Tag: Social Dancing

  • How to make pressure work in your favor!

    No 38 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, September 22, 1956 How to make pressure work in your favor! Some ideas on making stress work in the positive for you!   Inside Influences Have a positive optimistic outlook Have an anchor of faith or spirituality Always be motivated Take action – be…

  • 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 33 “Patience is passion tamed.” 8-18-17

    No 33 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 18, 2017 “Patience is passion tamed.” – Lyman Abbott (1835 – 1922) American Congregationalist theologian For many years I never had patience. I was a ‘millennial’ in the 70’s. I wanted everything in my dancing to come to me on the first try and…

  • No 32 8-11-17 What is Creativity?

      Photo is my lovely mom, J. Clair Woodbury. No 32 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 4, 2017 What is Creativity? “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”- Mary Lou Cook (1918) American educator Are you a risk taker? I never thought I was.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • No 27 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, July 7, 2017 “Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will ant to bring others and show them how well…

  • No 21 Reflect on your past blessings! 5-26-17

    No 21 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 26, 2017 “Reflect on your past blessings” “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) English Novelist We must all have regrets and thoughts of…

  • 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…

  • No 16 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 21, 2017 The Hero’s Shield In Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Siegfried was the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde, who were both the Volsung twins of Wotan, who was the king of the Gods. Siegfried was the hero born to save the world. He was…