My voice doesn’t work, did I do something wrong? What do I do?

Your voice might stop working for many different reasons, and they can all be fixed. Thinking too much about how you sound as you sing can make you nervous and you may not sound your best. Your voice will not respond well if you are tired; make sure you get enough sleep. If you sang too much the day before, your voice will inevitably get tired. Singing muscles are just like any other muscle. Your singing muscles will need to rest after being used. Emotions can have their affect on your voice as well. If you cry, your vocal cords may swell, which needs to be worked around or remedied somehow.

Do I need to be fat to sing well?

Nope. Your voice has nothing to do with the size of your waist. If that were true, then all great singers would be big and every large person would be a great singer. Actually having more weight can cause more problems in the long run, especially with moving and breathing. If you’re used to that movement, then it’s not a problem. Rather than the size of your waist, the size of your throat really makes the difference.

Do I have nodes if I have a scratchy voice?

You need to put your vocal cords through a lot of abuse to get nodes. Yelling for a day won’t get you nodes. Your vocal cords would swell, but nodes would take much more. Keep in mind that nodes are much like calluses. If you don’t rub the cords the wrong way, you won’t have the problem. If the scratchy sounds continue, try vocalizing high in your range. Nodes will for the most part only affect the high part of your voice. If the sound is husky only in the middle part of your voice, you probably have another kind of swelling other than nodes.

What’s the difference between a coach, accompanist, and a voice teacher?

The coach is a person that can play the piano and will give you good advice on singing. During a work session with a coach you may practice hearing the piano cue for your entrances in your song, work on the pronunciation of words, get tips on how to sing with the correct style, and find good places to breath within the text. A coach gives you the basic, and compliments your voice teacher.

The accompanist has a less demanding job because they do not offer you advice, they just play the piano for you. An accompanist is not cheaper than a coach though.

The voice teacher is the technique specialist. Although the coach may have knowledge of technique, the voice teacher should be the pro and expert. The voice teacher may not play the piano so well but should make up for it with in knowledge and advice on your singing technique. Half of your voice lesson will be spent on technique, and the other half will be on other things.

Want to learn to sing like a star but can’t afford a private singing coach? I strongly recommend you take a look at Brett Manning’s Singing Success.

Hence if you believe that certain things happen due to pure coincidence, they will then appear to do so; you will experience the happenings in your life with that expectation and therefore this is what you will see. On the other hand, if your belief is based upon events being a matter of fate, then fateful happenings will seem to come your way.

This begs the question of whether or not these happenings are really “fate” or simply a reflection of the innate power of your own mind. As a very simple demonstration of this phenomenon, can you identify with a situation whereby you would like to buy a new car, or perhaps a particular style of shoe, and suddenly, lo and behold, you just keep seeing exactly that type of car or shoe no matter where you go? A friend was telling me how she would love to buy a mini cooper and, in the same breath, how there were mini coopers everywhere…

I will not deny that I am a staunch believer in both fate and the power of your own mind in whatever way they are intertwined. I was reminded of this only yesterday, when a client asked a simple question about the sequence in which he should listen to some confidence building recordings which he had purchased. My immediate response was that he should work through them in the same order in which he had placed them in his shopping cart. I added a comment about my own disbelief in “randomness” and the importance of trusting your own instincts.

His reply conveyed his agreement and understanding of what I was saying. A couple of emails later, in which I had also referred to the writings of Neale Donald Walsh, and our exchange was over; well, almost over. Moments later, an email popped onto my screen, the title of which was “Nothing Happens by Accident..and the author was, of course, Neale Donald Walsh.

Some may argue that this was not fate; they might say that it was just a sequence of events which happened because I was looking out for them. I personally believe that you make your own “fate” through the power of your own mind and your ability to connect with the Universe. “Seek and ye shall find” has been written in innumerable ways, using many different words and in every language there is. There is a very good reason for this.

A very straightforward fact of life is that the more you believe in something, the more you will make it come to fruition. It inevitably follows that the more you believe in yourself the greater will be your experiences and successes in life. As you build confidence and mental strength you build your own success.

