Publisher: Colonel Bobbie Patterson
Writer: Rhett Ashley
Editor: Bonnie Blanton
Research Assistant: Dale Blanton

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The Following DJs Will Review Your Music

A great many DJs post playlists and other messages on our message boards. You may contact those DJs by going to www.radiocountry.org and clicking on the message board link. All DJs listed in the newsletter this month, have country music programs. We do not publish email addresses, unless advance permission is granted. We suggest sending a postcard with your email address. Ian Betteridge, PO Box 144, Terrigal. NSW. 2260. Australia. Ianbet@ozemail.com.au

David Miller, PO Box 1212, Dunedin, New Zealand

Robert Dew, PO Box 22-631, Auckland 1133, New Zealand

Ron Heney, 22 A Otipua Road, Timaru, New Zealand

Eddie O' Strange, 21 Redvers Drive, Belmont, Lower Hutt 6009, New Zealand

Allan Nielsen, Korsevanenget 75, DK 4100 Ringsted, Denmark

Anna Hessel, Svaneparken 7, DK 7430 Ibast, Denmark

Anne and Knud Nielsen, CHR Kolds Alle 1, DK 2270 Kastrup, Denmark

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Request From A Subscriber

On the 17th. May 2003 I will be flying to Nashville for the International C. M. A. open mike festival which runs 4 days from the 23th through 26th of May. I will be there until the 6th. June. In the run up to the festival, we would be interested in other open microphone nights or gigs to fill out our trip. If you could help at all please e-mail at gas.tech@virgin.net. To keep our costs down and to meet new friends we are trying to find other musicians who may be able to accommodate us and in return would offer them accommodation here at our home (http://freespace.virgin.net/gas.tech/index.html) in the U. K. if they wish.

Yours Hopefully,

Paul K Hamilton, Rose Cottage, Island Pool, Nr Cookley, Kidderminster, Worc England

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Australian Country Music News

Come on down to our site and read the Latest News Section on our Web Site. www.acmla.com.au

Paula Sheldrick
A. C. M. L. A.
PO Box 5179
Port Macquarie
NSW 2444
E-mail: acmla@acmla.com.au

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Reader's Comment On November Newsletter

Hi,
Thanks for your update. I agree with the Empowering thinking. I have made $$$$$$$$$ touring the Australian outback, but when I stopped doing that after 2 years solid, I was down to 1 show a week, {still paid good} But it slowed down. So I took the Bull by the horns and came to Austin Texas. I have been here, for over a week.

Not knowing a soul and being by myself, (Nobody wanted to come to the USA from Australia because of Sept 11.) I got a job at the Guitar Center to meet musicians. I hope to collaborate on my songwriting and get a project or two happening. Positive thinking does open doors. Thanks for your time and I hope to meet you, sometime.

Best Wishes.
Reg Keyworth.
www.geocities.com./hotsummer10_2000/

Our Comment About The Above

Reg understands the power of networking and the power of taking massive action. The fact he moved to the United States and chose to work in a guitar shop proves this. He says positive thinking opens doors. This is true, only if positive thinking is followed by massive action. Positive thinking is standing in the middle of your garden and saying, "There are no weeds!" If you stop there, the weeds will take your garden.

Reg took massive action. He boarded a plane, flew to a different nation, and found a job which empowers him, by putting him into daily contact with other people who share his passion for music.

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All Human Behavior Is Belief Driven

Your brain is similar to a computer. Your beliefs are the programs you have loaded into your brain. Human beliefs fall into two categories. These are beliefs about what will create pleasure and beliefs about what will create pain. We try to achieve those things which we believe will create pleasure. We try to avoid those things we believe will create pain. Any two people can have vastly different beliefs about the same thing. One person believes skydiving results in pleasure. Another person believes skydiving results in pain. One person believes smoking is cool. Another believes smoking is a nasty habit that brings early illness and death. One person believes a seat belt prevents severe injury and death. Another believes a seat belt is confining and restrictive.

