Can my motivation secret help you?

   People are constantly emailing me asking me how I stay motivated and how they can, too.

      My secret is this: I don't leave it to chance. I make certain I have a system. I ambush myself with quotes that inspire me and fire me up. I also have various passages in books that I have highlighted over the years (ever since the great mind shift in my life... but that's another story...).. and I start my day with those short passages.

    They change everything.

    They flush all the stories about Lack and Want and Worry out of my system and give me fresh inspiration and energy to have an absolutely productive day.

    If I could share anything with you I'd share these quotes and passages and ideas. And one day while talking to my friend and business partner Maurice Bassett we decided I COULD AND WOULD SHARE THESE.

   It took us awhile, but we arrived at a price. The price would be zero. All you do is sign up, and two or three times a week (I don't want to be predictable... remember the ambush factor) I will send you an email. An email motivator. And my prayer will be that you are motivated as much as I am by these thoughts and highlighted ideas.

    Sign up HERE

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"We don't sing because we're happy,
we're happy because we sing."

 ~ WILLIAM JAMES


A FUN THING TO DO 
THAT WILL ALSO
HAVE YOU LIVE LONGER

   Professor Graham Welch, who is the Chairman of Music Education at the Institute of Education, University of London has studied developmental and medical aspects of singing for more than three decades said not so long ago that health benefits of good singing are both physical and psychological. 

      "Singing has physical benefits because it is an aerobic activity that increases oxygenation in the blood stream and it exercises major muscle groups in the upper body. Singing has psychological benefits because of its normally positive effect in reducing stress through the action of the endocrine system which is linked to our sense of emotional well being."

     Yet most people die with their music still in them... or watching other people sing on TV, or going to concerts, or listening to headphones, but not singing.

     At the last two seminars I put on for coaches we sang. We sang Margaritaville and then in Chicago we sang When The Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin Along (thank you Susan). So don't say we aren't current, hip and way cool. The point is we sang.

     According to a research conducted by leading singing teacher, Helen Astrid from The Helen Astrid Singing Academy in London, regular vocal cord exercises are also thought to prolong life. 

      This was what Helen said, "Singing is an excellent way to keep fit because you are exercising your lungs and heart (cardio vascular exercise). Furthermore, your body produces endorphins (happy hormones), just like when you eat a bar of chocolate except that with singing, you won't consume any extra calories! Singing not only increases your lung capacity, it improves posture, clears respiratory tracks and sinuses and can even increase mental alertness through greater oxygenation. Singing often also helps to tone and firm up your abdominal and back muscles as well. However, that is if you are singing correctly using the correct singing techniques." 

     "Another great benefit of singing is that it can keep you looking young since you are gently exercising your facial muscles", added Helen who looks more than a decade younger than she really is. 

      According to the findings of a joint study conducted by Harvard and Yale, singing can even help you live longer. The study showed that choral singing increased the life expectancy of the population of New Haven, Connecticut. This report concluded that this was because singing promotes a healthy heart and an enhanced mental state. 

     In one of my favorite books, Jump Start Your Metabolism by Pam Grout, she recommends singing as much as you can all day long, in the car, in the shower, everywhere, to jump start your lung power, your metabolism and your body's capacity to burn fat and reduce weight.

    Here's a little jump start right here: I could not watch this with dry eyes:

  

Comments

[Mafe]

I've always been criouus about vibrato and how it is produced. I've always had white tones (what Tim calls straight tones ) which was good for a Bass in a Chorus as they don't want a cacophony of vibratos. I know exactly what it is technically. It is frequency modulation of a note with a little amplitude modulation built in. The latter can be seen on a VU meter vibrating. I've found that the most pleasant vibratos have asymmetrical amplitude modulation. (meter pulses upward)

[Nathy]

제가 이해하기로는,복귀 이후에도 가차없이 모멸감을 주었을 겁니다. 그것이 예전에는 자기 생각에 반하는 사람들에게 였다면,복귀 후에는 the best idea가 아닌 것을 주장하며 시간낭비하는 사람들에게 겠죠.본문의 "The best ideas have to win, otherwise good pelope don't stay." 바로 전 문장을 인용합니다.'You have to be run by ideas not hierarchic"

[red bottom]

you please support this with some proof or you might say some very good reference as I and others will actually enjoy.

[Hilary Jeanes]

That's interesting. There has just been a programme on TV here in the UK demonstrating the same point about singing featuring the wives of men serving in Afghanistan. Here's an article about them http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/8948378/Military-Wives-choir-Weve-found-our-voices.html. And here is their song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h39vBsiR68.