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STG 019 : Overcoming Your Own Excuses – Part 2

STG 019 : Overcoming Your Own Excuses – Part 2

In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll talk about some of the common excuses we tend to make for not taking action in our teaching businesses. The biggest reason guitar teachers FAIL is because they don’t take the bold, positive actions that can bring the success they’re looking for. I’m going to [...]

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STG 018 : Overcoming Your Own Excuses – Part 1

STG 018 : Overcoming Your Own Excuses – Part 1

In this episode of the Start Teaching Guitar podcast, I’ll talk about some of the common excuses we tend to make for not taking action in our teaching businesses. The biggest reason guitar teachers FAIL is because they don’t take the bold, positive actions that can bring the success they’re looking for. I’m going to [...]

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The Biggest Lesson I Learned In 2011

In episode 14 of the STG podcast, 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 the #1 item on that [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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8-Year-Old Guitar Teacher!

I thought you might like this photo…it’s my 8-year old son, Ian, teaching one of the neighborhood kids how to play “Smoke On The Water”. Ian’s only been playing for a few months now, and he’s still very much a beginner, but here he is teaching his first guitar lesson. This just goes to illustrate [...]

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Using Written Practice Schedules With Your Students

Just like writing down your goals helps them to come to pass, writing out a practice schedule helps you plan and do the things that will make you the guitar player you want to be. Like I’ve mentioned before, your students need to know exactly WHEN they’re going to practice, for how LONG, and exactly [...]

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