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How to Ensure Learning Morphs into Successful Action
In 1977, guitarist Lee Ritenour recorded Captain Fingers — a track that would come to define him. It’s bright, technical, and bursting with groove — and, “he makes it look easy.” Except, it isn’t. More than forty years later, Ritenour admitted in a Guitar Player interview that Captain Fingers is still difficult to play. Even…
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How to Tap into the Treasure that Lies Within
How do you convey messages to your subconscious mind and tap into your own acre of diamonds? In this post, I identified three things that need to be present in order for you to begin to tap into your power: You need to remain open and curious You must know WHAT you want You must discover…
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écouter et répéter
I love the French language. The guttural Rs…the way one word seems to join another in a sentence…except in certain cases…pure music. To learn French back when I was in secondary school – our teacher always started the lesson by asking us to “écouter et répéter…” – listen and repeat. In Og Mandino’s ‘The Greatest…
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Why is Change so Difficult?
Old habits die hard – the saying goes – but why is that? We’ve been told that it takes 21 days to change a habit. This I believe came from Maxwell Maltz. Originally a Plastic Surgeon, Maltz noticed that it took 21 days for amputees to cease feeling phantom sensations in the amputated limb. From…

