goals

Change Your Direction

December 1, 2010

Author and speaker Jim Rohn was crediting as having said, “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” In other words . . . we may not always be able to instantly, as if by magic, change our current situation. Make that scary career move. Get out of that draining [...]

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What A Cup Of Coffee Will Buy You

October 13, 2010

I’ve often heard it said that you are an average of the five people you spend most of your time with. I don’t believe that “five” is the precise magic number for everyone of us. And “time” could mean a variety of things: that spent physically in the company of another person, and that spent [...]

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Overcome Uncertainty. Save $20. Get A Free CD.

September 21, 2010

I’ve mentioned fear a time or two in the past. But one thing I’ve usually shied away from [probably out of my own fears] is posting about other bloggers’ products and services. Not that it’s at all wrong for anyone to promote someone else’s work. But I just see too many sites that hyper-focus on [...]

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Karate-chop Your Music and Your Life!

September 20, 2010

World touring keyboardist and music career consultant, Steve Nixon, recently asked me to write a guest post for his blog. He’s performed with a Who’s Who of stellar artists, including Grammy Award winners Buddy Guy and Koko Taylor! I’m honored to be able to contribute to Steve’s helpful and informative site. And here it is [...]

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Creating A Plan Of Attack

August 25, 2010

Darn you, Joel Runyon. After an insanely busy week, I was so looking forward to taking a few days to kick back and do as little as humanly possible. But no . . . You have to go and post this last week, sending me head-first into a process of analyzing what I’m doing with [...]

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How Long Until I’m Good?

July 28, 2010

Last week I talked about one of the most common questions I’m asked as a drum instructor, “How long does he/she (or, do I) need to take lessons?” Today, I wanted to tackle another similar question I often get. Like the first, this one also relates to many endeavors in life outside of music lessons. [...]

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My List

June 23, 2010

As I mentioned in the Fearless . . . Ruthless post, “I have a list of life goals that I say I’m going to accomplish . . . a neverending bucket list of places to see, percussion instruments to study, educational materials to produce, languages to be at least passable in.” Inspired by similar lists [...]

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Fearless . . . ruthless

April 4, 2010

I don’t care how busy I might seem to others- I can truly procrastinate with the best of ‘em. Like many people, I have a list of life goals that I say I’m going to accomplish . . . a neverending bucket list of places to see, percussion instruments to study, educational materials to produce, [...]

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