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1. WORK WITH THE END IN MIND- OR FOCUS ON SUCCESS

Beginning with the end in mind is the endowment of imagination . If you are the programmer, write the program, says, goal expert- Stephen R. Covey. Goals help us to focus, and the quality of our attention is enhanced by a having a project so cool and interesting that we can’t help but make a leap. Let’s say, you want to organize your workspace so that everyone is inspired to do their best work. The in-between steps: like ergonomic concerns & planning comfortable lighting, in-and-of itself can seem mundane, but joined together they name a bigger accomplishment and by doing so, asks us to spice up our expectations & upgrade who we are. Focus on success & keep in mind how you want things to end up–And you’ll soon enough be successful.

– name the accomplishment

– give your project a title

– what needs to be done by when

– how would you like things to end up

– identify upbeat reasons for pursuing the goal

2. RAISE THE BAR-OR SHOOT FOR THE MOON

Define greatness, challenge the limits, double the goal, or try something new…These are just some of the sentiments that put our plans into action and move us towards revolutionary results. Look around and witness the very essence of commonplace activities being tested and re-imagined. Such as schools re-defining Physical Education by bringing in activities ranging from kickboxing to more esoteric offerings like tai chi and yoga. And with the introduction of Blogs, an international conversation is in full swing with millions of links and a central clearing house inspired by immediacy, intrigue and tension. Raising the bar on a project can simply mean taking one extra step, having an allegiance to a weird idea, or devoting to a regular practice. Commit to a goal in a meaningful way, personalize it & make it your own, and then watch an otherwise sleepy project wake up and give way to a new found energy, creativity and distinction .Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”

– double the goal

– challenge the limits

– create a regular practice

– raise your standards,values or beliefs

– make it a game

3. GO THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE-OR SHOW ME THE SHORTCUT

Sometimes a goal deserves a break. TIME MAGAZINE reported that after 8 hours of sleep you’d be more than twice as likely to find a shortcut for solving a problem. Suggesting that taking it easy is good for the brain, and what’s good for the brain is good for the overall psyche and soul. Are you doing too much, not getting nourished and being exhausted? Well perhaps its time to consider another path. Don’t re-invent the wheel. Pick up a book written by an expert, join a group that’s geared around your project, sign up for an informational newsletter , or ask someone to buddy up & help. For instance, if I was writing a screen-play and struggling with a self imposed deadline, I could simplify my project just by signing up for a writing class. What with weekly writing tasks & in-class exercises this alone would expedite the development of my script. Another over looked short cut is to consider smaller steps. The smaller the increments the easier the goal. Deng Ming-Dao, writes in EVERYDAY TAO, An inch in one direction, then an inch in another already makes a span of 2 inches. Gradually we can improve on that. Go the path of least resistance, it’s a gift of energy.

– don’t reinvent the wheel-find someone who’s done it before

– slow down or change the pace

– keep to minimum daily standards

– write everything down–loose ideas vs. lost ideas

– the smaller the increments the easier the goal

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August is the month when many people take vacations. It is a time to leave our familiar surroundings and immerse ourselves in a different landscape. It is an opportunity to become unplugged from computers, cell phone, televisions, newspapers, and all the outer noises that prevent us from experiencing life in the moment. It is surprising what we can learn when we take the time to stop, look, and listen.

Our two daughters are in their twenties, and for the first time in over four years we recently managed to get away as a family. We went to Cape Cod, an area where I grew up vacationing every summer and after my parents retired there, passed the tradition down to my family. So while in many ways this was a trip down memory lane, it had a different twist this time. In recent years, I have learned the importance of personal retreating, and for the first time on a family trip I managed to include some quality, solitary time as well.

During the stolen moments of quiet walks, journaling, and reflection, I noticed that in addition to my husband and daughters, I had another companion on this journey. The first time I saw it, we were just leaving for our long drive, and I looked up to see a red-tailed hawk circling high above our home. A happy feeling washed over me and I saw this as a good omen for what was to come. The second time it appeared, I had just returned from an early morning walk on the beach my first morning on the Cape. I was sitting on the deck overlooking the bay, contently writing in my journal. Again I looked up to see a red-tail circling, this time very low right above me. “Hmmm,” I thought, “It’s welcoming me here. That’s very auspicious. When I get home I’ll have to look up the hawk totem.”

