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How do I succeed? This is a question that is asked by millions of people all over the world every day. Some get to find the answer. A whole lot however are not so lucky. They end up either bitter, sorry for themselves or both. But assume it was you asking this question.

What would you do to be able to succeed? For 11 years I was unsuccessful and all the while searched for ways by which I could be successful. I tried many ways that didn't work. Some I did not bother to try as I did not want anything to bother my conscience, you know what I mean.

However some four or fives years ago, after walking the long hard road I can say that I am at last successful! Reflecting on what had led me to my success, I discovered that there were ten basic things that had led me and everyone else who has achieved success to it.

you too can use them starting right now! The 9 ways include:

1. Believe in God

If you want to achieve personal success, then belief in God should be the first thing you must do. This is because the universe you live in was created by a force, a power incredibly powerful. Take a look at the sea and the sky. It's just amazing. Think of how you were conceived. Whoever created those and you surely must have a say in your life, don't you think so?

2. Believe in yourself

If think you can, you can, if you think you can't, you can't. Success starts first with god and next with you. God can't do a thing for you if you are not ready to do something about making your life and your future better. Your attitude will be the single determining factor of your success. Get it right and you will become successful.

3. Determine what you want

What do you want to get out of life? What do you want to have? What kind of person do you want to become? You must determine all this from the onset.

4. Set goals to get where you want to be

Now that you have determined where you want to be, you must also set the goals that will lead you there. The person who has their goal written down and referred to often always succeeds.

5. Make a start

The bottom-line of success is to get off your ass and do something. If you sit back and wait for success to come to you like a hurricane, then you my friend have a long wait coming. I doubt if you will stay alive long enough to see the end of it.

6. Get a mentor

If you want to succeed fast, without hassles, avoidable mistakes and fine advice, then as a matter of urgency, go get yourself a mentor. A mentor is the only person who will lead you to the succcess you crave. and that is guaranteed. Enough said.

7. Create your own network

Start creating your own network of friends. Anytime you meet someone new, strive to get their card or contact details. Two days after you meet them call them up or send an email reminding them of who you are and were you met. From time to time call them up, send them cards during holidays, etcetera. Do this consistently and in no time at all, you will have at your beck and call a large group of people who will be ready to help you anytime.

8. Read daily a book in your field

I have discovered that in books lie the riches of the earth. A book can contain information that four years at a university won't give you. So start reading a book a week on any area of endeavor you want to excel in and in no time at all, you will become he person you want to discuss.

9. Do not give up

Many people quit at the point of victory. Oh! If only they had persevered a little while longer, they could have achieved success. Think, what would have become of the world if Thomas Edison had given up after his 100th try at inventing the light bulb? There probably would be no electricity as we now know it. Do not ever give up, as long as the dream you are pursuing is what you really want.

So can you go out now and start achieving personal success? Yes you can. Start using them immediately.

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In order to run a day care or nursery school, one needs to be certified. To teach in the public schools, one needs at least a bachelors degree, preferably a masters degree. College dance programs require their faculty to have college degrees in addition to professional experience. So, what do you need to teach at a private dance studio: nothing. Anyone can throw up a shingle that says Dolly Dinkles Studio of Dance and be in business.

Is there a need for standards in dance education?

Dance is a physically demanding activity. Taught incorrectly, it can lead to injury. Improper training causes long-term damage to the ankles, knees, hips, and lower back. In addition to the damage it can cause physically, poor standards in dance education lead to low expectations and even lower opinions of dance in the eye of the public. Exposed regularly to low quality dance, students and their parents grow to see dance as something trivial and frivolous. This trivializing of dance is dangerously subversive to the profession. After sitting through never-ending recitals of fringe and sequins, parents are unlikely to voluntarily see a live professional dance concert.

Even on the occasion that they do venture to a professional performance, they are often disappointed. After being accustomed to frilly recitals, a professional dance performance can seem mentally challenging, intense, and even dull. Every dance studio, show, or organization that adheres to poor standards diminishes the larger dance community by turning potential audience members, supporters, and emerging dancers away from dance.

So, why not create national standards for private dance schools?

The American psyche is still very much a cowboy (or cowgirl) at heart. We do not want rules and regulations encroaching on our precious freedoms. Many dance studio owners and teachers jobs would be threatened if they were required to meet national standards. To their credit, they point out outstanding individual teachers who had amazing performance careers, then became excellent teachers, but never received degrees. The fear is that standards would not only regulate poor teachers, but also punish good teachers. While a legitimate concern, I believe that teachers who are truly passionate about dance education would, or already do, embrace standards as a chance for self-improvement and not as an obstacle.

Where the United States fears to regulate itself, a higher percentage of private dance school educators in England and Canada have adopted professional standards and established curriculums in their practices. From my experience working in Canada, I found the dance education in the country to be more consistent from studio to studio than in America. They do not have the plethora of poor quality dance studios that I have found throughout the United States. The acceptance of professional standards and established curriculum has raised the bar of the average small-town dance studio above that currently practiced in America.

However, there is another side. Canada does not have as many exceptional, innovative dance education organizations as the United States. It would seem that standardization runs the risk of stifling creativity. Dance in the United States continues to be the leading innovator for the world. The concept of national standards in dance threatens innovation, our cowboy/cowgirl spirit, and our qualified, yet non-degreed, teachers. These factors lead to a resistance to accept standardization in the United States.

We need standards but were too stubborn to accept themwhat now?

While the American spirit is unlikely to bend to national standards created by a governing board, there is a group of individuals that already unknowingly sets the standards for dance schools: the parents. Parents drive the level of quality in our market-driven society. However, it is difficult for a parent, uneducated in the field of dance, to make an informed choice.

