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Created: 29 June 2012

Last Updated: 05 January 2016

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Motivation Lecturer & Mentor

About Hubba Jubba:

Bob Moss has been involved with the educational process for more than 46 years and has influenced class rooms from K-12 to university and community levels. Over the years, Hubba has utilized his classrooms as a laboratory for designing and developing a unique and personalized style for motivating others to accelerate the quality of their physical and personal attitudes.  He is a faculty member emeritus from the University of California San Diego and retired teacher from the San Diego Unified School District, and has currently expanded the limit of his classrooms to the world!

I am very proud and happy to follow up Ellen Neumann’s invite to share a few words on the passions of my life.  I first met her while she and her close friend John Picarello (I was his high school football coach) visited my wife (Edna) and I in White Hall, Arkansas, as they were motoring west to visit Johns’ relatives in Texas.  After visiting with Ellen and then reading her series of passion related articles, I am of the opinion she is (as I am) a creative genius to!  Why do I say this? Because it takes one to know one; that’s why!

Thanks to theBob Hubba Jubba Moss power of our human brain, we have opportunities to explore the vast limits of our creativity.  To do so cost nothing and to activate it, all we need to do is recognize and explore thoughts and ideas our imagination provides us with.  Each day our brain (imagination) supplies us with dozens and dozens of hunches, urges and inspirations with the potential for valued exercises of creativity.  But in most cases, these mind actions are not recognized and/or ignored over and over again.  Creativity avails itself through such notions as an idea to rearrange the living room furniture, to seeking advice for personal issue from a newspaper columnist, to heeding advice from a daily horoscope note, to phone an older friend or relative to check on their wellbeing.  Rather than following through on these conditions, most of us fail to act assuming things will never really change, others will think we are loony or no one really cares anyway.

I must confess my fabled career endeavors (dating back to 1965), teaching effectiveness, personal achievements and inspirational motivation skills have been fueled by understanding, utilizing and improving an appreciation for my creativity skills.  Thanks to a continued allegiance to the creativeness within me, I thrive on receiving feedback from thousands of my former students who have gone on to blaze extremely successful achievements for themselves and those they are able to influence.  I itemize the following list of the passions I pursue from day to day: 1) Creativity is me and you too; 2) Hearty laffter is the best enthusiasm; and 3) I mentor enthusiasm; so can you!  NOTE: The latter is the title of my soon to be published book.

As an example of my most recent act of creative outreach, and to keep in tune with the idea Ellen wanted me to reference is the joy I receive from maintaining contact with three former high school student athletes who enjoyed the enthusiastic nature of my baseball umpiring gestures years ago.  I regularly forward them face book and email materials (i.e. Hubba Jubba stickers, collages and slogans reminding them to always maintain and share “remember - 2 – B – positive” attitudes.   These young men have defied tradition by rising from their baseball field at Morse High School (San Diego) to the major league ball yards in Oakland, Baltimore and Detroit.  It is a well-known fact that professional baseball scouts rarely venture into inner city areas to observe the talent there.  This makes the advancement of these former teammates a remarkable success feat.  Readers, who enjoy baseball or following rare success sagas, go on line to these sites to view the success these outstanding young me are pursuing:  Bruce Billings, Sacramento Rivercats (Oakland A’s highest farm team); Adam Jones, Baltimore Orioles (Possible starter in next month’s All Star Game) and Quintin Berry, Detroit Tigers (After less than a month in the major leagues) has stolen 12 out of 12 bases and made outstanding batting and fielding plays.   Of course, rather than spend time sending tidings of enthusiasm to these players, I could merely assume they may not appreciate my gestures, so why should I do anything.   However, as a creative genius and enthusiasm mentor, I know they will be excited to receive positive mementos from Hubba Jubba from time.

So roar into action, tap your imaginative notions, heed your inner commands and put your creative boats to sea!!!

Don’t delay, be sure to start today.  The world is anxiously waiting to meet your creative thoughts and expressions.

By: Bob “Hubba Jubba” Moss

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Written by Dallas A Dixon

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Category: Personal Development

Created: 20 June 2012

Last Updated: 05 January 2016

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When I was a teenager in high school, I was somewhat rebellious when it came time to study or listen to my parents and teachers. I wanted to quit school and join the navy when I was seventeen, but my parents would not sign for me.   I stayed in school until I graduated and then joined the United States Navy.  I attended twenty-four weeks of school during the four years I spent in the navy.

Dallas A Dixon

When I left the navy life I began working as a member of a land survey crew for a civil engineering and land surveying company.  After about six months the boss put me in charge of a land survey crew.  It was then I discovered I did not have enough math knowledge to perform well on every aspect of land surveying.  I was very limited on certain projects. Eventually, I decided to take two correspondence courses to better my knowledge. I obtained a school loan from the Veteran's Administration. During the following three years I spent a few hours after work each weekday and several hours during the weekends studying in a small office I had set-up in the basement of our home. During those three years, I felt bad about not spending more time with my wife and two small daughters, but I felt the extra education would help in the future.

