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    Default Dancing has allowed me to.....

    This is a positive thread as the power of positive thinking has been mentioned a lot lately.

    So what has dancing done to improve your life or allowed u to do?

    Ill start:

    - meet some great new friends with similar interests. I had outgrown some of my old friends and I was really lonely for female company. Today I went to the beauty salon with two awesome friends from work and we had a pedicure, got our nails done and then had lunch

    - afford to hire a personal trainer and now I am really enjoying exercising and he is a great motivator

    - has helped with my ED. I need to eat properly for energy at work and I have a new found confidence in my body.

    - I am finally getting a nose job. I could never save enough money in any of my other jobs

    - financial freedom. I was really depressed before i started dancing because I never had enough money to do anything or buy things that I needed let alone things that I wanted. I could not save either

    - savings: I actually have savings! they are pretty decent too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    - I enjoy going to work for the first time. I hated working retail.

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    Pay my debt. I still owe, but it's going down quickly.

    Put money in savings. For the first time in awhile I have savings to pay for things instead of a credit card.

    Work less hours and make more money, thus enabling me to pay for tuition and pull better grades.

    Bring up my gpa and take the classes I need when I need to take them since I no longer have to work around a 9-5.

    Get my boobies done, which I NEVER could have afforded before.

    Learn about MAC makeup
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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    - flirt for a living
    - improved self esteem
    - dance dance dance!
    - improved confidence. now i know for a fact that i am a badass

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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    awesome, keep em coming!

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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    Do whatever I want, pretty much.



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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    - stop being damn doormat (in all areas of my life)
    - actually Use my savings account
    - develop significantly nicer calf muscles
    - make music part of almost every waking hour
    - play golf at least twice a week and still avoid the weekend crowds
    - see a Ton of shows (bands) that i never could have fit into my schedule w reg
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    and oh so many other things

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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    - train myself in Burlesque
    - train myself in hula hooping
    - move to my new home
    - have given Bibs the best i could give her
    - travel australia
    - travel to las vegas by myself for five nights (once)
    - learn about investing and business and tax
    - save money (yes I do have some savings even with all my financial dramas this year lol)
    - travel for work
    - purchase and generally maintain a car
    - be able to NOT work for a couple of weeks here and there
    - be more confident when having to speak with strangers .. I can confidentially start/initiate conversation with someone I do not know and no longer be a wall flower at a party as such
    - be assertive


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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    -paid off my little bit of debt
    -get a new car
    -work less hours and make more money yay!
    -not be so stressed about money
    -feel better about my body and am getting in better shape
    -my uniforms a thong and high heels
    -I feel much more stable and independent
    -I can make my own schedual
    -I have fun at work


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    Dancing allows me to be an almost full time mom that is pretty amazing. And at the same time I'm still saving and putting money away for fancy daycare.
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    Have a flexible schedule and available income so I could focus on school and maintain an honors GPA.

    Learn social skills that my geeky/nerdy childhood failed to instill in me.

    Increase my confidence in my appareance as well as learn what I can do with this hair that I previously believed was possessed by demons.

    Able to take vacation time at a drop of a hat and afford the vacation without credit cards (New York three times, San Francisco three times, Amsterdam once, Hawaii end of this month).

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    -get in touch with my inner bitch!
    -pay down my debt!
    -financial independence from my bf, and be able to float him a bit when business is slow
    -eat fancy!
    -get more interested in music and makeup

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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    -start paying off my debt
    -travel across the US (10 years ago, before I realized I should have worked as I went!)
    -wear sparkly shoes all the time
    -take off for my cousin's funeral
    -learn how to fix my hair slightly better
    -hopefully have more time next semester to study, instead of slaving at a $10 an hour job

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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    ...not panic TOO much when something goes wrong with my car. Like now...grrr. But at least instead of thinking "oh shit this is going to take me a month to pay off", I can know that "ok, if I go into work on Sat and Sun nights, I'll have the money I need."

