Personal Greatness

This Is Slow Down, You Move Too Fast Blog 3 (Stop Multitasking. Do One Thing At A Time To Improve Faster And Get Better Results–In Guitar, Running, And Maybe Anything) I Turned 50 And Ran My Fastest Mile In 15 Years. Here’s How I Did It–And Why It Is Changing My Approach To Practicing Guitar! Doing One Thing At A Time Can Help Make Us Healthier and Better Guitar Players (Or Anyth

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU’RE TOO OLD TO BE A 6-YEAR-OLD GUITAR VIRTUOSO? Every day, social media shows us six-year-old guitar virtuosos, overnight billionaires and an endless parade of brilliant and beautiful people. Of course we know it is a mistake to compare ourselves with others. But the sad truth is that when we see how good some people play guitar, for how fast they run, etc sometimes in

This Is Slow Down, You Move Too Fast, Blog #2 (Want to play faster? Stop playing faster–instead, expand your mind!) Into The Matrix Playing fast isn’t just a physical skill; it is mental. Without changing your perspective, playing faster will be difficult or impossible. One of the most common mistakes intermediate guitar players make is trying to build picking speed by pushing faster.

Slow Down, You Move Too Fast The Number One Practice Mistake In Music (And Life?) And What To Do About It I like to read and to listen to Audio Books. And when I listen to Audio Books, I typically use the “speed up” feature to listen to them at double speed–or 1.5 if I’m feeling mellow. “Daaaad,” my daughter, Neoma tells me when she gets in the car. “That

How Paying My Kids $50 Helped Me Lose Weight, Sleep Better and Release My Inner Flosser Dear NYC Guitar School Parent, Would you pay $50 to have incredibly better dental hygiene? How about paying $50 to get way better sleep? And the weight loss industry in the United States is a 66 billion dollar industry–so would it be worth $50 to you to lose a few pounds? I’ve done all of the above,

Got A New Year’s Resolution? Good job–you’re already 10x more likely to improve than someone without a resolution. Now, supercharge your success with these 3 simple concepts! Hello Amazing NYC Guitar School Students, Happy New Year! Did you make a resolution to play more guitar, make new friends, eat healthier, or otherwise become more of the you who you want to be? I hope so, be

Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail– Read This To Succeed In The New Year! Hello Amazing NYC Guitar School Students, The air is crisp, the sidewalks are full of shoppers, New Year’s Day is around the corner, and millions of us will begin 2019 with an exciting resolution to learn a new skill or form a new habit. Unfortunately, most resolutions are doomed to fail. In fact, earlier thi

The Post-It Note Of Power Little tweaks in your environment help you get and stay on track. This works for lunch–and for practicing guitar! I think it would be a good idea if I took a lunch to work more often. Using up leftovers instead of getting lunch out is a WIN for the environment and proper respect for my wife’s awesome cooking! Eating home-cooked food means avoiding unhealthy fa

From Tiny Acorns, Mighty Oaks. From Little Chords, Mighty Songs. No matter what your master plan is, just take it one twig at a time. When I was a kid, my mom used to say, “From tiny acorns, mighty oaks.” She meant that small beginnings lead to great results over time. The little acorn spends years and years reaching up into the sky for the light and down into the earth for the water b

Be The Guitar Player You Wish To Be How Getting Better At Guitar, Having More Self Respect, And Creating A Better Society Are Kinda The Same Thing “…who is not busy being born is busy dying.”–Bob Dylan You and I are on a journey through time–and we are a little bit of a different person at each stage of the journey, at the end of each year, week and day. It’s no