The education certainly helped and after several years of experience and many hours of additional self-study.  I became licensed as a professional land surveyor in The State of Iowa. I began looking for a position as Chief Land Surveyor with other companies but found that every company advertising for a Chief Surveyor wanted someone with a college degree as well as a license in Iowa.  I remained working for the same company I had always worked for but never became the company's Chief Surveyor.

Perhaps I should have listened to my teachers and parents especially the time my mother suggested that I go to college on a veteran's loan.  I wish I could convince all young people to study as hard as possible while attending school.  If you need help, ask your teachers, your parents or other people who are willing to help you.  Always do your very best, no matter what you do.  It is much easier to learn when you are in the classroom.  It is very hard to study on your own especially after you are married and have children.  Now, I am at an older age and still feel as if I am learning the hard way while writing. The experts say that it is good to keep your mind busy in your old age, and I agree.

Dallas A. Dixon

After graduating from high school in Grundy Center, Iowa, in 1961, Dallas spent four years in the U.S. Navy, including three years aboard the submarine USS Bang. With an Honorable Discharge in hand, Dallas returned to Iowa and found employment by working at the lowest position on a land survey crew. Dallas married Rita and they eventually became the parents of two daughters. In 1985, after the further education of hard knocks and several thousand hours of home study, Dallas had the privilege of becoming licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in the State of Iowa. Dallas retired in 1999. Dallas and Rita reside in Waterloo, Iowa. By the fall of 2011, Dallas had written and published 2 books. He is currently contemplating (part-time) another book.

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Created: 01 June 2012

Last Updated: 05 January 2016

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Adrian Rush MISTC

Managing Partner

AMR Enterprises

What is the fascination with gardening and growing your own vegetables?  
I asked myself that question for years before I came with my wife to live in Ireland.  Yes, in the past with other partners I had a garden and grew a few vegetables purely because I felt I should. 

When we arrived in Ireland we started a small herb garden with a large oil tank in it.  We had the tank removed and invested in a greenhouse.  In it we grew tomatoes and cucumbers and sometimes peppers.  One day (in a fit of madness) I suggested making a box to grow other salad stuff and a few peas and beans.  After a couple of years our next door neighbour’s daughter jokingly said “you should get an allotment”.    Over the next few weeks my wife researched and found several locally and on a Saturday afternoon we went to have a look.  After we applied for the allotment, we drove home and for the rest of the night tried to convince each other why we should not have an allotment.  We took it the next day.

By this time we were in the dreaded “R Scenario”.  My wife had taken two pay cuts and my own work was more hit and miss than ever before.  We started work and soon made friends with several people around us.  We had both grown our own gardens as children and were both dragging up from the depths of our memory the methods needed for keeping a garden.   In our house we had changed the front garden and it had been entered in the Tidy Towns competition.  We won an award for it which I suppose had inspired us to keep it up and tidy. A couple of years later we won the Best Front Garden Competition in our estate outside of the Tidy Towns Competition.  We still keep the front garden up despite not be able to enter the estate competition until 2013.

In 2009 we started being allotmenteers and grew our own vegetables.  This is going to sound like a cliché but it is very, very true: When you grow your own produce it REALLY does taste completely different.  What do we grow?  Up until last year we grew potatoes, cabbages, beans, peas, lettuce, radish, scallions (spring onions), garlic, carrots, parsnip, broccoli and brussel sprouts.  We still grow tomatoes and cucumbers in greenhouse and our herbs outside the back door.  Anything that we can freeze we do.  We get fresh vegetables virtually all year round.  Some of the vegetables we grow are sold by my wife in work and the money made goes into a kitty to buy seeds and other things for the next year.  After three years of having one allotment a friend gave up and we tried again to convince each other not to take on a second one.   That did not work so we now have two allotments.  Why you ask?  We could be mad as we are both in our mid-fifties but we look at it from the fresh and home grown food standpoint, the friendships, the exercise and fresh air.

Are you wondering what do we grow now?   On the second allotment we have built a Fruit Cage which measures 27 feet by 13 feet and in that we have Raspberries (Summer and Autumn Fruiting) Gooseberries (green and red variety), Blackcurrants and Blackberries (cultivated variety).  We also have a bed for Strawberries which holds approx thirty five strawberry plants.  .  We have a herb bed with Marjoram, Thyme, Sage, Parsley and Horseradish along with the Chives.  Outside the fruit cage we have planted Sweet Pea to attract the insects to pollinate the fruit.  We also inherited several Rhubarb plants (which are really great cut fresh – not so good for arthritis suffers though).  The fruit is to be made into jams and preserves and sold to help make the allotments pay for themselves.  Yes I suppose it is almost a semi commercial enterprise, we do give some of it away as raffle prizes for the local parish pantomime and as presents to family.