Then around the fifth day, I went for a walk at the Wellfleet Audubon Conservancy. No sooner had I entered the trail than I nearly had a head on collision with another red-tailed hawk. It came darting out of the woods chased by an angry little bird. About three feet from my face, it banked hard to the right and landed on a dead branch six feet away. We had a serious eye to eye exchange, until the smaller birds again chased it away.

Okay I get it; this bird is trying to tell me something. It’s been making its presence known to me, coming closer and closer until it’s practically in my face commanding my attention. I have a notebook of animal totems that I have compiled from various websites. So when I got home I read that the hawk is a messenger which appears in our life when we need to pay attention. I read, “When the hawk flies into our life, we will be asked to evaluate who we have become and rip out the threads of our self-created illusions.” That did hit me right in the face. It prompted some serious journaling on two very big questions: Who have I really become? And how does that differ from the illusions I have about myself?

This deep reflection inspired by the hawk was both humbling and empowering. It reminded me of another question I had recently read in Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life: “Can I be aware of my faults while remaining high in self esteem?” Authenticity after all begins with being honest with ourselves; only then can we truly embrace our unfolding.

On this vacation, I returned to my roots, surrounded by my family, and felt deep gratitude for where I have come from and for those who love me. This splendid messenger from above made me stop in my tracks, acknowledge where I am, and consciously choose my future path of becoming. What a gift!

Karin Marcus, Professional Certified Life Coach / Retreat Leader
“Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do” Rumi
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There are some very good reasons that manifesting may not have worked for some people. If they were thinking and focusing on the negative, then the likelihood of that happening was far more than the positive. We tend to think more on the bad things in life and that’s what can keep a person in the negative loop, with only bad things happening. There are many more reasons for this, but in this article we will be looking at how you can actually make your dreams come true.

What happens to some people is they don’t realize that you have to take action to make things happen. There are always opportunities opening the way to make our dreams come true. Sometimes, though, we are too focused on the whole business of having a dream that we totally miss the open doors.

As an example, take a young woman who wants to travel. She might be trying to manifest a way to get to Europe, but instead, she ends up with a job offer at the local fast food joint. It might appear at first that this is a negative thing, but the reality is that it could be a way to earn money for the trip. It’s a door opening for her.

For many, vision boards are a great way to set up a visual reminder to think on specific things. Sometimes people forget just want they “ordered” and a vision board is a great reminder of what we wanted. Looking back, you might realize that there are several things you wanted and achieved.

The world rarely works the way we think it ought to. That’s fine, as long as you can stay focused on your goal and remain happy and positive. It’s the best way to make sure things actually happen. It’s easy to lose track and feel hopeless when things don’t go your way, but you just need to trust that everything will work out the way it has to.

You have to take action in order to make the law of attraction work for you. Manifesting your dreams is going to take a bit more than just thinking and dreaming. Keep your eyes open for those opportunities that open up and don’t let them pass you by. It will take a while to get to where you’re going in most cases, but it is well worth it in the end.

1.Examine the Nike SB Dunks box. They have come in an orange box (first and second series), a silver box with a green label (third series), a silver box with an orange label, pink box with a black label, pink box with an orange label and a black and purple box with a black label. Off-colored boxes are a sign of a Nike fake.

2.Remove the shoes from the box. There should be a clear plastic bag attached to the shoes. The resealable bag should hold spare laces for the Nike SB Dunks. An authentic bag measures 7.5 cm wide and is 13.5 cm high. A real Nike SB Dunk shoelace bag should have a solid black “Nike” and the swoosh, with “SB” underneath. On the fake bags, the print looks like it has been painted on. Sometimes, the printing is sketchy and poor quality.

3.Check the spare shoelaces in the bag. They should be a different color than what’s in the Nike SB Dunks. Real laces are wide and flattish. Often, fake laces that come with the shoes are thin and round.

4.Look at and feel the tongues of the Nike SB Dunks. Authentic Nike SB Dunks will have thick, curved tongues that are “V” or “U” shaped. Fake shoes have flat tongues with a square shape.

5.Examine the “NIKE” embroidered on the back of the shoes. If the letters are not thick, but are rather thin, the shoes are probably fakes. Another sign of a fake is that the letters–especially the “E”–might not be properly spaced. It’s often spaced further away from the other letters.

6.Examine the trademark Nike “swoosh” emblems on the shoes. Fake shoes have a noticeably thin or thick “swoosh.” The stitching that attaches the emblem to the shoes is often not along the edges. It tends to run inwards.

