Put on your dancing shoes

A pre-requisite to progress or improvement: put on your dancing shoes.

And your dance moves can be:

• See it.

• Name it.

• Accept it.

• Dance with it.

See where you are at now, your starting point. See where you want to go, your direction, or the finish line. See the first step you can take now.

Name your nemesis, your project, your wish, or your desire. And frame it in a way that is helpful to you. Name it so that it empowers you to take action yet allows you not to know everything you might need to know yet.

Accept where you are now, savor it, enjoy it. Working to progress or improve means you will never be at that same point again. You will become wiser; you will have taken more attempts. Some of them failed, some of them brought success. Frustration -about not being where you want to be or anxiety -when things seem overwhelming- can only be helpful if they are used to fuel your fire for progress and improvement.

And then dance with it. Feel the rhythm, move left when your partner moves right. One step back, two steps forward. If you strive for a very SMART goal with clear steps to get there, it might feel like somebody is teaching you the moves. But if you are becoming, if you are moving in a direction where the path is not that clear, you can make your own two-step with a little twist.

Dance the night away!