What excuses are stopping you from dancing?
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Let's be real
So to be honest, I haven’t been dancing and it’s been a slow sadness. But I have had some distractions but let’s be honest, if I want to dance, I should dance. No excuses.
But all the limitations I place on myself, makes it so easy
to give up before I even get going.
The other impact is, I only try to dance every second week
due to conflicts of other things happening. Life should be flexible and I am ok
with this, but I feel that is partly why I am succeeding in getting into
dancing again.
A goal should be done at least once a week, if not daily,
let alone, taking a break every second week, so of course I am going to hit
some curve balls, such as giving up.
And yet, here I am … not ready to give up!
How is this dilemma going to get me to dance?
It’s swooping season and I decided I needed another hobby,
besides walking. You can read about my walking for health blog here:
But seriously, talk about a problem. Swooping birds is real
in Australia, please comment below if your country also has seasons for
swooping birds. It is very scary being swooped on and this season I have
already been swooped on twice and the season is just starting.
Should I take up swimming?
A friend mentioned to me about her taking up swimming to
avoid walking and being swooped. I thought, yeah I can justify $6 a day to go
and swim for probably let’s face it, lucky if I swim for 20 minutes before
being breathless. But then I was listening to some rap and I had a really hard
day and I just wanted to dance. So yeah I might swim, but now I am definitely
going to dance!!
So I walked home longer and looking terrifying up at the
trees (thank goodness I didn’t get swooped) and then I just jumped into full
blown dancing for 20 minutes straight. That’s a record for me in a long time!
The results
I did this massive air dance jump and landed perfectly, but
even before I jumped I thought I can’t do that anymore and guess what I did! I
just have all these limiting thoughts about my ability. It’s just something I
have to break over time and the only way to do that is by keep dancing.
I also just danced hard. I didn’t just walk through the
steps, I performed it. And what steps are these? I just choreographed my own dances
for each song. Here I am, a past dancer, who danced in training for 15 years in
ballet, had a long time off dancing and then became an aerialist and danced in
the air and now … about 5 years later doing nothing, I am back and I don’t just
dance but make my own moves. Talk about shocking myself.
Thank you
Thank you for reading my blog, I honestly just want to share
what is going through my mind to get back into dancing so where ever you are at
in your dance journey, even if it’s just to watch others dance, you know you
hold the power to chase your goals.
#dancing #walking #goals
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