learners are kinesthetic learners. Kinesthetic learners learn more by practicing something. I know it is laborious but then we can't help it. Certain people are kinesthetic learners. They will only learn things when they write that thing down and then after writing it they will not forget it. So it's better if you use all the three learning methodology, audio, visual and kinesthetic in order to learn. If you remember during our childhood days we were forced to look at our study timetable or we were forced to look at the on the book several times so that we can retain those pictures. There were times when we were asked to speak loud like if you go to kindergarten schools you will find that you know in schools it is called tess tess. Say it loud A, B, C. So that is because they want the students to get benefited from the audio learning style and then they are made to practice it again and again. In order to retain better you need to use all the three techniques and that is why I started with this audio online course. Because I provide you with audios you are able to retain when you are listening to the audio then while you are listening to the audios you make your own pointers whatever I am saying. Those pointers will help you to look at your notes and then remember better and then if you want you can practice it by writing it again and again. So you can use all the three techniques and you can get benefit of all the three techniques. So you should involve all the three learning methodologies in your learning schedule. There are other learning techniques as well we need to know about how our mind retain things by using forgetting curve then there is a technique called association. Then there are other things like you need to keep a check on your diet. You need to incorporate more proteins in order to retain better because literature may come across so many things that you need to actually have a very strong brain in order to understand and retain all that information. There is this famous saying that you know if I have to cut a tree I need to at least sharp my axe first.  So you need to keep a check on your diet also and there are so many other things I will be talking about other learning methodologies in my next video lecture. Till the time we meet next happy learning keep loving literature and don't forget to subscribe to this channel because I post videos every Saturday and every Sunday. Also do go to the social media platforms and subscribe to my social media courses because I am running a free Go Net course on Facebook, WhatsApp, Google Plus, Instagram. You can go on these pages and you can like my page so that you are notified every time I post a Go Net quiz. Also if you have not visited my website do go and visit www.arpatakarwa.com you will find all the previous year papers on my website. You will find all the important writers listed under the online course content. You can have a look at the list of writers and then start your preparation accordingly. So we will meet in our next video lecture till the time happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to www.arpatakarwa.com.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Noland here in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii at PTC 20. Joining me now is Travis Ewart, the COO of LightRiver. No stranger to JSA TV, welcome back Travis. Well, thank you Laura, I'm glad to be back. Thanks for having me again. For our viewers who may not know about LightRiver, tell us what you do. Yeah, you bet. So within LightRiver we have primarily two lines of business. We have our services arm where we engineer, design and build some of the largest and most complex transport and packet optical networks out there. And we do this for some of the largest operators out there where five nines and mission critical is important to them. And that's FANG operators, hyperscale, largest data center exchange providers, tier ones, others. So that's our FBN or factory built network line of business and very complimentary to that. We also have a network software platform called NetFlex and within NetFlex we automate some of the most complex, multi-vendor, multi-technology, multi-generational technologies out there as well within NetFlex. So very complimentary, but for LightRiver that's our key to focus areas. 2019 was a big year for LightRiver. Multiple award wins, also moving into the Bell Works building in New Jersey. Tell us more about your success in 2019. Yeah, you know, 2019 was a fun year. So we got a lot of industry recognition. We won a number of awards starting with PTC last year and finishing with Fierce Telecom and a number of others in between. And actually, not that we were keeping track but kind of sort of were. I think we got more awards from an optical domain control perspective with NetFlex than anybody else out there which was fun. And you know, for 2019 it was all about growth too. So we got started with a massive growth project for our factory built network and expanding our labs or factory instance. So that was going on as well as you just said, moving into the former Bell Labs location now called Bell Works in Holmdale. So that's kind of where it all began with NetFlex and some of our founders and original technologists coming home, so to speak. So awesome new facility there. So it was about growth. It was about customer growth and yeah, a little bit of award bling along the way, Laura. So. Well congratulations to you on that. We want to talk now a little bit about more your industry leading solutions. It's the factory built network. It's NetFlex, two separate solutions but you made them into one? Yeah, so actually we found a way to pretty intelligently bring them together. So today when we engineer, build and deploy a network we hand that off to the customer and they largely then just run with it. So we thought, what would that look like if we took NetFlex and bake that into that process? So with that automation and the ability to do proactive network health, proactive network capacity, all those kinds of things and really kind of fine tune, dial that into that network as we're building that out in the labs and deploy that with the service. So that's something we offered or we introduced here last year and actually it was pretty fun. That's one of the awards we got at the tail end of last year and kind of wink, wink Laura. We just got an award for that one in this year. I can't mention whom and where but that one's coming too. So more awards to come for what we're calling intelligent FBN, so IFBN. Stay tuned for more awards. So tell us about, well you have another acronym because we need another acronym in the industry CDX. Tell us about that. Yeah, so CDX, customer defined experience. So everybody within our industry knows what customer experience is. So we added a D, actually I can do it the other way for the camera, a D right in the middle. So what we've done with Netflix is we have so much programmability that a customer can actually go in there and define what they wanna take action on. So what's coming in by way of advance analytics and inputs, let them define by way of business rules, you know, what to detect, trigger on, et cetera and then what outcome out of that. So yeah, we've introduced a new concept. We've gotten some, you know, even some early recognition with that as well, but it really just highlights Netflix and the programmability of Netflix and the ability to really just focus on the customer in a whole different way and allow them to, again, custom defined their network automation. Okay, so what's coming up in 2020 for Light River? What's coming up? Well, hopefully more of the same. So hopefully a more recognition, not just from an awards perspective, but, you know, picking up lots of new customers. We got all kinds of good stuff in the hopper, so to speak. So more growth, you know, as we expand both lines of business. So yeah, lots of exciting things coming, Laura. All right, where can our viewers learn more about Light River? So you can catch us at lightriver.com. So hit lightriver.com and learn a lot more about us. Great news. Thank you, Travis, for joining us. All right, thank you, Laura. And thank you viewers for joining us at JSA TV and JSA Podcast. Copy networking.