7.Turn the shoes over and look at the soles. Real Nike SB Dunks will have “Nike” and the registered trademark sign, as well as a “swoosh” and the trademark sign. These will be molded, raised and positioned in the middle of the shoes. If the ? signs are lower in height than the other markings, the Nike SB Dunks are fakes.

Notice that Nike Dunk is not the same as Nike SB Dunks. If a saler tell you general Nike Dunk is also Nike SB Dunks, don’t believe what they said-just want to make money. So I hope my experience could be instructive for you.

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People become addicted because these substances and activities create a chemical change in the brain that triggers a craving. As a result of this endorphins are released inside the brain makingaan individual feel good. Alcoholism which is very addictive is a major concern of our society.

Alcoholism is a chronic, progressive, and sometimes fatal illness characterized by a strong craving to drink, being unable to stop drinking, physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms and tolerance or the heightened difficulty of becoming drunk. In a nutshell alcohol is a depressant that limitsinhibitions, as well as guilt and fear feelings. It also drops awareness and impairs motor coordination, discretion, and judgment, among others. Alcoholics can be of any age, background, and income level, social, ethnic, or marginalized group.

The effects of alcohol focused on an array of reasons, some of which include a person’s age, size, weight and sex, plus the amount fo alcohol and food consumed. Alcohol is also known to damage a person’s heart, brain, kidneys, liver, and other organs. It may even cause cancer. In high doses, it can even lead to death. Alcohol make you feel relaxed and stress-free, but if you drink it excessively, it may also cause depression. It also causes dizziness and talkativeness. Alcoholism creates social and legal problems in the sense that it modifies your normal behavior. Because of this you can become aggressive, violent, and face the liklihood of doing something against the law, for instance domestic violence and child abuse. Studies have found that people under the influence of alcohol have the ability to effeciently manage the effects of a self defense weapon or a stun gun. Commonly they do not feel any paid. Additionally, alcoholism can effect an individual financially too. Countless people known that alcohol isn’t cheap. You could spend more than a million without even knowing it, and especially when you are drunk.

A wide array of treatments is available for a person with alcoholism problems; however, getting alcoholics into treatment is never easy. Countless individuals reluctantly agree to the treatment because they are in denial about their problem. Family intervention usually helps alcoholics to accept the need for prompt treatment. While this is known to work for numerous individuals, just like any chronic illness, the success rate of treatment varies immensely. With proper treatment, however, a person may be able to refrain from drinking alcohol longer and the more likely he will be able to remain sober.

Many people have taken some pretty strong financial blows over the last few years. Listening to the news isn’t going to help you pay off your debt, save more money or get you a better job. How do you deal with the stress of your current financial situation without continuously focusing on the negative?

What we focus on grows in our lives. Stated another way, what we think about most is creating our future. If you are obsessing about how you don’t have enough money, will never get out of the hole, will never get a better job, you are probably right. Understanding the power of your own thoughts is a great first step, but how can you turn this around.

Affirmations are a powerful tool in helping you get your thoughts under control. Fortunately, you cannot have two conflicting thoughts in your mind at one time. You cannot think that you are wealthy at the same time that you think you are broke. Our brains do not work that way.

On a very simple level, positive affirmations give your mind a break from the negative thoughts that can bang around in your head when you are stressed. Repeating a phrase to yourself that is positive and soothing stops that negative chatter and redirects your thoughts in a positive direction.

Think about a child having a nightmare. When their mom or dad comforts them, they repeat simple, positive statements over and over until the child calms down. It’s only a dream. You are safe. Repeating positive affirmations to yourself has the same effect.

Wealth affirmations are a great tool to use to help relieve stress. They also help counter the negative comments that we are inundated with by the media and friends and family. Create several wealth affirmations that are easy for you to remember and that feel really good when you repeat them.

Repeat these affirmations when you start to worry. Allow yourself to feel really good when repeating your wealth and money affirmations. Understand that you are giving yourself a break from the stress as well as paving the way for a wealthy future.

It hurts when one has to pay much more than he is entitled to. Taxes are inevitable but late charges can be curbed down to level zero.

For most of us it is the credit card expenses that takes a toll. A typical mistake made by not so frugal ones. Use credit cards until they max out and pay little every month.

