5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Change Your Life

There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that commitment to a daily inward practice opened the door to wonderful things coming into my life. I was at the darkest hour, it was several years after I tragically lost my son and my husband, and I was plagued with feelings of hopelessness and indifference.

Timothy Ferris says in his best selling book, "The 4 Hour Work Week," that the opposite of happiness is boredom, and the opposite of love is indifference.

In that chaotic chapter of my life, I would wake up and feel no excitement, no desire, and absolutely no joy. I would hear a fearful voice in my head saying, Oh no! What are you going to do now! How will you survive? You experienced the worst that could happen and now you have to be sad for the rest of your life!

When I was faced with a career change and redefining myself I heard... You're getting older, no one will hire you! You can't start a whole new life, now!

And ladies... what about this one... You're fat in those pants! How can you stand yourself?

Does that little voice resonate within you, too? We all have one, living inside our heads. It's the voice of fear, and we will never, ever find peace in our lives if we listen to it, feed it, and give it power.

Tony Robbins says people will change when they've suffered enough. Are you there? Are you exhausted by being you? Or are you at a starting line just waiting for the bell to go off?

I remember one time, my sister said "I feel sometimes like I'm just waiting for my real life to begin." Have you ever considered that your past, no matter how difficult it was, may actually be the platform to your exciting future? I developed these 5 steps to empower your life. It was born out of my own challenges forcing me to look at a new way of life.

The 5 step process below is one way to begin your journey.

It's irresistible, isn't it? To think that you're just five steps away from designing your life, your way.

Step Number 1

Morning Flashcards

Yes! Your mind is a computer. I was shown this right after my son died. My mind began a series of flashbacks, playing over and over in my brain for months. I saw and recalled incidents that were long forgotten, until I didn't need to hold the memories in the forefront any longer. Now they are tucked away inside a folder on my brain's hard drive.

What I learned from this is how to "download" and implement resilience, creativity, motivation, and love.

You can do anything for one minute, can't you? Meditation is a time to be still. It's like prayer without words. Everyone struggles with meditation. It seems boring and impossible. Here's the truth: Expect nothing from meditation, and consistent use will give you everything.

Try to think only of breathing. Every time a thought goes in, breathe it away. Thoughts will flow in and out, in and out. Just keep redirecting your thoughts to breathing. Start with 1 minute, and go up to 5 if you like. Then take a deep cleansing breath to signify the end of meditation.

Keeping your eyes closed after meditation, follow with Morning Flashcards for your brain. Since your brain is clear and relaxed from meditation, it's ready to be programmed with good and productive thoughts.

Your brain can be programmed. So... write these words down on individual cards, then look at the word and think of something that represents each word.

Picture yourself:

• Happy
• Fit and healthy
• Successful
• In love
• Giving love
• Peaceful heart

Step Number 2

Template for Each Day

Every day include:

• meditation/prayer/brain flashcards


• exercise


• mindful and enjoyable eating, meaning choose foods that are good for you and make you happy.


• Friends and Family


• Read at least 15 minutes per day, no matter what. Especially in the areas of mind, body, spirit, your business, or your personal interests. Don't waste time reading the entire newspaper, it will only depress you. If you must, look for the inspired stories and information pertaining to your life.


• If it's a workday, make it count. Find the parts of your work that make it meaningful. Is it contact with people? Using your creative spirit to write ad copy? Designing a new program?


• Down time means relaxing your brain. A lot of people use television to do this, but this is actually stimulating. Try something that doesn't take too much thinking. When my son died, I did gardening or painting. It was soothing and brought peace to my thoughts


• Before Bed, have gratitude for the day and ask for peaceful, restorative sleep.

Gandhi said "We must BE the change we want to see in the world."

Being consistent with this template will change you and change those around you.

Step Number 3

Create the Soundtracks of Your Life

I think just about everyone has an iPod, MP3, iPad, or at least access to iTunes on their computer. Music is a gift of life. From the beginning of time we, as people have been singing, humming, chanting, whistling, playing instruments, or playing music. There's a reason. It balances the soul. Rhythm is in your being. Just listen to your heart, or your breathing, or watch how you blink. It's involuntary, but it's there.

Mary Carden, a teacher of the Carden method puts everything to music for children to learn. Even numbers have a rhythm.

For this reason, give yourself the gift of creating your soundtracks. iTunes makes it so easy. There are other programs out there too. I have my morning soundtrack that gets me pumped up for the day.! It begins with Black Eyed Peas singing "I Got A Feeling."

Sales experts will tell you to play a song before you make the "big pitch." It get's you energized! Excited! Feeling powerful! You're in rhythm and that makes you attract people to your rhythm!

