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    Marketing Education on YouTube

    What if there was more marketing education on YouTube? For last month’s module in the Praxis program, I was challenged to create and develop a project of my own choosing, I decided to make a channel and share marketing videos to whoever would search the topic on the site. Whether your a student interested in marketing, a business that wants to figure out how they can better strategize their marketing efforts, a professional who likes to learn about new things, or something else my marketing videos will help you better understand the marketing world, especially in terms of small businesses, and the psychology of how marketing works. In the youtube…

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    Personal Brand – Praxis Wednesday Reflection

    My module group was challenged last night to look at another person’s blog post and try to identify a personal brand that goes with it. Even if the challenge didn’t go as I would’ve wished it was a good challenge and made me think more about how I can better present some of the same ideas. My hope going forward is that beyond just writing about things that are true to my brands, that my tone and style would match that brand. I want to be careful as I develop my brand in that I’m true to myself, but that I’m also presenting the best content that I can. Personal branding…

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    Proving Something Right by Trying to Prove it Wrong

    Ever questioned something and not known how to prove any view to be correct? This is how I came to find truth in Christianity but I’ve since realized that it can apply to many areas of life. For instance, in a job, you might feel there’s a better way to do something, but thinking through the process of what makes a system work could reveal why it’s been used, or perhaps why it shouldn’t be used after all. I’ve realized before that sometimes I need to go about figuring out why other people think I’m wrong about something, and often it leads me to have an even firmer, though more…

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    Mind Your Own Resistance

    As part of my current module in Praxis I’ve been reading The War of Art  I just finished the first section of the book: Resistance – Defining the Enemy. It had some interesting ideas that I hadn’t really considered in such a way before. First things first, the author notes that resistance comes from within. At first, I challenged this but I realized that although other people influence our resistance, we often decide for ourselves to be limited in our pursuits. There are so many things that we make decisions on the help us resist doing what we want to be doing. In almost everything good we try to accomplish…

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    Swing Dancing: A Hobby

    Swing dancing is a fun way for me to stay active, hang out with friends, listen to fun music, and develop a rather unique skill. It’s something that anyone who can walk could, in theory, take up to some extent. These days I go to swing dances as often as I can and try to learn stuff along the way. When I was a freshman in high school, I went to a youth group retreat, while there, there was an evening dance, complete with swing dance lessons, and a youth groups full of kids interested in learning how to dance. There I learned the basics of swing dancing for the…

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    Junior High Ministry

    I struggled in junior high, academically, socially, etc., but I’ve learned a lot since then and I’ve been able to be a junior high youth group leader at my church, GracePoint, since I finished high school. It’s taught me a lot about leadership, helped me learn how to better express empathy, and given me great friends that I otherwise would not have. Church youth group is a place where any kid can come, whether they’ve grown up in the church or not and be loved on, and encouraged by older individuals and peers in the church to follow Jesus, and find their own path in their relationship with their Savior. Junior High…

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    More than Camping

    For the last week of July, I decided to volunteer at camp. It’s a Bible camp called Camp Lebanon. I had interned there in college for marketing and loved every minute of it. I’ve also been to young adult retreats there. I was so happy to volunteer for the ministry that I got to work for. I also believe every kid should go to camp at least once growing up. I grew up going to camp, but technically a different one. I started going to Koronis Bible Camp from literally the beginning of my life because my entire family also grew up going to camp, and it’s a family camp so we…

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    Thoughts from a Temp Worker

    Currently, as I work through Praxis I’m doing temp work for a temp agency. Because I can get decent money, turn down jobs if I’m just to busy, and experience lots of diverse workplaces. I love meeting new and interesting people at each job, and I’ve been thoroughly surprised by who I’ve run into and met. I’ve been fortunate to work with great people for a vast majority of the jobs. At some jobs, with permission, I’ve even been able to do school work during downtime. I’ve also had the chance to see some of the inner workings behind some interesting companies. Plus I’m thankful that I haven’t had to…

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    Writing for an Audience – Praxis Wednesday Response

    Last night on August 1st the Praxis Wednesday guest was Jason Feifer. He spoke on writing techniques, especially creative writing and article writing. The question of who I’m writing for has always been a challenge for me, especially while I was in school because when asked this the answer seemed to always be: the teacher, or the other student who I had to ask to edit it, and that never gave much direction. I’ve slowly learned that even if I don’t know who will find a piece of writing I’ve written and read it, I need to plan for a certain kind of reader with every piece of writing I do.…

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    How I Write

    I’m usually concise. But I like to discuss diverse concepts, and I’ll admit that I’m always working on my grammar and general writing skills, as I tend to write the way I’m thinking through things. That being said writing is something that anyone can learn to do, and potentially get good at I believe, including me. I also try to find different ways of writing out things. I not only like typing out ideas, but often writing them out on paper as well, especially as typography. this challenges me to process simple concepts on a deeper level, especially Biblical concepts because often my design centers around concise phases. Sometimes I don’t…