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The dancer that I am coaching remarked yesterday that I often ask questions like:'why do you do the things you do?'and 'what do you aim to achieve with this?'. She pointed out to me that most of the time, she does stuff because it sounds fun.
Which is an okay answer but I still want to know:'what makes it fun?'. I come home after class yesterday and told E. He looked me in the eye and said:'you are a strategic thinkier and are used to think like this. Every step you take is a step closer towards your ultimate goal. Most people don't look that far ahead'. One of my ultimate goals is dancing around wearing rhinestones and sequins and getting paid for it, so I wouldn't say I'm up to par with strategic thinkers like Napoleon or chess world champions. But yeah, I am a long term thinker. It's why I didn't choose belly dance as a career option.
Speaking of thinking ahead, I'm enjoying the items from my belly dance bundle and one of them is the 'sustainable practice habit' by Nadira Jamal. So far I love it, as it breaks down various aspects of why we have will power (or not) and how to get going and practice instead of procrastinate. I noticed in class how I am teacheing new material this semester and my students are flabergasted. Interesting to notice, as taking those online classes with Queenie seem to pay off in me coming up with new combinations.Weehee!!
Online classes and courses.
The more I dive into the vast ocean of online courses and 'passive income streams', the more it feels like a pyramid game. The succesful people show up in my Facebook feed, selling a course that promise you to make you better at something. Considering how hard it is to learn a new skill, the person who earns the most is the person on the top with the biggest empire. From the participants, 1 out of ten will succeed in keeping it up out of the class room and the rest will coast a bit on what they've learned until the memory dries up. Is this a bad thing? No. But it also makes me rethink my own business plans. I wanted to make an online belly dance course, but lately I have serious doubts about teaching through video. I don't want people to get hurt or to learn faulty technique. I do want to create some passive income streams from belly dance, like a free three day course on 'what is belly dance', some e-books and a course on the cultural background of belly dance.Plus one or two live workshops per month that people can subscribe to, and that I will cancel if I have four people or less signed up.
I need time to create those courses, but I don't have time as my Wednesday nights are taken up by teaching a beginners class with three people in it. :-( And having Sara on board turns out to be nice but also more work. And it seems like I have pretty high standards for teaching belly dance that I want my staff to adhere to, and I should make that explicit.
I am enjoying belly dance and the products in the belly dance bundle, but part of me also thought:if the creators decided to add their product to the bundle, does that mean that the passive income hype is a bit overrated? I mean, a book or course gets outdated in a couple of years, so it's not like you can run a course or sell an E-book for ten years without the extra work or alterations. What do you think about online learning and passve income streams?
Which is an okay answer but I still want to know:'what makes it fun?'. I come home after class yesterday and told E. He looked me in the eye and said:'you are a strategic thinkier and are used to think like this. Every step you take is a step closer towards your ultimate goal. Most people don't look that far ahead'. One of my ultimate goals is dancing around wearing rhinestones and sequins and getting paid for it, so I wouldn't say I'm up to par with strategic thinkers like Napoleon or chess world champions. But yeah, I am a long term thinker. It's why I didn't choose belly dance as a career option.
Speaking of thinking ahead, I'm enjoying the items from my belly dance bundle and one of them is the 'sustainable practice habit' by Nadira Jamal. So far I love it, as it breaks down various aspects of why we have will power (or not) and how to get going and practice instead of procrastinate. I noticed in class how I am teacheing new material this semester and my students are flabergasted. Interesting to notice, as taking those online classes with Queenie seem to pay off in me coming up with new combinations.Weehee!!
Online classes and courses.
The more I dive into the vast ocean of online courses and 'passive income streams', the more it feels like a pyramid game. The succesful people show up in my Facebook feed, selling a course that promise you to make you better at something. Considering how hard it is to learn a new skill, the person who earns the most is the person on the top with the biggest empire. From the participants, 1 out of ten will succeed in keeping it up out of the class room and the rest will coast a bit on what they've learned until the memory dries up. Is this a bad thing? No. But it also makes me rethink my own business plans. I wanted to make an online belly dance course, but lately I have serious doubts about teaching through video. I don't want people to get hurt or to learn faulty technique. I do want to create some passive income streams from belly dance, like a free three day course on 'what is belly dance', some e-books and a course on the cultural background of belly dance.Plus one or two live workshops per month that people can subscribe to, and that I will cancel if I have four people or less signed up.
I need time to create those courses, but I don't have time as my Wednesday nights are taken up by teaching a beginners class with three people in it. :-( And having Sara on board turns out to be nice but also more work. And it seems like I have pretty high standards for teaching belly dance that I want my staff to adhere to, and I should make that explicit.
I am enjoying belly dance and the products in the belly dance bundle, but part of me also thought:if the creators decided to add their product to the bundle, does that mean that the passive income hype is a bit overrated? I mean, a book or course gets outdated in a couple of years, so it's not like you can run a course or sell an E-book for ten years without the extra work or alterations. What do you think about online learning and passve income streams?
