One of the hardest parts of a business plan is getting others to share the same focus, especially if your business plan was not initially designed for just one person. Choosing a special field to focus on actually limits the amount of people willing to participate. For me, the idea of building a small short session classroom to assist the general public with just getting started in computers and building personal projects with a computer was what sounded like that better mouse trap just waiting to be built.

            I really was not trying to be the tutor, teacher, or instructor, but actually involve others with that experience to draw out the guidelines and blocks of instruction towards building activities and network their ideas to other who had questions, from writing a letter, to including pictures and videos, and span out to every aspect of computing, to include networking, maintenance, and security. My individual role was to help find concepts to an easier grasp to build upon, until the understanding of any given step became real to the individual. To me, that is the in lining path to getting everybody to enjoy more out of their computers.

            It is not the easiest exercise to master, nor consider it a tool in getting the basic understanding of a computer. There is also finding key words and phrases that people can quickly comprehend, and in large masses. Even defining something that has already been defined is not always accepted. How would you define a computer? It has taken me time, but a concept definition is the ability “To Create”. Through every effort after plugging this machine in and turning it on, everything seems to become work. It definitely is not a solid state device. What really makes me work hard to find the right concept is that the individual seems to have more limits than what the computer has when it comes to making something out of nothing.

            I first started out trying to compare many programs with what has already been described as “the virtual world”. In a sense, many others do their best to compare real life and tangible objects with what can be drawn, coded, or written through the uses of a keyboard, mouse, and monitor screen. It takes us all some time to look at a certain item or area and see a potential use for it.  From a small piece of land, to a vacant building, we either see it as something not worth investing our time in, or we imagine what this space, place, or environment could possibly become. And imagination is one of the biggest resources that all posses, that is needed in using the computer, when it comes from starting something out of nothing.

            Whether we have seen others put it to practice, or basically get an initial concept of what it can be used for, we still do not include that imagination to give this whole thing a purpose. Many get the concept of email, surfing the web, and Instant messaging, but then it’s use becomes limited by the person own imagination. Some see it for storing pictures from a camera, or for watching movies in place of a DVD player and home entertainment center. But how about taking what you put on it and making a project with it. You use it to see and hear, or retrieve information, but what about you being inspired to give something back, share, or even contribute. I’m not even writing about replies or comments you can include with something already created, rather the intention of making something yourself, that you could and would love to share with family, friends, and strangers.

            Another concept, even I have had problems describing is the concept of using the computer, as much as the cell phone and any other organizer. In reality (of this virtual world), the phones, PDA’s, and the simple calculator are all sisters to one another. Still, people feel they need to make time to sit in front of the computer, rather than put it to use in their daily life, from organizing, to project building, and information gathering and organizing. For me, I just need a computer, and I can make calls(pc to phone does depend on the broadband of your network connection, along with the processor in the computer, but I still do it), email, mapping, records tracking, video making, and financial records keeping (my weakest point of putting this device into everyday practice). In professional Driving, a driver has to log every activity in four separate categories; Off Duty, Sleeper Birth, Driving, and On Duty-Not Driving. They do this in what is called a daily log. Their best suggestion to all is “log it as you go”. Anytime your activity changes from one category to another, draw a line and fill in the remarks as the change occurs (instead of waiting to sit somewhere and catch up on you log, like other paperwork). Truth be told, I have a Driver’s Daily Log program on my computer, and so the computer is used as it is needed, especially when my status changes.

            I have already written blogs on the power options available, rather than starting up and shutting down the computer between periods of when they are no longer in use. This blog covered Hibernation and Standby. And, at the end of the day, before I go to sleep, it is then when the computer is shut off. From when I awake and start the computer, and throughout my working day, the computer goes into Hibernation or Standby, holding windows last used open to return to when I power the computer back up. Even a quick note to be remembered means turning on, making that note, and then back to Hibernation or Standby, knowing it will be turned on soon.

            When it comes to making something out of nothing it includes a personal attitude (not shared outwardly, but towards yourself), of making that something out of nothing important, imperative, and just strictly a needed and growing routine. From the beginning of any activity or project, we all need to take a breath and feel if we are ready to start what we are about to embark upon, even just mowing the lawn or raking leaves. Other things we call chores, we actually build a routine around, and to think of using a computer with importance sounds more like a project than focusing on it becoming a chore. At the same time there is a certain amount of importance needed to gain momentum to anything, including using a computer. We are all reminded to brush our teeth after every meal, change your clothes and wash up, all relating to the importance of hygiene. To stay on top of any project, and to go from start to finish, you have to present using the computer with some kind of importance, whether in organizing daily agendas (along with reading your email), or building a project that can aspire to more than one project at a time. To stay focused on these projects, there has to be an instilled need to see it through, and make the time out of the time in between your real life activities. For instance, many of the blogs are written to fill in the time at Shipper and Receiver deliveries (while they are loading or unloading). Sometimes, that could only give me an hour, and in this case, I got most of the day; and to do more than just sit, wait, and watch television. I also have to make sure that my logs, paperwork, and most of my bills are recorded first, so there is a small amount of time to do this, strangely the same amount of time that would feel like it was dragging if I had just sat, wait, and watch television.

            Right now, besides blogging, I have two databases (work related) started, my daily paperwork all caught up (Daily Log included), my email has been reviewed, and a couple of quick thoughts shared on twitter; all of this chores. As far as making this the only time to do this, I naturally have been called to the shipper’s window four times, and have been to the truck twice. So like anything that involves computers and life, merge with the moment, instead of shouting that I am busy or in the middle of something…another concept based on life and its activities come first, and the computer only fills the time of waiting.

            Anything and everything being done in real life can be partly created on a computer, from planning your day, to mapping out where you are going, to keeping notes of things to do (or have been done). We do everything to structure our daily routines, and using a computer to document what we want to do, and what we have already done is just another possible tool to be used, and your way, in creating something out of nothing.

            In this upcoming year (2011), I am going to make an attempt to structuring this blog to create project that you can follow along with, and I’ll even give them a theme, a purpose (or meaning), and help build steps that you can follow along with. I’ve been contemplating on a project in writing, and it went from one personal purpose to sharing for another personal event, and now, to be used to helping explore what you can do, using someone else’s ideas. I hope it becomes something interesting to follow along with. Just keep in mind, my primary role in life is professional driving right now. So, if I can practice making this a chore, routine, and project, hopefully it will lead to you understanding that it started by making something out of nothing, using my tool to create, with the importance to see it through to completion. Those periods where it seemed to have stalled is because of the time of the year, and I’m probably wearing down the rubber on the tires of the truck. Be patient with me, from beginning to end, and use the remaining part of the year to take that breath, and conclude that in 2011, there is a project to do.