What if you noticed over the last 13 years that maybe there's a maybe there's a struggling PNC office out there. Maybe there's a new PNC agent out there that's like, dude, what do I need to do to be Dan Kidajima in 13 years? What would you say? It just started, you know, first year 100 policies of a month, you know, and then now just a couple months ago we hit our highest, which is 600 policies. Boom. Yeah, as much as I'm proud of what we've done, I feel like I don't want to even want to hear that I'm doing a great job. Like I don't please don't say that because I feel like I feel like although I'm proud, I feel like I'm definitely not satisfied. Successful people are doing big stuff, man. They're never satisfied.  Man, that's awesome. Hey, I'm excited to interview Mr. Dan Kidajima, owner of a farmer's insurance agency in Orange County, California. Dude, you're doing some mega big stuff. Have you always been that way or have you just gotten better over time? Hey, thanks so much for having me, Cody.  You did agree on it. But no, yeah, it's been really something that just gradually over time, you know, took place. It wasn't anything that just one year after another just had a huge jump. It's just been very steadily, but, you know, I think the business that we're in does take some time and with some patience. But if you're consistent and you're putting the right activity each and every day, you know, over 13 years, you know, something starts to happen. So, yeah, I would say over the last several years, we've hit some things that has started really working for us, but it has been a steady increase when it comes to production. That's awesome. Dude, 13 years, they always say long obedience in the same direction, you know, and you're a literally a spitting image of that.  One of the larger PNC agencies that I know in the country doing some big stuff, right? It took 13 years. You got amazing staff. I love watching some of the videos, the behind the scenes and some of the sales meetings and stuff. I enjoy that kind of stuff. What have you noticed over the last 13 years that maybe there's a struggling PNC office out there? Maybe there's a new PNC agent out there that's like, dude, what do I need to do to be Dan Kitajima in 13 years? What would you say? Wow. I think first thing first is we'll be the marketing, you know, how are you marketing? Because when I first started doing insurance, you know, we want to market to not only to today's world, but also we want to market thinking about what's going to work in five years too. So I think the marketing strategies, if it's a little outdated, what has worked before was great, but you know, what's going to work now and what's going to work in five years? I want to always think a little bit ahead, a step ahead. So some of the things I was doing earlier on, I was thinking, hey, try to see some trends of what's going to work and try to, when you see the trends, you could see some trends that may not work. Like for example, I'm not sure if people like being called these days.  So I would say, hey, like, how are we marketing? I think that's the number one thing I will be thinking about as agency owners. I almost feel like that's our job is like, we're almost like a marketing company now. And how to just be marketing and be present and be transparent. And I think those are some of the things that I feel is going to convert these days. So I will say, yeah, I will start off with marketing probably. I love it, man. Dude, in today's world, you are cutting edge, right? You're branding, you're marketing, you've got a staff, you realize it takes a team, you're probably spending, you know, obviously tens of thousands of dollars a month, you know, if not 100 grand a month, and you get the, you get the, you know, you get the modern day business world without giving away all your secrets, because they got to go to your website and actually pay for some time with you is, and they should, by the way, if they're in your space. What's some type of marketing technique that isn't crazy revolutionary, but it's something that's working well for you that you're okay sharing? Yeah, well, Facebook, you know, and Instagram, really, I would just, that's really the answer, really.  And I think, I think just, just by doing a little bit of research on you, and I'm going to do a lot more on you, I mean, I don't think there's anyone else that is doing it at your level, you know, so that's why, you know, I'm just so honored to be talking to you with you is, I feel like we're on the same page when it comes to just, hey, let's just put ourselves out there.  It did, as an introvert, was a little bit harder for me to get across that, you know, point of being comfortable enough. But I think it's necessary these days to just film ourselves, take picture, make content, and just really put ourselves out there so people could know us and then do business with us. Yeah, yeah, Rich Cavanus and Dallas had me had me reach out to you and start following you and I instantly went to Instagram, like you're talking about Facebook, Instagram marketing, I instantly went to Instagram, followed you, you're always showing some fresh kicks, I'm a shoe fan, you know, I'm an ex basketball college basketball guy, so I'm always watching your stories, I'm like, that's awesome, I love that. Congrats to your Lakers, I'm assuming you're, you know, maybe a Lakers fan out there in Orange County, but no, I'm actually a Clipper fan. I root for the underdog, but you're around Dallas, right Cody? Actually, in Springfield, Missouri, I'm in Dallas so much. Oh, really? Okay. In the conference? That's your conference was, yeah. Yes, everybody literally thinks I live there. And I told my wife of the day, if I go to Dallas one more time, I want to buy a second home in Dallas. I've been there like three or four times in the last month and a half, it's crazy. So as far as, as far as the last 13 years, what kind of growth have you had? What kind of, how many policies have you sold? What kind of numbers are you doing now? I'd love for those to really, I'd love for your numbers to speak for themselves from a credibility standpoint. Yeah, sure. Yeah, well, as a farmers insurance agent, there's a lot of different ways to get started in this great opportunity that farmers agents have. But I started off in a system where we just started off day one, your agency owner, and you just write a book, write a policy that's yours. So there's nothing like really given to you or you're not buying any policies for anything. So just organically growing every month.  It just started, you know, first year 100 policies a month, you know, and then now, just a couple of months ago, we hit our highest, which is 600 policies. Boom. Yeah, they call it units. I'm not sure, you know, different ways to calculate it. But it's just a three car household and it counts as three units. So 600 units, 601. So we have 10,000 policies in force. And yeah, close to 10,000, 9,900.  Honest man, close enough. Yeah. So yeah, but honestly, Cody, I feel like I'm just getting started.  