Tag: Santa Monica
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No 47 11-24-17 A Time to be Thankful!
No 47 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 24, 2017 A Time to be Thankful! This time of year I’m the luckiest guy on the planet. I’ve just started my 42nd year with Arthur Murray Dance Centers. I am happily married and lucky in love with a great home life and…
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No 46 11-16-17 Three Keys to Success
No 46 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 17, 2017 Three Keys to Success! First: Believe in yourself and know who you are! Let go of what others expect you to be. We all know what defines us and what makes us special and unique. My life has been spent trying…
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No 42 10-20-17 Enter to Learn – Go Forth to Serve!
No 42 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, October 20, 2017 Enter to Learn – Go Forth to Serve! -Tom Murdock – Arthur Murray International At a recent Fall Forum staff awards and training weekend for Arthur Murray Dance Centers, Tom Murdock opened our great weekend with the above words.…
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No 39 9-29-17 Until One Is Committed!
No 39 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, September 29, 1956 Until one is Committed! “Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one element of truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid…
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No 30 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, July 28, 2017 Burn the Ships! In 1519, Captain Hernán Cortés landed in Veracruz. When they landed the Captain ordered his men to burn the ships. That order did not make sense to his men. Cortes knew that the only way to keep himself…
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No 28 Nothing will take the place of persistence 7-14-17
No 28 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, July 14, 2017 “Nothing will take the place of persistence” “I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and…
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No 24 “If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”
No 24 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, June 16, 2017 “If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” – David Viscott (1938 – 1996) American psychiatrist It seems I have begun over and over many times. My life does not seem like the normal life to me.…
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No 20 5-19-17 Never Quit, Even if You Want To!
No 20 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 19, 2017 “Never quit, even if you want to” “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…
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No 17 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 28, 2017 Gaining Wisdom “Wisdom comes alone through suffering.” – Aeschylus 525-456 BC Well, that’s not too encouraging is it? But it is so true The best champion dancers have worked and trained for many years to get to the top. As with…
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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…