I have planted 200 onion sets this year and I can report all are growing well.  I have fifty garlic cloves in and doing well.   Everything else is growing slowly due to the upside down nature of the weather.  This year we are growing some marrows and these will be sold as my wife does not like them. The proceeds from the marrows will add to the allotment funds.  Over the last four years the most difficult part of gardening has been digging the soil.  From now on it is going to be much easier as I have invested in petrol driven Cultivator/Rotavator and it is brilliant.  It really does turn the soil into a fine tilth.  It also turns in the organic compost we produce from the brassica leaves and other compostable items brought up from the house.  Having the Cultivator has halved the time it takes to prepare the ground and makes going over it again so easy.

We have founds that our own potatoes taste so different and are easy to store.   We do have problems with blight but if you spray early and keep spraying the affect is minimised. In most years the potatoes will last us from harvest (August to October) right through to February to March – depending on yield.  Hopefully the yield will be good this year.

Why do my wife and I spend time so much tending our garden?   The answer is very simple: we both enjoy it!  We both like to look at our lovely garden.  It is a very good form of relaxation after long and sometimes stressful days.  It gives us pleasure to see the results of our work.   We love growing our own food and would grow more if we had the time it definitely tastes completely different.  What a pleasure it is to have salad for dinner!  You walk out your back door and pick the tomatoes, scallions (spring onions), radish and lettuce and you wash it and put it straight on to the plate.  There is a great satisfaction in the knowledge that you grew it and you can now sit down and really enjoy its taste and the freshness of it.

To conclude: I garden and have allotments because it is an enjoyable hobby pastime; I am getting exercise and eating really fresh food.   I also know that it has not been treated with any chemicals.

Adrian Rush MISTC

Managing Partner

AMR Enterprises

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Created: 25 May 2012

Last Updated: 05 January 2016

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I want it to be perfectly clear to the readers of this article and previous articles I have written about self-publishing that I do not blame the publisher of my books for anything. I knew what the publishing contracts contained when I signed them and I believe the publisher did a great job of publishing my books. I offer this information about my experiences of self-publishing in order to help other first-time authors make decisions about publishing their works.

Dallas A DixonIn the last article, I wrote about self-publishing two novels and the aftermath. I will now write more about the aftermath, including some of the things I have tried to do, and am doing, in order to promote my novels. The first thing I learned about promoting self-published books is that most bookstores and libraries, at least in my local area, are not at all interested in self-published books. I have sent out letters and made phone calls, but received no responses from the employees of the libraries and bookstores who review and select books. The next thing I learned was that the publisher occasionally offers to list my novels on different nationwide lists that librarians and bookstore managers frequent to order their books, but there is a substantial author’s fee required for each book and each list. The fees range from a little over a hundred dollars to several hundred dollars. The publisher also offers book reviews and listings, but again, all at substantial author's fees. In addition, they offer to show my books at book fairs nationwide, but again, substantial author’s fees are required. Another thing the publisher offered was an audio book, but for books the length of mine, the cost would be in excess of $4,000 for each title. In my case, I did not spend the money on any of the above promotional offers, because I did not believe I would ever sell enough books to regain the publishing fees, let alone any of the above-mentioned fees. I feel as if the sales prices for my books are set to high, especially the first novel, so it is very difficult to compete with all the e-book offerings in today’s market. Note: The publisher I contracted with has full control of the sales prices.

I had read several articles about promoting books through internet social media coverage, so I eventually opened a twitter account, facebook account, Google+ account, and this blog site. I have thought about writing my third novel, but to this date, I have spent many hours trying to promote my first two novels, too many hours to afford me time at writing another novel. My first novel has been on the market since October of 2009, and my second novel has been offered since October of 2011. The second novel is a sequel to the first novel, but I wrote it as a stand-alone book. At this time, my book sales are very slow. At first, I thought my novels might contain a little too much sexual content, or perhaps a little too much violence, but after I had read some other novels written by well-known authors, I decided that my novels offered less sexual and violent content than their novels offered. I feel that both my novels are written and edited well. They are romantic, adventurous, contain few swear words, but yes, they do contain sexual scenes and some violence.

I still spend several hours each day trying to promote my books through social media, and I have discovered many very nice authors who are willing to help me. I often wonder if it has all been worth my efforts, but I am not the type to give up easily. Who knows, one of these days I may begin on the third novel, but if I ever finish it, I will more than likely publish it differently than I did the first two. This will probably be the last article I post about self-publishing. The next one may be more entertaining. I might write about some of my land surveying experiences, or other life experiences. I hope that my posts about self-publishing books will help first-time authors.

By Dallas A. Dixon

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