I'm so proud of my team. But people will say, hey, we're doing great things. And I guess the numbers are great. But I just feel like the potential is just, is just, we're just really just getting beginning to just start to see it, seeing the potential, like what I feel like we should be doing. Because I mean, I'm not sure what's your experience, but I'm sure independent agents, you know, there's some monster agencies out there. I just feel like I never want to be thinking that I'm doing a great job. Because frankly, like, there's just so much potential in this business that it's almost like disrespectful to the business or to the company for not taking advantage of it. You know, so as much as I'm proud of what we've done, I feel like I don't even want to hear it that I'm doing a great job. Like I don't, please don't say that. I feel like, I feel like, although I'm proud, I feel like I'm definitely not satisfied.  They know they can always do more.  Man, that's awesome. Absolutely. Yeah, if you were to describe yourself for those that don't know you in a single word, that's tough. What would you say? Oh, man, just only give me one word, huh? One word. It depends on the day, but I think right now it may be consistent.  It's like, I just love the journey so much that I don't feel like, hey, once I get to a destination, I'm going to take a break. I'm not always like looking forward to a break, even though there aren't necessarily, I do take maybe a vacation a year, but I just enjoy working so much that I don't feel it is work. So it's easy for me to stay consistent. And I think that is from when I see other agency owners, I think that could be one of the different makers because I'm always thinking of the next thing. I'm always working. I'm always trying to motivate my staff. I'm just always doing something. And I feel like this may be a blessing that I've had, you know, that I just want life to be busy. And that helps me stay consistent. That's awesome.  That's what a lot of agents struggle with, man. They're not consistent on a daily basis. I always say step number one is to show up, right?  I notice that about you. I see it about you. I respect that about you. And I love it, man. I love that. If you had to look back over the last 13 years and you had to think of one aha moment that really maybe shifted things for you, right? Got your attention, made you change something and it really started to propel you on the path to success. If you had to look back, it was probably several, I'm sure, right? Because for me, I've had a revelation many times in our business about how to change something up. If you had to pick one thing that could benefit somebody that's watching that was really more of an aha moment for you, what would it be? Wow. Man, these questions are great, Cody. Thanks. You got to step on my game when I interview you. I might just ask the same questions, honestly, because these are great ones. And I love the passion you have for trying to bring value to your audience. Thank you. These moments are so important in our careers. And there's so much to talk about, but with the time that we have to focus on what has really pivoted our agency, man, I just have so many that I could think of right now. Man, I think one of them was when I was new, I think part of being ambitious, the problem could be that you get overly ambitious and you start getting a little frustrated that things aren't happening as well. Especially in the PNC world, it just takes some time to build it up. And I could sense that with my ambition as high as it was, I was getting frustrated myself. I wasn't as nice to my employees. I wasn't as nice to maybe even my clients almost. So one of the aha moments was like, hey, I have time. So having a sense of gratitude, more sense of gratitude and patience, really. When once I had that patience kick in, I was like, hey, I'm doing a good job, give myself a little bit of credit, don't beat myself up, everything's gonna happen, just a matter of time. That's when I became a lot better as a leader, especially to my employees, even being patient with them too. So for me, it was patience. Another aha moment I just thought about right now is when I found a lead source that really worked and I was spending money on it. For some reason, I just thought I shouldn't spend more than an X amount of dollars on it. I just didn't think like, but it was a aha moment was like, well, why not? I want to scale my business, I need more leads, just blow up the marketing budget. So that was an aha moment where I don't know why. It was like an imaginary cap I had on myself where like, oh, I shouldn't spend this much anymore than this on marketing. That was an aha moment was like, well, let's just blow this place up and just spend more money because once you have more leads, a lot of the problems are solved. Yes, yes. Now you're speaking my language, man. I love that. Dude, that's strong. Those are great, great feedback for the audience. I have time, overly ambitious. I struggle with that too. You mentioned with a team and staff and stuff. Along the way, I, being overly ambitious as well and being a lot of like, we seem to be on a similar, how old are you? I just turned 40 this year. 40? Okay, dude, you don't even look 40. I just turned 30 this year. So we're a similar age, you know, in a way. And we feel like, I feel like we have a, we've had similar paths because I've been in this industry about a decade and I've been overly ambitious, hard on my staff, didn't treat people the way I should along the way. And I feel like you start to grow and mature and you sort of come into more of a business owner because in this business, I feel like, I want to see if you agree. I really feel like you're, initially you're a great salesperson, right? Then you want to be a great sales manager, then you want to morph into being a great CEO and business owner. And I feel like, you know, it was a great salesperson. I made 120 grand when I was 20, you know, great sales manager, learned over time how to be one and now trying to be a CEO and business owner and you seem like, you seem like you've moved in to more of that role as well. Yeah. Yeah. The roles will always change, you know, but I call it, you know, being patiently in a rush, like, I'm always in a rush, like doing something, but in the, in the big picture, I'm being patient. When in the small picture, I'm just in a rush, like, I gotta get stuff done, I gotta get stuff done, but I'm still looking at it, you know, taking a step back and looking at it from a macro view. But yes, you've been owning 30, man. The sky's the limit.  Dude, I mean, that's, that's, you know, I'm really looking forward to just, you know, just connecting with you and just keeping in touch and seeing what great things you're going to accomplish. Because man, to be where you are at 30, I mean, at 30, I just, I was three years in and I was just mad every single day that I wasn't, you know, having a million dollar book of business. The mindset was so different. But I think I hope that that could help some people work. Hey, if you're working hard every day, even though there's, it's going to be not easy and it shouldn't be, it does pay off. For sure. It always does, man.  