development

Confronting and Accomplishing Change

The New Year is a holiday that I really get the concept of. I’m a big fan of change: change for the better, change for the sake of change, even negative change as long as it doesn’t all happen at once. Change is even in my business name!  At the New Year, everyone is given […]

By |December 27th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments

Music and Early Childhood

There is already a wealth of resources, information, and material about using music in helping young children grow and develop. I had the pleasure of writing an article for the South Carolina Early Childhood Association about music therapy’s place in early childhood development. As a result of that article, the Louisiana Early Childhood Association is […]

By |December 17th, 2010|Blog|0 Comments

Inherent Good

This post is not the normal blog fare, please pardon if you’re new!

Being someone who works with people, I’ve seen a lot of bad and I’ve seen a lot of good. Fortunately for me, the majority of my professional work has been with people who are either good, or struggle with ‘goodness’ due to issues […]

By |December 14th, 2010|Blog|5 Comments

Self Ownership- Owning what you do and loving yourself for it

I have made a very important discovery while building Key Changes. It may be one you made a long time ago, never had to make, or have yet to realize, but no matter where you are in the process, some attention to it is beneficial.

That discovery is the concept of self […]

By |November 2nd, 2010|Blog|3 Comments

Adding Music to Your Child’s Daily Routine

One of the wonderful things about music is that is travels. You can have CDs, MP3 players, small instruments, and your voice! An excellent way to help music travel is to use it throughout your day so that your child become accustomed to it’s presence, as well as benefits from it’s naturally soothing effects on […]

By |October 22nd, 2010|Blog|0 Comments

Money, Money (Step 5, part two)

So last time (it’s been a while, I’m a slack blogger!) we talked about the financing of your business and how to figure out what it will cost. Today I’m going to go through some financing options for running your business and tell you about my experiences with each.

Saved up money

This is your easiest option. […]

By |October 13th, 2010|Blog|0 Comments

Your Untapped Marketing Resources

This fits in with my Starting a Business series, but I’m listing it separately because I haven’t gotten to that part of the series yet. I’ve been lazy, I know, but we’ll discuss start up funding options later this week!

One of the hardest (and most fun, in my opinion) things about running a business is […]

By |October 9th, 2010|Blog|3 Comments

Updates

We have had some weather here in South Carolina! First it was no rain for a month, then two days of downpour. The sun came out again briefly yesterday and then back to rain again. I’ve been itching to sing the Cloudy Day song courtesy of Rachel Rambach over at Listen and Learn Music, but […]

By |September 29th, 2010|Blog|0 Comments

Money Money (step 5, part one)

If you have been with us this long in the Starting a Business series, you obviously want to start a business! Now, we’ve talked about creating your business plan, your brand, and beginning to advertise and market. However, there is a gaping hole in our planning strategy thus far: Finances.

If you looked through the table […]

By |September 28th, 2010|Blog|3 Comments

Starting a Business- Things you can do now (Step 4)

Last time, we discussed working on your business plan. We also talked about a good resource for helping you build your business plan, the SBA. Depending on your timeline, you might need to go ahead and move forward with some parts of developing your business while you work on the plan.

Today I’m going to list […]

By |September 23rd, 2010|Blog|0 Comments