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On My Mind
Words from the publisher
Here we go again! As we enter a new season of dance education,
Dance Studio Life brings you the highly acclaimed
annual season-opener issue, in which we explore all kinds of
ideas to help you begin the season on the right foot. Our
pages are packed with business-related articles that will
stoke your enthusiasm. For example, check out the marketing
concepts practiced by some of the most successful ballet
schools in the nation; then, find out if you’re making any of
the seven most common dance-school marketing mistakes—and if
you are, learn how to avoid them. Need some great suggestions
for advertising that works but won’t break your budget? Help
yourself from more than a dozen easy-to-implement methods. Are
you hosting an open house? We’ve got that covered, too, along
with innovative ideas on how to manage your students’ parents
in a way that works best for everyone.
There’s a lot more on how to start the season, but we’ve got
the inspiration side covered, too. Learn what makes the great
Ethan Stiefel tick and how he’s become a mentor for aspiring
young dancers. And for the first time ever in print, former
ballerina Marina Eglevsky shares her fascinating life story.
Reading these stories will make you feel good all over.
As you ready yourself for new students and parents and perhaps
new employees, I’d like to share one thought with you,
something that I believe is important to our personal and
professional successes: the impact of the people we surround
ourselves with. It has a huge effect. When I see people whose
presence simply brings a smile to my face, I feel good inside.
That, in turn, has a positive effect on my attitude, and I
find myself bringing a smile to everyone else I come in
contact with. It’s sort of the “pass it forward”
philosophy—and it works.
On the other hand, the same philosophy can have a negative
effect if we surround ourselves with negative people. If we
let them, they can sabotage the great day we were having by
passing on their miserable one to us. I’ve come to a point in
my life where I am so focused on what I want to accomplish
that I try to be with people who are upbeat, encouraging, and
spend life appreciating the good things that happen. They help
me move my dream forward and I help them do the same. Yes,
sometimes the blank hits the fan, but even that can be
interpreted as a lesson. If we learn that we’ll never do
that again, then something positive actually did come from
it.
A new season can mean a new atmosphere that affects our
well-being. Look around you to discover all the cheerful
people who help to make your life positive. Spend as much time
as you can with them. Stop asking the negative people how they
are, because they want to tell you how awful everything is,
and they will. Instead, offer them a compliment. Tell them
that their hair looks nice or what a pleasure it is to see
them, and then walk away before they can spray their
negativity your way. Your compliment probably will make them
smile for the first time in a long while. How positive is
that!
Sometimes we hang onto negative people because we think that
we can help cheer them up, or we do it out of guilt. No one
else can deal with them, so for whatever reason, we take on
the responsibility. Let it go, because people will not be
happy unless they want to be. But you—you can be one of those
people that everyone loves to be around, the one who walks
into a room and makes it seem brighter. That positive energy
will come back to you tenfold. What a way to start the new
season!
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