When I'm frustrated, my soundtrack begins with "Let it Be."

When I'm feeling romantic, my soundtrack begins with Peter Gabriel singing "The Book of Love."

When I'm writing, my guilty pleasure is opera. Because it's in Italian, the words don't distract me, but the music is inspiring!

Step Number 4

Defining Moments

What personal life experiences have defined who you are?

Write down moments that were positive and moments that were negative. Positive experiences might be going to college, starting a new career, meeting a significant person in your life. Negatives might be loss of a job, a divorce, or illness.

Positive:

1.

2.

3.

Negative:

1.

2.

3.

Now go back and list one or two words to assign the lesson learned to the defining moment. Here's a hint for finding the lesson. Say to yourself, "If I knew then, what I know now... " For instance, my daughter being born with a facial birth defect taught me the "Beauty of Imperfection."

Step Number 5

Your Table of Contents

Author, William Bridges, of "The Way of Transition" suggests creating the Table of Contents of your life. I know what mine are... do you?

List chapters from your past and your future. Some of my past chapters that were my defining moments:

• Awakening to the Beauty of Imperfection (this one is about my daughter's birth)
• Resilience and the Gift of Re-Inventing My Life after 50 (the loss of my husband and having to create a new career to support my family)

Some of the chapters for my future:

• My Estate of Being (how I gathered together my career and my investments to create a balanced and peaceful future)
• Finding Blissville

I have good news for you. Start this new practice tomorrow and in 21 days it will be a habit. Are you seeing the possibility! All things are possible! As you begin to implement these practices, you will awaken your resilience to discover inner peace, guidance, your ability to receive more abundance and success.

And let's not forget Love! The most important part of your life is the ability to give and receive love.

This is just the beginning of an new amazing life path! May it be filled with purpose and joy.

Sandy Peckinpah is the author of 6 books, is a staff writer for a magazine, and is a speaker. One of her books made it to the Grammy Ballot as a spoken word CD. She focuses on changing peoples' lives by implementing tools that help awaken inner strength, resilience, abundance, and joy. Read more at http://BreakthroughToHappy.com or http://SandyPeckinpah.com

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How To Make Beats Online - No Need For A Recording Studio!

Want to know how to make beats online? The first step in making beats online is finding good software that requires little to no musical production knowledge. If you have been searching around you will know that this can very time consuming and frustrating.

Here is the truth

It's easy to find a piece of crap software that claims it can help you produce the beats you hear on your favorite CD's but that is all a bunch of nonsense. There aren't many affordable programs out there that can produce high quality sounds. You may have even thought about purchasing expensive equipment because you may have been told that is the only way to make professional beats, but that is far from the truth.

If that were true then it would mean that you will have to spend a lot of money on a recording studio and tons of equipment. Luckily it's not true and all you need to do is find some other piece of software that can produce professional sounds and beats.

Is there any good software out there?

There are actually a couple software solutions that you may come across that are pretty good but they require a lot of musical production knowledge. And if you find software that doesn't require a lot of knowledge it's probably a piece of junk. So, you want to find software that is of high quality and easy to understand.

Well you're in luck because there is software out there that offers professional sounding sounds and drums and an easy learning curve. There is software out there that includes tutorials that take no longer than 15 minutes to watch and fully grasp.

You could literally be making remarkable beats by the end of the day if you find the right software.

There is software out there that includes thousands of samples that have been professionally mastered in a recording studio and all you have to do is choose your specific type of style that you want whether it be rap, hip hop, dance or any other kind of genre you can think of. The musical possibilities are endless.

So now what?

Making beats online can be an issue but just like anything else, there is a solution. Finding the right kind of software that fits your needs and expectations can be a difficult task, but you now have the information you need to lead in you in the right direction. So are you ready to start making beats online?

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How To Make A Rap Beat ?

If you want to know how to make a rap beat then you may come to realize there is a lot of information online. You may have read somewhere or maybe you have been told that you need a recording studio to do this. You may also have heard that you need a whole bunch of expensive equipment in order to create high quality sounding beats. There is some truth to this but there are other options.

What are your options?

Truthfully it does help if you have your own recording studio and some understanding of music production but it isn't a requirement for making rap beats that you might here from your favorite artists. I'm sure you've heard beats on the radio or on the club and you thought to

Your other option to making rap beats would be to find software that can produce professional rap beats.

Honestly, even if you find professional music producing software, most of the time you'll still need knowledge of putting beats together or you'll quickly find that you either do not make good sounding beats or you may not be able to get the software to make any music at all.

Here is some good news.

