Tag: Changing Lives

  • Believing in Others 8-18-15

    No 33. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 18, 2015 Believing in Others! While watching dancers compete, I am always blown away by the commitment, energy, drive, and preparation from the dancers. They have first come together to be a team. They have mastered the art of organization. They plan their…

  • 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…

  • Never Give Up 2-27-15

    No 9. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 27, 2015 David Woodbury Never Give Up! Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.– Marilyn vos Savant  1946-NA There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We…

  • The Truth About Dancing 11-21-14

    No 46 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 21, 2014 The truth about dancing…It’s good for you! When I am dancing, I am happy and healthy. When I am dancing nothing hurts and there is no pressure in my life. Time stops when I dance, and when I continue to dance,…

  • Give Somebody a Boost! 11-14-14

    No 45 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 14, 2014 Give Somebody a Boost! Many people believe that support is something that you give to someone you feel sorry for or that it means propping up someone who would fail unless you were there to give him a boost. But that’s…

  • “I Am Marketing” 3-21-14

    David Earl Woodbury No 13 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 21, 2014 “I AM Marketing” At a recent meeting for the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, the president Laurel Rosen said to us “I am marketing”. We were all talking about what we were doing to promote our businesses and…

  • 1-24-14 “Starting without a Paper Clip”.

    David Earl Woodbury No 5: Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, January 24, 2014 “Starting without a Paper Clip”. When we signed our lease for the Arthur Murray Santa Monica Dance Center on September 16, 2013, I returned to the studio and sat on a rickety bench and a card table with…