If you're currently taking vocal lessons, ask your vocal teacher for help picking a song. They're a professional musician and they've likely been to a lot of auditions themselves, so they know what to expect. They also know your voice incredibly well, and they'll know how to set you up for the best possible American Idol audition. If there's a vocal recital coming up, ask if you can perform your audition song choice. The more practice you have performing your song in front of others, the better. Get a group of your most musical friends together and perform some of the songs you're considering picking. Ask them which ones they like best and why. You can also ask them to record you singing, so you can show the tapes to other people to ask them as well. If you and your friends have a special song, consider singing that. That way, when you sing, you'll be reminded of your friends, which will make your performance more personal. If you're feeling confident and you have the time, tape a recording of you singing your song choices and post the video online. Ask people to vote or choose and then take their picks into consideration. You're likely to get more unbiased opinions on your work from strangers. If you do post your work online, know that you might not receive only good feedback. This is good practice for when you're actually being judged on the show. When you receive that feedback, take it and apply it to your audition.

Summary: Ask your vocal teacher. Ask your friends. Ask the internet.

Imagine getting up in the morning and being excited to go to work. For people who have found a career that they love, going to work feels more like a hobby than an obligation. Take some time to figure out what you're passionate about, and then find ways to turn your passions into a career. Make lists of things that you love to do. Write down 5-10 things that get you going, and try to match these passions with plausible careers. If you love hiking, look into careers that allow you to be in nature, such as a horticulturalist or environmentalist. If you're interested in social justice, try researching ways to get involved in a local school or non-profit. Writing down what you love to do and matching those interests with potential careers will open your eyes to the kind of life that will make you want to go to work everyday. It's easy to get comfortable in a job, even if it's one you can't stand. If you find yourself dreading going to work in the morning, give yourself the license to look into a different career path. It takes time to figure out what job sustains your curiosity and intellect. If you think you'd like to pursue a different career path, talk to friends, family or acquaintances with jobs that excite you. Ask as many questions as you can on how to get your foot in the door. Not only will this help you to make connections, but it will also show you that it is possible to follow your dreams if you take the right steps towards career satisfaction. We all need a certain amount of financial stability to survive. However, picking a career based on salary alone isn't always the best path to staying motivated. Let yourself pick a job that interests you, even if it's not the highest paying offer. As long as you can support yourself for the time being, it's important to try to love what you do. Believe in yourself and work hard so that you can get the necessary experience to move up in your career and eventually snag your ideal salary.

Summary: Discover what you love. Give yourself the freedom to experiment. Seek advice from experts in fields that interest you. Don't prioritize money.

Gboard is a custom keyboard that enables integrated Google Search and Android-style glide typing. Search for Gboard in the App Store and press "Get" to install. Upon launching, follow the explicit instructions displayed to get set up. Launch the Gboard app and tap "Keyboard Settings". A list of keyboard settings will appear. Glide typing is a feature that allows you to type words by sliding your finger from key to key without lifting it away from the keyboard. This feature is unique to google keyboard and will not appear in the iOS settings. The toggle will turn blue when it is on, gray color indicates that it is off. This feature recommends emojis in along with word suggestions as you type (e.g. typing the word 'happy' will suggest a smiley face in place of the word). This feature automatically changes misspelled words as you type. Keep an eye on names and places when this feature is turned on - they may not be recognized by the auto-correct dictionary and changed to something you don't want. This will automatically capitalize words at the beginning of sentences as well as recognized proper nouns like names. This feature will omit words deemed profane by the word filter. Having this on will not block manually typed words (though they may be targeted by auto-correct), but they will not appear when glide typing or as suggestions for word replacements. This feature displays a small popup of the key you just pressed while typing. This allows the keyboard to be locked into uppercase letters by tapping and holding the "Up Arrow" (or Shift) key on the keyboard. Caps lock is indicated by a solid line displayed underneath the arrow. If you find yourself accidentally entering caps lock when you don't mean to then you can disable it entirely here. This option let's you decide whether you want the keyboard display to switch to lowercase letters when uppercase is not set. Turning this off will not disabled lowercase letters, just make the display always show uppercase like a physical keyboard. " shortcut. This option allows you to add a period without tapping the period key by instead double-tapping the space key. This can be useful for fast typists.
Summary: Download and install Gboard. Access Gboard's keyboard settings. Toggle Glide Typing. Toggle Emoji Suggestions. Toggle Auto-correction. Toggle Auto-capitalization. Toggle Block offensive words. Toggle Character preview. Toggle Enable caps lock. Toggle Show lower case letters. Toggle ".