Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Blog & Shake with My Philosophy!

What an incredible tool this social networking is! Whether it be soliciting potential clients, customers or merely connecting with people of similar interests and passions.... it's all about marketing oneself and one's personal ideas, isn't it?

So much of social networking has become a battle grounds of do and don'ts, rules and stopping that potential "spam" artist from rearing it's ugly head. The art of blogging and conditional giving on the internet is something to be mastered. After all, "what is one person's garbage is another one's fortune."

I say "it's all good!" Work for your goal using all the tools at hand. Being a 50 year old mother of 3 kids, learning how to maneuver around the internet and research, connect, this is what we have been taught to do since our early childhood education in the library with those wooden draws holding index cards. Oye!.... Researching, improving, achieving, right?

Shake it up! That's my philosophy! In both body & spirit. After you have worked your mind and powered those finger tips on a keyboard reaching out to those around you, take a few minutes to work that body for your own personal musical health. Stay in touch and reach out to YOU! You deserve it!

As a person who has lost 100 pounds, I write and sing this song for you to walk... run... or simply
"bop on out" right at your computer.

At at tempo of 132 beats per minute, click link below and come on Shake to My Philosophy!

Click here for my song "My Philosophy"

verse#1:

Keep this in mind
in time you're gonna find
come on and give a try
to My Philosophy
Take every single day
to find a better way
come on along and play
My Philosophy

Come on over
and open up yourself
let's start a fire
we're going to get there
high and higher

Chorus:

come on try it
don't deny it
come on Shake with My Philosophy
come on show it
don't you blow it
flying high with My Philosophy

verse#2:

come on and take the time
to have a real good time
and let me blow your mind
with My Philosophy
come on and live your life
no care or strife
that's right!
that's My Philosophy

workout music by MARINA

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Are You Ready To Seize the Day? .... "Carpe Diem!"

As a 50 year old working mother who has lost 100 pounds and has three children now ages 15, 17 & 22, I am now more than ever on a mission to promote the importance of education.

Musical "edutainment" is where I have been focusing my attention while writing, recording and producing Health & Fitness programming. Who does not want to be entertained? Aren't we more likely to focus in on a subject when it is presented to us in an entertaining fashion?

I recently wrote a song called "Carpe Diem" at a tempo of 162 beats per minute for cardio activities. Take a listen to it and do something good for your health as you listen. Walk, run or do any cardio activity you might choose. You can even simply just get up and walk in place right at your computer!... the lyric reads...

Chorus:
Come on are you ready to seize the day?
No matter what they say
getting it your own way
come on and take it now.
let me remind you
let go the chains that bind you
you're going to get there
come one let yourself go!

Making the most of your life and opening up your mind to new situations everyday. Seize every opportunity with a feeling of positiveness.
Stay well and as always...

Never Stop Movin'!

M

Click here for my song "Carpe Diem!"

Saturday, February 7, 2009

"Walkin' in a Sandy Jungle"

Oh, the steps we are all having to take to juggle our lives at the moment. Kind of like Walkin' in a Sandy Jungle... you've got to pivot your soul. Much like walking on a sandy beach where you actually have to physicalize pivoting your sole, literally. I think it was Bob Dylan who sang "..... swim with the fishies or sink like a stone". Now it is more true than ever. Multi tasking, switching gears. You can do it! You are a star chamber, always remember your goals, let them flow and always know you can do it. There will always be natural instability. After all, you are only a mortal..... so there are times when you've got to pivot your soul. Now, wait a minute... when I say pivot I mean sensor your plans and lose all demands on yourself..... don't let it get you. Do something fun. Maybe go out to a club and let it get in your blood.... your personal secret weapon.

Yes, yes..... as a musical fitness recording artist who is a mom of 3 kids and has lost 100 pounds, I practice what I preach. I start most days with a walk or a run. Even if I do nothing else, I simply pop on my head phones right at my computer as I write and walk in place as I do so. Certainly checking emails to see what maneuvering I will have to do to get out of the way of that day's problem. Ah yes, much like walking in the streets here in NYC is much like Walkin' in a Sandy Jungle... you got to pivot your soul... or sole, if you will, to avoid the pot holes... crowds.... construction overhead.

