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Leeanne I., Australia

I felt that way myself last year, So this year, I got myself a teacher. I think making sure you are enjoying your own playing and learning new skills is important. You are progressing yourself and bringing back your own musical excitement which will flow through to your students.

Joan H., Canada

Firstly – self care, whatever it means for you to take care of you. More specific to teaching – for me it’s all about playing. The more I play, the more energized and excited I get. After literally not playing for 25 years after years of traditional piano, Simply Music has gotten me back to the piano and loving it like I never did before. So perhaps just a daily dose of a bit of learning that keeps things fresh and gives you something new will keep the ‘wow’ of this method alive in your heart and your fingers. Perhaps setting a weekly and daily goal for what that would look like for you would be helpful.

Joanne D., Australia

I believe that what you focus on gets larger, so I would suggest trying to focus on or imagine having a large studio filled with wonderful students, and try not to think too much about the lack of students and money.

Cate R., Australia

This ‘job’ has many hats. Playing, keeping yourself ahead of your students, teaching in a way that energizes you, marketing so you have income, tax and business books, recruiting, and your own growth and personal life. In order to keep all those balls in the air, you have to schedule them in. Like your students, you need a schedule. You also need some ‘you’ time, something completely different and away from your studio. Yoga, beach walks, mountain bikes, whatever does that for you. In your long-term relationship graph, plot where you are. It can only get better.

Joy O., Alabama

Your feelings about your studio can become a self-feeding cycle. If you feel excited and energized about piano, your students will catch that, and you will have a higher retention and referral rate. If you are stressed, that will come through in the lessons as well.

When teaching, try some of the “fake it til you make it” approach. Try all these other suggestions above as well. And advertise! Facebook has paid advertising, but there are also free things you can do: post on your own page and any groups where you have permission to do that. Join buy/sell groups for your area and post there. Tell everyone you know that your are “accepting new students”. Notice I didn’t say “looking for new students”. Work as much as you can from a place of strength.