Dance Year Resolutions
By Alison Moss
2010 welcomes the dancer in all of us! Where has the past decade gone? It’s hard to believe that ten years ago Dancing With The Stars and So You Think You Can Dance didn’t even exist? Nerdel wasn’t an internet sensation either to make us aware of our healthy habits and all of the exciting things we can do to keep our bodies thriving. How did we survive without them?
Have you given any thought to how you can make 2010 a better year for you and your body? If your house is anything like my house, we still have Halloween candy lurking in the cupboards, but the turkey is finally gone from Thanksgiving. Our Christmas holiday was full of preparations, both in and out of the kitchen. In fact, with so many preparations and parties, there hasn’t been much time at all devoted to moving around and keeping my own body healthy. I’m certainly paying for it now. I did the best I could by parking as far away as possible in mall parking lots (actually, I tried to do most of my shopping online). I cranked up my iPod speakers in the kitchen to dance, while I baked, and with nonstop holiday music on one radio station, many passing cars saw me rocking out in my seat at stoplights! But all of those things were just temporary fixes…what am I going to do to make 2010 more Nerdel-riffic?
So many people make resolutions that they quickly give up on before January 2nd. I think the best resolutions are realistic goals. If any one of us predicted ourselves winning a ballroom competition or dancing a grand pas de deux in The Nutcracker next December, we may end up disappointed. But, if we vowed to sign up for an adult education ballroom dance class or a ballet class and promised ourselves to commit to it for one month, we are guaranteed to see improvement and perhaps a newfound hobby. What about Zumba, Jazzercise, or flamenco dancing? What about turning off the television for thirty minutes and taking a walk outside or dancing in your living room instead? Okay…if you can’t turn off the television, what about putting on the satellite radio channel and dancing to music that way? That’s a fair compromise!
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