“I know there are many things you want, especially guitars, pianos, and all the fancy band instruments. You would like to have all that stuff at your house. Trust me. I know how you feel. I like guitars and keyboards and have bought twelve guitars and four keyboards that I play at my home. I own all the band instruments that I play here at school. I bought them when I was a grown-up.
It took a looooong time to buy them all.
You want to have the fun stuff and maybe your parents don't have the money for it. Or maybe you do think they have the money for but they're not going to spend it on those things that you want.
Remember this.
If you think your family doesn't have much money to spend, then know this: I was like you. We didn’t have much money. I wanted all those things, too.
Just like I always say “First things first”, my - and your - parents have to pay for the most important things first. Things like food, and gas for the car, medicine for when you’re sick.
My father explained to me when I was your age that while I couldn't pay for lots of different things with money when I was little, I could pay in a different way.
I could pay attention.
I can pay attention and by paying attention to the details, to the little things that other kids missed, to the little facts that make you a smarter person, to the lessons Life teaches if only we are willing and able to pay attention, I would become wealthy in ways I wouldn't understand until I was much older. And he was right.
If you do the things that I'm teaching you, how your fingers work with instruments, the different sounds of music you can make, as well as helping others, things like S.T.A.R.: sit like you're smart, know when to start and stop, track the talker, ask and answer questions, do respectable things and people will respect you, as well the important thing my father taught me, namely, pay attention, then you’ll have everything you want when you help other people get what they want.
When you can’t pay with money, pay attention.
Everything you learn by paying attention starting NOW, you get to keep forever. No one can take it from you.
Don’t give up. Pay attention."
It took a looooong time to buy them all.
You want to have the fun stuff and maybe your parents don't have the money for it. Or maybe you do think they have the money for but they're not going to spend it on those things that you want.
Remember this.
If you think your family doesn't have much money to spend, then know this: I was like you. We didn’t have much money. I wanted all those things, too.
Just like I always say “First things first”, my - and your - parents have to pay for the most important things first. Things like food, and gas for the car, medicine for when you’re sick.
My father explained to me when I was your age that while I couldn't pay for lots of different things with money when I was little, I could pay in a different way.
I could pay attention.
I can pay attention and by paying attention to the details, to the little things that other kids missed, to the little facts that make you a smarter person, to the lessons Life teaches if only we are willing and able to pay attention, I would become wealthy in ways I wouldn't understand until I was much older. And he was right.
If you do the things that I'm teaching you, how your fingers work with instruments, the different sounds of music you can make, as well as helping others, things like S.T.A.R.: sit like you're smart, know when to start and stop, track the talker, ask and answer questions, do respectable things and people will respect you, as well the important thing my father taught me, namely, pay attention, then you’ll have everything you want when you help other people get what they want.
When you can’t pay with money, pay attention.
Everything you learn by paying attention starting NOW, you get to keep forever. No one can take it from you.
Don’t give up. Pay attention."
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