Do you want a smarter child, here are some basic tips

 Everyone loves their little water headed bundle of joy yet may be contributing to his percentage of delinquency.

 From birth and throughout your child's life many attempt to block the child from doing things that they feel would be incorrect or hurt their children which can lead to adverse effects.

 My child has reached the age where he can reach the stove and it's still hot after cooking a meal. He's about to try and touch it, I'm going to let him. (Be reasonable about the amount of bodily damage that can occur) I'm going to let him because a small burn will teach him better than any statement I can make.
 - My child wishes to drink my black coffee, I'm going to let him, may never develop a taste for coffee after that.
 - My child doesn't want to eat his vegetables, cool, I'd remove the entire plate and tell him to go play. Guess what? Those vegetables will be on every plate coming and I'd repeat the same action until he was 18 and got the hell out of my house.
 - My child doesn't want to go to school today, ok Jr., you're going to help me cut grass, tune up the car, clean the house and every dirty and difficult task that needs to be completed. *I bet he'll want to go to school tomorrow.
 - My child doesn't want to make his bed, that's cool Jr., I'm just going to stand this mattress against the wall and you can sleep on the floor, G'night.

 My point is that when you take your child, wife, husband, friend and deliver the ends and not allow them to develop a means, you're robbing them of the option to learn. You're hobbling them and they will always need assistance throughout life. *You have to be responsible as to how far you'll let them go blindly down any given path yet delivering the goods with no effort on their part? You're creating the next delinquent.

*There's another aspect that you may not care for, "You're attempting to teach your child through your affirmation of positive experiences that may be the furthest thing on the planet from the "best" way. His or her little water headed ass might teach you something.

The Search for Your Core — The 5 Ways to Discover Who You Really Are

Recently, at the awards banquet for a leadership program I recently completed, I spoke with and received congratulations from members of my cohort and senior business leaders. A lot of people in that room were kind and gracious and showed lots of respect to me. But it dawned on me, in that moment:

I don’t think they know half of what I’ve gone through to become the man I am today.

They asked me my thoughts on the program and how I’m doing. I told them that 2016 was the biggest growth period in my life. It was the year that I decided to bet on myself and get to the core of who I really am. I realized through adversity, challenging circumstances and a roller coaster of emotions that I experienced more personal growth than at any other period of my life.

I began to realize that continuing that journey to get to the core of who I am, as well as helping others get there, is the biggest passion in my life.

Are you on your way yet? If not, what’s stopping you?

What was further crystallized in my mind is this: Life is not lived in theory. Life is lived in practice! We can believe that a particular opportunity or endeavor will be our biggest moment. We can sit there and wonder, but we’ll never know for sure until we give it a shot.

This past year taught me that the biggest growth we experience is in fact during times of the most adversity. Adversity is always the biggest challenge to our faith and confidence! It disguises itself as an enemy, when it is truly a friend. Adversity is what molds us and leads us to mammoth personal discovery.

Adversity is life’s continuous, recurring test.

The test that we are meant to pass is the steeling of our resolve, as well as growth in maturity and self-awareness, to recognize precisely what we are facing mentally, emotionally and spiritually, and how to overcome — not succumb — to the challenge of the moment.

Despite a move that took me from the place I call home, despite setbacks in my personal relationships, despite leaving my job in the middle of last year and facing an uncertain future, I turned inward. I looked introspectively at myself. The day I walked out the door of my last company, I said to myself:

I’m not going to let this get me down. I’m going to turn this into something great.

It was self-coaching at its finest. It was a call to myself to pursue my passions and to reignite the fire inside of me toward writing, coaching and helping others build positive relationships.

So what about you? Where are you? What areas of your life need self-improvement and a shot of motivation?

Digging Deeper

I started to examine my values, made greater sense of my experiences and gave very deep thought to each year of my life. Trust me, as you get older, it gets harder! But I relied on my memory to comb back through all of my life lessons and to distill the values, passions and moments that have helped to define the man I am today.

I realized there were five particular ways that helped me to get to the core of who I really am. It’s not easy work. It’s perhaps the hardest you’ll ever do. But the reward is well worth it:

Candor

“Never let the fear of striking out hold you back.” — Babe Ruth

Don’t be afraid to be open and sincere. Never, ever, ever let the fear of what someone else might think of you hold you back from saying or doing it. If you believe it will advance your mission or help someone else find theirs, then do it. If you don’t, then you have no one else to blame but yourself. Part of overcoming fear and improving confidence is being candid with yourself.

You have to remove bias and judgment, to the greatest degree possible, from the way you view yourself. And you have to get specific about getting to the core of what matters most to you and why.

