Consistency, Reaching and going beyond your full potential,

Consistency is an important element in reaching and going beyond full your potential.
So how does one define consistency? I define it as regular repetition. I am sure that
Is not the definition in Webster’s dictionary? However it is my definition.
So here is an example of consistency. I used to teach piano privately to all levels.
I taught adults and children. There was really not much of a difference between the two when it came
to practicing. An adult student would tell me. I can’t find the time to practice the piano.
And the parents child would tell me that her child is too busy with school , ballet, etc.
So I would ask, do you have 15 minutes in the day or evening to spare? Oh yes, they would tell me,
but that is so little time to practice.
This is a very bad belief. 15 minutes every day of anything you are learning is fine as long as you are studying or practicing it constructively.
And here is what I mean by constructive practice or study. Always study or practice what you do not know. Do not go over what you know already, that is a waste of time. If you take a little part of the music that you have trouble with and work at just that part and repeat it a hundred times each day for 15 minutes you will have accomplished more than what you would have practiced if you practiced 6 hours a day .
This applies to all studies. If you’re a law school student and you have trouble with an aspect of tort, contract, property law etc., you should read a small part of the theory and then practice just that part by reading cases that pertain just to that part of the law or rulings.
So we have to take things in small steps. The best way to be consistent in practicing to reach your full potential is to practice 15 minutes,, take a break, practice or study another 15 minutes , take a break,
The mind needs time to digest the information, or else you will overload its memory, just like a computer. And this should be done every day.
And of course in order to do this one must focus. And that will be my next blog.
How to keep your focus.
I will also so discuss how to fight bad energy from taking away your focus.

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1. Developing a plan on how to reach your full potential and beyond.

Developing a plan on how to reach your full potential and go beyond it.
First you have to envision what you want to be. You have to take a future photo of yourself in your desired position. For example, maybe you want to be a concert pianist.
Then you have to vision yourself playing in Carnegie hall in front of 1000 fans. That should
Give you the inspiration to practice. Or you might have a plan on becoming a professional fighter. Vision yourself in Madison square garden in front of 1000s of screaming fans while they announce your name. Have this vision in your mind every day you train. Every day that you run and lift weights etc. you should have this in your mind.
Some of you might want to be a doctor, lawyer, etc. Then you have to envision yourself at work in your office, talking to clients, etc.
Your plan should consist of the steps required to get to your vision.
Some visions might require you to obtain a degree or certificate. Some visions might take 6 years or longer in terms of education.
Some visions might require that you have a private teacher, or coach to obtain your future vision.
So in essence what we have been discussing here can be broken down into one word.
Goals
You need to setup a plan to achieve your goals. The word goals we will now substitute for the word vision. Your goal is the most important element in reaching your full potential.
Every day of your life you have to work for your goal. And that has to do with my next blog,
Consistency.
Thank you for reading my blog on reaching your full potential and beyond.
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How to reach your full potential and beyond.

How to reach your full potential and beyond.
First I would like to preface that I have not reached my full potential.
I am in the process of going  as far as I can with what god has given me.
Furthermore before giving you the reader suggestions I have to add a very important 
theory of mine. 
    Some supreme being, be it nature, energy, a spiritual power, God,
Jesus, Moses etc.  has given you a gift. That being the gift of life,, you also have been given another gift,  a talent. Something that you excel at.  
If you do not  use this talent you are telling god or whoever, No thank you,
I do not want this talent. And this is a slap in the face to a supreme being.
Furthermore to me that is a great sin. More of a sin than not going  to church on sunday or to the synagogue on friday nights or wherever you pray.
You have to cherish this gift, and use it and expand it over 100 percent of your capabilities. You must try to make a living using this gift. God has destined you to live by this talent.  Good or bad your destiny has been defined. Follow it. 
Follow gods light. You will hit many bumpy roads on the way, but your rewards will be great.
The reward of happiness, and money will come.
     Now that I established the foundation of going beyond your full potential, I will
write some suggestions that will further help you achieve it.
      Ther are  6 key words to keep in mind.
1.  Plan
2. Desire
 3. Positive
4.  Excitement
5.  Consistency
6. Focus
   Please remember these 6 words. I will expand on each one on my upcoming blogs.
For inspirational music please visit  my youtube channel   newamericacd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSczl-HhKAA

please read an inspirational book I am writitng based on positive thinking and the
other  5 words.      The Fighter
http://www.richardshapiro.blogspot.com
here is a song that i composed, arranged, and performed, regarding this blog.

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How the universities manipulate and control us.