You said being patiently in a rush, maybe think of the country song. I'm in a hurry to get things done. Yeah, I don't know. It's, it's, lyric's always kind of on my mind. I don't even listen to music, but lyric is kind of on my mind, which is kind of funny. If you had to do it all over again, not that you would, because you know what, you've learned so much along the way, right? But if you had to do it all over again, you had to start over from scratch, someone to drop you off in the state of Maine, I don't know, need to build a new team and a new office and everything else. Nobody knew who you were. What's the first thing you would do? I would just, you know, have a marketing plan, you know, I would make content, I would promote it, and I would just, I would do that first and then, you know, look for staff to help grow our agency. But I think I will say, I say marketing before staff or even location, maybe, is because you just, you just need, you just need someone to talk to, you know, and that's, that's the first thing, the first step for anything. And I say, looking back at things, I will say, some of the mistakes I made sometimes being consistent also means that you're not willing to change as much. So I think, although people have said that, hey, you've adapted to the new world, I look back and sometimes wish I would have adapted a little bit sooner or spend more money on marketing sooner. So those are some of the things like, from what I've learned, I wish I would have, you know, went from internet leads to social media a little bit faster or, you know, just spend more money on marketing when I knew it was working. Some of those things are things I look back on. And if I was starting all over, those are the things I would do a little bit sooner or be a little bit more aggressive. Yes. Yes. 100%. Me too. Me too. Me too. As far as staff, what's, what's, what's something you, what's something you look for when you're hiring staff? There was a lot of people that have agencies, they struggle to find good people. You've clearly found, I mean, how many staff members do you have? I have 12. Yeah, exactly. I was thinking, yeah, I was thinking you had 12. They seem really impressive. What do you look for? And how do you find great staff? Yeah, I just look for good attitude and good activity. I think them having confidence is important too. Yes. And then having someone who has a long-term view too. As agency owners, we always play the long game, but sometimes staffs, that's a little bit harder to expect that from them. But some people do have more of a long-term outlook in their careers. Yes. I feel like that's important. And also I try to look for people I like to just generally want to help, you know, and I'd like working with because a lot of times, you know, I'm not sure how other agents do it, but for me, it's, I haven't had that great of luck of finding people who are already licensed where to go. My strategy has always been, hey, you know, you don't know anything about insurance, just have to be a good person, a hard-working person, again, attitude and activity. As long as you have that, I feel like, hey, I'm going to be patient with you. We're going to, I'm going to teach you from day one what everything is, and just build with that person long-term because even though they may not be licensed, they'll start off with. So in the beginning, I feel like I'm really helping them, you know, paying them and I'm training them. I feel like my training is pretty valuable. So I feel like if you don't generally like that person, you're not really going to go through the journey of paying them and training them at the same time. So I do feel like someone that you like as a person you want to help is a good fit. And I look for those types of attributes rather than skill or pedigree or resume because I'm really in it for the long run. And I feel like if you help somebody from day one, there's a little bit of sense of loyalty that you may be lucky enough to get if you really help them with everything they know about insurance really came from that person. For sure. Let's talk about activity for a second. We got a couple more minutes real quick. I got two more questions. As far as activity, what's some of the activity metrics or some of the activity things that work well in your office that someone can learn from?  You know, I'm kind of more of a just just a field guy, you know, I'm in the, I'm in the middle of the cubicles. This is my private office, but I'm in, I have a desk, you know, I have a cubicle out there was in the middle of everybody. That's awesome. So, you know, and newer agents are sitting next to me. So, I'm just literally this way that way. I could train this person. I could train this person and questions all over the place. So, I just gauge activity level by how busy we are. And sometimes another thing that I'd like to do is like, hey, if we're not busy, then it's sometimes I'd like to take accountability and figure out what am I not doing right? I might not get enough leads. Am I not giving them duties, you know? So, I just, I just know what busy is and I like being busy.  Yeah. Yeah. My dad always says, you can work half a day. You got 24 hours. You choose which 12 hour period you were. Alona and your dad was an insurance, huh? Yeah. He's been in it for 30 years, this past April. And he's more on the life and Medicare side. But yeah, he's been doing it forever, man. And actually that leads me to my last question, which is it's kind of funny you said that I credit a lot of my success to my parents, you know, and raising me the right way, making me show up when I don't want to show up, right? Teaching me how to have good manners, teaching me how to be on time to something and not be late, you know? Who do you credit for your success? Same thing, you know, my parents. Well, my dad was an entrepreneur and I actually, you know, helped him out with his business too, the digital marketing side. But yeah, same thing, Cody. I mean, it's just like what you just said about, you know, how your parents helped you is the exact same thing, how I feel about my parents. But we're really blessed and I feel like sometimes when I come across staff members or people that may not have had that luck, then I feel like it's maybe my obligation to like trying to provide that, you know, learning lessons. And hopefully I could, you know, influence them in a positive way, the way my parents have influenced me. Exactly. I love it. For those that are like, dude, Dan Kirajima is a beast and I love him. How can they find you? Yeah, just my name, Dan Kirajima, Facebook, Instagram, Facebook's big with insurance agents, but I personally like Instagram and then YouTube channel, where I have, you know, interviews with top elite agents, I call it. So you'll be the next, well, maybe not the next guest, but a future guest, all right. Where, you know, I just love talking to other agents are doing great things and really learn from each other. So those are some of the places. And yeah, always DM me or Facebook messaging me is something that I like to engage with because man, there's just so much to learn. And that's what I'm a big believer in that I have a lot more to learn and we got a lot more to get done. Boom, dude, you did an unbelievable job. Thank you so much for being on today. No, thank you, Cody. Too bad he had to go, but we're going to keep in touch, man. I really want to do some more things with you and then get to know each other too. Dude, for sure. Hey, for those watching again, you're like, man, this has been good.  Thanks for watching. Have a great shoot. Hey, if you enjoyed this, I got another one you're going to love. It's right there. Click on it. See you next. Hey, so I want to transition now into working leads. I want to give you some specific training on how to work leads. And then I'm going to finish with some mindset pieces. Okay. I'm going to finish with some mindset pieces in a second. Okay. So, so, so


