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More entrepreneurs please
Been talking to a few people over the last few weeks and months and e-mails which have come in to me. It shows that more and more people want to and need to become entrepreneurs to help their self and grow their business. It’s one good way of making yourself financially independent. One way is network marketing, which has a bad name which is unfair as long as you do your research first. Would you start a business without research not many people do. It’s important to get advice and think about it but don’t procrastinate, take baby steps and then after a while start walking and maybe start running you’ll be surprised how could you can be in business. Send me an e-mail if you want to know more about a good network marketing company.
I went to a Korean tea ceremony.
On Saturday I went to a Korean tea ceremony. I was talking to a Korean lady about dyslexia. They don’t have dyslexia in Korea because they do not have sounds - they have symbols. Very interesting. I will talk to her further. We have two Korean boys staying with us. They are no trouble and eat everything we give them.
I heard on the Radio Today.
That the Government are worried that people are leaving school not reading & writing. Why is there not more software out there, like read & write & other software? Wake up Mr Brown to how it can change people`s lives!
Come and spend a day with me Mr Stringer
(Written for me by Jill) Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley, Manchester, has ’suggested’ that dyslexia is a myth and is just something made up by a failing education system. If only that were true - I would rush right out there and learn to read and write, as would millions of other people just like me.
Sweeping statements as made by Mr Stringer are just so unhelpful and totally based on ignorance.
So, rather than just sitting and ranting, I have invited Mr Stringer to come and spend the day with me. If you don’t have much contact with anyone who is dyslexic it must be difficult to understand how a dyslexic brain works.
We will see if he takes me up on my offer. THEN, perhaps, he can make an informed judgement of whether dyslexia exists or not!
PRESS RELEASE
Dyslexic Businessman invites MP Graham Springer to spend the day with him.
Profoundly dyslexic Kent Businessman, John Tipping (Channel 4, Can’t Read Can’t Write, Aug 08) invites Manchester MP Graham Springer to spend a day with him so that he can give the politician a greater understanding of how the dyslexic brain works. This follows the MPs claim that the education establishment has ‘invented a brain disorder called dyslexia ‘.
Mr Tipping states that there is a huge amount of misunderstanding around his ‘hidden disability’ and welcomes the opportunity of helping to throw some light on the situation through this invitation.
‘Dyslexia is so much more than just having difficulties with reading and writing. I struggle with short term memory issues and have real difficulty with putting things in order and keeping up with fast conversations. I just take longer to process information. The knock on effect of low self esteem and low self worth can be devastating’.
Father of three, John Tipping, runs two businesses with the assistance of read and write software and support from his wife Jill.
‘I welcome this opportunity of giving Mr Stringer first hand evidence of how frustrating this condition can be in this fast moving world that we live in.’
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A Clear Brain
Last Saturday I went to a business event up near London. It was about juice plus a capsule you take twice a day. I know about juice plus because I have been taking them for a couple of weeks, after a few days of taking them I found that my brain fog had virtually disappeared. I can only say what happened to me but instead of having 20 odd days a month with brain fog and since I have been taking them I’ve only had one day of brain fog which is so much better as far as I`m concerned. It is so important as a Dyslexic to have a clear brain so we need to do everything we can to make things clearer including what we eat and exercise.
Talking to School
Yesterday I went for a meeting at a school near Canterbury. They wanted to talk to me about working with their students who are dyslexic. They asked a lot of questions how my dyslexia affects me. What both of us will be working on which I’m quite good at is joining up people to work together. They would like me to talk to their dyslexic students about running a business with dyslexia and my book Go Play in the sand, John. And mentor the students, and what I would like to do is get local businesses to help to mentor the students as well. In America the mentoring system is used a lot. it is so refreshing to see good schools looking at things from a different angle.
My talking career has begun.
Today at Christchurch University in Canterbury I was invited to talk at a British dyslexia event. To talk about my life and my book. Scary I got there at 9 a.m. the receptionist said you must be John Tipping which was the first time I had been recognized. So we went into a small room where we had coffee and I talked to a few people and at 9.30 we all went up to a lecture hall and Janette my friend for quite a few years started talking about the work she does in the British dyslexia Association. I learnt so much of what they’re trying to do in changing people’s thinking about dyslexia. I was speaking at 11.45 my turn came and I was introduced. As I was getting up my head was screaming inside but I got up there and took a deep breath, and guess what, off I went like if I had been talking to rooms full of people for years I talked for half an hour and then took questions. I loved every minute of it.
The Eye Test
Last week I went to the opticians to be tested, for tinted glasses I was really surprised during the test it was making a difference. It didn’t make any difference to the words but the speed I was reading I didn’t have to concentrate on the words I just read what was there. I’m picking my glasses up tomorrow and it should make a big difference to the speed of reading, I’m sure I will talk about it again. Last Thursday I had to go up to London for a business meeting, it was the first time I had been on the Underground by myself. Even now quite scary but I did it, and for me a big achievement. To read the signs and to go on three different lines. It’s amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it.
So Much Happening!
I have asked Jill to write this for me. I am feeling pretty tired at the moment and writing my blog is quite hard. So, as I have things to say I have asked her very nicely to do it for me.
It is Dyslexia Week coming up starting 9th November. It is also Enterprise Week the week before. I am going to be doing a talk for a group at the University. I love doing talks but I never feel I am very good at them because I always feel there have been things that I have forgotten to say. People seem to enjoy them though.
My book is going really well and all of a sudden we have had loads of orders which is great. We sell through Waterstones and all the other bookshops, but we also sell from the publishers site. Just follow the link through from my book. I havejust spoken to the Kent Messenger and hopefully they will be doing an article about my journey in the local paper. Perhaps also on the radio as well!
I am also having a meeting soon about going into the schools to help out in all sorts fo ways with the dyslexic kids to encourage them to stretch out and have big ambitions despite having reading problems. This is my real passion in life so I am very excited about that.
I am going to be on ‘Sheppey Island Discs’ soon. That is going to be fun. You can have a choice of music and then a luxury item and then A BOOK! Not sure that would be much good for me, but if I keep going with my reading, who knows!! (Jill said my luxury item could be the remote control - she calls it my ‘Noo Noo’ as I always have to have it by me! Very funny!!)
I am definitely improving in my reading. My teacher is very strict and so is Jill. I have to read every day which doesn’t sound much but to me that is really hard work, especially when I am tired. I have read about David Beckham last week and this week it is a poem and a recipe, all specially written to teach me how to say the sounds. It is a work book really with exercises for writing as well (which I am particularly bad at).
Work is busy at the moment with my UV Shield Window Film Business. What recession!! I am going up to London tomorrow to see one of my favourite clients to talk to him about Security Film. I have window filmed his house and his offices and I am hoping he will be able to point me in the right direction for getting more work in London.
Off to post off some more books and see another client so must dash.
Dyslexia Can Dent Your Confidence
(Jill Writes)
I am so pleased that John has now got the confidence to write his own blog. I will still be getting involved but my posts will be in italics. John has written his post using his Dragon Speak. It took him ages to do it, but he DID IT.
Before I met John, I didn’t know anything about dyslexia. I just thought it was when you got your letters jumbled up. Now I know differently. It can also affect your speech, short term memory, sequencing, numbers, to name but a few. And of course it can dent your confidence big time! So posting a paragraph is no mean feat for John and I’m proud that he has taken the step. Now I just need to remind him to do it!
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