Hearing is believing. Most people can’t believe that you can only use 2 chords to create a few minutes of music. They really can’t believe that they can do it themselves on the piano. Here’s where the fun begins.

For instance, take the improvisation exercise Monterey Beach. Here, we use only 2 chords, A Major 7 and F# minor 7 to create a nice little improvisation.

Because we know that we will be playing just 2 chords, it allows us to move around with them and express ourselves at the keyboard much more easily. Why is this? Because we’ve limited choice. You’ don’t have to worry about when to switch chords or what chords to play. The improvisation exercise takes care of that. Now, you can just focus on playing around with your materials, in this case chords, and have fun.

This approach to improvisation gives students the opportunity to relax and actually enjoy the process of music making. They don’t have to worry about scales or practicing for hours on end in order to “sound good.” On the contrary, students learn that they can actually play the piano using chords and make music right away!

Improvisation exercises like Monterey Beach prove to be an invaluable way for students to understand how to use the materials of music - which are chords and the element of time. We play around with these two and are surprised at what comes out of us. Perfection is not our goal here. Being in the moment and experiencing the joy of improvisation is.

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!

The difficulty involved in going to a gambler’s den makes it advisable to give up on it if you can avoid it. Traffic, the difficulty, and list of tasks the process involves don’t justify the nuisance for the mere chance to wager at gambler’s den, even so provided you are the sort of person who is consummately fanatic about virtual gambling then going for gaming rooms through the Web could be the more obvious solution.

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Are you in business with your life partner and can’t tell the difference between your bedroom and the boardroom? Welcome to the world of Couplepreneurs!

What are “Couplepreneurs”? This term describes any two persons living together in a committed relationship and also running a business together. Couplepreneurship is a growing phenomenon for several reasons, including: corporate downsizing; more women entering the workforce; early retirees looking for another venture; and technology that allows a small business to become a viable option for earning a family income.

Being partners at home and in business is not only doubly challenging, but exponentially more complicated than being partners in only one of these endeavors. So, for couples finding some bumps traveling the Couplepreneur road, Couplepreneurs who want more from either their personal or business partnership; and those considering embarking on the Couplepreneur adventure here are some tips. The following “secrets” have been gathered from my own experiences owning several businesses with my husband; extensive research, coaching Couplepreneurs, and interviewing several other successful Couplepreneurs.

1. Have a shared, clear vision of your ideal business and relationship with an integrated plan to have both.

To be successful as Couplepreneurs requires planning a life-with a vision that includes personal and relationship goals as well as business goals. If both partners are not going in the same direction toward common goals, they will grow apart. Idealistically, partners will always be on the same wavelength. Realistically, they may start out with different goals and desires related to the business, and/or as the business and family circumstances change, their dreams may diverge. Successful couplepreneurs look for creative alternatives that honor both partner’s visions.

2. Respect each others’ values.

Since values are the principles and beliefs that guide decisions, attitudes and behaviors; partners’ values must be acceptable to each other. If partners are forced to act contrary to their core values frustration and struggle will ensue. Assumedly partners have similar values since they are a couple sharing a life. However, when partners team up in business they may become aware of some aspects of their partner’s value system of which they were previously unaware. Values about money, commitment, work ethic, integrity, authority and responsibility may become much more significant when sharing both personal and business lives. Successful couplepreneurs honor each others’ values at home and in business.

3. Communicate and negotiate to effectively resolve conflicts.

Perfect communication between any two human beings is not realistic. However, when partners learn to manage their preferred communication styles and take advantage of their complementary skills, their relationship and business both benefit. When they support each other’s natural problem solving process, conflicts are resolved more quickly and easily. Through experience they have learned what works for each partner - whether one needs to retreat, be reassured, blow off steam, etc. They know that it is important not to judge each other for reacting differently to conflict, and it is most important to not take their partner’s reactions personally. They focus the anger and frustration on the problem and not on each other. Successful Couplepreneurs solve conflicts together by creatively implementing a joint solution.