I'm not going to say that we know you live right, you eat right, you get exercise. We know you really live a very healthy lifestyle, but he said that accidents do happen. And my biological father just shook his head and said that he doesn't even believe in accidents. And I said, I don't think it's a random universe. Who would want to live in a random universe? And so I got into that state where I started to realize that with my thinking, my judgmental thinking, that it was unhealthy and that when I got into this Divine Providence, I was able to start to give up health insurance, didn't have to worry about eating the right foods anymore, hit the black. And I was going to tennis instructor, cardiovascular fitness. I didn't even have to exercise. I believed years ago that the body would effort me if you didn't exercise. That's a belief too. When that's going wrong with me, I don't even imagine that.  And that's what the human has to do to try to keep you guilty. Caught up into all these meaningless little things that really don't matter in the overall context of things. And God wants you to be happy. That's it. God has some kind of a plan where you have to attain some great thing. He just wants you to be happy in the present moment. That's all God wants. And once I realized that God will for me, then I said, that's good news. I'm going for that one. I liked his happiness idea. So the answer to your question was, I mean, it is an inner job. And I put my heart and soul and everything into this purification in my mind. Because I knew that that was what was necessary. And I was also able to pull my energy away from the wild goose chase of running around in the world. Trying to keep up with the Joneses and, you know, I let go of self-improvement. But God told me I was perfect just the way I was right now. So I let go of even the concept of self-improvement or becoming a spiritual person, or becoming enlightened or becoming whatever. That's all still futurally added. And really right now is... The Kingdom of Heaven is right now. The Kingdom of Heaven is within. You don't need to look to a person or place a thing. Because as they say in the matrix, you are the one. It's goodness. That's a good question. As you're approaching the period of enlightenment, those are all wonderful things to do. And I would recommend that it's really a training or discipline of your mind. That's what meditation is. Tai Chi. Even diet disciplines, exercise disciplines, whatever, meditation practices, those are all extremely valuable.  Those are really important steps. I have to say to myself that once you kind of surrender and you let go of the ego, then the practice is gone. I mean, you're just in it and it's very natural. And it's like each of them says you play without ceasing. You know, it's like before, prayer is really important. And the meditation is really important. But there were still tools that I was using to reach a future goal. And when I finally realized that it wasn't in the future, it was now, then all those things fell away too. Very naturally. So in the court, these people say that you really have to be rooted on your purpose. So you might say that that's really all that I do is I stay real rooted on my purpose. Which is just to extend the love and joy. And I'm completely undercatched to outcomes. I never know if I show up, if anybody is going to even be there, I really don't care. There's a whole lot already. I'm not into numbers. Typically, when I do gathering, people are concerned about getting enough people out there. And you know, also, I say, oh, forget about it.  Forget about it, you know. If like, why get concerned about numbers, I'm happy to be where I seem to be. And I'm very content. That's an interesting question. It's like staying rooted on your purpose and really waking up in the morning and having that out front and holding it out front like a torch. Then you're set. Any other questions? Since it is the wine center, and everyone always has relationship issues at some point. And it seems to me that the ultimate holy relationship is that we all return to wine and return to God. There is no idea of separation. Can you just expand a little bit on what we talked about this morning about the ego's idea of falling in love and out of love and the ego's perception of what love is and what the Holy Spirit's perception of what love is and what one really is. But I have a question on relationships. In this world, relationships are mirrors. You should always be grateful for all your brothers and sisters around you because they're simply reflecting what you still are holding in your consciousness. And that's their hope unconsciously. You have no other way really to get in touch with them, except when you see somebody and you're ready to jump on and scream at them. You've got to include that you've got something still in your consciousness that is less than truthful. And so in order to come to the oneness, you really start to realize that oneness is an interaction or a line with your source. And when you're aligned with your source, you are automatically aligned with everyone. With everyone and everything. So, not bringing relationships because around the traditional spiritual past, we're off to the Himalayas and get away from people. Just meditate. My path was, I had people around me a lot and I did it in my armadillos experiences, but I learned to use the relationships to get in touch with my own inner bodywork. Never to blame them, never to speak to them, never to point a finger and say that they're the problem. When all these weird things are saying, every while when, all I hope is there's one thing, it's your own lesson, it's your own lesson, it's your own lesson. I've heard that over and over and over so even though when I was tempted to say, what? But what about the spirit of the Holy Gem we say? It's your own lesson. Someone can try to change it out there. So, I think it's great to be able to use relationships to come to this clearing of the line. And we've talked a lot about that. In fact, a lot of my tapes and CDs and writings are about relationships and coming to holy relationships might even let go of special relationships and grievances and judgments. And I'm going to appreciate and love everyone. In fact, I don't know if we have, I don't know if there's a minute, but this is the room until we hit in there. I've got a song called, Now That We All Are One. I said this for one minute, Heather. I like to try to play that so we all can hear it. And just close your eyes and relax and the song has a lot of great lines in it. But one of the lines in the song is, let us toss away the thoughts of many years. You know, it can seem like a very heavy thought, to think how many years is it going to take before we experience this abundance. And what this song is saying is, we're one right now. It's okay to give your mind a toss away the thoughts of many years. Just go in and feel your oneness, feel your love and your joy and your happiness right now. Because in the boom box, this is the difference.