How the  universities manipulate us.
If you made up your mind to become a doctor, lawyer, CPA, engineer, then you have to go to college. But there are many of us who are entrepreneurs in some form and do not need 
4 years of listening to professors that never ran a business.
How do you learn how to run a business? Simple by running a business. 
I will discuss what a business student learns in college.  He or she learns how to pass tests.
If you take an economics course, you will learn  fancy terminology. 
You will read about complex cases that have little to do with the problems facing a budding entrepreneur.  An economics  course should start with how to run a lemonade stand, and then expand it to the next soft drink giant. No they have to start the class with some boring terminology which is difficult to understand. So the student learns to memorize the terminology in order to be able to pass the tests of which  he will forget what he remebered 
the day after the test.
Here is what a business student learns in an accounting class. Transactions  based on corporations.  Mergers, stock liquadations, repurchase of stock, etc.
Nothing to do with small business which is more important to learn.  Instead of showing students how to use accounting software like quickbooks they talk about theory.
To earn a degree a student has to take liberal arts courses. 
Well basket weaving has a lot to do with how to run a business.
You have to take english literature.  Here you will read novels based on some authors
fantasy , or perspective of the world. Actually I enjoyed Bradbury,and I also enjoyed reading spy novels.
But what does this have to do with running a business. 
Here is the problem. The universities and the public education system is run by people
who never ran a business in their life. They have read many books. Have a great vocabulary. But they have no common sense.  If they had common sense they would be running a business. The professors are the same type of people that have government jobs.  They know nothing about the working class.
For example, I majored in accounting and minored in music. I was having trouble with 
my grades in a music history class. I was working many hours to pay for my tuition and rent, etc. The professor one day motified me that I was in danger of failing the class.
He asked me, what is happening with your grades. I replied that I am working extra hours .
He replied, why do you have to work so much? What a putz I said to myself.
And from that day I took a whole different attitude about college.
I learned it had nothing to do with the real world. 
 So why do universities exist. What is their purpose?
They are nothing more than a business. They are run by people who can not 
make a living doing anything else but spitting out quotes and theories from books.
They live in one big book. You take their books away and they are naked unimformed people. The universities are interested in taking your money and thats it.
They exist to make a huge profit.  So in order for them to get your business they have to advertise that you meed a degree to get ahead,  and that  you need a degree to make over one hundred thousand dollars a year. It has been proven over and over again that the majority 
of rich people never went to college. They started a business at an early age and stuck with it and passed it on thru the family.
 So you might ask yourself what should I do if I am not a entrepreneur. I would recommend
going to a vocational school.  I have taken some classes in video editing at Sheridan Vocational School here in Hollywood florida. I learned more in that class then I ever learned
in my 6 yrs of university education.  I learned by doing. By making mistakes and asking questions. Not by listening to theory.  That is the only way to learn. You learn by making mistakes. However the universities teach us that if you make a mistake you will get a bad grade. They reward you for not making mistakes. When I was starting out as a pianist
I was afraid to play a wrong mote or chord. So on one gig, the sax player imformed me that he could not hear me. I was playing too soft. He said kid. if you sre going to make a mistake make it big and loud.  Now I understand what he said. 
If I had to do it all over again I would not  have went to college . Rather, I would have invested in a pizza shop, or in a subway, Mcdonalds, Burger king, etc. 
As far as my music side I would have continued taking private lessons of which I stopped 
because of college. 
    I heard this phrase my whole life, " you have to go to college to get that piece of paper."
Well I have two pieces of paper. A BA in accounting and a Macc masters in accounting.
Real life experieince also taught me what I should do with those two pieces of paper.
But I am afraid I will clog the toilet if I do that.
Thamk you for reading my blog.
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The key to becoming a succesful musician

Lets analyze The key word for sucess as a musician.   The most important word that you the reader and musician should keep
in mind while working in your own band  or as an independent contractor in another is
attitude. Attitude is everything in life. It reflects everything about you.
How we define attitude also has an effect on how you are percibed as a person.
  Lets take an example.  The scenario is of a musiciam working with a band at a private party.  He does not like the music he has to play. So he has a long face , complains,
keeps asking when there will be a break, does not talk to the other  musiciams , smokes pot and drinks on the break.  
   Well if I was the band leader in this situation I would never hire him agaim.
Why? Because his attitude is bad.    
Now here is the correct attitude in a situation as described. 
Ok I do not like the music but I am here to perform the best I can. I will smile to the audience and the musicians in the band, joke with them on the break and even listen and laugh at their stupid jokes.
  Now this attitude can be applied to any business. A smile at a client or to your boss
says a million words about you.
A smile and a positive attitude together is very powerful no matter what business you are in.
Lets define positive attitude.  A person that creates good  energy as opposed to a bad attitude ; one that creates bad energy.
So the definition of attitude is either the production of good or bad energy; whether it is good or bad depends on whether one is positive or negative.
So here are a few pointers that I have learned. 
Smile, be courteous,  do the best job you can, do not talk bad about others.
do not gossip,  laugh at yourself when you make mistakes., do not take your playing or performances that serious, if giving a recital or a show  tell some funny stories in between your somgs.  Talk to the people in the audience. People love to get involved during your show. You might get some great material from audience interaction.
Enjoy what your doing. Do not think of it as a job. This is more important than the way you play. And most important of all have a positive attitude.
Thank you for reading my blog.
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Mi punto de vista de matrimonio gay