4. Agree on levels of financial risk.

This goes back to respecting each other’s values, as beliefs about money are integral to a person’s value system. Risk tolerance is based on beliefs about money. Successful Couplepreneurs have examined their money beliefs, including the following:

Is each partner basically optimistic or pessimistic when it comes to his or her relationship to money?

Do they have the abundance or scarcity mentality?

What is each partner willing to risk to make the business grow?

What is the line each will not cross? (For example: not losing the house, keeping medical insurance.)

For success, the more risk tolerant partner must agree not to exceed the level acceptable to the more conservative partner. When the less risk tolerant partner feels that their boundary is being respected, they then become more flexible within that boundary.

5. Capitalize on the differences.

Successful Couplepreneurs realize that a major reason to team up in business with your life partner is to bring in a different perspective, from someone you already trust. Couplepreneurs who make it work, not only tolerate their differences but make the most of them. It is said that in love, opposites attract - and differing skills and ideas often make for the best business partnerships.

Successful couplepreneurs attempt to assign business roles according to strengths, skills, and styles. They figure out right at the start who is going to be in charge of what–and then stay out of each other’s way.

6. Present a united front and function as a team.

Successful Couplepreneurs resolve conflicts in private and do not allow others to play one of them against the other. In public, they collaborate and support each other’s positions.

In the book Working Together, Frank and Sharan Barnett introduce the concept of “wegos” instead of egos. A wego combines the individual egos into a force that focuses on the relationship and the enterprise instead of one’s self. It evolves from the confidence of each partner that together they possess the capabilities to achieve their goals and the realization that without “ourselves”, the concept of “myself” is meaningless. Successful Couplepreneurs leave their egos at the door to their business and assume their wegos.

7. The relationship and family come before the business.

A strong partnership and happy home are a practical necessity–a kind of insurance policy against the slings and arrows of business life. Successful Couplepreneurs make firm rules about where and when talking about business is off-limits. They realize that this is vitally important in maintaining the couple relationship — and their sanity.

They don’t wait until they have spare time to spend quality time with their partner. Instead of waiting until there is time, they make the time. Even a few moments of focused attention can make all the difference. When time and money are scarce, that’s when the relationship is the most stressed and vulnerable. They set the boundaries around work and kids that are necessary to ensure that they keep their relationship healthy and strong. They do not let the business become a round-the-clock obsession. They carve out separate and distinct times to relax and have fun together (and with the kids, if any), even if it’s only for a few hours a week.

Building a business with your life partner is a great opportunity to learn and to grow professionally and personally, and doesn’t have to be a struggle. In fact, your commitment to each other and having common goals produces a synergy that can enhance the business, making it more successful because you are in it together.

Jean Charles is a business coach, a licensed healthcare professional and a Couplepreneur. She specializes in helping other Couplepreneurs reap the rewards of building successful businesses with their life partners. Her two popular websites (www.justrightcoach.com, www.couplepreneurs.com ) offer virtual coaching programs, self-help quizzes and newsletters.

For many software developers writing code is a passion. However,
many have been displaced due to the rampant outsourcing of their
jobs to overseas competition. this is truly sad, however it
could be an opportunity for those same developers to partake in
the rapidly growing arena of after market software development.

There are a few open source applications where it may be
possible to utilize the strong community support for your own
financial gain. The first application that springs to mind is
DotNetNuke (http://www.dotnetnuke.com) open source content
management system. This is by far one of the most popular open
Source .Net applications in recent history. At the time this
article was written there was a total of 250,000 registered
users of the DotNetNuke framework.

One of the most popular ways to make money off of this
application is to develop your own custom modules and skins and
then resell them either on your own website or the defacto
standard website Snowcovered.com. The benefit of using
snowcovered.com is that they handle all the details of selling
your product so you do not have to worry about it. The after
market for this particular open source application is huge!

