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Editorial Comment
One of my New Year’s resolutions will be not to procrastinate, after all I am writing this article the day before we go into production. Another resolution is that I will stop living in the past, instead I will spend it worrying about the future. I will assure my lawyer that I will not show up drunk in court again at my DUI hearing. OK, you get the picture, we all make resolutions that are difficult to keep and sometimes, actually often, we make the same resolutions every year. Let me make a few suggestions and see if we can relate them to square dancing. Six of the top resolutions people make every year are:
#1 Spend more time with family or friends
#2 Exercise more or get physically active
#3 Enjoy life more
#4 Learn something new
#5 Help others
#6 Take a trip.
Let's review:
#1 spend more time with family or friends, two and a half hours of square dancing once or more a week is a great way to spend time with friends and if you have your family that’s a bonus.
#2 Can you think of a more fun way to get or stay physically active other than square dancing?
#3 You can enjoy life more by dancing more than once a week. two dances a week would be about five hours leaving you one hundred and sixty three hours for other activities.
#4 In any type of dancing, ballroom, round and square dancing you can always learn something new or improve your current skills. Learning something new is always up to you.
#5 Helping others is not just limited to dancing. Consider helping in your club. Be a greeter, kitchen helper, help put out or pick up chairs, fill in that square that needs just one more couple, send a letter or call someone who misses, invite a friend to learn this activity, help your caller or cuer. When it comes to helping others, the list is endless and you can make a difference.
#6 Take a trip, a short trip or a long trip, Lakeland for the Florida State Square & Round Dance Convention or a long trip, Long Beach, California, to the National Square Dance Convention, or north east Florida, north west Florida, south Florida, west coast Florida, Central Florida, or Macon, Georgia, all of these locations are close and have great dances. So as we make our New Years Resolutions, let us not resolve to gain weight, watch more TV or eat more sweets and junk food. Instead, let’s dance.
William Boyd, Editor
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