Celebrate YOURSELF, your DANCE, your LIFE
I know the preparation for the NEW YEAR usually focuses on our DREAMS and, hopefully, in the STEPS we have to take in order to materialize them. That´s all good. Though not enough.
Experience has taught me there are too many plans for the future and too little APPRECIATION for the path already walked. We´ve all been the recipient of opportunities, blessings, lessons, hardships and victories; we´ve all been given the sweet and the sour. But few of us look back to
GIVE THANKS.
Today, I look back with the eyes of GRATITUDE; a focus on what´s HERE, already learned, achieved, and present instead of what´s not here, yet.
I focus on the ABUNDANCE already manifested, not in the ABSENCE/LACK OF.
Here are the HIGHLIGHTS in my GRATITUDE LIST (looking back at the past decade and everything it brought me):
1. The career I built in Egypt and around the World.
My shows in Cairo, with my orchestra, and the shows I´ve presented in different countries with varied orchestras, audiences, and moods. The workshops, courses, classes, and lectures I´ve presented in different continents, sharing the authentic Egyptian Dance with integrity, passion, and joy.
2. The health, the stamina, the inspiration, the talents, and the support that made my accomplishments possible.
3. The international work trips that allowed me to know every corner of the globe, or many of them, surrounded by kind, professional, inspiring people who taught me as much as I´ve taught them.
4. The lessons learned from pleasant events and from hardships - both shaped me into the dancer and the person I am today.
5. The books I wrote and published; the readers who keep on cherishing those books.
6. The friends I´ve made along the way - some, new; some, old; all of them, precious.
7. The creation of Joana Saahirah´s Online Dance School, a pioneering school which is just a new born baby (yet a powerful one).
8. The opportunity to study in Oxford - Corpus Christi College -, a reminder of my gifts in different areas (dance, acting, singing, teaching, writing).
9. The years I retreated into "myself", living in the heart of Portugal, hidden between the mountains and the river; the years of my Rebirth.
10. The experience and loss of love affairs who brought me where I needed to be, directly into the arms of the man I call the LOVE OF MY LIFE.
11. The guts to start and close chapters, taking risks and thriving for better - the first steps of Joana Saahirah´s World platform.
12. The intimate circle of family, friends, and students who keep on loving, supporting, and elevating me and my Vision - for my work, for my life - unconditionally. This amazing ride wouldn´t be possible without them.
13. Last but not the least, I´m grateful for the BLESSINGS to come: the births, the love, the success, the health and the joy; the expansion, the surprises, and the lust for LIFE.
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- Thank YOU & a Reminder: Celebrate Yourself by Joana Saahirah (follow the link to watch:
Thank You & Reminder: Celebrate Yourself, Your Dance, and Your Life )
What about YOU?
What are you most grateful for - in yourself, in your life - when you look at the past decade?
Feel welcome to share your GRATITUDE LIST in the comments to this blog post.
P.S: Have a blessed 2020!
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