There is a piece of software that you can get your hands on that will show you how you can make a rap beat and the best part is it has been made with the complete beginner in mind and professionals alike.

You can sit down and take a few minutes to watch the tutorial videos and be on your way to making your first rap beat using the software in less than 15 minutes. You can find software that comes with thousands of beats to choose from so you should be making some excellent rap beats in a very short period of time. Not to mention the value you're getting because, there is amazing software out there can cost less than $50. If you know about the expenses of music production you know that a one-time $50 investment is nothing compared to what you could be paying for renting a recording studio or buying your own equipment.

Make your dreams a reality.

I'm sure you've heard beats on the radio or in the club and you thought to yourself I bet I could make some serious beats with the right equipment or software. Well now you can start making your own beats starting today, all you have to do is find the right software and you're good to go. This is really changing the way that people make rap music online!

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Gangnam Style becomes YouTube's most-viewed video

Gangnam Style, the dance track by South Korean pop phenomenon Psy, has become YouTube's most-watched video of all time.

Psy's horse-riding dance has been performed by the head of the UN

It has notched up more than 808m views since it was posted in July.

The video pokes fun at the consumerism of Gangnam, an affluent suburb of the South Korean capital Seoul.

In it, the portly Psy dances as though he is trotting on a horse, holding the reins and spinning a lasso in a manner that has sparked a global dance craze.

The video also features the 34-year-old singer reclining on a sun lounger in tight pink shorts, gazing longingly at a girl dancing on an underground train in tight shorts and gesticulating at a woman working out on a beach - in tight shorts.

The dance has sparked numerous copycat versions, being performed by a diverse fan-base including Filipino prison inmates, prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a Chinese robot.

Popular parodies include one performed by Eton College schoolboys and another in the Star Trek language Klingon.

Gangnam Style, which won best video at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards, has also been number one in 28 countries.

It holds the Guinness World Record for the most "liked" song ever - currently with a little under 5.4m likes on YouTube.

Previously, Justin Bieber's 2010 teenybopper hit Baby held the record for the most YouTube views.

Bieber's manager Scooter Braun was the first person in the US to tweet a link to the Gangnam Style video.

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Conor Maynard kicked off a series of ‘BT Infinity Presents’ gigs on Tuesday night infront of an intimate audience of ecstatic competition winners.

“Live from the 34th Floor" was simultaneously streamed in HD to thousands of youtube watchers around the world.

The interactive gig also allowed his fans, lovingly know as 'Maniacs', to get involved by tweeting questions and voting for their favourite cover version to be performed which, much to Conor's satisfaction, turned out to be 'Diamonds' by Rhianna.

The pop sensation played a striped back acoustic set which included 'Vegas Girl' and new single 'Turn Around' featuring Ne-Yo. Prior to playing the track he answered a spoof call from Ne-Yo asking "where are you man, I'm about to play our single?". Rolling his eyes he continued "he hung up!"

Enjoying his last day as a teenager Conor urged the audience to celebrate his birthday with him.

In jovial mood Conor answered tweets and joked with the global audience before impressing with his vocal range by launching into first single 'Can't Say No' and album opener 'Animal'.

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Rihanna's career is heading for freefall as reports suggest she is heading down the same path as Amy Winehouse after a disaster of a promo trip last week.

It was titled the #777 Tour. 150 fans and journalist went on a seven-day, seven-sountry, seven-concert tour with Rihanna. The promotion was a mess. Reports from the inside were horrific.

At Gawker.com, one of the journos, (who preferred to remain anonymous) wrote about the sad state of Rihanna.

'I hesitate to say that she looked visibly drunk or generally 'on some of the hard shit' during her performances, so let me just say that we came to expect a three hour delay before she went on every night,' he reporter wrote.

The shows simply sounded sad. 'She barely does any of her own singing, which isn't a huge pearl-clutcher, but at least Britney danced a little. For Rihanna, just licking her lips during a song constitutes a taxing, elaborate physical routine that deserves a couple of mid-performance tequila shots.'

And the shows were exactly the same every night except for 'insert city here'. 'The shows are hilariously rote. 'What the fuck is up, Mexico City?' 'What the fuck is up, Toronto?' 'What the fuck is up, Paris?' 'What the fuck is up, [Insert Epcot Center City Here]?' followed by a tight sixty minutes of lip synching and lethargic thigh-slapping'.

The entire promotion sounds like a disaster. 'Please picture what it would be like going to your job if there was no toilet, kitchen, water fountain, faucet, or lunch break, and instead of going home at the end of the night, they made you wait standing up in an airport while the person responsible for determining when you go home laid around getting fucked up and wearing European money like pasties

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