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Do you want to learn how to play chords on the piano? Can you already read sheet music or basic notes on the treble and or bass clef?

Do you look at the notes on a piece of sheet music and are unable to name the chords?

Or do you look at a piece of sheet music, see the letter “C” and are not sure which notes to play?

If you answered yes to the first and second question this is easy to remedy. Knowing which chords are being represented by notes in sheet music comes with practice just like reading the basic notes does.

Chords are three or more notes played together. When you see these groups of notes on sheet music start saying aloud which chord is being represented. Of course in the beginning this will go slowly. You could start daily for about 15 minutes and probably quickly become proficient in a matter of weeks (if you are already reading sheet music). You will need a chord chart so that you know which chords you are reading. Visit my website at http://www.strugglingchurchmusician.us and go to the free downloads page for a chord chart of the primary chords in each key. This is notation not the keyboard picture. This will help you to quickly see chords in notated music.

If your problem is the third question then this is even easier to remedy. You will be amazed how quickly your hands memorize the positions needed to play chords. Using the chord chart located at http://www.strugglingchurchmusician.us in the free downloads page. This chart lists the primary chords in each key in music notation or written out on the grand staff.

Daily practice will also make you more proficient here. But instead of reading the bass clef in sheet music to know what chords look like written out, take an easy song that stays in one key and that lists the chord letters above the melody. Go through the chord chart and find the primary chords for that key. Practice playing those chords several times and then try them with the song. Work on a new key as soon as you feel proficient in the current one. Go through the chords using the circle of fifths or fourths (also a copy of this at http://www.strugglingchurchmusician.us in the free downloads page). In no time at all you will be comfortable playing these chords and ready to move on to more!

K Quinn is a church pianist and author of the book The Struggling Church Pianist. Visit her website and download some free musician tools at http://www.strugglingchurchmusician.us

phat (f t) adj. Slang phat•ter, phat•test Excellent; first-rate: phat fashion; a phat rapper.

Want to increase your overall health and energy level? Interested in preventing heart disease, cancer, depression, and Alzheimer’s? Or perhaps you’d like to treat rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, or Raynaud’s disease?

If you answered yes to any of these, then get fat!

No, I don’t mean “get fat” as in “get bigger!” I mean stop thinking that all fat is bad for you, and start including healthy “phat” fats in your diet!

Healthy fats, more commonly called “omega-3s,” are essential fats - “essential” means that, unlike many other fats, your body cannot create omega-3s. In other words, you have to eat them if you want to be healthy!

Excellent Fats?

So what makes these omega-3 fats so phat? Read on!

• Omega-3 fats actually give you energy! Yes it’s true - they help produce energy from food sources and move it throughout your systems.
• They govern proper brain development and your overall mental state.
• These essential fats help transfer oxygen from your lungs to your cells, a critical process indeed!
• Omega-3s shorten the time tired muscles need to recover from exercise.
• They help your body create hormones.

Need more? Omega-3s have been found to:

• Help create smooth, velvety skin (who doesn’t want that?!);
• Increase stamina and vitality;
• Speed up the healing process;
• Increase feelings of calmness;
• Decrease inflammation; and
• Decrease blood pressure.

And if you’re still not convinced, omega-3s also:

• Decrease pain and swelling associated with arthritis;
• Reverse PMS and decrease water retention;
• Kill malaria (you never know when you are going to take a trip to the Congo!) and
• Treat bacterial infections.

Where O’ Where Can I Find This Wonderful Fat?

Hopefully one or more of these benefits have convinced you to get fat. So where can one find these awesome omega-3s? Here are just a few excellent sources:

• Flax seeds
• Walnuts
• Chinook Salmon and Halibut
• Scallops and Shrimp
• Brussels Sprouts
• Tofu
• Summer and Winter Squashes
• Soybeans
• Collard Greens
• Kale

With A Little Help from My Friends

Although omega 3s truly are amazing, they do need some help in performing all these incredible feats. To get the most from your omega 3s, be sure to eat foods that are also rich in vitamins E, C, B3, B6, and beta carotene, as well as magnesium and zinc. Best bets? Vegetables, fruits, and whole grains are the way to go!

One More Thing - Omega-3 Has a Cousin

The other essential fat your body needs is omega-6, commonly found in meats and vegetable oils. Most Americans have a lot of omega-6 and just a little omega-3 in their bodies. The important thing is to have both in your diet. Once you’ve caught up on your omega-3s (the quickest way is to take 1 to 3 teaspoons of fish or flaxseed oil daily for several months), balance your intake of high omega- 6 and omega-3 containing foods accordingly and supplement as needed. For most people, this means increasing intake of omega-3 on a regular basis.

So what are you waiting for? Get fat!

Julia Kalish is a Certified Nutritionist and Health Coach, specializing in women’s nutrition. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Yale University. Julia is the founder and Director of Inner Voice Nutrition, LLC, and has trained at both the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and American Health Science University. Julia is certified by the National Institute for Nutritional Education and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She is the expert Nutrition Coach for Unlimited Growth Potential, a national coaching firm for women. You may reach Julia at julia@innervoicenutrition.com, and visit her site at http://www.innervoicenutrition.com

The information in this article is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

A common goal is to get the most amount of money with the least amount of effort. This is not to say that hard work is to be avoided or that a person could sleep past noon and still strike it rich. To get most amount of money takes hard work and a lot of effort. However, to spend less effort on trying to get the most amount of money there three critical steps to the process.

