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“Hilarios’ iPod Touch” For Young Entrepreneurs. Son Advises: “Listen, Don’t Start Small!” Father Advises: “To Farm Rich, Start With Your Ears!”

Youth, I say, if you want to get rich, in any field from Agriculture to Zumba, you have to teach yourself wisely – by listening!
(recolored iPod image[1] from Shutterstock)

Why? On Facebook, 14 April 2021, my digital entrepreneur son Jomar is talking to anyone interested in becoming richer becoming a virtual careerist (VC), and I am surprised with his advice: “Why You Shouldn't Start Small.” And I thought: So shouldn’t young farmers.

Someone says, “Jomar, I want to start small in my journey to upgrade my mindset.” Jomar says, “That’s the thing most people, already living a small life, want – to start small & slow. Let me tell you. you’ve already done it.”

We have always been doing things small, so we remain what? Small. You have “to level up in mindset,” Jomar says. “You need to level up in action.” Why not simply read a Success Book? Because when you fail, you can’t repeat “Read another Success Book” – and expect a different result!

Jomar says, ‘The Success Journey is a Trip, not a Stop.”

To level up in mindset and succeed, you need to consider, Jomar says (with my purposive editing):

“What do you Want? How do you obtain your goals?”

If your goals are:
Literally freedom… Freedom of location. Freedom to choose what to do, when to do it, and with whom to do. Freedom to dream freely and fulfil those dreams. Freedom from worry. Freedom from insecurity…

You need a turning point.
You need to do something you haven’t done before.

Jomar says, “There’s got to be a New Source of Wisdom for you. And it’s got to be a Fountain Of Wisdom. You need an everlasting source of new wisdom straight into your ears.”

Like “Every time you wash the dishes.” How many times you wash the dishes is how many times you listen to wisdom. Jomar suggests an iPod. When one of his successful VCs washes the dishes, she puts on the iPod and enjoys herself learning some more! She washes off the dirt by her hands, drains off her ignorance by her ears.

Copying my son, I say for PH youth to get rich in farming, go buy each an iPod and listen & learn. The problem? What to put in the iPod, and where to get the auditory materials.

That is where the state colleges & universities (SCUs) must step in – before any young one can plunge into farming with promise. With financing from the Department of Agriculture (DA), the SCUs must prepare an extensive Audio Knowledge Bank on PH Agriculture, with countless technology & package options presented. So, I’m calling on Secretary of Agriculture William Dar to move the SCUs to move those youth to become farmers.

The Hilarios’ iPod Touch. Thus, while each youth is learning to become an agribiz whiz using not the eyes but the ears, s/he can do anything anywhere and enjoy both physical and mental worlds. A most intelligent way to learn!@517


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