Do This First

I was in third grade and wanted to play guitar like he did.

He was a graduate student and could play songs I heard on the radio.

He agreed t0 teach me, but he insisted I start with this one thing.

He said it was one of the most important things I’d ever learn.

We’d start every lesson with it, and he made me promise to do this every time I picked up my guitar.

He taught me how to get my guitar in tune.

“Getting in tune is the only way to have the rest of it go well,” he told me.

He was teaching me about a lot more than guitar.

Being in tune is foundational, whether it’s as a project team in school or at work team, or a as a couple, or as a group of volunteers in a church administrative meeting.

Being in tune is key.  (No pun intended.)

See you back here tomorrow.