💥Know your goal.

“I want to improve my dancing” IS NOT A GOAL. It’s a simple laziness of not wanting to think, or maybe even a subconscious sabotage of not wanting to improve your dance level (wanna hear more about it?)

Be specific!

Do you work on a choreo? - Great! Focus on that.

Do you need to improve your shimmies? - Come up with a specific and realistic plan on how you're gonna do it.

Don’t know what to do? - Find a dancer who inspires you, and enroll in her video classes. In this case your goal is not even about a particular element of the technique, but about taking maximum knowledge from the teacher who inspires you. That’s still better than the generic “I wanna dance better”.

Knowing your CURRENT goal gives you an understanding of what and why you are doing it. Not knowing your goal kills any motivation and drive to do anything.

💥Stop punishing yourself.

This can be in two forms:

“I’m a bad dancer”, “I’ll never get it”, etc… - this one is our inner critic whose voice I’m sure you heard many times.

But here is a second form: PUTTING UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

“I need to learn this choreo in one session”, “I need to practice every day 2-3 hours”… - all these are hidden forms of creating guilt around your dance practice, and punishing yourself in case you fail. And if dance is not your main professional activity, you can’t pretend that you don’t have an actual life.

Stop punishing yourself, and be REALISTIC with your expectations, because if you don’t… you simply will accumulate negative emotions around your dance practice. And who wants that?

If you don’t deal with these two points first, no other tips or tricks matter.🤷‍♀️😘❤️

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💃Baladi combo from Julia Farid
🎶Song “Awaleem Baladi” by Lubna Emam
📍Location: Yasmin