Eric Beaty
Author of stories, articles, and other such good reads.
"Well-written and full of helpful tips for keeping on task and organized, the essential for achieving any goal."
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Eric Beaty began his entrepreneurial career as a well-known guitar instructor on YouTube and performing artist in the Bluegrass guitar circuit. Before dedicating greater focus to his writing career, Eric created and authored several guitar instructional courses and companion books.
In the years since pursuing writing as a career in addition to his music, Eric has authored many books, stories, poems, essays, blog posts, and songs. The basis for much of Eric’s writing comes from a great many notebooks and journals that he fills with his experiences, ideas, and stories. In fact, as an additional resource in 2023, Eric created his own Substack, Gleaning Words, to host the best of these "gleaned" journal entries. He later created his fiction newsletter 
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Eric has also participated in—and thrice won—the popular writing competition National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in the years 2009, 2015, and 2018. He was also a shortlist winner for the "Art of the Title" competition hosted by the Self-Publishing Advice Conference (SelfPubCon) in 2023. In January of 2026, Eric achieved bestselling status with his SMART FOCUS series.
Originally from Monterey, Tennessee, Eric now lives with his wife, Melissa, and their son, DJ, in the ever-growing city of Crossville, Tennessee. He is currently at work on yet another one of his many creative projects.
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Great book! For someone like me, with focus issues, this book was just what I needed to help train myself to be more disciplined. Great techniques and solutions. Thank you. I highly recommend.
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Great plan for changing behavior
I enjoyed hearing about the SMART philosophy, and seeing it broken down step by step, and seeing how it worked for the author. Excellent how-to with actionable steps.
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Well-written and full of helpful tips.
Well-written and full of helpful tips for keeping on task and organized, the essential for achieving any goal.
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module 01: incubate
Let’s begin our journey of writing creative guitar solos with a proven technique that solves one of the most common issues when trying to be creative. (This applies to any aspect of our lives, not just on guitar.)
The Problem: You’re in a creative rut and don’t know how to break free.
The Solution: Incubate.
So, what do I mean by incubate? Simply put, incubation is another word for
meditation. Chewing things over. Letting things mentally digest. Not forcing the process; trusting the process.
When you put your ideas into incubation, you mull things over while going on with the normal, everyday activities in your life. The ideas that give you the most problems are allocated to the back-burner, simmering while you let them alone long enough to marinate and reduce into more manageable solutions.
Chapter 01
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