I’ve added several new resources to the John Pape Online Blog.
I thought this was an interesting variation on a theme. Especially, when it comes to hope.
Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.Psalm 43:5
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Here is an excerpt of an article that I came across that I thought would be beneficial the the readers of this blog. Setting goals is a way to help create your future. Here are some tips that can help you in the pursuit of you dreams and ambitions. Enjoy and feel free to make any comments you would like in response to this article
– John Pape
Most of us set goals for our lives. Whether the goal is to climb Everest or to buy a pair of shoes, setting goals can sometimes seem like second nature to us. Even so, setting a goal doesn’t automatically mean getting the result. Sometimes goals are gradually forgotten about and fade away into the back of our minds.
As with most things, it’s better to keep this process simple. These are five suggestions that I use. They’re easy to do and don’t take much time, but the effects are obvious once you do them.
The idea is to get a notice board, and let your artistic side out. Don’t just write a list. Stick up things that remind you of what it is that you want. Photos, gifts, memorabilia, letters, notes, pages from books. Anything that provides you with a reminder of that original inspiration.
Be creative: This board will engulf everything about your goal and show you all the reasons you want to achieve it.
Images are a source of great inspiration. Seeing a sunset isn’t the same as reading about it, no matter how good the writer. Get photos of what you want to achieve and stick them everywhere you can. Pictures of the people that inspire you doing what they do best are great. Decorate your home with them, put them on your desktop background, put them on your cell phone background, have photos on your desk of things that represent your aims. The picture isn’t as important as the emotional connection to your goal that comes with it.
As well as the photos, have notes dotted around the place. Write notes that explain the photo you have chosen. A photo of a mansion with a pool with a note saying “I am going to buy this house” will further reinforce your goal. The more unavoidable and obvious your goals are, the easier it becomes to remember what you are working for. Notes can be left anywhere. I leave notes on my desk, by my bed, on the refrigerator door, in the bathroom.
What applications do you use most? The majority of applications that are used everyday will have some way of keeping a note, whether it was meant for that purpose or not. I’m an avid user of iGoogle and my iGoogle homepage displays my goals every time I log in. Microsoft Outlook can do the same. Firefox can (there are handy notes add-ons!). Even Windows can. Google’s Desktop sidebar lets you save notes so that they’re ready for you when you log in. Whatever application you use the most, have it remind you of your goals.
Tell others about your goals. Tell the people that inspire you and will throw encouragement your way. The inspiring people in our lives will add to our momentum. Have a conversation about your goals often. If your goals are well known and a regular talking point, you’ll never lose that inspiration.
Staying motivated past the original spark of inspiration is not easy. It can take discipline and a strong will to keep working towards a long term goal, but at the very least we can make things easier.
Remind yourself of the original moment you set your goal. The reasons you want to achieve that goal. The potential results of your hard work should be seen around your home or workplace.
Hopefully with the above methods, you will find your goals become part of who you are, and you’ll find the journey to achieving them much easier.
Source Dr. Mercola, Lifehack
Here is a list of various organization that are available to you with information and assistance on copyright issues.
CCLI
Christian Copyright Licensing, Inc. Copyright licensing for churches and ministries.
Copyright Office
(United States) – copyright those worship songs you’ve written
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Performing rights organization
Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI)
Performing rights organization
SESAC
Performing rights organization
Music Publishers Association Copyright Resources
Links and useful resources
The Copyright Website
Practical and relevant copyright information of interest to infonauts, netsurfers, webspinners, content providers, musicians, appropriationists, activists, infringers, outlaws, and law abiding citizens.
I am sure there are other resources out there, if you know of any please feel free to include links and descriptions in the comments for this post.
Below is a list of many free software resources that are available to you. If you have also found software that is useful and you want to share it please leave a comment to this post.
PraiseBase©
Worship team database has all the functions from SongBuilder (below) plus a database to track team members, worship sets and schedules.
SongBuilder©
(formerly CLOG Chord, Lyric, Overhead Generator). New version can also do key transpositions for chord charts and choose inline chords or chords on top.
Anvil Studio
Anvil Studio™ is a free Windows program designed for people who want to:
Finale Notepad
You can create great looking sheet music with this free application.
Ghostscript
A freeware program for creating PDF files.
VanBasco MIDI Player
vanBasco’s Karaoke Player plays MIDI Karaoke files. Lyrics can be displayed in full-screen. You can change and recall tempo, volume, and key of a song, and mute or solo instruments.
Adobe PDF viewer
This is the software need to view many of the sheet music files on this site.
Finale viewer
This program is needed to view .MUS (which are a combination of Sheet Music and Midi) files created by users of Finale software.
UltraPlayer
UltraPlayer is a free MP3 player supporting MP3, WAV, CD Audio and Internet radio streams. Loads of features including a sleep timer.
Winamp
Very popular, versatile MP3 file player. If you use it longer than 14 days, you’re required to pay $10 to continue to use it for noncommercial use or $25 for commercial use.
Free Praise And Worship – Worship Leader Resource
Praise And Worship, chords, lyrics, mp3, realaudio, sheet music. Over 700 songs from independent christian songwriters. A great resource for worship leaders
Worship Assistant
Software tool for planning your worship services and presenting song lyrics using a video projector.
Online Transposer
Web based tool automatically transpose song chords to a new key
Free Bible Software
Free 31 volume Bible Software CD that this nonprofit ministry gives away. Commentaries, Bibles, and more.
English Gospel Songs with Chord Notation
Guitar Tuner
on line guitar tuner. This tuner works only for Internet Explorer.
christianguitar.org
This site was started in July of 2000, to fill a void in the area of Christian tab sites on the internet. There were several decent sites out there, but I felt that more could be done to serve the Christian guitarist community. Thus, Christian Guitar Resources was born! This site is here to help you help each other. I’ve tabbed a number of songs, and I’m getting better at it, but I still rely on you for most of our tabs.
Josh’s Christian Guitar Page
Many praise songs for your use in your ministry
Rockin the Cross: Guitar
This is a Christian guitar tablature archive for musicians by musicians.
Christian Guitar Network
Now the page is a complete archive with tabs from different archives on the web as well over 100 tabs and lessons done personally by Brian that are exclusive to this site.
Acoustic Guitar Central
www.acousticguitar.com is the online home of Acoustic Guitar magazine. Founded in 1990, Acoustic Guitar won the coveted “Maggie” Award as the Best New Consumer Magazine of the year, and quickly established itself as the leading magazine for all acoustic guitar players, from beginners to performing professionals. Through interviews, reviews, workshops, sheet music, and song transcriptions, Acoustic Guitar readers learn music from around the globe and get to know the artists who create it.
In addition to this website I have a couple of others as well. From time to time I go in and tweak the site to make them better. One site I’ve been working on is http://www.accordionboot.com It is what you would call is single product e-commerce site. This item is used in many application primarily in vehicles. It is used as a gasket in truck campers and also use in a blow-through audio port for car audio speakers.
Recently I expanded the site to include new pages. The goal for creating these pages was to develop new content that would help in my SEO for the site. To accomplish this I added a resource page. On the resource page I added several page that relate directly to the accordion boot product. I included these pages:
Again the purpose of this document is to provide my client with additional information that will allow them to make an informed decision when they decide to purchase the product.
Now that I’ve added these resources to my website, I can now monitor any improvements in incoming traffic.
