Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:44 pm
I've taken up a new activity within the last year, I actually started doing it consistently since May of this year and I had an amazing experience i wanted to share with you guys. The activity is hip-hop dancing and i felt it appropriate to lesson 4 because it has to do with the expectation of being perfect.
I've done about 10-12 classes so far and when i first started it was soooo hard. It was very hard not because of the choreography, the technique, the instructor or anything like that, it was hard because I would expect myself to do the dance perfectly and I would get frustrated with myself and tell myself I wasn't good at it. I somewhat enjoyed doing it but i mostly didn't because I was wrecking the experience with my need to be perfect.
As I attended each class, things started to feel better and it was easier to make mistakes. When i say easier i mean it was easier for me to accept them and myself. Today I just gave up trying to do the whole routine, I just didn't care if i got the whole thing or not. I also didn't care if i looked foolish or goofy (that was another set of thoughts i was having while dancing). I let lose, trusted my memory and did the routine how i thought it went instead of worrying that i wasn't getting it right and avoid doing things because i didn't think it was right. You know what, I actually had the most fun in that class then i've had before and I also did the best that i've ever done.
Letting go was the best thing i could have done because I really got into the dancing and I started to feel that passion that you might hear a professional dancer or singer talk about. This would be something really great to cultivate and would be amazing to transfer this to many diffrent areas of life, and other peoples lives too.
Mike
I've done about 10-12 classes so far and when i first started it was soooo hard. It was very hard not because of the choreography, the technique, the instructor or anything like that, it was hard because I would expect myself to do the dance perfectly and I would get frustrated with myself and tell myself I wasn't good at it. I somewhat enjoyed doing it but i mostly didn't because I was wrecking the experience with my need to be perfect.
As I attended each class, things started to feel better and it was easier to make mistakes. When i say easier i mean it was easier for me to accept them and myself. Today I just gave up trying to do the whole routine, I just didn't care if i got the whole thing or not. I also didn't care if i looked foolish or goofy (that was another set of thoughts i was having while dancing). I let lose, trusted my memory and did the routine how i thought it went instead of worrying that i wasn't getting it right and avoid doing things because i didn't think it was right. You know what, I actually had the most fun in that class then i've had before and I also did the best that i've ever done.
Letting go was the best thing i could have done because I really got into the dancing and I started to feel that passion that you might hear a professional dancer or singer talk about. This would be something really great to cultivate and would be amazing to transfer this to many diffrent areas of life, and other peoples lives too.
Mike