Well... take a break from it all. Take a deep breath and do something good for you! Try it! Pop on those headphones and check out this song from me to you. At a tempo of 92 beats per minute, you can walk in place slowly or double it up to get a quick beat and boost of energy as you keep on with your day Walkin' in your own Sandy Jungle!


Stay well and always remember to....

Never Stop Movin'!

M

Click here for my song "Walkin' In a Sandy Jungle"

Fitness music by MARINA

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Put A Little Bounce In Your Step!

As the days go on with more of the same gloom and doom information coming over the air waves regarding our economy... I have decided to dish out a bit of positive energy. Put a little Bounce in Your Step! Oh, I don't just mean in terms of physically. Now as a mom of 3 kids who has lost 100 pounds writing and producing over 400 songs for the fitness community, I do encourage you to walk... run... or do any cardio activity you might choose daily. Well.. how about emotionally? Not easy these days, I know. Not easy to feel that bounce and light hearted feeling when everyday we are seeing those around us that have lost their jobs or others who are hanging on by the skin of their teeth waiting for that pink slip.

Try this. Stand up right at your computer. Inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth... feet are hip's width apart... weight is forward on the balls of your feet... drop those shoulders... abdominals in and up! Ahhhh!!!! Think about it! The mere fact that you could just do what I asked should give you an energetic lift. Do I sound too idealistic?... a bit insipid? Ha!... well maybe.

Positiveness! Pass it on. Help each other. Bounce it along. Do something good for you. Smile.... keep swinging the bat..... pass this onto a friend then pop on those head phones... click link below and get on up.... walk in place right at your computer while you put a little Bounce in Your Step!

Enjoy and as always...

Never Stop Movin'!

M

Click here for my song "Put A Little Bounce In Your Step"

Monday, February 2, 2009

Please... client me on and be "Forever My Friend!"

I look around and everywhere I go people are going through some of the toughest personal challenges that they have ever had in their lives. Economic fears that are overwhelming. When things happen like this and we get pushed against the wall it unfortunately can make the worst come out in us rather that the best. The "every man for himself" attitudes rise to the surface of many that normally would never consider making certain choices now confronting them and affecting their behavior. Perhaps it is as simple as pushing someone in line and behaving like wild animals as we saw demonstrated in X-mas 2008 at the Walmart early morning sale. People trampling others just to save a few bucks on a toy for their kids that they could not afford at regular price. Maybe it is a simple as little lies that we tell in order to get that job or acquire that college loan.
Being a co-business owner of Kamen Entertainment Group, Inc. NYC since 1987 together with my husband, we have had hundreds of employees over the past 22 years. I am satisfied in knowing that we have over this past period of time given jobs to many deserving young people who are on their path to careers they have prepared for. We have fired a few... a few have left for personal reasons.
As a mother who has 3 children who is watching my oldest plunging into the work force after graduating from Columbia University, I am seeing up close the pain young people are going through.
How scary to know that even with a great college degree the American Dream may not come so fast.... rather it is starting to feel like a dream already dreamed and now woken up from.
"It's just business... nothing personal". Oh really now!.... eeek! How unrealistic.
As a small business owner these words lay heavy... cruel and untrue. It is difficult for me not to get personally involved. We are suppose to be civilized people caring for one another. Well... is that not what we hear from our politically correct television spokes people? Easier said than done, huh? It cuts both ways. I am sorry to say that the loyalty that I once saw in business from the client side has been tested. No one's fault. For client to supplier... supplier to client... we are all up against the wall having to make these tough choices. That once upon a time cocktail after work or taking that client to lunch thing is quickly disappearing. Nothing lasts forever. I will say, on a personal note, that there are a few of you out there that go to bat for others whenever you can, even now. In these hard times, this is an uplifting gift enveloped in a generous spirit. You know who you are.
As a singer/songwriter who has lost 100 pounds writing and performing music for the health & fitness industry, I encourage you to experience Musical Health! So... at a tempo of 95 beats per minute (bpm) take a minute to stretch... do some ab work... or simply sit up straight and inhale and exhale as I sing to you....
come on.... carry me on and be Forever my Friend!"

Never Stop Movin'!

M

Click here for my song "Forever My Friend"