This question is from Siddharaj. Namaskaram, Sadhguru. Devi is a manifestation of divine and you said many Devi temples all over the world were destroyed. I would like to know why was Devi not able to protect herself. Oh! Well, yes it was… it is a fact that the worship of the divine in the feminine form was hugely prevalent in the present day Europe, Arabia, Central Asia, all these places. But it has managed to live only in this part of Asia still. In other places it's been violently uprooted. Well, maybe a better documented version of uprooting the divine feminine is… all of you have definitely heard of, you know, witch hunting, that the term is still being used today. If something unfairly, somebody is being hunted we say witch hunt. This comes from the term during the time of the Crusades. It is estimated they burnt over six million women alive over a period of probably 150 years or 200 years, I'm not very sure about that. But over a period of time, those Crusade period, when somebody was very ambitiously spreading the religion, this is what happened. These women who were burnt like this and many were simply burnt for various other reasons, but it was all just label somebody a witch, that's it, people will burn them down. Even today this practice is still there, unfortunately here and there. So who is a witch?  Beyond childbearing and cooking, she's a witch. Yes, that's how it was. So generally, the Devi temples always spawned women who are capable of other things. Right now we are breeding a new culture of Bairaganis and Devi Sadhakas. The idea is to not just have red devils walking around in the ashram. The idea is slowly divinity walks around. It may take… they may take their time, but gradually to produce what you consider as divine, which you enshrine, must live with legs. So the divine feminine has been uprooted simply because the Abrahamic way of religious process is purely male-oriented, it's completely masculine. There is no room for feminine to be anywhere there.  They may say something else, because they may know something else, that's the problem. So, because of this, in Arabia, in Europe, in Central Asia, a lot of destruction happened. But there is not a single village in entire India without a Devi temple. And when I went to Somnath temple, it was destroyed seventeen times over by a certain kind of warlord from Afghanistan. Seventeen times he makes this trip, which is over probably fourteen, fifteen hundred kilometers, he makes this trip just to destroy this temple. First time I can understand because there was wealth, there was gold and stuff. All right, he looted it, destroyed it, burnt it down and went. Why come second time, maybe little more wealth? But after that, there was no wealth because people just put up small things. But he came seventeen times and destroyed. So, I was inquiring, what is it? The thing was, those three goddesses that they talk about in Arabia, pre-Islamic era, one of those goddesses, one of the deities, some devotee carried it from there and established it in the Somnath temple as a consort of Shiva. So they wanted to destroy that goddess.  That is how important it is to destroy a woman in this world. That's how important it is.  I will not go into the mechanics of how it'll collapse but think through this. Suppose you accepted a woman as a god, suddenly going somewhere and living well will go away because that's not the nature of the feminine. It is always masculine. He wants to go somewhere and then live well, at least to another place in this country or another continent in this planet or another planet or another galaxy or another dimension called heaven, paradise, whatever you want to call it. This is a man's thing. He wants to go somewhere and then live well. He can't live well here. This is his problem. This is a huge masculine problem that he cannot live well here. If you look at the male and female, you will see the feminine always wants to settle down wherever little comfort settle down and live well. Man wants to climb the mountain and settle down on the other side. This side of the mountain is not okay for him.  Even Shiva settled down in Kashi because of Parvati. He's a wanderer but during the winter months after he got married, he found she was finding it very difficult to be in high altitude in Himalayas. For her sake, he came down to Kashi but then he also started liking it so much, for a long time he did not go back. So feminine always brings settling down, masculine wants to propel somewhere. That propelling, too much propelling, we need some propelling of course, too much propelling is causing enormous destruction in all levels of life. Today, a whole lot of people have started philosophizing only because we overdid our economy, virus has come to neutralize our economy, I am not saying that. This is not the way to balance our economy or our activity, there are more sensible ways to do this and one important way to do it is empower the feminine. You will see in many ways this propulsion will come down a little bit.  If you are inward oriented, very effortlessly you will sit, otherwise a woman can tie you down. In many ways, the economy and the destruction of the planet has still not gone to that place where it's not irreversible simply because most men still need a woman, very few men who can live without a woman, they are either ascetics, so no problem or they are super ambitious tyrants, they are a problem, yes. So has Devi been destroyed? Well, I am telling you, she's all over this country, in every village, there may be no temple for a male god in a village but always there is a temple for a Devi. No Tamil Nadu village is without Mari, Mariaman, no Karnataka village is without Mari. There she is Mari, here she is Mariaman, somewhere else she is Kali. She is good at taking on lots of names, so why couldn't she take care of herself? This is the nature of a woman that if it's getting too ugly, she won't be there. She will go and settle where it's conducive, that's exactly what she's done. We must take care of her.


