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• Musicians have more fun: ask around
• It’s portable fun: once you start playing guitar, you’ll start collecting gear, somehow it comes with the territory.  Buy a cheap guitar and take it with you at the beach, camp, wherever you go.
• It’s social: start playing and people will stop talking, turn off cell phones, detach from their iPod, and start humming, some will sing, and the most courageous may eve dance.  You’ll make new friends, and get to know amazing people.  (Add dog if you are single).

But wait!  There’s more:  learning to play guitar will embed in you the most valuable business tool there is:  Project Management:

• Plan: make one (online resources etc..), buy one (Books, methods etc..) or hire someone to make one fore you (teacher)

  

• Perfect Practice make perfect:  only by playing constantly and on a regular basis you will progress on the plan.  30 minutes every day will yield greater results that 3.5 hours every Sunday.
• Use it or lose it:  put practice off long enough and you will find that you have fallen behind where you were the last time you practice.
• Learn by doing is the only way to learn:  how many books on swimming can you read and never jump into the water?
• Push the envelope:  practicing every day what you know will get you nowhere.  Set the task too high and you will fail without learning.  Set the bar every time a bit higher, practice slow, then increase speed, practice until the conscious efforts grows enough neurons to become habit or second nature, a part of your new you; then move on to the next task.
• Enjoy the process, the process is the destination.

Can you say the same about your business tools and habits?