The Magic Number for Your Keyboard Success

Are You Looking for a Magical Solution?

Are you struggling with trying to figure out how to play well?

Are you feeling overwhelmed by so much to practice, so little time?

Are you looking for a way to know what to practice so that you will improve quickly?

An adult student named Liz told me that she finds that she cant decide what to practice because there are too many choices.

Sue often complains that although shes learned many songs, she can no longer play them.

Shes frustrated because she loves practicing her new pieces every day, and wishes she could pick up something from the past and just play it.

Has this happened to you?

Its Not Rocket Science

When the young man asks, How do I get to Carnegie Hall?

the elderly New Yorker responds, Practice, practice, practice.

Notice that the word practice is stated three times.

It takes 3 weeks to establish a good habit, but only 3 days to lose it.

Every time you focus on one specific musical goal for 21 straight days, you will establish a new keyboard success habit.

Establishing Your Keyboard Success Habit

Here are the three things you need to do to establish your keyboard success habit.

1. Make a choice

Success does not come from practicing all of your songs, exercises and/or classical pieces all the time. There simply arent enough hours in the day for this.

In order to get great results, you need to pick one piece that you really like and want to learn to play well. You will still practice your other music, but now you have selected one special piece that you want to master, memorize or both.

2. Focus on your number one priority

You need to practice your selected special piece every single day. Sometimes this will be the only thing you practice. Other days, when more time is available, you can give attention to your other musical material. The most important thing is that you concentrate single-mindedly on your number one priority: to practice your special piece daily.

3. Make a commitment and stick to it

Promise yourself that you will keep your commitment to practicing this one special piece for 21 consecutive days, just three weeks. You will amaze yourself when you hear how much better you sound. Your confidence will improve too!

Action Exercises

Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, select one special piece, practice it every single day for three weeks. All of your other music can receive your attention after you focus on your number one priority.

Second, remember that once you see the great results of your efforts, youll be so excited that youll repeat this process with another one of your favorite pieces.

Third, take this method up one more notch by practicing your special selected piece every day for three months. Your musical success is guaranteed!

Ed Mascari has been teaching piano privately to children and adults for nearly three decades. He is a seasoned performer (pianist/ jazz organist) of show tunes, jazz and popular music as well as a published classical composer and church musician. Ed combines his extensive experience to guide students in a variety of styles as he helps them achieve their unique potential.

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List-Building: How-To Explode Your List

Focus on building a list of people who care about the same thing as you do, whether it's Internet Marketing or pet grooming. Then, write a blog every single day, in order to get search engine traffic, and put together press releases to spread the word about the news about whats happening in the world of pet grooming. Keep on top of it.

Write one press release a day. Do one blog entry a day. In the meantime, build a list of people who care. Monetize the whole thing with something like AdSense.

If your niche is that important to you, then you need to have the most high-traffic website on this topic in the world, so go for it. Depending on where you are financially, if you can afford to just dive in and do it full force, do that. If you cant, do it part-time but make sure that youre working on marketing and all of the other activities youre working on within your niche, in order to learn how to drive more traffic, build a bigger list, and get more readers for your message, right?

Then start finding good products, the ones that convert well, and the ones that have a comprehensive sales process. In the meantime, youre still building this gigantic list. Maybe youre marketing a whole bunch of smaller ClickBank products in the meantime, in order to make money. Youre marketing your ClickBank products, youre building your list, and you stumble upon something that has a great funnel system of multiple products that you can promote, or one primary product youll promote and theyll take over the promotion for the rest of it and pay you on affiliate commissions across the board.

To continue building this massive list, start doing free interviews with prominent people in your niche, and promote that persons product, which is always easier to set up. Call the person who owns the product and say, Id like to promote your product. Heres what Ive got--a list of this many, but Im talking to these 10 other people. Theyve all already agreed to do interviews with me, but were switching the format around a little bit so we can be focused on helping you to sell your stuff instead of helping me to sell my stuff. How does that sound to you? Theyll say, That sounds good.

Then you just go ahead and do it. When you do, you build your list even larger because these prominent people send a message out to their list about your interview. When that person's list goes to your main page, they sign up for the call and for your list, too. Then you do another seminar the next week. Then you do another one the next week. Does that make sense?