I am Dr. Dinesh Kumar, consultant urologist and kidney transplant surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Mysore. Today I will be talking about Holmium laser in-eutlation of prostate which is an outward technique used for enlarged prostate in men. Enlarged prostate happens after 50 years in men and it can cause urinary blockage and patient may develop urinary retention. For this the simple and innovative and most novel technique is Holmium laser in-eutlation of prostate. The advantage of Holmium laser is by using Holmium laser without any cut in the abdomen this procedure can be done through the urinary passage in men. So those who require prostate enlargement treatment the best treatment will be Holmium laser in-eutlation of prostate. Another advantage of this Holmium laser is where we use the Holmium laser the bleeding is very minimal and the procedure is without much bleeding or there is no bleeding in this procedure. So by this another advantage is patient can go home early and he will be discharged from the hospital in a day or two. Another advantage of Holmium laser in-eutlation of prostate is this procedure can be done in patients who are very old, who are having cardiac problems, who are having asthma, who are having respiratory diseases like COPD, who are having hypertension, who are having diabetes, who are obese and who are not fit for open surgery or for laparoscopic surgery this procedure can be done under local anesthesia or regional anesthesia. And here the normal cell line is used so the patients who are undergoing Holet they don't have electrolyte imbalance. Those who are recurrent for hyponetrimia or who are prone for low sodium this procedure can be safely done. So the advantage of doing Holmium laser in-eutlation of prostate is there is no cut in the abdomen it will be done through cystoscope using Holmium laser fiber and any size of the enlarged prostate means if the gland is very big and it is completely removed by using Holmium laser in-eutlation of prostate. And another important advantage here is by using Holmium laser in-eutlation of prostate the entire prostate is removed so the recurrence rate in future is very very minimal or almost nil and patients will have a long term benefit and you don't have any recurrent symptoms or recurrent obstruction of urine by those who undergo this procedure. So Holmium laser in-eutlation of prostate is a very good technique for enlarged prostate who are having urinary blockage and it can be safely done by using this technique where patients will have a great benefit of having minimal bleeding there is no incision and patient can go home within a day or two. And also you can get back to routine works in a week without much problems and it is very safe to undergo this procedure. Thank you.


My name is Ben Samuelson. I am here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and I got a SARA grant through SARA, of course, a graduate student grant to support my work on a topic of my particular interest, not my main thesis project. I was able to study compost extracts and their application to soil or to seeds for preventing disease in cucumber specifically on mine, and also promoting lettuce growth, as well as comparing various ways of testing what's in the compost extracts chemically and biologically. After I graduated from undergrad, I was interested in using gardens as classrooms, and I thought that the experience of growing food was such a valuable one that I wanted to be involved in sharing. And as I did that work for several years, I kept coming back to the science because I had studied biology as an undergrad, and I mean coming back to the science and applying to different grad schools. And so I would be interested in soil scientists I applied here, and I had a sort of general curiosity, and then I was interested in plant reading I applied there. Well, actually I applied to this school for plant reading and genetics, but I didn't really have questions to back up my curiosity, and when I met my current advisers, and I was looking at programs again, I had developed an interest in using compost specifically as an inoculum for soil health reasons or plant health reasons, and I felt like there were some really important questions that I didn't know the answers to that would be useful for people and that had certainly inspired me. So I wanted to have that latitude and support to learn how to do science, but in this particular topic that really spoke to me. So the couple of important highlights are that in testing compost extracts, you can use a lot of different methods to ask or answer the question of what's a living in here, what are the organisms, and depending on what method you choose, you're going to get a really different picture. Whichever method you use, and whatever picture you find, at least in this work, I wasn't able to connect that with an outcome. So it's really hard to predict what these amendments will do, because they're such low rates that they're really functioning as maybe an inoculum, maybe some sort of chemical signaling to the plant or to microbes in the soil already. It's those questions are not what I approached in this in this grant, but we definitely showed that they weren't functioning as just a fertilizer. So when it came to actually doing something that might be useful, some of them were able to prevent pithium in like the most pithium infected soil you can imagine, which is damping off. It really hits cucumber seedlings hard, and I mean mainly you want to make your soils not conducive to pithium, but even when we did that on purpose to make pithium thrive, these compost extracts, just dipping them briefly in, dipping the seeds briefly in the extract, some of those extracts were able to bring mortality down to, or yeah, down to 50%. So half of the plants lived, and if there was no compost extract, it'd be like one in 20, and some of the compost extracts also produced one in 20 viable seedlings or living good ones. We didn't come any closer to predicting which extracts would be pithium suppressive. Then when it came to promoting lettuce growth and inoculating residues, so the imagination or the system we were trying to simulate would be if you're terminating a cover crop, or maybe you're tilling under some kind of crop residue like a straw or stover, you could have like a sprayer on the front of a tractor and then a disc on the back, and you could apply extracts directly to the surfaces of these residues before they go underground. We were guessing that maybe that would affect lettuce growth in the greenhouse in that simulated system. We tried several extracts and several residues, and when the extract was what I thought would be bad extract, you know, not much to look at under the microscope as far as fungal hyphae or microfona, those two extracts that looked what I thought to be bad actually increased lettuce growth by 50%, but only when they were applied to the alfalfa residue. So without getting too much into like the design and all the different treatments, again, there were some pretty surprising effects of these inputs because they're not, it's not nutrition, we're not supplying vast amounts of chemistry to the plant, which we know could explain growth differences. Instead, it's something else that's going on, but we certainly can't predict it from what we saw under the microscope or in the fatty acids of these extracts, which is another way to look at microbes.