The other major part is being candid with others. We all need help to get to where we want to be. Once friends, family, business colleagues and other people of influence know how to help us, we are then better positioned to receive meaningful help. I’ve found that candor is imperative in building strong relationships, which go a long way toward helping us reach our goals.

Honesty

I’ve written extensively about the power of being truthful and honest — not only to others, but perhaps most significantly, to yourself. You have to honestly self-assess where you stand in your life. If you’re going to sift through the B.S. and get to what matters, you need to be bare-bones honest with yourself.

If you’re not, you’ll live a life of delusion where fact and fiction interchange like cars racing one another on a highway.

If you’re not happy with the results, you have to change the process. But you need to know the process that is going to make you efficient and successful, first! This requires honest self-reflection. Look at your current state at this exact moment in time. Then, determine where you want to be. What’s left in between is the path that will unfold. You have to be willing to identify it.

Then, take a stroll.

Enthusiasm

Every successful person I’ve known is someone at peace with his or herself and brimming with enthusiasm about the work that has made them a success. What are you enthusiastic about?

I write and talk a lot about passion and enthusiasm. For me, it’s a way of life. I’m so confident of my direction as a writer, coach and speaker and the number one reason why, is because I have enthusiasm for what I do. It’s easier for me to see this now because I previously lacked enthusiasm. Which is why I failed.

To get to your core, you have to be enthusiastic about the process and the overaching goals you have for why you want to do, what you do.

Memory

How’s your memory? Serious question.

I would never have been able to make the strides I have without making sense of my experiences. This has required a lot of self-reflection and reliance on my imagination and memory. As cliche as it sounds, to get to where you want to be in the future, you have to make sense and be aware of where you’ve been. Then, it’s so much easier for the sequence and logic of your actions to fall in place.

Do the work! Write down your positive and negative experiences at the different intervals of your life. This very simple activity will make a world of difference.

Acceptance

Of all the things that I’ve learned as I’ve matured into a man, ACCEPTANCE is probably the most valuable lesson of all.

I accept my past. I accept things that have occurred. Naturally, acceptance is particularly focused in this instance on negatives, shortcomings, mistakes and failures. It’s easy to accept victory. It’s easy to accept standing in the winner’s circle and gaining the adulation of your peers. It’s easy to accept the fruits of your success — the culmination of self-satisfaction and fulfillment. That’s a reward!

It’s hard to accept failure.

When failure occurs, we can either turn that adversity into something we learn from and improve upon, or we can let it sit in our conscious and subconscious minds, influencing our thoughts, and slowly chipping away at us as it ruins us. Acceptance is mindset and a way of life. Acceptance never means being OK with failure. Quite the opposite.

Acceptance means understanding, processing and moving on from a past event, while learning from it and living with an empowered mindset for every other hurdle or easy day that comes our way. Acceptance is practiced by the most mentally tough, emotionally intelligent people I know. It changes your life and colors your thoughts more positively, so that you have greater peace of mind and clarity of thought.

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How you can start a career in a different field without “experience”

Last week I talked about how you can land a 6-figure job in tech with no connections by generating referrals from people inside those companies.

The article found its way in front of a lot of people, and they had a lot of questions. The most common questions focused on one thing: experience.

Many people find that their current career isn’t living up to their expectations. They want to change paths, but they don’t have any experience in another field, and no idea where to start.

In this post I’ll show you how to quickly gain experience in any field, as well as how you can leverage that new experience to land job offers in that field.

I personally used this strategy to transition from the medical field — where I was working in hospital operating rooms — to the tech industry, where I received offers from Google and other tech companies (along with a 200% raise).

Myths about things you DON’T need when switching fields

Before we dive in, I think it’s important to address a few “myths” about changing industries:

• You don’t need an extensive network of contacts. In fact, you don’t need any contacts at all — you can make them all on your own.
• You don’t need a degree in the field you want to switch to. Perception is reality, and results speak volumes when it comes to perception. They are worth more than any degree or previous job title. More on that later.
• You don’t need money. Everything you need to know can be learned for free. In fact, I’m going to show you how this process can actually help you generate a second stream of income.

Next, I’m going to outline the exact steps I used to land a job in a totally different industry so you can make it happen for yourself.

Part 1: Painting a picture of the perfect candidate

The good news about entering a completely different field is that you are a blank canvas. You can choose your skills and mold yourself into the perfect candidate.

What does perfection look like?

In order to become the ideal candidate, we must first understand what “ideal” looks like in the eyes of the people who will be hiring you. There are two ways to accomplish this:

Job descriptions

Job descriptions are essentially resumes in reverse. They spell out the exact skills you need in order to be successful in that particular role. That sounds obvious, but we are going to be looking at this from an atypical lens.

