Tag: Epictetus

  • No 27 7-6-18 “Keeping your Memories”

    “If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.” – Bob Dylan (1941) American songwriter, singer Living your dreams is not easy. It takes a lot of courage and pluck to turn a thought into an action that turns into a dream that becomes a reality. And dream has a way of…

  • No 52 12-29-17 Happy New Year!

    No 52 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, December 29, 2017 Happy New Year 2018! “To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself, it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one…

  • No 35 9-1-56 The Formula for Success

      No 35 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, September 1, 1956 The Formula for Success “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through – then follow through.” – Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 – 1973) American Aviator and Business Executive How true is this quote! The art of thinking things…

  • No 14 Can Dancing Protect Your Brain From Aging?

    No 14 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 7, 2017 Can Dancing Protect Your Brain From Aging? Our Arthur Murray Santa Monica student, Diana Ungerleider, brought in an article that said there may be something unique about learning a social dance. The demands dancing places on the mind and body could…

  • No 6 2-10-17 “I never said it would be easy. I said it would be worth it”

    No 6 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 10, 2017 “I never said it would be easy. I said it would be worth it.” – Pete Egoscue (1945) Founder of Physical Therapy Method The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion I am always comparing myself to others. Where they are in their…

  • A Cure for Worry 6-17-16

    No 25 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, June 17, 2016 A Cure for Worry “As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” – Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor Ever awaken in a funk, a cloud, a depression, a panic, or in a state of confusion? Every morning, when…

  • What we are capable of becoming 8-29-14

    No 35 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 29th, 2014 To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond…