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First decision: date and time. Your best shot for getting lots of guests is to pick a not-prime time. Try something the Saturday before Valentine’s Day, for instance, or Sunday, the day after. Also an off-time, such as brunch of lunch instead of cocktail or evening party. Check to make sure “key players” can come. Also a time when you’ll have the week before to do the work.

Guest List Write down whom you want to invite and take a count. This determines everything from cost to venue to refreshments.

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If you are a young teen looking for work, sometimes it might feel positively daunting. You might be tired of babysitting the kids down the street. You might not even enjoy spending time with kids. So how can you make money? If you re not quite ready for a job someplace, then go into business for yourself!

1. Skip the lemonade stand.

If you want to make ten cents a glass sitting by the side of the road, that s up to you. But you can also find ways to make more money than that! Think of what skills you have and what you might be able to make that people will buy.

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In a word, no. Clients often ask me if electronic is better than paper, or if they should use a PDA (like a Palm Pilot or Blackberry) to manage their schedules, handle e-mail and such. The best advice is that it doesn’t matter what you use if you don’t have productive habits. Buying a piano doesn’t make you a pianist and buying a new electronic gizmo will not make you organized.

That’s the biggest problem with many of the time management and organization solutions being offered out there. Nothing is going to improve your productivity if you don’t develop new behaviors to replace ineffective ones.

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Changing your guitar strings might make you feel a litte uncomfortable if you have never done it before, but it’s really quite simple and should become a regular part of your guitar care routine. Before you do anything, first take time to make some personal observations such as:

1. Which way do you have to turn the tuning keys to tighten or loosen the strings?

2. How are the strings aligned from the nut to the bridge?

3. Which is the heaviest string?

Taking mental notes will probably save you some frustration and make the job much easier.

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Keeping your guitar tuned is THE first step in sounding hot and professional. Tune-up perfectly and THEN play is the order of the day. Tuning tip number one starts right here. Get yourself a decent and well made guitar that naturally stays in tune without constant tweaking. No matter how much you perfect the art of guitar tuning, a cheap instrument will seriously hamper your efforts.

No matter how well you play your latest lick or arpeggio, it won’t sound hot unless your in perfect Guitar Tune Nirvana either! Conclusion: Invest in a good or even great guitar and your halfway there regarding guitar-tuning dilemmas.

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