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How To Play Guitar 101: To Your Success

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The great motivator Earl Nightingale came up with the following definition of success…
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” I like that definition very much! What does this definition mean to you? Let’s take a closer look at the worthy ideal part of it…

Spend a few minutes writing down what “worthy ideal” means to you. It is my vision of perfection…a vision of how I would ideally like things to be. It is a vision that I find inspiring and energizing!

If your success with guitar is totally dependent on working towards a worthy ideal, doesn’t it make sense that you first need to figure out what YOUR worthy ideal is? How can you progressively realize something even if you don’t know what it is? Let’s do some exercises to figure your one out…

Please invest at least a couple of hours doing the following exercises. They will really help you to build a picture of your worthy ideal in your mind’s eye…

Exercise 1:
Imagine how would ideally like to play.Try to imagine what your electric guitar will look like, sound like, and feel like. What kind of acoustic guitar are you an expert at? How does your improvising sound? Are you getting better at it? What is going on with your composing? Please write your answers down now.

Exercise 2:
Imagine your ideal guitar playing career. Would you be a expert guitar teacher? What about a wonderful performing artist? Or another goal can be performing as part of a highly successful band? How would you like to be an in demand studio guitarist? What do you really want to do? You can write down your answers now.

Exercise 3:
Jot down your ideas for a worthy career in guitar playing. Write it down in the present tense, as if you have already achieved it.Try to condense it down into a one paragraph statement.

Exercise 4:
If you will invest 5 minutes every morning & night that will help you to reach the goal you want to achieve. This will help you to stay motivated and focused on what you TRULY want.

Clarity is essential. If you don’t do it, you might not be able to start developing an effective career geared towards your goal.

You may find as you answer the questions that self-doubt starts to creep in. You may doubt whatever you right down will be possible or not! This is normal. Just write down your answers anyway You don’t need to know right now HOW you will achieve your worthy ideal. It’s easy, just figure out what it is.