Recognising Your Gremlins

Recognise your gremlins so that when they arise you can ignore them.  Gremlins can include - doubts, laziness, lack of energy.  Once you have recognised them for what they are, you can push through them and change your state immediately.  This morning I woke with some doubts and a sort of 'what's the point' mentality - GREMLINS - course of action, ignore and continue!  They evaporate pretty quickly!

You can also look at this from a time management perspective and ask yourself - is this particular doubt taking away from valuable time that could be spent enjoying myself and creating, or getting the benefits from a great workout, or hanging out with some cool people?  Doubt can often come from the fear of making mistakes - but today I realised, perhaps the greatest mistake of all is the fear of making them!  Persevere and trust yourself and the universe that what is meant to be will be and you will play your part in it!

Not Sure What To Do? Start With Something.

As mentioned in my last post, I recently had to modify this years major goal which was competing in SYTYCD Australia 2011. After this, I found myself uncertain of how to proceed, what my new goals should be, and how to get back in to the swing of things.  


I was concerned I didn't have a vision - but the other day I started writing down a few little things I knew I did want and from there, well the flood gates opened, new and old dreams resurfaced and I found the energy and motivation to start moving in that direction again.  


So if you are wondering - 'What do I want to do?' or even thinking 'I don't know what I want!' - just start with some little things and I guarantee this will give you motivation to keep going.  

Change Is Good

Dear People,

After a long absence from blog writing I return with the following news, it's hard to say non dramatically, but 'So You Think You Can Dance Australia ' has been cancelled for 2011 (see story here).  So that has changed my course somewhat, but truth be told I was not ready for the competion.  As some of you know I left Australia in January to train in the UK but a serious of events and experiences caused me to mainly be involved in non dance related work ie I was working but not dancing or training.  It was a difficult year but it is time to re-assess, re-envisage and create my future anew.  Stories like the video above help to put things in perspective.  Continued love and strength to you all and I look forward to returning to my source of strength and love and sharing it with you all. 

Lots of Love,

Robin :) xxx

Influence Yourself

Very Important. Choose what will influence you based on your preferences. Read things you are interested in (this includes blogs and websites etc), go places where you will be inspired, meet people with the same goals/interests/values/standards as you. Move in the direction of that which you love and which inspires you, otherwise there is the chance that you will just follow what is around you. Make standards of what you want to influence you. Inside you know what you want.

Time Spent - Practise Until It's Automatic

New Found Respect for Mike Tyson as a phenomenal athlete.  

"Spring training, then, is about planning and practicing until it's automatic.  That preparation is essential for success in any venture".
 - Harvey Mackay (Businessman)
This quote made me think of Tyson in these videos and how you could see all the training just become activated when he got in the ring.  I also experienced this in last years SYTYCD when I got into the choreograohy round and we rehearsed like crazy the sequence hundreds of times over and over without stopping so that when it came to do the routine it was automatic.  This is something that I will apply to next years routine because, as Jason said, after I lost my place in my own choreography, that shouldn't be happening to a dancer at my level, it should just be automatic so that is definately something to learn from.  

Surrey Sports Faaaark!!!!! (aka Surrey Sports Park)

Went for induction at the brand new Surrey Sports Park on Monday.

50 Metre Swimming Pool

Climbing Wall

New Runny Stuff!!!

Weights Area

Big Weights

*One* of the basketball courts!!!

Splashy sploshy pool!!!

Big Dance Studio #1

Big Dance Studio #2

Starbucks looking over the climbing wall AND basketball court - SICK!!!

Work/Sickness/Good Food Pics - Getting A Job!!!!

Evolution of the pointy lipped dinosaur.

I've been quite busy lately with a new job that has involved night shifts in a warehouse.  Getting a job quickly became my priority when I moved to England as all the things I wanted to do relied on having money - classes, rent, self development, eating etc :)  I applied for over 50 jobs in 2 months and this is the one that came through, working with a temp agency.

I've only been at it a week and i'm sure there's many things I still have to learn from the job, but at the moment I work at night (usually 10pm - 6:30am) and sleep during the day and there is no time to do anything else.

My body is sore when I wake up and my hands are all cut and dry.

[Edit:  Added this a few days after writing this post]

I've also been sick for about two weeks (gettin better though) and got dry lips with a pimple underneath from the cream i've been putting on them - so felt a bit cracky when I woke up today (see above) hehe!!

I love the work in that it's really physical and I can just throw myself in there with music blasting etc but i'm aware that I don't have time for dancing etc.  Anyway, i'll give it a bit more time and see what happens - it's good to have some work and to be getting some cash!

The warehouse where i'm working.  

I started looking into food a bit more seriously recently as my body was craving some of the good stuff.  I was very happy therefore when I came across 'A Very Busy Mind' - an awesome blog by Cassie about food, fitness and life in general, very funny and with pretty pictures!!  She's also been sick lately too and so it has been funny to read some of her musings on this haha.

In homage to her blog, I took my current limited food supply this evening to create this meal!

Eggs A La Green Avocado Sunrays with salt, pepper and paprika drizzled in olive oil!

Close Up!!!

And for historical purposes, this is what I could afford at the local store tonight!

Milk for coffee, an orange for medicine!!!

Cassie was also talking about finding work and, as I have recently/am going through this, I thought I would share the following:

I bought it the other day and started reading it - he seems like a nice man and there are plenty of persuasive videos on his book here!

Alrighty, until next time, be strong and power on!!! Peace and love, Robin :) xxx