Another advantage of giving piano lessons is that you probably already have an outline for the lessons ingrained into you. You got that outline when you took piano lessons from a skilled individual as a youngster yourself. You know the finger exercises, how you were taught the scales and how to slowly build up your skill of playing the piano. You can start with your own training but you will find plenty of piano lesson plans in music stores or online. Take sometime before you take on your first student to go through the lessons and understand them so you are ready to start teaching right away.
The other preparation step before you take on students for your piano lessons is to prepare a studio that you can dedicate to teaching. It doesn’t have to be a totally private room but a study or dining room where the piano is should be remote enough from what else is going on in the house that you can give your students 100% of your attention for their half hour of your time. Your students pay for your time and an interruption of only 5 minutes robs them of what you are giving. So make arrangements so you can devote the time to teaching during the lesson times.
You might feel insecure about the craft of teaching. But when you think about it, you teach all the time in a one on one setting when you help your kids with school projects or with their homework. Simply approach teaching piano with that same gentle patience and with that same perseverance and insistence on perfection that you use with your own children and you will do fine.