The second open source application where it is possible to make
some residual income is the ever so popular Firefox web browser.
You can see examples of this by doing a simple Google search to
see what extensions are possible. While some chose to give their
software away some do sell their plugins for a modest fee. This
seems only fair as the developer most likely devoted some of
their free time in order to build the tool and should be
properly compensated for it.

Lastly the ever so popular Visual Studio.Net is known for its
ease of extensibility and it has a pretty large user base
already built in. Now this is not an open source product by any
means however there is a definite after market for selling
extensions to the IDE. One of the most popular extension to the
IDE is pinvoke.net and its IDE plug in where a programmer can
look up a .Net assembly for a given Win32 apl call and vice
versa. I am sure this has saved many programmers loads of time
when developing their applications.

I can remember all of the after market products that were sold
during the days of Visual Basic 3.0 to extend the functionality
of that development environment. Once a software product reaches
a critical mass of users and is as extensible as those
applications mentioned above it is only a matter of time where
some “micro-economies” start to form around them. If you are
under employed you should seriously consider finding these niche
products where you can still utilize your skill set and
potentially build up some really sizeable residual income to
boot.

Online learning is considered the ultimate school of the future. The ability to bring students worldwide into one classroom via the Internet has created a whole new era for education. These days, online learning programs use email, instant messaging, webcams and similar Internet mediums to teach in depth college degree curriculums. Students can get their course work and materials at any time of the day or night and set up class wherever there is an Internet connection. This has proven quite handy for those living with a hectic schedule. Online learning has created educational opportunities for individuals who previously had little or no options.

Online learning has been quite a blessing for working adults who are hardly in the position to return to college because of time and the expense. With online learning, there is no worry of missing work to keep up with a rigid class schedule. Plus, with students taking assignments from a syllabus, they do not have to worry about falling behind if they themselves have to miss a day to keep up with other obligations. The ultimate school of the future has provided the ultimate learning experience right where the majority of working adults need it most.

A great small business marketing strategy includes a mix of tactics. Advertising and PR are two very important tools that all small business owners need to be using regularly. Many small businesses I talk to do one of the other, but don’t commit to doing both. Each has its strengths and weaknesses and are complimentary to each other.

Small Business Advertising Strengths:

-The biggest advantage with small business advertising is your complete control over the message. You get to focus on whatever you want, write the text, and choose the visuals. You ensure that your marketing message is delivered.

-You control placement. You choose the exact timing and media in which your advertising is placed. This is a huge advantage because naturally you are going to choose to place your ads where your target market is most likely to see them.

-You can repeat your messages over and over again. Effective small business marketing incorporates a high degree of repetition and consistency. Advertising can and should be run on regular schedules.

-With advertising, you (and your budget) control your marketing saturation. You can run the same ad across different publications serving the same market, run matching Internet advertising, put an ad on the radio, do cable TV, do outdoor advertising, etc. Ideally you need to be reaching your target market at least 4 different ways for them to respond.

Advertising Weaknesses

-Advertising generally costs money. Most small businesses don’t have a huge budget for marketing. Sometimes being creative can help defray costs. Sometimes you can trade for advertising space. You may be able to do co-op advertising.

-Small business advertising needs to be very targeted to be effective. Sometimes the only choices you have in your community are mass-market like newspapers. You still need to advertise, but some of your marketing dollars will be spent to advertise to people who don’t want or need what you’re selling.

-Most small business advertising stinks. I hate to say it, but it’s true. Many do-it-yourself advertisers don’t understand that there are advertising fundamentals that work. A good ad will always out-pull a bad one. Here’s my plug: If you can’t invest the time and money to learn how advertising REALLY works, get yourself a small business marketing coach to help you build more effective campaigns. It will be money well invested.

PR Strengths:

-It’s FREE! OK, you might incur a very small charge if you hire someone to write and distribute a press release for you, but this is minimal. I think the reason why most small businesses don’t do PR is that they don’t know how it’s done. Again, get some coaching, or pay someone to do it for you.

-Press is trusted more than advertising. If you read a review that says that a new restaurant is the best thing in town, there’s some credibility there. We tend to assume that a person who is writing an article is an expert, and that they are an uninterested third party.

