Many of you know that I sold a company called Vitabase last year. Vitabase was my main focus for the past fifteen years. In fact, we built an office/warehouse for it a few miles from my house. When I sold Vitabase, they originally wanted to stay in the building so I could be around to […]
Category Archives: Thoughts
It is fashionable these days to talk about planning your life. By that, I mean planning how you want it to look and then executing the plan to make it happen. The self-help gurus love to give you the formulas for life planning. So do your local network marketing friends. In theory, there is nothing […]
If you have ever spent much time with any of my courses or classes, you have heard me talk about a concept I call the 4 stages of learning. This is not original to me of course, but here are the 4 stages in order from worst to best. 1) Unconscious incompetence – You don’t […]
A quick editors note up front: I hope you guys will be patient with me when I write about topics outside of music. My strategy here has always been to write about things of interest to me and based on the feedback I get, a lot of you like it when I stray from music. […]
The idea of “being intentional” is a trendy idea that is floating around out there these days. It is a good idea that is probably a reaction against the tendency of modern culture to be busy but shallow. Here is a quick demonstration. If you ask people how they are, 99% will answer in one […]
A discussion popped up somewhere regarding my recent article about buying pianos for a church. Someone asked whether it makes sense for a church to just buy a keyboard rather than an expensive piano. Today, I want to talk about that. I am a pianist. I love great pianos. I will take a great piano […]
The topic of weddings has been coming up a lot lately and I want to write about musician wedding pay today. I did an informal survey over the weekend on my Facebook page as to what musicians were getting paid and the results sort of surprised me. There were a lot of musicians getting paid […]
Thirteen years ago, I did something big. I was working for Delta Airlines at the time as a software guy and on my two year anniversary with the company (the first day I could legally quit), I walked away to work full-time on my small business which at the time consisted mainly of big dreams […]
The other day, we attended a Karate belt ceremony for my youngest son Zachary. I don’t put a high priority on my children playing sports but I sort of like Karate. It might come in useful some day and I like a lot of the philosophy behind Karate or at least the philosophy of the […]
Someone recently posted this on Facebook:
I have a music studio and I want people to find out about it on the internet. How can I ensure that people typing “<city name> piano lessons” into Google will find me?
I was in a group discussion the other day discussing how men can be better leaders at home. Eventually, the conversation came around to the balance between work and the other responsibilities of life (especially family). One person brought up the fact that men tend to be too obsessed with work. They work too much […]