Let’s take a look at this Growth Marketing Analyst role that I grabbed from Facebook’s site:

Responsibilities

- Leverage data to understand our products in depth, identify areas of opportunity, and execute projects to drive growth and engagement of Facebook users.

- Drive projects focusing on new user growth, mobile usage, and revenue — working closely with design, product, engineering, and data teams.

- Work both on core Facebook products like news feed, notifications, and mobile, and offsite marketing channels like SEO, SEM, and email.

- Use tools like Hadoop/Hive, Oracle, ETL, R, PHP, Python, Excel, MicroStrategy, and many other internal tools to work efficiently at scale.

Minimum Qualifications

- BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Statistics.

- 1+ years experience with SQL.

- 2+ years of quantitative or statistical analysis experience.

- 1+ years of experience managing a project.

- 1+ years of experience in marketing, advertising or growth.

- Ability to process and analyze data sets, and interpret them to make business decisions.

- Communication skills and ability to manage a project or product.

Preferred Qualifications

- Software development experience.

- Internet Marketing experience.

What do you see here? What does the ideal candidate look like? What do they need to get hired?

My guess is that you’re thinking, “Ok, they need a degree in computers or math. Then they need at least two years of experience coding and managing projects at a company.”

Well, here’s what I see:

Facebook is looking for someone who understands how to identify trends/patterns within big data that will have a direct impact on revenue. That person also has enough knowledge of programming to efficiently make those discoveries and present them in a simple, concise fashion.

The main issue a lot of people have is that they think the only way to get “experience” is to work at company or have fancy degrees. This is one of the biggest myths when it comes to job searching.

In order to understand it, let’s take a step back and think about why companies hire.

They want someone who will come in and have a large, positive impact on their bottom line.

Someone could have a PhD in Computer Science and be fluent in all of the programming languages mentioned above, but if they lack the ability to clearly convey results, the company isn’t going to benefit.

On the other hand, someone who may not have a degree or total fluency but understands how to find impactful insights and presents them in a concise, actionable manner is extremely valuable.

Your goal is to become that second person.

Informational interviews

In addition to combing through job descriptions, it’s equally important to get in touch with people who work in the industry.

They will be able to help you prioritize the skills you found in those job applications, as well as give you some inside info on the intangibles (nuances of the hiring process, putting you in touch with their contacts, etc.).

I’ve found that the best way to make this happen is by leveraging LinkedIn’s advanced search filters.

You can search for people at specific companies, with specific titles. If you have LinkedIn Premium, you can even search for people who used to work in your industry and now work in your target industry — or even at your target company.

Then you can use this email script to reach out:

Subject: Quick Question

Hi [Name],

My name is Austin and I currently work at Cultivated Culture. I was browsing through LinkedIn and came across your information — I hope you don’t mind me reaching out of the blue here.

I saw that you have extensive experience in Facebook’s Growth Analytics vertical and I’m very interested in learning more about that space. I would love to have the opportunity to run some questions by you, as well as tap into any advice you may have given your knowledge of the industry.

I know that your time is extremely valuable so please don’t feel to need to respond in depth. If you do have 5 minutes to chat, I would really appreciate it.

Best,

Austin

When they agree to a meeting, you’ll want to prepare some questions. They should focus on:

• Identifying which skills are the most crucial for performing daily activities (this will allow you to prioritize)
• Providing some background on how that person got to where they are (you’d be surprised at how many people came from other industries)
• What they would do if they were in your shoes — trying to get this job with little to no experience in the field

Here are those bullets in question form to help get you started:

1. I’ve been doing some research and it seems like [Skill 1] — [Skill 3] are common in the space. Which of these do you think is the most crucial to success?
2. I was looking through your LinkedIn and saw that you came from [Previous Role/Company]. How did you initially get involved in this industry and how did you end up at [Current Role]?
3. Let’s say you were in my shoes — you’re new to the industry and don’t have too much experience. How would you go about getting your current job? What specific steps would you take?

Bringing It All Together

Now you have an understanding of the skills that you need, where they stand in terms of priority, and a roadmap from someone who has/had the role you want.

Next, you need to build a foundation with those skills and use them to generate results that directly align with the company’s goals for that role.

