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Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today I'm launching the Small Business track of this video series. And for the first installment, I'll give you a tour of my own business, Melkim Publishing. I should probably give a quick disclaimer -- this is not a paid endorsement, but rather just a simple tour. <money appears from the side, I reluctantly accept the money.> Um, you did not see that. Let's see. Where was I. Oh yes ... I started this business toward the end of 2016. I sell sheet music -- mostly my music at first, but then I've ventured out to the music of other people, including some moderately big names such as Daniel Carter and Geoff Groberg . I'm also trying to help a few newer composers get recognized -- some individuals I believe have unrealized potential. How it works: you can go to my website at melkimpublishing.com , browse selections, and order sheet music -- either in electronic format or print. If you order ...

Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today we're going to talk about proactive attitudes and how to be happy. I'm going to show you one trick that Stephen Covey provides to us, but first, I'm going to tell some stories. I'll start with this guy at my work. We'll call him Fred. He was the master of positive attitudes. Everywhere he went, it was: "Happy, happy, happy. When things are going down, just be thankful that you have two arms and two legs. Choose to be happy." This guy even wrote a thesis on the topic of having an Enthusiastic Positive Attitude. I really liked this guy, but many of us thought he was living in some kind of fake reality -- kind of like sweeping the bad stuff under the rug. The problems are still there, but you can try to ignore them. And whenever we told him our problems, his solutions always seemed to be the same: don't worry about it. Just choose to be happy. And then there's the story ...

Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today we're going to explore belief systems. What are they? How can we use them?  In short, a belief system is what we believe. This includes how we think the world works. Our religious beliefs. Our political beliefs. How we think social encounters should be. Our science and math knowledge. What makes for a good story. Who we can trust, and who we can't. How to be healthy. It also includes what we think we don't understand. It's a complex collection of everything we believe, and it is DIFFERENT for each of us. Given enough time and exposure, we would expect all of our belief systems to be the same, converging on some ultimate TRUTH. But we each hold unique views of different parts of this truth, and none of us is CORRECT in everything we know. And that's okay, as we'll discuss multiple times in this video series. These belief systems are automatic. They have to be. We couldn't functio...

Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Turn on the news, hit Twitter or Facebook, and you're bound to hear logical fallacies each and every day. We are living in a pandemic of "doing logic wrong" and it often leads to mistakes and bad decisions. Next up in our Logic series, I'd like to explore these fallacies, so we can learn to see them, which can then help us to make better decisions, and become better people. As we begin our journey, we're going to start with the basics. We'll start with "formal" fallacies, then later branch out to "informal" ones. And we may even take a look at some dubious or fake fallacies floating around the internet -- we'll see. Before we continue, a quick warning. Today, I'm going to be using truth tables, gates, and symbols explained in earlier videos. So, if you feel like you're getting lost, you can check out these videos for a refresher. For those of you deciding...