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Piano practice can be fun too!.. Most people don’t really want to ‘learn’ to play the piano or ‘practice’ the piano, they just want to ‘play’ piano. ‘Play’ sounds like fun, ‘practice’ sounds like a chore. We get this image from childhood – some kid stuck indoors ‘practicing’ scales while all the other kids are outside the window ‘playing’. So, first thing we need to do is to see our piano practice in a new light. See it as a way of accelerating the learning process so that SOON you’ll be able to ‘play’ piano and play it well. If you don’t practice and you just play old familiar tunes you move rather slowly. Yes, you’ll get better at playing those old familiar tunes but technically you won’t be pushing yourself to greater heights. Proper, structured piano practice helps you stride forwards. I say ‘proper’ because a lot of people have an idea that practice IS just playing songs over and over. Practice needs to involve unchartered territory. The golden rule is – ‘practice what yo...

Source: www.exfactorguide.com Yeah, the feeling of getting dumped sucks. There’s no question about that. Sometimes, you can go crazy thinking about all the things that went wrong in your relationship. But the bottom of the line is, the reason why your relationship ended is because your boyfriend has lost attraction for you. No, it wasn’t because you left your dirty laundry around the house or that it’s “him, not you…”, it’s because the foundation of his attraction for you faded – and it’s your fault. There are ways you can “re-attract” your boyfriend (and I’ll get to that in a second), but you have to first understand why he dumped you. Only then will you know how you can get him back. This is what I like to call The Six Deadly Relationship Sins. Now, I’m not saying that you committed all of these mistakes, but chances are you probably exhibited at least one of these characteristics that pretty much forced your boyfriend to leave you (even if he’s claimed that he left you for ...

Article by by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer Author of best-sellers: The Fat Burning Kitchen & The Top 101 Foods that FIGHT Aging Are Whole Eggs or Egg Whites Better for You? I was on a weekend trip with some friends recently and one of my friends was cooking breakfast for the whole group. I went over to see what he was cooking and saw he was getting ready to make a big batch of eggs. Well, to my shock and horror, I noticed that he was cracking the eggs open and screening the egg whites into a bowl and throwing out the egg yolks. I asked him why the heck he was throwing out the egg yolks, and he replied something like this... "because I thought the egg yolks were terrible for you...that's where all the nasty fat and cholesterol is". And I replied something along the lines of... "you mean that's where all of the nutrition is!" This is a perfect example of how confused most people are about nutrition. ...