3. Experiences Possible in the ESL Teaching Career My teaching journey has started when I decided to study science education at university because since I was a child, I loved to teach and to learn, to share knowledge and to understand the world around me. There I could learn a lot about didactics, learning theories and psychology, teaching methods, and many other human sciences, in addition to several hours of internship at elementary schools and kindergarten. Personal Language Learning Experience During my time at university, I had an opportunity to go abroad and study for one semester in the USA, in a state university, with Americans and many other international students. At this time I could study English with native speaker teachers and I had to communicate to solve problems, to write papers and to present academic projects. I could understand my own language acquisition process and improvement, with a natural method and insert on that culture. Then some ideas about teaching language started to borne in my mind. 1. Improvisation The year next when I went back to my country I found a job to work at an elementary school as a teacher assistant. I accompanied the English teacher at her classes and the students were children from five to nine years old. The activities were mainly based on games, songs, coloring sheets, and other basic vocabulary commands.  The school used a coursebook that teachers had to follow. And we also had created seasonal projects, like at St. Patrick's Day when we'd organized a treasure hunt and made some green popcorn for the young learners. I can say now that I was young and immature at that period and many times I had to improvise or I didn't know what to do at a classroom, but I could learn a lot from this experience, that had not longed much. 2. Communication skills In the following year, I applied for a job at an English school and I have worked there for almost two years. The school believed in communication skills and fluency. The material was very interesting, they used the mnemonics methodology in which students had to study every day at home before the class. The home study was based on reading, answering questions, repeating vocabulary and listening, so they went to class well prepared and with a good base about the topics that would be spoken on that day. Of course that some students did not strive to study at home, and when it happened we had to talk with these students privately after the lesson and ask them to repeat the same chapter next week. That school proposed to their students that they would be fluent in English in one and a half year, and I've seen many students developed from starter to advanced level of English. At this school, I could learn about ESL teaching, lesson planning, time management, and the classes always followed a similar structure with substantial speaking time, which I believe that is essential when one's learning a new language. After these years at the English school, I could work for a while as a coordinator assistant in another language school. My job mainly was to watch teachers' classes and make notes, evaluating their classes and how the students were going. I also helped the coordinator with the presence sheets, customer services, students and families, and preparing activities for the seasonal events, decorating the school. Posteriorly, I started to find my own students and teach private English classes. It has been challenging because I needed to plan a specific lesson for every student. They came for me with different needs, goals, and expectations. It took some time to find my field at this because there are many skills and topics that can be presented in one lesson. For instance, business English is diverse from an academic writing purpose. My favorite part is to prepare material. I like to study grammar points before the class, find exercises, create some presentation and look for videos or songs to use in class. Oftentimes students ask me for specific training for pet, FC or key exams, so I work with a coursebook that is specialized in preparation for tests like those. To teach private classes is tiresome, sometimes to work at a school that follows a book and has all classes prepared in advance is easier and with time teachers get used to the class they are teaching and don't have to study that chapter anymore. I keep teaching private classes but I also have another job, current practice. Currently, I've been working at a bilingual school, which is another completely different teaching experience. I had already worked teaching English for young learners which meant that those children had English classes twice a week at the regular school. A bilingual school is otherwise because their students receive stimulus and commands in English every day and every time they have a native speaker teacher, their mother tongue language and an English teacher at the same classroom. So they are practicing both receptive and productive skills in an immersive environment created inside the school. The teachers have to encourage them to communicate, to propose fluency and communication games, to introduce new vocabulary and they have to do it in a fun way because the students are young children. They love to listen to stories, so we always read books together. They also love songs and memory games and there are many materials like these available on the internet so it is easy to find dates that keep they tuned on language acquisition. In my opinion, one of the challenges is not speaking their native language. For example, if some kid asks me something I must answer in English, using body language in words that he has already learned before. Do you want to teach English abroad? I believe that being a teacher is steady always, teachers never should stop. This year I've done this 220 hours course from my DTT and even if I already had some teaching experiences at many different school kinds, it was very useful and enlightening. I'm now using the ESA methodology when planning my classes and I could know and understand more teaching theories, techniques, materials and get an internationally recognized certification as well. For the future, I must keep studying about the English language itself and about teaching English as a second language, because when I teach and I get in contact with students it makes me fulfilled and helpful. This is the career that I chose and it is the path that can lead to several places worldwide. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.