Your ideal guitar student

When you first begin teaching you are basically happy to teach anyone. I remember the excitement of enrolling new students in those early days and thinking that I was going to be fully booked in no time. I would enroll 2 to 3 new students a week mostly due to the fact that I had experience in sales. I did eventually fill my schedule but many of my students weren't practicing and I soon found myself feeling like a failure. The problem was I had been accepting anyone and trying to please everyone.

Successful teachers are clear about what their ideal student looks like. They can describe them in detail and as a result all their students will fit or be close to this description. But I should make it clear that they don't turn away students who aren't ideal. They simply have standards that students have to meet and their strength is communicating those standards and ensuring their students live up to them. If not that's when they politely recommend another teacher.

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