music, therapy, and me

I'm currently doing a five-day, free business challenge led by Rachelle Norman and Mary Owenby Altom, and my current challenge is to take an inventory of what I have around me. Their suggestion was to inventory the instruments and materials that are part of the music therapy stuff that we all have tucked away, but I already have that in place for my full-time music therapy job (not the business that I am growing), so I wanted to do something that would benefit my business, musictherapyworks.com, rather than something extraneous. So... My current challenge is to go through all of the digital files that I have and see what is available right now to be released as a product on my website. I know that I have bunches of file folder templates that I can tweak a bit and then post on my Teachers Pay Teachers site . I have courses that just need an approval from CBMT to make them work. I have books of therapeutic music experiences (TMEs) that people seem to like, but no one really knows...

Do you have an inventory of your music therapy materials? It is a tool that can be invaluable if disaster ever happens. I have a partial inventory, and I think that I will focus on making my inventory more complete this year. The first of the month may be a good time to update the inventory, so I will work on that this morning. I have an inventory of instruments. It is not complete, but I did arrange for storage a couple of years ago, and I counted everything at that point, so I only have to add the instruments that I have purchased at conferences over the past two years to make that more complete. My problem? Oh, I have way too many books of music, visual aids, file folder activities, children's books, and other types of resources that are not listed on the inventory as of yet. Listing these things will take time, but it will be worth it in the long run. I use a simple Excel document to track my inventory. I list the name of the instrument, the type of material it is, ...