Perspective is Everything

Perspective is everything. In our studios, we have to look at things objectively. If something is happening and bringing up feelings, there is a reason for this - and we need to evaluate if the feeling is real (a fact) or just a feeling. 

For example, you want to change your tuition structure in your studio because the one you have in place isn’t really working for your business any longer. This makes your heart race. You start telling yourself stories about all the parents/dancers that will unenroll. You start evaluating your studio against the other studios in your area. 

Stop! Breathe! 

Are all these things facts or feelings? If one of your friends came to you with these feelings, what advice would you give her? It’s really hard to separate the feelings and become objective in that moment. Is there someone in your corner who you can go to when you have these big things and you wanna bounce ideas off of?

You need someone who can be objective in your life!

I am a firm believer in community. It has to be the right community, though. Be mindful of who you are taking advice from. Not everyone’s advice is good advice, so you need to evaluate who the right person/people you are to go to in the times when you are feeling these things. 

I'm not a super woo-woo person. But I do believe that how we show up in the world is kind of what comes back to us. So if you are a very negative and pessimistic person, if you're very skeptical, then you're not going to have a lot of good things coming your way all the time. Or you're not going to allow them to come into your world because you have this wall up. If you live in a place that you can remind yourself that there are good people out there, people who love exactly what I offer, if you can live in a place where you see silver linings, if you can be grateful for every failure or every door that's been closed because they have allowed new ones to open for you, the world becomes your oyster. There is literally nothing you can't accomplish if you truly believe in yourself and in what you bring to the table. 

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is simply just taking action. And I think that shifting our perspective of things, of remembering that one does not equal the many, is all we need to move forward.