Unfortunately, many parents view the dance teachers role on par with the baseball coach or the cheerleading coach. Most coaches for youth baseball, soccer, and cheerleading were not professionals or professionally educated. And even fewer have been educated in how to teach. This is fine for youth sports. What they are not taking into serious consideration is the fact that the demands of dance training on the body, at even the youngest level, can create great growth or great damage. The seemingly harmless decision of finding a dance studio for your child can be harmful to their young bodies. It takes time and energy to research which dance schools live up to high standards.

If you pick up your local phone book and flip to the dance school section, you will find ads for a number of dance studios. Chances are, the majority of those ads claim to provide quality or professional instruction. Who is going to be honest enough to admit below average or highly amateur instruction? The term professional teachers is loosely tossed about in these advertisements. The average parent assumes that professional teachers are ones who danced professionally or were at least educated at a professional level. But often, the justification for the term is nothing more than claiming that the teacher is paid for teaching. Using that definition of professional teachers, I would like to the see the studio with non-professional teachers who work for free. I doubt they exist. As a parent searching for a dance school, you want the best for your child. Nevertheless, how can you decipher one school from another when they all claim to be exceptional?

What can we do?

I believe the education of the public is the dance communitys top priority. We must teach students and their parents the importance of proper dance education:

1) Teach them about proper fundamentals that do no harm. Knees over toes is the most fundamental safe practice in dance education, yet many uninformed teachers force turn-out on dancers who are either too young to properly execute it or physically unequipped to handle the demands. If parents know what practices are safe and which are not, they can make better decisions in choosing a dance school

2) Teach them the value of a progressive, structured curriculum. Slow and steady wins the race. There is a place and timea sequenceto learning dance. Rushing children to do pointe work or to try technical tricks before they are ready is detrimental to their education as well as dangerous to their bodies. If parents know how a properly structured curriculum works, they can find a dance school where correct education is the focus.

3) Teach them respect for themselves and for the art of dance. Age-appropriate themes, choreography, and costumes not only teach students self-respect, but also helps them learn the vocabulary of dance in the proper order. Inappropriate choreography applies equally to the jazz teacher showing young students suggestive movements as to the ballet teacher showing professional variations to students who are not prepared. If parents know what is age-appropriate, they can better choose a dance school that adheres to higher standards.

Educating students and parents on what proper standards are in dance education is the only way to ensure a future of healthy dancers, create informed audience members, and promote a new generation of qualified teachers. The responsibility for standards in private dance school education will not fall on some national governing board. Rather, it spreads out from each of us to our students and their parents. The responsibility is ours.

James Robey is Founding Artistic Director of the Bare Bones Dance Project, Artistic Director of Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance and Adjunct Faculty member at The Hartt School at University of Hartford where he teaches Horton Modern technique and Jazz Dance. James is active in the Connecticut, New York, and National dance communities as a guest artist, master teacher, independent choreographer, and lecturer. For more information visit web.mac.com/jamesrobeydance

The research for a cure for Alzheimer's disease is actually accelerating. This neurodegenerative disease that adversely affects millions of older Americans is receiving continued assistance from the Alzheimer Association. The Alzheimers Association is the leading national advocate for Alzheimers disease. The National Alzheimers Association provides ongoing support and funding for research and education for Alzheimers disease.

Alzheimer's Disease affects the higher cortical functions of the brain. The functions that are compromised include memory, thinking and orientation. The Alzheimer's Association in conjunction with the pharmaceutical industry provides ongoing testing and facilitation for research that will stop the progression of this disease.

Qi Dai, MD, PhD, stated in a recent article on Alzheimer's research that frequent drinking of fruit and vegetable juices resulted in a substantially decreased risk of Alzheimers disease symptoms. This research is supported by other studies that confirm the health benefits of polyphenols as well as flavonoids as guardians of brain cells.

Flavanoids are antioxidants that scavenge free radicals. Flavanoids can prevent further damage to critical cellular processes. Fruits and vegetables contain high concentrations of antioxidants. Three cups of green tea and six apples contain about the same about of flavanoids.

These results suggest that the most aggressive products for brain health includes both the polyphenols and flavonoids contained in green tea and fruit juices. Green tea is a very popular beverage in Japan. It is interesting to note that because of the high consumption of green tea in Japan there is a lower incident of Alzheimer's disease.

This result is only evident in Japanese citizens who reside in Japan. Unfortunately those Japanese citizens who live in American and adopt the American lifestyle show no significant difference in the rate of Alzheimer's disease.

In another study conducted by the University of Western Australia School of Medicine and Pharmacology, in collaboration with the Royal Perth Hospital Unit, it was confirmed that both tea intake and 4-O-methylgallic acids show consistent results that long-term regular ingestion of tea has a positive effect on the blood pressure of older women.

The substances in green tea known as catechins increase the antioxidant capacity of the human plasma. Cathechins have been shown to be very useful in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It would not be a frivolous assumption to conclude that the same benefit could be accomplished with the brain. There is a correlation between high blood pressure and Alzheimers disease.

Apple juice as well as green tea was used in various studies and also have ingredients that were shown to improve the brain function in mice. These mice had been genetically engineered to get Alzheimers disease. The full study will be published in the August issue of the international Journal of Alzheimers Disease.

Some of the studies revealed concrete evidence for the first time that a high concentration of catechins and flavanoids present in human plasma may halt or even slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Any major finding that would have a major impact on the quality of life for Alzheimers patients and their families is welcome news to the Alzheimers community.

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