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Joining the RSPB

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sunset4 This year I decided to become a member of my local Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.  I decided for two reasons.  The first is that the RSPB Vane Farm site is right on my doorstep and I wanted to get my career more focused on trying to see if I can do something to help protect Wild Birds and my local nature reserve.

The second reason was that I was influenced by a couple of brown Kites who swooped down over my car one day earlier on this month while driving through the area of Dalqueich.

I stopped my car where the birds had chosen to land on some roadside tree branches just ahead of me.  I had a good look at one bird, looked at it right in the eye and at that moment the thought “I want to do something to protect you” entered my mind.

Within a couple of days I made a trip out to Vane Farm and spoke to Colin, one of the friendly staff, and signed up for a year’s membership.

I received my book on Scottish birds and have now decided that each day, while I go on my walk up the Kilmagad Woodland walk, I take a compact camera just in case I ever come across any evidence of cruelty to wild birds.

Fortunately I can say that there have been no recent reports of poisoning of Raptors in the Loch Leven and surrounding areas.

I enjoy hillwalking most days and armed with my book, I now enjoy trying to see if I can spot any wild bird life while out in nature.

Working in Co operation

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This week I really enjoyed assisting Milnathort’s well established photographer Gavin Anderson with one of his projects.  Gavin has his own studio and is a very experienced photographer.  I learned a lot from the shoot – especially when it comes to deciding which background colour or textures to use with a product.  I look forward to working with Gavin in future, should the opportunity arise.

Think Positive

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I have recently started to do all the things I never get round to doing.  Now that I have finished my full time studies at Perth College UHI I have some more time to study privately, other subjects.  I want to continue with my foreign language studies (starting with Gaelic) and I have started reading the classic self help book ‘The Wisdom of Wallace D Wattles’ by Wallace D Wattles.  This book comprises of 3 books to help the reader achieve more wealth, health and greatness.  Wattles started writing about New Thought or Positive Thinking over 100 years ago.

Nowadays you can buy books written in more modern English, such as ‘The Gift’ which are based on the works of Wattles.

I have now lived in the Loch Leven area for over 6 months and always feel a positive vibe from the area and the people.  In fact I may even have secured my first long term client and am looking forward to doing some IT related work.  This has given me a positive boost to try to grow and increase business and has spurred me on to start doing some marketing in the Kinross area.  I’m not going to overdo things though, I will approach business’s who may wish to use the services of a local media company on a gradual basis.  I am also going to start attending more business Networking events in the Fife area too.  More updates to follow.

Marketing

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Well today my brand new cards and marketing flyers arrived!!  So I will be able to proudly present my business cards at networking events in future and will start distributing my flyers locally – to run a business people need to know you exist in the first place.  So I have the three marketing tools now to rebrand the company – website, flyers and business cards.  I first got the inspiration to do my flyers after getting a flyer through the door from a local fitness class company and realised that this is an effective way to get yourself noticed.