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Where Diligence Dances Louder Than Perfection: The Shift That Builds Legacy

 The dedicated artist quickly becomes acquainted with difficulty, tough days and that sort of tug-of-war with mastery. I'm sure you've been there. It's those moment s y ou need to analyze after relaxing into the burning muscles and deep sigh because who is thinking about anything else while trying to stay alive in ballet? Since beginning my dance career, I have always been coached by incredible teachers.  Literally!  Dale Shields, Lydia Abarca-Mitchell, Erin Jaffe-Gardner and so on. While still a high school student, I learned to handle the demands and pressures of dance training to become a professional. I wouldn't say that tough moments feel unfamiliar to me, it's knowing how to deconstruct them for greater outcomes.  Yesterday I learned that I don't need to be a crazy perfectionist in order to elevate my body, mind-body connection, artistry or overall beauty. At this point in my career, I am unlearning and relearning a couple of things. I enthusiasticall...
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Essential Ways To Invest In You

 Complacency will become a norm if you stop investing in YOU. That investment will look different for different people but there are a few I believe can creep in on us all.

Choosing to not play the comparison game is investing in you. Realizing and exploring places that require your attention and working on those things is investing in you. Not being afraid to retrain or taking time to learn properly is also investing in you!

Today I explored each of these scenarios in one setting. My point of this post is to exclaim the beauty of liberation in your pursuit of calling. My Pastor often says "What you don't confront, you'll never conquer". That could not be farthest from the truth. So, when it comes to not comparing myself to others, working on my art and confronting the fact that I had yet another "note" to implement (one that was extremely helpful and resides amongst other fine details that have slipped through the cracks of my training, having not started training in Ballet really until college) I experienced, for the first time in my career, today, total liberation! For years I had imprisoned myself by my own thoughts of defeat and inferiority. I created a deficit in my thought life because when discouraging days, discouraging teachers and less than perfect steps came to shake me, I opted in. I did not understand the importance of investing in me. The only way to understand that concept is to value where you are because of where you are going.

Because I know my Heavenly Father to be a masterful creator of destiny and makes a necessity of proper training grounds, where I have been and where I am areVITAL. As a child of God your path is not random but you HAVE TO make decisions. 

Today I could have chosen to ignore my correction and ignore my need for improvement under the guise of that same comparison or lack of attention (lack of care) but I am beyond excited to say that I chose correctly. Because of that I have been liberated. 

I am free to follow God. I am free to get in THE FLOW

Invest in You.

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