{"id":686,"date":"2015-05-04T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=686"},"modified":"2015-05-04T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T10:00:42","slug":"reason-101-not-to-learn-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/ballroom-dances\/reason-101-not-to-learn-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #101 Not to Learn Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you\u2019re starting something new, there are lots of reasons you can create to avoid doing it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s uncomfortable, I know, to be the new person, step into a new place, wonder if you\u2019ll \u201cget it\u201d or make friends or whatever. But that doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t try.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s time to silence the discouraging voices in your head and just press forward. Sign up for a ballroom dance lesson. Give it a try. And see what unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>People come up to me at events and when they learn that I own a ballroom dance studio, many say, \u201cOh, I\u2019ve always wanted to learn to dance! I just don\u2019t have the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Um, well, we make time for the things that are important to us. Perhaps dance isn\u2019t important to you yet. It can be, if you give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>One lesson, or a month of lessons, doesn\u2019t guarantee you\u2019ll be reordering your life to fit dance into every free corner. No one\u2019s making a lifelong commitment. If you\u2019re curious, just try one lesson and see what happens. It might be pretty great, and then what?<br \/>\nI feel frustrated when potential customers express this dichotomy \u2013 <em>I<\/em><em>\u2019ve always wanted to learn to dance, BUT<\/em><em>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want to help them fulfill that dream. I got into this business because I loved dancing, and I wanted to bring that love to other people. I believe in it \u2013 the rush of adrenaline and endorphins from a great lesson, the grace and elegance of gliding across the floor no matter your body type or height or level of skill.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer fun of it \u2013 you can\u2019t help but smile.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we find reasons not to do something we think will be fun? Why don&#8217;t we make time for ourselves and our dreams?<\/p>\n<p>Is life so routine that we can\u2019t bear to be unscripted just for a little while?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s try something new, just this once, and see how it changes our lives for the better. We have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you\u2019re starting something new, there are lots of reasons you can create to avoid doing it. It\u2019s uncomfortable, I know, to be the new person, step into a new place, wonder if you\u2019ll \u201cget it\u201d or make friends or whatever. But that doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t try. So it\u2019s time to silence the discouraging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballroom-dances","category-dance-info-news-trends","tag-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}