Songs on the run, and more

Chris writes:

Greetings... or for those of you who don't speak formal English -- 'sup?! My name's Chris, I'm a New Englander by birthright but I grew up in north Jersey (graduated from Indian Hills High School in Oakland, Bergen County) and I wouldn't trade that for anything. Have since spent time in Salt Lake City and Missoula, Montana... now, if home is where the heart is then I'm homeless. I spend much of my time living in central Alaska and this is an amazing place if you love the outdoors, but my heart's back in Upstate New York. What's here for now is basically just a record of my running, hiking, and the music I listen to, movies I watch, plus a little of this & that, maybe a rant or twelve about how despicable selfish American society is and the need for more people to volunteer AND give away more of their money rather than wastefully spend it on pursuing nicer, shinier, newer material possessions. Anyway, also here will eventually be my Appalachian Trail journal as well as tales of my travels once I next head out on the road and/or out of the country. Au revoir.

This is for the runner, the music lover... Enjoy!

Read more of Chris here.

Sharp Brains

From a MyBlogLog reference picked up via my review of "This is Your Brain on Music", I find this site and blog focused on the brain and activities to keep it healthy; Sharp Brain.

Recent posts include:

• Training the Brains of Fighter Pilots and Basketball Players
• Training the brain with a computer workout program: MindFit
• Brain Fitness: Shift Happens
• I have to exercise my brain, too
• Brain Teaser: how are Memory, Stress, Exercise, Brain Games, Stanford and Harvard connected?

The mission is:

Our mission is to make Brain Fitness available to all by raising public awareness and helping bring to market neuroscience-based products and programs, a.k.a. "brain gyms".

If you would like to keep your brain healthy, check this site out!

Kavit Haria

The trail ventures forth across the pond (as they say) to old England where we find Kavit Haria. What does Kavit do? According to his about page:

Kavit Haria is regarded as UK’s #1 Music Success Coach, a public speaker and coach who helps musicians have more successful careers and live more fulfilled lives.

As an established musician himself (multi-percussionist), he has played with many top name musicians in a wide variety of genres (fusion-style music) throughout his career.

His deep interest in personal development, inspired by Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, Topher Morrison, Deepak Chopra, Robert Kiyosaki and others urged him to take action in his life more than ever. Kavit is a certified and licensed NLP practitioner and Time Line therapist.

As a sought after coach and the founder and current C.E.O. of Inner Rhythm, Kavit has combined accelerated learning and results psychology with the music business in order to coach musicians around the world and speak to audiences in the UK about music marketing and the psychology of music success.

Did you know how big a market Valentines Day is?

I always knew Valentines Day was a big spending day but I had no idea it was a $17 Billion market. A research by eMarketer.com said that “the “2007 Valentine’s Day Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey,” conducted for NRF by BIGresearch, estimates that the average consumer will spend $119.67 this Valentine’s Day, up from $100.89 last year.“

Kavit has a series of interviews underway with the postings to be found here. The most recent is with Curt Rosengren.

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Kavit Haria

At this next stop along the trail we find Kavit writing:

Welcome to the official weblog of Kavit Haria. This is the single blog where Kavit combines all his work, writings, philanthrophy and his quest for lifelong fulfillment.

Kavit Haria is regarded as UK’s #1 Music Success Coach, a public speaker and coach who helps musicians have more successful careers and live more fulfilled lives.

As an established musician himself (multi-percussionist), he has played with many top name musicians in a wide variety of genres (fusion-style music) throughout his career.

Kavit writes:

Here’s another great music marketing strategy you may like to try out. Once your fans sign up to your mailing list at your website, offer them free audio samplers of your music. Then over a period of a few weeks, email them frequently and become their friend, not the sales person. Being the friend always is a good thing as they can see you taking an interest in them and what they are involved in.

Read the full posting here.

Kavit writes:

How clear and so useful for us today, no matter what religion it originates from. Start chunking down your bigger goals, ambitions and wants in life into smaller, simpler activities and just notice that you’ll get to the goal faster. Maybe you’re the kind of person that knows you’ve got to get something done, but you just don’t do it and sometimes you don’t even know why you don’t take action. Well most of the time, it’s the mind that’s afraid because it’s such a big task and if you don’t complete it, you put yourself down, lose focus and frustration. Well not any more. Follow the Tao’s passage above and break things into smaller and simpler tasks and then just take action.

Read the full posting here.

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