By the time you realize your credit card expenses would have soared higher than the expense you incurred with maximum interest charges and late charges. For some it will be the phone and internet expenses, gas and electricity and the list goes on.

Ever picked up a financial greatest seller? The first thing they talk about is organizing your expenditures before saving. You are able to take the very first step by getting a month-to-month expenses organizer. Money that you save from those monstrous interest rates and late fees will actually go into your savings. A mail and expenses organizer can certainly help you to have the cash you need on hand at any given time.

Regrettably, numerous individuals fall behind on their payments because they simply can’t keep track of them all, and as a result, end up not paying them at all. Also, it’s pretty difficult to stay within your spending budget whenever you don’t know how much you’ve spent and have coming in per month. This is where a bill paying organizer comes in.

A monthly expenses organizer has its greatest value in helping you to easily keep track of cash flow and make adjustments accordingly if you have much more going out then coming in. without having this info, it is impossible to see the areas you need improvement on.

Keeping track of your expenses is definitely an underutilized skill nowadays, as it is something not truly taught much in school, and this is why a lot of individuals have so much trouble staying on target with their expense throughout their lives. The reality is, your financial scenario is one of the most essential of one’s life; if you don’t have your finances in order, you’re in serious trouble.

Regrettably, in school these days you are often taught accounting, history, physical education, science, etc, but very rarely taught how to manage money. this really is among the prime reasons a lot of individuals have trouble with this. Fortunately for you, a monthly expenses organizer can take some serious pressure off of you in this scenario.

Depending upon the number of bills you receive each and every month and your budget you are able to go either for a leather expenses organizer or a wooden, plastic box one that has various slots for different bills. Place it on your desk or close to your dining, coffee table exactly where you are able to simply spot them.

This way you won’t miss on a payment. If you can get a small sliding door attached to your organizer it would be good to keep pens, checks handy. Otherwise, you can place a pen stand close to your organizer. This organizer will make your corner clutter totally free as you would find your statements and expenses stacked neatly on it and not crumpled inside your drawer.

With the assist of month-to-month expenses organizer you’ll find money inside your wallet that used to go away as late charges. You will notice this after couple of months when you will have extra cash for the stunning dress you always wanted to purchase but hesitated to keep your month-to-month expenditures at par.

Choosing a professional organizer is a daunting task if it’s your first time. However, if you for organizers who have been in business for so many years already, you are assured you are getting something special. If you want to check out Professional Organizer, go here: Home Organizers

Most individuals just suppress their own feelings and live their life in pleasing others. They yearn for the approval of others, thinking this would provide them with their affection, protection and sense of self worth.

Others affection, protection and approval will never bring self growth, so this goal will become an unreachable goal for the pursuer. In a sense, if a person’s aspiration is to be loved, then he might struggle for life and still will never feel sincerely loved. Conversely, if now this goal becomes to “BE LOVING”, then he can truly aim and then successfully achieve it. In my opinion, this goal is really worthwhile, to spend your entire lifetime for. I really am convinced that we are here on this earth to truly evolve our mind to love others and us. If you fail to achieve your goal, whatever else you will achieve will never be able to satisfy you or make you happy.

The major difference here is that this goal can never be achieved by just stressing on loving to others, but we must also first love ourselves. Just loving others and not being in position to respect our own feelings and needs, will result in a feeling of hollowness and loneliness in us. The journey towards the goal of feeling secure, worthy and loved is possible with success, if you are capable of taking full responsibility for your needs and emotions. Learning the way to achieve this will fill you with so much warmth and passion that you will enjoy giving it to others for affection rather than to expecting anything from them. Achieving this depends on your own preference. And it is achievable for anybody! Once achieved becomes the basis of a delightful life for you.

It is really strange that many of us get born and brought up in families which never prepare us from childhood to first be loving to ourselves. Most of us are brought up with a mental setup that we would be mean if we would be just concerned about our own necessities rather than serving others. In fact reverse is true, affectionately caring for our own feelings and desires make us independent and less dependent on others.

As grown ups, we should desist from depending on others for our requirements as this amount to just plain selfishness.

Remaining true to our self and having consideration for self feelings and necessities is a very awe inspiring goal, and is in fact a most worthy one. Why not then move toward making ourselves capable of achieving it?

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