Los derechos de matrimonio entre los gays es
un tema muy profundo.
Lo que me preocupa es el asunto que los niños no deberían saber lo que es el matrimonio gay. El sueño normal de un niño o una niña es lo siguiente. 
En términos de un niño, el suena así, un día me voy a casar con una princesa la princesa voy a salvar, ella me va abrasar,me va a besar, y me va agradecer. Ella me va a nombrar su héroe. Me voy a sentir tan grande tan importante. Le voy a pedir matrimonio y nos vamos a tener niños bellos. Vamos a vivir en una casa grande con una cerca grande.
Voy a trabajar por mi princesa. Voy a trabajar muy duro.
El sueño de una niña suena así; un día un hombre guapo me va a salvar. El me va a poner en sus brazos . Y me voy a sentir tan bella.
Y nos vamos a casar y tener niños bellos
Así suena los niños ahora.
Pero como van a soñar después de habrá aprendido que el matrimonió no significa sólo una reunión entre un hombre y una mujer
sino también un hombre con un hombre y una mujer con una mujer,
no deberíamos exponer nuestros niños con este asunto,
ellos no tienen la madurez de entender eso.
Entonces el tema o la pregunta no tiene nada que ver con nosotros, sino con los niños, tenemos el deber a proteger nuestros niños de
esta significación nueva, no tenemos el derecho de quitar los sueños bellos de nuestros hijos.

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The lost generation

The lost generation.
The generation  before the baby boomers was a great one.
My parents were hard working people.    My father worked 3 jobs to support
a family of 3 sons. He was a police office, drove a bus, drove a cab, and fixed up homes 
and rented them out. He was always working.  He believed in the work ethic.
Work hard and you shall get ahead he used to tell me. Of course his favorite
saying which sums up everything is "when the going gets tough the tough get going".
Dad you are so right. That is what we need now. A wake up call to everyone.  
Wake up!!   
This work ethic i do not find with todays generation. For example when you
dine in a resteraunt, notice the service. It is poor.  The waiter or waitress
have this following attitude. I am doing you a favor by waiting on you. 
I am not going to give you good service, and while you are dining I will watch TV
and could care less about you, and yes  I expect a good tip.
  And it is true. they never come back to fill your water glass nor offer refills.
They are the laziest bunch of people I have met, and this  pertains for 
about 95 percent of the waiters.
  Furthermore they have no  personality, no smile, no warmth, no charisma.
The younger generation seems to be angry , hostile and aloof.
When your driving you will notice that there is a car tailgating you.
The driver usually is a young person and very angry.
What do you think attributes to this sought of behavior?
Music. If you listen to what these drivers are listening to ,and you can not
help but listening to it  because the music is so loud that their car sounds like it is about to explode you will hear war music. Chant of war. 
 What  is the message of this music. Alot of it is bad. The words are not understandable.
It sounds like a war message. A very angry message. Not a positive one.
Maybe it was the music that helped make the old generation special.
When have you heard lyrics recently like... you must remember this a kiss is just a kiss
a sigh is just a sigh....wow!!  how nice , how romantic,,,
how can you compare these words to words like    who let the dogs out....
and that is the whole song.  
The older generation had a great sense of humor. The comics of that era did not curse.
They used clean comedy.  Very hard to do.  The comics 
did not care what was politically correct.
    The older generation respected their teachers.  You find that now in public
 schools?
No.
The dress was conservative. Men wore ties and the women wore long dresses.
      When I first met my wife going back 17 yrs ago she had on a very conservative outfit.
I knew this woman was special. She did not follow the crowd.
Now women look like prostitutes. They all show their breasts on TV.  on the news.
How about leaving us some imagination. 
I  worked at a hotel in miami beach a month ago. and their was a discoteque next door
were I was working.  Their where young women 18 to 25 entering. They all looked like hookers.
Why?  I think a woman is sexy with a nice black gown and white gloves. So elegant.
  The old generation attended churches and synagogues. They belonged to all kinds of
charitable clubs. They were active in good causes. They cared about their neighborhoods
and the community, they did not have this me attitude. what can I take from the system.
  Statistics show that now memberships of synagogues and churches are falling.
Memberships are dwindling in charitsble organizations like hadasa, etc.
One might contribute this to TV,, now we have HBO, showtime,,sports channels.
not to far back there were only a few channels and after midnite their were no more
channels on the air.
One might contribute this to the advent of the internet.. email.
Heh, whatever happened to writing love letters.
Cell phones,  that took away from the term I miss you. Now we are always in touch.
Is this a good thing? 
  In conclusion I would say that technology has slowly taken away our souls.
Is it my imagination or do people look like zombies now? I believe  as techmology gets more advanced this is what we are going to see more of. Zombies.
Thank you for reading. 
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My music that I composed reflects my views.

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I will write a seperate blog on this song
shortly.
Remember to think positive. 

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