Research: Do your research and use the Internet as well as the public library. The Internet is the fastest way to search and find information. However, completing research in a library can benefit you by receiving the assistance of a librarian who can guide you in a direction you had not considered.

Consider the field that your business or service falls under. Use a web directory to find other companies in that field. Review their websites and make note of their good and bad qualities.

Plan: After completing your research start putting the pieces together. Outline your strategy. Consider how to transition from one step to another. Make note of the things you liked about how others presented their product or information. Do not copy or plagiarize their information but let it inspire you. Also make note of the negatives and avoid making these errors yourself.

Advertise: Call attention to your product or service and proclaim the qualities or advantage. First take the time to brainstorm your product or service. What are the qualities? Advantages? Strengths? Consider writing articles, using free web classifieds, and link exchanges.

By focusing on research, planning advertising; you save yourself time and money. You do yourself more harm by jumping in and going for it then you do by having the patience to research, plan and advertise.

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Are you facing some challenges in your life right now? If so, rejoice! “Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” (James 1:2-4)

We all know that athletes need endurance training for physical stamina and mental toughness. When game time arrives, he or she will be ready to do battle and will have a greater chance at victory. If the athlete does not go through the necessary preparedness, he or she may not even be allowed into the game.

Do we really think we can just ask God for some great position in life with out any preparation? Not hardly. Read Psalm 107. This chapter tells us that God sometimes brings storms into our lives to accomplish a purpose in us. And that purpose, I believe, is to prepare us for greater things.

If you’re facing challenges today, ask God to hold you up, strengthen you, and help you learn what He is trying to teach you. “Blessed is He who endures.” (James 1:12)

Please keep in mind that not all storms in our lives are from God. Many times, we can create our own storms by making poor decisions. The best thing to do in these cases is to ask God to help you learn from your mistakes.

God can use your own storms to teach you things and use them to bring you increase. “All things work together for good to them who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28)

Be encouraged if things are not what you think they should be. God has a wonderful plan for your life and He may just be working on the inside of you right now. God is faithful to His word! Remember, “The desire of the righteous shall be granted.” (Proverbs 10:24)

About the Author

Daniel N. Brown is the publisher of the “Living the Abundant and Prosperous Christian Life” Newsletter. A free weekly publication that teaches people how to live the abundant and prosperous Christian life. Receieve a free copy of Dan’s 14 page report entitled, “5 Biblical Keys to Outrageous Prosperity,” when you sign up.
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Setting up a website is the very first step of an Internet
marketing campaign, and the success or failure of your site
depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your
website goals. If you don’t know what you want your site to
accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish
anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and
monitoring your website, all your site will be is an online
announcement that you are in business.

If you expect your site to stimulate some form of action,
whether it is visitors filling out a form so a
representative can contact them, or purchasing a product,
there are steps you can take to insure that your website is
functioning at peak efficiency. One of the first indicators
of how well your site is working for you is finding out the
number of visitors in a given period of time. A good
baseline measurement is a month in which you haven’t been
doing any unusual offline promotional activities.

However, just because hoards of people have passed through
your gates does not mean your site is successful. Usually,
you want those visitors to actually do something there. It
is equally important to monitor the number of visitors to
your site who made a purchase. This figure is called the
site conversion rate, and it is an essential element of the
efficacy of your website.

To find the site conversion rate, take the number of
visitors per month and figure out the percentage of them
that actually performed the action your site is set up for.
For example, if you had 2,000 hits to your site, but only
25 of them purchased your product, your site conversion
rate equals 1.25%. To get this figure, take your number of
visitors and divide that figure by the number of visitors
who made a purchase. Then divide that result by 100 (25 ?00 X 100).

If your website is set-up to get visitors to fill out a
form, make sure to then figure out what the difference is
between your site conversion rate and your sales conversion
rate. This is because not everyone who fills out your form
will actually become your customer. However, whether your
site is set-up to sell a service or product, or to get the
visitor to fill out a form, the site conversion rate will
measure the success or failure of your website whenever you
make changes to the site.

You may find that you need to implement some additional
marketing strategies if you find that traffic to your site
is extremely low. There are several effective methods to
improve the flow of traffic to your website, particularly
launching a search engine optimization campaign. This
campaign is targeted at increasing your position in search
engine results so that consumers can find your pages faster
and easier. You can either research the steps you need to
take to improve your search engine rankings, or employ a
search engine optimization company to do the work for you.
In either case, after your have improved your search engine
positions, make sure you keep on top of them by regular
monitoring and adjusting of your efforts to maintain high
positions.

Another factor to examine is how easy it is for a visitor
to your website to accomplish the action the site is set-up
for. For example, if your goal is for the visitor to fill
out a form, is this form easily accessible, or does the
visitor have to go through four levels to get to it? If
it’s too difficult to get to, the customer may just throw
in the towel and move on to another site. Make sure your
buttons are highly visible, and the path to your form or
ordering page quickly accessible.

Finally, have a professional evaluate the copy on your
website. The goal is, of course, to get your visitor to
make a purchase or fill out your form. Website copy must be
specifically geared to your online campaign and not just a
cut and paste job from your company brochure. The right
copy can make the difference between profit and loss in
your online campaign.

Zaak O’Conan discovers and presents information
on to enhance your site, newsletter, marketing and other
Internet related topics. You’ll find his other articles that
expand your horizons at http://WebWorkersWeekly.com