Saturday - Figuring Things Out for the Future?

It is Saturday again, and I am two hours away from a video meeting with a friend who is also a music therapist and four hours away from getting a new tire. In that time, I have to blog, shower, clean out the car, and eat something for breakfast.

I had some homework to do before meeting, and I did it, but I decided that my health will not allow me to do what I want to do. It involves an evening class that I just will not be able to do due to my work and medication schedules. After the response to later medication ingestion from the past two weeks, I know that I cannot dedicate six weeks of late night Tuesdays that will affect my early morning Wednesdays, but I did write out my responses to the application questions. That helped me think about what I want to do next.

Are you ready?

I want to do everything I possibly can to support music therapists, students, and interns in doing their jobs. This has always been my mission - for my website, for my business, for everything that I am passionate about. I want to make tools that help music therapists manage the non-music therapy tasks. I want to share ideas and therapeutic music experiences, but I also want to facilitate inspiration and collaboration to take those ideas and TMEs past what I can develop into what clients really need. I want to show music therapists how easy it is to make things that they can use with their clients to enhance music therapy. I want to teach others how to do this, but I do not want to be a professor. I want to be a nomad, teaching and supporting therapists all over the world. I want to do a combination of in-person and virtual supports. I want to make enough money to support my pension but not to make this a full-time situation. I want to be the support that someone else needs, and I want to be available for those therapists when they need it. I want to help other music therapists recognize and pivot from burn-out.

My next step is to figure out how to do this, and I need help.

How would you go about telling music therapists about these types of things?? 

I don't do a good job with this part of it all. I don't have much money for buying advertisements or that type of thing, but I can use my social media knowledge (not much there, actually) to share information. The problem is that I just feel like I am screaming into a void when I try to get to my intended audience. 

I just don't know how to go from having resources to getting them out to others.

Now, I am getting a bit better with this. I am getting less shy about letting folks know about my available works when people are asking for resources in my various feeds. I have made about $20 this year through one source. Not enough to supplement my pension, for sure, but enough to keep me dreaming about getting more activity in my store.

So, I think my next assignment will be to start contacting people about what I want to share. Oi. That just makes me feel queasy. 

Okay. I will be looking for help, and I am going to spend some time getting advertisements ready for my products. I am going to figure out who to contact in various places regarding a workshop about preparing for internship.

Time to get going on my to-do list. Lots to think about and lots to do! See you tomorrow - I have a brand new song (it is very silly) to debut tomorrow for my Sunday Song post! 

Enjoy your Saturday!

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