-You can distribute PR globally. As long as what you are doing is actually interesting globally, you can distribute your press releases globally. This isn’t necessarily as targeted as your advertising needs to be, but you’re not paying for editorial. By the way, never pay for editorial, and don’t advertise with media that promises to give you editorial as long as you advertise. This is unethical and transparent - and the credibility of the media will always be in question.

PR Weaknesses:

-You have no control over what the press is actually going to write or say about you. They may spell your name wrong, they may get some details wrong, they may choose to focus on something you don’t want to highlight. In general this isn’t a big issue, as long as they are saying good things about you.

-PR tends to be single exposure. Unless circumstances are really unusual, the press is not going to run the same story over and over again. I have been involved with an exception to that. I was doing something that corresponded with a current event and the press came to me again and again over 4 weeks for TV interviews. This was pure timing. It’s difficult to engineer press like that without seeming mercenary.

-There is no guarantee that you’re even going to get coverage. I was called to do a TV interview once and rushed into the city to meet the reporter and photographer. On my way in ,the reporter called me on my cell phone to tell me they were pulling the story because there was breaking news that they had to go cover. Depending on what’s going on you may get tons of press or none at all.

You see that small business advertising and PR are different things. You need them both, and you need to work at both of them consistently. They are two important tools in your small business marketing toolbox.

Copyright 2005 J D Moore

J D Moore - Marketing Comet
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If you have ever had a puppy you know that there will be some problem behaviors that have to be corrected. These are always much easier to nip them in the bud while they are young rather than trying to break the bad habits as they grow older.

Jumping up on people is one of the problem behaviors that lots of people inadvertently encourage by mistake. It is cute when it is a small puppy that is jumping and all excited to see you. It makes you feel good that your new puppy has this much affection for you.

While this may be cute on a little puppy when they grow into a large dog it can be quite dangerous for a child or even an adult.

To stop this behavior place the puppy down on its feet gently as soon as it jumps up. Once your puppy remains still for a bit praise them extensively.

It is also helpful to give the puppy an alternative to jumping such as giving you his paw. This allows them to get your attention in a positive way.

Another problem that is much easier addressed earlier than later is teaching your puppy not to pull on the leash. It is definitely much easier to control and train a 10 pound puppy than a 100 pound dog.

The first thing that needs to be taught in any training of a puppy is to heel or walk by you on a loose leash rather pulling and tugging. This is much easier to do by employing a head collaror training collar.

To start just start walking and anytime your puppy decides to charge ahead just change direction and allow some slack as soon as the puppy changes direction to follow you. It is important that you don’t allow the puppy to pull at the lash and try to hold them back as this will teach them the wrong lesson.

Once your puppy understands the heel command you can then consider further training.

Michael Paetzold is the webmaster of youcantrainyourdog.com a site dedicated to providing you with the information you will need to make your puppy or dog a well trained member of your family.

What else would I do first thing in the morning?

It’s 5:50am when I jump into the pool. When the cool water hits my body I’m instantly awake. Awake enough to think, “why do I do this? I could still be in bed! Am I crazy?”

Before you say “Yes,” I can hear you asking too, “why DO you do this?”

Why?

Because:

a) I’ve recognized a connection between my physical fitness and mental alertness,

b) because it’s a great way to start the day,

c) because living in cities, finding a pool has never been difficult and because

d) and this is the real reason - it allows me to eat doughnuts now and again!

But this particular morning was different, this morning I was to learn a valuable idea about business…

And it all started with learning. Many years ago, when I was three or four my Mum and Dad saw my first attempts to swim were an overhead thrashing action. They arranged for me to be taught the stroke it most nearly resembled. That was freestyle, or front crawl.

Ever since, people have told me that I swim well and ever since those days when I was knee high to a pair of water-wings there’s very little I’ve changed about my stroke. If I tell you that I’ve been 35 for over 20 years now, that’ll give you an idea of how long that’s been!

