By Brendan O’Meara
When I see my favorite musicians getting after it on the big stage, I often think to myself, “Man, what must it be like to be good at something, like, really good at something.”
What you don’t see is that lead guitarist, when he or she was coming up the ranks and had their first guitar, they were playing six, seven, eight hours a day. Unless they were like Eddie Van Halen, but we must avert our eyes in the face of true genius.
Hours and hours of bad notes and buzzed fret boards. And then, maybe, they reach the big time and we see them and wonder how they make it look so easy, the way their hands and fingers magically land on the perfect spot along the fret board.
Eight hours of practice is a bit much and not realistic for most working adults, but how many wasted minutes were on your schedule today? How many of those minutes could’ve been spent writing bad words, buzzing the fret board? Do a time audit. The TRS—the time revenue service—comes knocking. They want to know where your time went and how you can account for it.
What will you tell the TRS? Can you look the TRS in the eye and say you spent it on the right path? Are you squared up? I’m not. But I’m working on it. Better today, better tomorrow, win the hour, win the day.
So on we go.
