Around 2011, I wanted to start an online business, but I didn’t know how to do it.
I had a brick-and-mortar music school, so I wondered if there was some way that I could teach music online.
Of course, there was. And if I had actually started such a business back in 2011, it would probably be a monstrous success by now.
Read MoreA fellow business coach suggested that only a tiny fraction of people trying to make it in business are “cut out” to be entrepreneurs.
Her reasoning was that people don’t want to do the hard work and they complain too much. (Wasn’t she complaining as she said this?)
I get impatient with this kind of gatekeeping. The thing that I like most about small business is that anybody can do it.
Read MoreBack when I was trying for a career as a singer/songwriter, I gave no thought to what other people might enjoy.
I tried to make my songs catchy and clever because I liked songs that were catchy and clever. But if anyone else happened to like them, that was more or less a coincidence. And that is pretty much the way art works, so that’s fine.
Read MoreThis week, Ashleigh Barty, the number-one ranked women's tennis player in the world, announced her retirement from the sport at age twenty-five.
It made international headlines. Who quits at the top?
Barty said that she knows all too well what it takes to bring out her best, and she doesn't want to do it anymore. She doesn't have the drive.
Read MoreThe first time I taught a piano lesson, I had never taught a piano lesson before.
After I taught that lesson, I was a piano teacher. And then I taught more lessons, until I eventually reached a threshold of being an experienced piano teacher.
I wasn't exceptionally good at the beginning, but I was good enough. And that, in fact, was all that was necessary. I’m grateful that people asked me to teach them piano so that I didn’t have to put myself out there. I’m not sure I would have done it.
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