All of a sudden, you walk away with a 5,000 or 10,000 person list, or maybe bigger! A few simple steps, and you've got List Power!

Tellman Knudson is CEO of OvercomeEverything, Inc. and a master list-builder. With http://MyFirstList.com (http://myfirstlist.com), he can show you how to build an incredible list in about nine hours.

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Holiday Blues or Joy

Good news! No matter what your life situation is, or how the past holiday seasons were, you can have a wonderful Christmas.

As a Marriage, Family and Child Therapist, I have helped many people transform their holiday blues to joy. The clients had many painful childhood memories of Christmas. It reminded them of adults fighting about the presents to give, the tree decorations, the meals to serve, and whom to invite for the holidays. The men and women recalled being given no gifts, or feeling disappointed of the presents they did receive. For some clients the holidays intensified their loneliness and loss of what they once did have, because they were divorced or some family members or friends were no longer close or were deceased.

There were also numerous cases of people suffering from post-holiday depression. Their unrealistic expectations set them up for devastating disappointments. They had hoped that they would finally feel loved, accepted and appreciated by their family members when they went home for the holidays. Instead, they experienced the familiar, painful feelings of separation and criticisms.

To assist the clients, I developed a process I call HART, which stands for Holistic And Rapid Transformation. This is one of the HART exercises I used to help these men and women welcome the holiday season and continue to feel good after all the celebrations.

Imagine that your loved ones are in front of you, whether or not they are presently alive, and say the following words:

"I forgive you for all the things you did and said that did not feel good to me. I now understand that you were in a lot of pain and you did the best that you could at the time. If you were capable of doing things differently, you would have. I accept that you are basically a loving, kind being, you never meant to hurt me, and you didn't always know how to express your caring. I realize that no matter what you said or did, I am okay."

"I forgive myself for all the times I did not act in a loving way because of my pain. I am learning from my mistakes and letting go of the past. I am beginning to believe that I deserve to feel good and to be loved. I am beginning to accept that I am lovable, good enough, worthy, important, attractive, and intelligent. I now realize that I have the power to create my happiness by giving from my heart unconditionally to others and by allowing others to give to me. I understand that my positive thoughts, words and actions are magnetic and draw to me the same."

"I choose to make this holiday and post-holiday season the first of many wonderful, loving experiences and a model for my daily year round way of living from my heart. I now associate the true spirit of Christmas with love and peace, and I am grateful for the holidays that remind me of the most important things in life. My focus each day is not on what I have accomplished but how much I have expressed caring to others and myself. I am grateful for all the opportunities I have to give to others, and for all that I receive. Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me!"

Once you are in the spirit of Christmas, it helps to understand specifically what valuable gifts you can offer others. Even though each one of us is unique, our problems and needs are basically the same. We all want and need to feel okay, worthy, good enough, important, attractive, intelligent, and lovable no matter what our age, social status, color or religion. So give someone a precious present for the holidays (or any time) by telling them or showing them by your deeds or gift how wonderful they are and how much you appreciate them.

If your funds are low, you can still give the most valuable commodity, yourself. For example, make gift certificates offering to: give a back or foot rub, drive them someplace, do their food shopping, clean their windows, repair something, read them a book of their choice, help them problem solve, walk their dog, play a game they like, wash the dishes, cook dinner, paint a room, teach them something they want to learn, or listen to them for an hour. You can also give them something of yours that you think they will appreciate.

If you do not have a family to share with, give yourself a gift and send yourself a loving card expressing how much you appreciate you. You can also give gifts and/or volunteer your time to a service organization such as Big Sister/Big Brother, Salvation Army, or a Nursing Home, Hospital, or School. Open your heart to these people and feel the joy of giving to others. In the act of giving, you will receive a great deal. Focus on the spirit of the holidays, focus on love and you will feel great joy and inner peace which is your greatest contribution to world peace!

©2006 Helene Rothschild, MS, MA, MFT, is a Marriage, Family Therapist, intuitive counselor, speaker, and author. Her new book is, "ALL YOU NEED IS HART!. She offers phone sessions, teleclasses, books, e-books, MP3 audios, tapes, posters, independent studies, and a free newsletter. http://www.lovetopeace.com, 1-888-639-6390.

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