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In a long conversation with Ernesto Consolo, the eminent pianist and instructor, many points of vital importance to the player and teacher were touched upon. Among other things Mr. Consolo said.

"It is absolutely necessary that the piano teacher should take his profession very seriously. In my opinion there is most excellent instruction to be secured right here in America, with such teachers as are willing to take their work seriously. The time is not far away, I think, when America will enjoy a very prominent position in the matter of musical instruction, and perhaps lead the world in musical advantages. The time is not here just yet, but it is surely coming. You are still young in this country, though you are wonderfully progressive.

"If I have spoken of the serious aims of many teachers of piano, I cannot say as much for the students: they are often superficial and want to go too quickly; they are apt to be in a hurry and want to make a show, without being willing to spend the necessary years on preparation. No art can be hurried. Students of painting, sculpture, architecture or music must all learn the technique of their art; they must all learn to go deep into the mysteries and master technic as the means to the end, and no one requires exhaustive preparation more than the executive musician. The person who would fence, box or play baseball must know the technic of these things; how much more must the pianist be master of the technique of his instrument if he would bring out the best results.

"At the very bottom and heart of this subject of mastery lies Concentration: without that, little of value can be accomplished. Students think if they sit at the piano and 'practise' a certain number of hours daily, it is sufficient. A small portion of that time, if used with intense concentration, will accomplish more. One player will take hours to learn a page or a passage which another will master in a fraction of the time. What is the difference? It may be said one has greater intelligence than the other. The greater the intelligence, the stronger the power of concentration.

"If a pupil comes to me whose powers of concentration have not been awakened or developed, I sometimes give him music to read over very slowly, so slowly that every note, phrase and finger mark can be distinctly seen. Not being used to thinking intently, mistakes occur, in one hand or the other, showing that the mind was not sufficiently concentrated. It is the mind every time that wins. Without using our mental powers to their fullest extent we fail of the best that is in us.

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Today, monetization has become almost synonymous with online businesses. People who want to make money out of anything will look at the Internet as their first and most significant domain of activity. There are many reasons why they tap the online resources for monetization.

First and foremost, today the whole concept of monetization has changed. No longer are people thinking conventional. They are trying to make money out of new ideas, new concepts, setting their minds to work. This is not possible unless these entrepreneurs can find the very people who have a liking for what they are selling. In short, they are working in specialized niches and that is the reason they need to find people who they can regard as their niche clientele.

The Internet allows that. When you are working on the Internet, you will find that there are tons of ways in which you can find people interested in whatever you are trying to do. You want to build a fan site for a show that no one watches around you? You can do that on the Internet. You want to speak about a hobby that you have and think no one else has? You will be surprised to find how many people share you special fondness on the Internet. Do you have a particular talent that you think no one cares about? On the Internet you will find a whole barrage of people who do. Or, probably you have made a product that no one around you finds useful. You will really be pleasantly surprised to see that you have a niche market for that product as well, on the Internet.

The main thing is that the Internet boosts your confidence. When you know that there are several people who are interested in the same things as you are and are also interested in what you are trying to sell, you become more confident about making that object or conceptualizing that idea and monetizing it.

The best part of it is that there is no rejection. Gone are the days when sellers had to peddle their wares to the customers; today with the help of the Internet, it is very much possible to bring interested customers to your door. If you are the shy introverted kind who shudders at the idea of being refused, the Internet is the place where you can market.

The great amount of resources that you can find on the Internet is the biggest draw, of course. There are ways in which you can bring people right at your door, waiting to buy whatever it is you are selling. This is what bolsters your confidence and inspires you about your enterprise, even if it doesn’t do anything else for you.

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Cows will bring large or small profits in proportion to the care they receive. If properly housed, properly fed, properly bred, and properly protected against disease they will fully repay the little extra attention required. Strive intelligently to secure the greatest possible regular production. Keep a sharp lookout for unfavorable symptoms and be prompt in finding a cause for poor condition and remedying it. Cows kept in perfect health are the least expense, least trouble, and the greatest profit-earners.

You do not need to be a veterinarian to know that the health of a cow depends on a good healthy appetite with complete digestion and perfect assimilation of the daily ration.

That is just plain common sense. No cow which is not a big eater can be profitable. But appetite is not of itself sufficient to make a cow a money maker. There must be sound digestion.

Once establish and maintain good digestion, food performs its natural functions. Bodily waste is repaired. Strength and growth are noticed and the cow gives the utmost possible amount of milk. See then, that your cows have hearty, healthy appetites and good digestion. Good digestion does not always follow a large appetite. A cow giving only a few quarts of milk a day will often eat as much as one giving gallons. She requires the same amount of care and attention.

The trouble is that she does not have good digestion to convert food into milk. Of course there are cows which will always be small milkers, but there are many many more cows which can be made to give substantial, paying increase of milk production if proper attention is given them. Perhaps there are such cows in your herd. Without your even realizing it, they are out of condition. A little help and they would give enough more milk to pay you a satisfactory profit.

This "help" can easily be given. Your own dealer has it. We mean Pratts Cow Remedy, for cows only.

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When you set out to make money on the Internet, you are going to play in a very equalized pool. Everybody goes to the same internet. Everybody gets the same Google, the same Facebook, the same Squidoo. Any two people can find the same forums and the same article directories. At any given time there are hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world that can make you a success: potential customers, mentors, and business partners. It is all there. You just have to find it or use it correctly.

Yet 99% of all internet businesses fail. In spite of having little or no start up costs, in spite of having little or no overhead, the businesses do not turn out the sorts of results that people had hoped for, and so they give up. They go on to something else. They decide it doesn‘t work. They go out skeptical and they leave certain: certain that only scammers and the very lucky make money from home on the internet.

Yet there are hundreds of thousands of people who are making money on the internet, making good money. They follow high ethical standards. They provide real products of real value. They live the kinds of lives they want to live.

This is why the Secret applies to internet marketing so strongly. If you believe in yourself and what you are doing, you won‘t throw in the towel when traffic to your site isn‘t what you‘d envisioned. You‘ll figure out how to make it better. You won‘t balk at the sudden writer‘s block you get when trying to make a solid forum post to help get your name out there—you‘ll learn ways to beat the block. You won‘t make a slipshod effort that looks slipshod and feels slipshod and produces few, if any, results. You‘ll learn what works and you‘ll apply what works. You‘ll do what you love and love what you‘re doing because that is what you set out to do, and through the Secret you understand that every resource you need to make it happen is in the Universe generally and there on the internet with you in particular. You‘ll constantly be thinking hey, I‘m as capable as the next guy, if he could pick up the skills so can I. You‘ll pick up the skills and you‘ll keep right on going.

There is a time delay between each component of the Secret: your thoughts and decisions, then your actions, and then the results of your actions. You might not wake up today with thousands of site visitors. Your efforts today might not produce immediate results. Quit training yourself to the immediate result. Acting like you already have what you want gives you the strength and power you need to keep taking the actions that will get you there. Acting like what you want is always in the future will place your actions in a different place: in a place where they are not getting done and you are reading worthless emails to distract yourself instead.