The List to End All Lists.
As many of you know, I am a fan of vocabulary & semantics. (notice I said, “fan”, not “expert”) I enjoy finding specific words that convey the exact nature of the point I am striving to make when communicating. This weeks word is portmanteau. It describes a combination of two words. Ha! You now think…
The Importance of Mindset
When I am working with a student, I consciously avoid using words like “hard” and “easy”, or “right” and “wrong”, or “good” and “bad”. Why? Because words represent thoughts and thoughts are energy and energy can weigh you down. Or lift you up. I prefer to use words like “familiar” and “unfamiliar” or “accurate” and “inaccurate” The…
The Effective Practice Checklist (tips for a healthy mind~body~fretboard experience)
One of the most important, yet overlooked, aspects of the guitar path is how you can create an inner & outer practice environment that enables you to be productive in all your efforts. Optimum conditions produce optimum results (is that an old saying?) and sometimes the littlest of things can make the biggest of differences (that’s definitely an old saying). Here’s…
The 99 Decisions Guitar Program has officially launched!
It gives me great pleasure to announce that 99D is now live & available for memberships. It was a lot of work to put all of this together & I’m really excited to finally get to share it with the world (over 7 billion potential customers, I hear). I want to especially thank those that…
That’s an Affirmative.
I happen to be a big fan of motivational posters. Mind you, I don’t have any of them up on my walls. That is because I’m also a big fan of hip & cool interior design and motivational posters are sooooo 1992. But the notion of short inspirational words & phrases is something that I’ve…
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