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“A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places.” – Paul Gardener You can keep working on this arrangement forever. Improving it, tweaking it, honing it. (for “arrangement” read “painting”, “monologue”, “song”, “short story”, etc….) But it won’t be your last arrangement. It doesn’t need to be the […]

A Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching When I drove roughly 1,000 miles to Massachusetts last weekend, there was a pin in a digital map and Google provided step-by-step directions to get there. We tend to think of career paths that way, […]

I loved watching my sons learn to walk. As long as they weren’t near anything too sharp or hard, I would let them fall and watch them get back up. Again and again and again. The fact is that walking is just falling and catching yourself. You need to learn […]

A Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching But the first step isn’t the hardest. On a thousand mile journey, you’ll have times when you can’t see the destination and can’t see how far you’ve come. You’ll desperately want to quit. Begin, yes. […]

Yesterday I talked about the power of spending ten minutes per day on something. P.S. Let me let you in on a secret. Practice is addicting. Once you get into a ten minute a day habit, you’re going to start stretching it to 15. 20. 30 or much more! Here’s […]

If you spent 6 hours a day for two work weeks on a skill, how much better would you get? That’s two weeks of 9-4, Monday-Friday with an hour for lunch. How good would you be at yo-yoing? How much more efficient would you be at washing dishes? Long division? […]

I missed my Monday night rehearsal this week. It hardly ever happens, even if I’m pretty sick, but tonight it was unavoidable and for the best of reasons. This Saturday I was in Rhode Island and Massachusetts to celebrate my grandmother’s 100th birthday. I thought I was able to plan […]

Yesterday was my grandmother’s 100th birthday. As I watched her get up from her chair to greet the many family members visiting her Massachusetts home, I thought, “if I can stand up that fast at eighty I’ll be happy!” She lives at home and continues to share new stories from her […]

Why I Don’t Mind Auto-Tune If you listen to pop music now, it’s hard to find anything competently produced that doesn’t use some auto-tune software to improve the intonation of the singer. As a rule, I don’t have a problem with that. Using current technology to improve the overall production […]