Good Things Are Happening

When I started this blog a few weeks ago, I was actually in the midst of personal turmoil about a teaching position I was in.  I was teaching for a music store somewhat out of my area.  I loved my students, but I had lost all but two of them.  A couple of them moved away, others I lost to “the economy.”  And of course, some I lost because they just weren’t into it.  The two remaining students were the first two I started with there, and I didn’t want to “abandon” them.  But for various reasons, it was obvious that no matter what I did, I wouldn’t be able to re-build the studio, and I was essentially losing money traveling there every week for two lessons.  So I resigned.

I was relieved to make the decision, but I had my doubts.  Had I done the wrong thing?  Who was going to replace me with my old students, and would they teach them well?  My resignation wasn’t exactly warmly received, so had I ruined my reputation in that area for other things like my summer camp or workshops I do?

I had my answer pretty quickly.  Within days, I had lined up more new students at my home studio than I had lost.  Things unexpectedly picked up for me at the Music Institute as well, which I’m really happy about.  I finally was able to accomplish some real work towards launching my website www.LessonSpark.com to a wider audience (look out on January 31!).  And, I started this blog!

As tough as it was to decide to make that move to resign from a not-so-great teaching job, it seems to have started good things in motion.  It could just as easily have gone the other way, but I choose to think positively.  I’m going to keep this momentum going.  I choose to believe that I can keep making good things happen, in my teaching and in everything I do!