Shock! Horrors! Innovation strikes! Then one morning, not long, “Impact” - a health, fitness and lifestyle magazine - dropped into my mailbox and everything changed. One article addressed swimming: swimming crawl and specifically, recent discoveries about stroke effectiveness. Implementing those changes let to two discoveries:

1) By amending three aspects of my technique my stroke rate was cut from 19 to 20 per length to a consistent 15-16… without any reduction in speed. However I play with those stats I can’t make that less than a 20% improvement.

2) Even more interesting, the changes specifically contradicted the best practices which I had learned all those years ago, practices which had been reinforced during my High School years on the swimming team.

A new idea is born: And this is what hit me like the unheated waters of a cold pool on a hot day: how many of us are doing “the same old, same old” as our son Marcus says, without paying any attention to what the universe has been teaching others in the meantime? More to the point, what can you do?

What will you do next? What are the “same old, same olds” which are handicapping your progress? Here, in random order, are a few ideas which I hope will stimulate 20% better performance by you and your organisation and help you achieve the ultimate accolade of being considered a Sustainable Workplace:

1) Look at the most successful of your competitors to see what they are doing differently from you.

2) If you’re involved in manufacturing, look at your machinery and discover all the innovations made by the maker since its acquisition. If subsequent improvements have increased the output of the latest models by 100% while consuming half as much energy, perhaps you’d better do some financial projections!

3) If you’re involved in manufacturing, walk around your plant looking for piles of part-completed product, bottlenecks representing opportunities for increased productivity. Has new machinery generated different bottlenecks, somewhere else, since the last time you noticed? (PS Read Eli Goldratt’s “The Goal” and see how that affects your productivity!)

4) Review the statistics: the staff retention rates of each of your managers, absenteeism, productivity trends, profitability trends, the degree to which your people are happy at work etc. How have they changed?
(Did know there is a direct connection between your people’s perception of YOUR workplace and YOUR profitability, productivity, staff retention, and customer loyalty?)

5) On which client are you spending vast amounts of time in return for no business at all?

6) How well are you looking after yourself? Look for your emotional hot-buttons and take steps to neutralize them so you and not your emotions are in control, both in and outside of business.

7) Continue the list here, with your own ideas!

My challenge to you today and all that came from jumping into the swimming pool! Make sure that in your area, you and your company not only ‘keep in the swim’ but lead it. The best way to do that is to ensure that nothing, but nothing, becomes the “same old, same old” ever again. Take some time to sit down TODAY and create your own list of everything you are taking for granted, overlooking. Don’t just sit anywhere, go where you will not be disturbed where the view is good, where your wellness and creativity are fed, but do it and do it today!

…and if you would like more questions, email me!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Martin Sawdon of Coaching-Works! has a passion for the creation of super-successful organizations - Sustainable Workplaces. As a coach he has been described as a velvet-gloved bulldozer and as a speaker, powerful, engaging, outstanding.

To learn more about Martin and Sustainable Workplaces, Sustainable Relationships, and the Sustainable You, visit his website ==>http://www.coachingworks.ca

Though not an ideal solution, debt consolidation can provide
some immediate relief from high-interest loans and debts. The
idea of debt consolidation is that you take out a loan to cover
all of your debts and pay them off, leaving you with one simple
monthly payment. This can take the headache out of managing your
finances but you need to consider debt consolidation loans
carefully, and consult debt consolidation professionals when
necessary. You may find that debt consolidation only offers
temporary relief and that you may be left in a worse position
that you were originally if you do not keep up repayments.

The first stage in assessing whether you will benefit from debt
consolidation is to list all of your debts and ensure that you
include credit cards, mortgages, car loans and other personal
debts. You then need to write down the balance, interest rate
and monthly payment for each debt and determine how much you
will pay for each debt at the completion of the loan. This is
usually the amount that you have to pay the lender to clear the
loan and your debt consolidation needs to allow for this
maximum. Some lenders have penalties for early repayment which
you also need to investigate. You may need to consult a
financial adviser to ensure that you have your calculations done
correctly before you formally apply for a debt consolidation
loan. One option for a debt consolidation loan is a second
mortgage. This will give you some immediate debt relief, but
loan fees will be added on so it is important to select a
reputable company with reasonable rates. Before choosing this
method if debt consolidation you need to be aware of how much
equity will be left in your home.

