Category: Arthur Murray Santa Monica

  • Optimism is Essential – February 26, 2016

    No 9 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 27, 2016 Optimism is Essential… “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” – Nicholas Murray Butler Everywhere around us we are met with challenges. Even those who seem to ‘have it all’ have obstacles…

  • A Spark of Heavenly Fire 2-12-16

    No 7. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 12, 2016 A Spark of Heavenly Fire “There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” – Washington…

  • Excellence for its own sake! 1-29-16

    No 5. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, January 29, 2016 Excellence for its own sake! “Those who turn good (organizations) into great (organizations) are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.” – Jim Collins Have you ever felt that you are…

  • I’m Thankful 11-26-15

    No 48. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Thursday, November 26, 2015 I’m Thankful I’m thankful that I’m sitting here in the Arthur Murray Dance Center of Santa Monica. We drove by St. Monica Parish tonight where 1000+ were served a hot dinner, and were taken to the “Boutique” for a full set…

  • Mistakes 9-4-15

    No 36. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, September 4, 2015 Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. — Sophia Loren (1934-  ) Italian Actress Ever made a mistake? Ever feel really stupid about it. Every had someone else make you feel small and insignificant over doing…

  • Where are we going? 6-26-15

    No 26. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, June 26, 2015 Half Way Through 2015! Where are we going? So many opportunities are coming our way here at Arthur Murray Santa Monica. Every day another door opens for us to share the love of dance here in beautiful Santa Monica. Where are…

  • Dance in the Right Direction 5-8-15

    No 19. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 8, 2015 Dance in the Right Direction If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.– Buddhist Proverb How many times have I turned a brand new couple around on the dance floor dancing the…

  • Impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. 4-23-15

    No 17. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 24, 2015 At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. — Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) American Actor It seems that every day, I am amazed by what’s happening around me. We’re owners of an Arthur Murray Dance Center in Santa Monica. We are…

  • TIME IS SHORT! 3-27-15 David Earl Woodbury

    No 13. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 27, 2015 Time is Short! You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not…

  • Our Dancing Goals 2-20-15

    No 8. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 20, 2015 David Woodbury Our Dancing Goals You can’t climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don’t fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that’s reasonable, and then…