Your confidence level has a big impact on how successful you are with teaching guitar lessons. A high level of confidence will help you keep moving forward when times are tough, and a low level of confidence will make you feel like giving up. If you can keep your confidence level high, you have a [...]
STG 062: 5 Ways Your Students Can Sabotage Their Guitar Lessons
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Guitar students can choose to quit taking lessons with you for several different reasons. Sometimes it’s because of something you did or didn’t do as a teacher, sometimes it’s just because life gets in the way, and sometimes it’s because they do it to themselves and mess things up. In this episode, I’ll get into [...]
STG 049 : How To Have “More Than Enough” In Your Teaching Business
There are two different ways you can choose to view your guitar teaching business…and the world. You can look at things from a mindset of SCARCITY (where there’s never enough of ANYTHING) or from a mindset of ABUNDANCE (where you always have MORE THAN ENOUGH). The choice is up to you, and the mindset you [...]
STG 034 : Components of a Million Dollar Mindset
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In this episode, I’ll tell you about why your mindset is so important…it’s actually one of the most critical things to get right if you want to succeed as a guitar teacher! If you have the wrong mindset, you’ll never reach your full potential in your business or in your life. I’ll explain all the [...]
STG 030 : 7 Lies You’ve Been Told About Teaching Guitar
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In this episode, I’ll be telling you about 7 very common misconceptions…LIES, actually…that a lot of guitar teachers have been told. A lot of the things we take for granted and consider to be common sense JUST AREN’T TRUE when it comes to being a guitar teacher…and if you can understand and believe the TRUTH, [...]
STG 026 : Building An Emotional Firewall Around Your Teaching Business
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In this episode, I’ll tell you about how important your emotions are when it comes to having a successful guitar teaching business. It’s possible to fortify yourself emotionally and build a “firewall” around your teaching business so that when tough times come your way, you can stay steady and keep moving forward.
The Biggest Lesson I Learned In 2011
In episode 14 of the STG podcast (available to STG All-Access members), I talked about the process I used to review the previous year and set goals for the new year. One part of that was reviewing the top 5 things I learned in the last year. I thought I’d take a minute and share [...]
Stuck In a Rut? How To Move Forward With Your Teaching Business!
The new year is HERE and there are tons of ideas swimming around in your head about how you can make your teaching business more successful in 2012. Most of the time you know exactly what to do next; knowing what to do isn’t really the problem. The problem is often just taking action…taking that [...]
The Secret To Teaching Fearless Guitar Lessons
Is fear keeping you from taking the plunge and starting your guitar teaching business, or from doing something BOLD to take it to the next level? This is a subject I happen to know a lot about. If I had to pick one overriding emotion that tries to dominate my life on a daily basis, [...]
Practicing Stinks! – Part 2
What do you think is the single most important thing you can do that will help you become a better guitar player? Laying out the money to buy a quality instrument? Listening to inspiring guitar music? Finding a great teacher? Nope. The biggest factor in your quest to become the best guitar player you can [...]
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