Transferring credit card balances to one card is another form of
debt consolidation. Obviously you have to check the maximums on
your cards, and choose one with a low APR but make sure the APR
is not higher for balance transfers. A lot of credit cards offer
0% for balance transfers over a fixed period of time which may
seem the ideal form of debt consolidation to use but you need to
remember that any balance left of your transfers after this
period will be subject to the normal balance transfer interest
rates and these could be high. If you don’t think you can manage
to clear the outstanding balances that you have transferred
within the period of 0% interest then this form of debt
consolidation is probably not the best for you. You need to find
a debt consolidation loan that is going to have repayments that
you can safely cover.

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On a bone chilling icy day nothing could be better than the sound of fire crackling from the fireplace, the smell of soup in the kettle, and cornbread in the oven. My nose was teasing my taste buds. My taste buds were basking in expectations of being bathed in absolute delight.

The usual calling card (aroma’s from the kitchen ) was being left and had commenced drawing everyone from each corner of the house, inside and out, to have a need to get a drink of water, a cup of coffee, or anything that would put them in, or near the kitchen. The only thing was we all knew that when Aunt Nelly was in the “cooking business” you didn’t dare disturb her unless, you had a chore in the kitchen, or, a 911 emergency which included blood! The reason being that cooking for a small army required much concentration and much more work.

Aunt Nelly was preparing Emerald Soup which would be partnered with hot butter Corn Bread. She had soups of all colors in her collection of recipes. Ruby Red Soup (Cream of Tomato & Pimento), Yellow Harvest Soup (Creamy Butternut Squash & Pumpkin), Brown Beef Soup (Savory Vegetable Beef). There was even a Plum Purple Soup which was served cold over a small square of pound cake as a dessert soup on hot summer days. What can I say, Aunt Nelly was a colorful individual. Her soup was not of this world, as Aunt Nita would say, “simply Heavenly”, or “this is divine!”.

Don’t be fooled by the secret ingredient here! It lends lot of flavor and even those who literally hate it can not tell you put it the pot unless you tell them. When you serve this creamy, appetizing Emerald Soup, your friends will be green with envy.

Emerald Soup
2 Ham Hocks

5 C. Water

1 C. Vegetable Broth

1 16 oz. pkg. of split peas

1/2 C. of canned spinach with juice (pureed) {secret ingredient}
salt & pepper to taste
1 C. Half n Half

3 T. butter
1 small yellow onion (diced)
1 clove garlic (minced)
pinch of ground cumin

In a large heavy stock pot place Ham Hocks, water, and vegetable broth. You may add salt to taste. Bring to a rolling boil.

Add split peas stir down and adjust heat setting to medium heat. Cover with lid, let boil slowly for 1 hour. Stirring occasionally, being sure to scrape down sides and bottom of stock pot.

While peas are boiling, in a small skillet on LOW heat melt butter.

Add onion, and garlic to the butter. Sauté’ until transparent. Add to peas, stir well, replaced lid and continue the slow boiling. Stir about each 10 minutes, scraping sides and bottom of pot.

Puree the spinach in a food processor making sure that all of the Spinach is completely pureed. Pour pureed spinach into the peas, stir well.

Add the Half n Half. Stirring well.

Add pinch of cumin. Stirring well once more. Remove lid from soup pot and DO NOT REPLACE.

Place heat setting on low simmer. Stir often, keeping the sides and bottom scraped. Let soup just simmer for about 15 minutes more.

Serve in a bowl with a dallop of sour cream placed in the middle and a sprinkling of parsley. Don’t forget the hot buttered corn bread!

from a collection by Joyce M. Edwards (Smile, It’s Food Talking)