How will this work? Can I make it work?

If there's one thing life has taught me, it is to curb my enthusiasm. Which is sad, because it is a recipe for getting the life sucked out of you. However, I think I'm learning the balance to curb my enthusiasm, without losing the core of myself.

Anyways.

Let's do a little historical survey since I started AKFA. Here are my consultants:
-Joe Brignoli from MATA, got me to do a health club based MA school, and to teach children.
-Melody Shuman for a few sessions b/c I got free advising from Member Solutions, a billing company I used for 10 seconds.
-Allie Alberigo, same deal with Member Solutions, but didn't get much advice beyond getting organized.
-My teacher, Tat Mau Wong, who didn't give me a whole lot of new info, but did show me about organizing a Kung-Fu curric.
-David Ross, who gave great ideas on how to run adult classes, kind of like seminars.
-Back to Joe Brignoli, who told me I need to go up to strangers cold and solicit them.
***left the field for 6 months to work at UT***
-Nick Daugherty, who told me all about branding, social networking, answering phones, summer camp programs, tiny tots programs, scheduling, and pricing
-Currently, back with Melody Shuman full force. I am absorbing her knowledge a little better after spending some time with Nick.

Melody has awesome information on her site, and the videos help A LOT. I need more, tho. An article is all theoretical to me until I see it in action.

So my health club is getting rid of the room that I've been teaching in the last few years, and that is forcing me to find another venue/space. Hopefully this is all for the better, b/c one of my biggest challenges was to really have the right schedule that would improve my success. But I couldn't compete against classes like yoga or pilates in that room.

My summer camp and my tiny tots programs aren't going to be doing very well. I'm going to be doing them for the first time this year, and it's really just to get the experience. I don't have a lot of kids signed up for summer camp, and I've gotten no sense that anyone's interested in my tiny tots program b/c the time sucks (forced to have it at a particular time b/c of the gym).

So I get the feeling summer is going to be a bust, but I really really really want to use the summer time to get all the planning, strategizing, and preparation right for the fall. This Fall could be amazing for me, if I do it right and rise to the occasion. But I gotta really work hard and totally do it right.

So while I'm still trying to market and get more students into my summer stuff, I'm trying to learn these new concepts and plans from Melody's website. Summer will basically be my labcoat experiment for teaching and delivery methodology for the Fall.

It's such a weird place to be.

I want to succeed so bad.

I know I have what it takes to have a 100 students and a 6 figure generating school.

I just have to do the right things AND do things right.

More to come.