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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

André Gide

Before I go to sleep, would you like to be the next president of the US of A

Here it is, play the existing division of the upper-middle-class yuppies & upper class as well as the entire lower class trailer park dwellers.
 Your slogan? "We're going to make America rich again". I, as president, am going to do away with "fractional reserve banking" (He/she would be dead before the inauguration), we're going to bring All the jobs back to America. (While there's some poor slob making car parts for a cheese sandwich and Americans want $30 an hour) We're going to put a stop to big Pharma. (While drug abuse keeps most happy, working and docile plus creates jobs across the board)
  We're going to create a country where the GDP is no longer based on consumer spending. (Like enough people even realize this and can even follow this post) We're going to stop these cover-up drugs that hide HIV so that they can no longer be more easily passed between our citizens. (People no longer see the commercials and think it's gone while getting infected after 1 too many beers after an LGBT parade and being bi-curious) 
 We're going to "actually" educate children in our public schools. (What? That may have gone too far) And finally, we're going to give all you jackasses the latest iPhone every year.(People around the world can have entire conversations yet not one of them can spell a word bigger than their name and not a one can write a discernable paragraph)

 If you're going to bullshit, GO BIG or go home.

Wholly shit!

 Hahaha, allow me to share some advice, when you're around heavily indoctrinated Catholic Spanish individuals, don't say jack shit about the Pope.
 Everyone since the beginning of the Catholics following the church and it's participants have dealt with priests diddling little boys and This Pope Didn't Know! Hahahaha
 Is there any shield, any weapon, any escape from the bullshit except through laughter?

Am I ready for the second coming of the Lord

 People have asked me this question all throughout my life and I'll answer as I always have, "Where the hell did he go"? I mean really.. Was he on vacation, gone into hiatus or what?
 In any event, if this is your concern I'm optimistic. I feel as though God can see everything that you are and for me to change at this point, he'll know it's a complete fraud. So... Why try to bullshit him?

Mental Illness Policy

Micro-hospitalizing mentally ill

Read more at: https://mentalillnesspolicy.org/imd/longer-hospital-stay.html

Acute Care Inpatient and Observation Patient Throughput

Improving Flow

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Definition

Number of inpatient admissions (including observations) per week

(Note: Observations are patients who are admitted, but stay less than 24 hours. Medicare has specific criteria for which diagnoses need to be observation

 

Goal

While it is important to establish a throughput goal, each organization needs to determine an appropriate target. A throughput goal could be based upon financial need, existing or new patient demand, or a desire to increase volume for a specific service line or specialty.

Examples:

• Increase throughput by 10 percent of acute care admissions by June 2004.
• Increase throughput in the operating room by 15 additional cases a week by December 2004.
• Increase cardiology admissions by 20 percent by September 2004.

Data Collection Plan

Measuring the number of inpatient admissions per week over time will show how changes are affecting overall throughput. As flow through the acute care setting is improved, total throughput of patients should be maintained or increased as patients are able to be placed more appropriately, moved more quickly, and discharged in a timely fashion. Throughput can be an important measure to reference in speaking to senior leaders about the business case for improving patient flow.

 

Throughput data can usually be collected through existing hospital financial or admissions information systems. Count the total number of inpatient and observation patients admitted to the hospital per month. You may wish to segment the data if you have specific service line or population targets for increased admissions. Throughput measures are generally slow to change, so monthly data collection is sufficient.

 

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Have you ever had a song that asks a very serious question

 My life friends, my blog friends, my Facebook and Twitter friends, well?

God’s Wrath ‘Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay’

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Resource by John Piper  Scripture: Romans 12:19–21    Topic: The Wrath of God

 That was confusing yet have you ever heard of this? I have in my indoctrinated schoolas and churches.
 I think it's a load of crap!

*I don't believe in forgiving and forgetting nor do I ask to be forgiven.

Maybe someone could share an alternative?

 I realize I've visited this topic often.

I could be doing this for anyone anywhere in the world

I had several developments of my own that needed patents or patent searches and I had associates that didn't know how to begin. I brought my own material and there's as well. By the time I have dinner, all these tasks will be completed.

I can go to any city and make money

 Making money has always been easy for me yet creating a "sustainable" path... Well, that has had it's challenges.
 I'm looking for a new country to live and work in. I'll arrive with my own finances to get started as well as arriving with my own skills and tools.

 Anyone that visits or frequents my blog and or CV has a full conveyance of my skillset(s).

 I'm searching for the visitors that come to this blog a chance to give me a new life away from the states and in return I'll assist you in being more profitable, sustainable or simply update your software, infrastructure, security, anything that we as a team can agree upon to make your endeavors better than when I arrived.

 I never ask for favors, I either pay or barter services. Paying in some form up front tends to be more economically advantageous than to repay some unknown amount in a "favor".

 You now have my offer, I have a valid passport and the funds to relocate anywhere in the world.

Contact me.

 I do have to make a stop back in FL before I move forward