About a month ago, Mike’s blog post compelled me to finally sign up for a Twitter account, just so that I could own my own name. I wasn’t sure if I was really ready to jump on the bandwagon, so I haven’t updated regularly or announced that I was on board. However, yesterday someone started […]
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Monday Mailbag – Studio Communications
Do you send out any kind of newsletter or communication to your students besides your blog and web site? For many years I created and sent out a really nice printed newsletter called “Noteworthy News” with info about upcoming events, pictures and recognition of students, a question of the month, trivia tidbits, etc. Once I […]
Fresh and Fun! Idea #4
My students did much better with the “Rhythm Runs” than I expected. A few of them struggled, but most of them caught on pretty quickly. It proved to be a very effective way of getting them to really feel the pulse, too, which is great! This week will be our final week focusing on Feeling […]
Finding Time: Part Four – How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Efforts
Read: Part One | Part Two | Part Three Each of these points below could be developed much more fully, but this is a brief overview of four things that seem to really eat up time and energy and sabotage our efforts to live productive lives. Know Your Calling and Priorities I already touched on […]
Finding Time: Part Three – 4 Principles for Making the Most of Your Time
Yesterday, we looked at the importance of Tracking Your Time to help determine how your time is being spent and what areas are/should be a priority. Once you have those determined, it’s helpful to have some guiding principles to help you structure your daily schedule. Here are 4 Key Principles that have made a huge […]
Finding Time: Part Two – Tracking Your Time
Yesterday, I mentioned that at the beginning of this year, I made up some little index cards on which I recorded each of the different roles that I fill and the responsibilities associated with each one. This was done in an effort to determine how to use my time more productively and to help me […]