    Still hurts to be assraped by repair shops, but at least it's not a full blown crisis.

    hmm what else...dancing has allowed me to:

    --avoid a ton of hassle when moving and getting a new apartment. Before I would have to deal with wretched snotty landlords and rental companies treating me like shit b/c they assumed I couldn't pay rent on my pathetic salary...had to get co-signers and bend over fucking backwards to get even a crappy place in an unsafe neighborhood. After I started dancing, when I needed a place, I would go to only private landlords and say "I can't prove my income, but I can write you a check for a year's worth of rent right now." In my humble experience, most individual landlords (not companies) practically piss themselves when you offer to pay a year's worth of rent on the spot.

    --go back to school next year

    --actually have some savings

    --afford to practice circus arts (training/lessons/equipment, etc. is not cheap!)

    --have surgery that I need but have been putting off for years b/c I couldn't afford it, and couldn't take a month off of work.

    --just work a few more days a week whenever I decide I want to take a trip. (Next summer...Italy ) As opposed to being on a set salary where no matter how hard you work you can't make more than your bosses are paying you per hour.
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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    -Finish college on the Dean's list (because of the time and freedom)
    -Buy my first condo this year (I'm waiting for the right time to buy as of now)
    -Paid off my BMW
    -Learn how to budget money (even when it's coming in fast and easy)
    -Learn how to step up and be a bitch when I need to
    -Become a music genius
    -Become well acquainted with the beautiful city of Vegas
    -A cusomter buys me a limo for every b-day and those were my first and only limo experiances... glad I finally got to do that.
    -A closet with designer clothes, sunglasses, shoes, wallets, diamond jewelry etc. (customer gifts and some that I bought myself a few years ago)
    -No roomies... ever! Yay!
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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    I am so glad to hear that so many of u have been able to get better grades because of dancing. When I worked retail and had to work 4 days a week my grades were slipping behind. Dancing has also allowed me much more time to study.

    It's such a great job for students!

    Holiday my friend also loves dancing because it allows her to be home with her young son all week and then she works on the weekends.

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    -actually like my body for the first time in my life
    -work out at work
    -have fun at work
    -drink for free!!!
    -be flexible with schedules
    -not be stressed about cash
    (im new at this, so we'll see what happens with school)

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    go to school full time and still be able to pay my bills.

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    Great thread!

    *Very quickly pay of c/c
    *^^^ And still live with a great lifestyle
    *It's allowed me to be confident to talk to everyone - which is great in my job as a receptionist as well. It's develope my Chaaaaarm
    *My sex life! reeeeowl.... It's made me comfortable in my body and with my sexuality, therefore improving my sexiness and confidence with my man!

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    -support myself and my son independently , seeing that I am a single mom.
    -allow ample quality time with my son.
    -allows me to pursue my dreams of being an actress.
    -I have a nice car
    -cute clothes
    -great workout
    -improved self-confidence
    -become stronger and less naive.
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    Default Re: Dancing has allowed me to.....

    I am loving reading everyone's posts, it's making me happy!!

    All the negative stuff that is said about dancing but look at this thread, it can be so positive in our lives.

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    I only danced for 6-7 months but in that time I was able to..
    - financially afford to get out of my last relationship (meaning afford the apartment we were sharing by myself)
    -Pay off some debt
    -travel
    -Show off the body i worked so hard for
    -meet some cool and not so cool people
    - And most importantly meet the man of my dreams and fall in love. (We are getting married in Oct) Yay
    - Honestly stripping really changed my perception of strippers, i dont think i realized how casually i judged women in the sex industry before i did it myself. MY hat goes off to all of you!



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    -travel
    -rent the most amazing beachfront apartment for four wonderful years
    -sooo much independence in so many different forms
    (^I miss that the most)

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    Dancing has given me confidence. It's also given me "street smarts" and the ability to interact with many more types of people than I was accustomed to dealing with in my "pre-dance" days.

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    Drop a good amount of weight and have a nice, toned body
    Have the freedom to do whatever I want, whenever I want
    Make very good $$
    Have a job that I actually enjoy (well, most of the time)

    Yep, I'm riding this gravy train for as long as I can. You only live once, and dancing allows me to have the money and free time to live and enjoy life on my terms.

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