The programs you choose to run will determine your outcome. If you are running a spread sheet program in your computer a series of key strokes will produce a certain outcome. If you are running a word processing program, those same key strokes will produce a vastly different outcome.

We all have things in our lives we would like to change. Temporary change can be accomplished through disciplined change of behavior. Real lasting change requires a change of beliefs. Unless you change the program your brain is running, you will revert to your old behavior. We have all done this over and over in our lives. We have vowed to practice our instrument everyday. We have done so for a period of time, but lapsed back into laziness. We have went on diets and lost weight, but later reverted to our old behavior and gained the weight back. We have fought an addiction to tobacco, alcohol, or some other chemical. We have kicked the habit for some period of time, but returned to our old behavior. In short, we have tried to improve ourselves one way or another, but failed to create lasting change.

We will continue to try and fail; until something causes us to change our beliefs. When we change the programs running in our brains, we will create lasting change. Most of us have had a life changing experience. An experience when something we had struggled with for months changed in the flash of a moment. In that moment, one of our beliefs changed dramatically. We knew we should fasten our seat belts, but just couldn't remember to click it. Then something happened. We got a ticket or a friend was in a car wreck. Suddenly, we believed not using a seat belt creates pain. We knew we should quit smoking, but just couldn't make it last. Then a close friend was told he had lung cancer or had a stroke. Suddenly, we associated pain with smoking. We were in a bad relationship, but just couldn't seem to leave. We kept thinking it would be better in the future. Then something happened. Suddenly, we believed it was painful in the past, it was painful in the present, and it would be pa!
! inful in the future. At that moment, our beliefs changed. As soon as our beliefs changed, the struggle was over.

Real lasting change is never a matter of ability. It is always a matter of motivation. Link enough pain to the old belief and enough pleasure to the desired new belief and lasting change will happen in an instant.

We have to decide. We can decide to sit back and wait for life to hit us with some nasty belief changing event. Or; we can take a hard look at our beliefs. Most of our beliefs are not carefully thought out and chosen. We pick them up unintentionally the way we accidentally load a virus into our computer. Our beliefs can empower us or they can disempower us, by creating artificial limits.

If we believe in ourselves and in our dreams, we will take massive action to make those dreams come true. We will set definite goals and devise ways of reaching them. We will seek out ways to meet other music people and build networks of personal relationships. We will look around ourselves everyday and ask, "What can I do today to move closer to those goals and aspirations?" If we believe our lives are created by the thoughts we think, the words we speak, and the actions we take, we will live rich and dream fulfilling lives. If we believe success comes only to the lucky few, we will live lives filled with bitterness, despair, and failure.

The choice is ours. Our creator empowered us with free will. The good book says, "Without a vision man shall perish." We can choose to be visionaries. All that is required is a dream and the unstoppable determination to reach it. It is impossible to fail, unless you accept failure as an outcome.

The day Disney World opened hundreds of reporters were present. Walt Disney had died before the grand opening ceremonies. His brother was there, in Walt's place. A jerk of a reporter walked up to Mr. Disney and said, "This must be a really bittersweet day, for you." Mr. Disney looked around at the beautiful buildings, rides and grounds. He saw the crowds of people enjoying themselves and marveling at the beautiful park. He told the reporter he did not understand the question. What could be bittersweet when everything was going so well? The reporter said, "Sure, everything is going well. The park is beautiful and everything is working fine. But, it's got to hurt you to know Walt never lived to see this."

Mr. Disney was cool. He remain centered. He said, "Young man it is clear to me why you are only a reporter and Walt accomplished, so much. My brother saw this. Because he envisioned it years ago, you get to see it, today. Walt was a visionary!"

As the year comes to a close, we wish you health, happiness, and joy.

We hope you spend these special days surrounded by friends and family. We hope 2002 has been a productive and abundant year, for you and yours. Above all this, we hope you enter the new year with a vision of your dream shining brightly before you and the belief that through your thoughts, words, and actions you have the absolute power to make that dream come true. Live long, and prosper.