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When in doubt, shimmy

Posted By Merideth Mehlberg February 24th, 2012

If you’ve been with me for a while, you know that I love to dance. In fact, I plan my calendar around my beloved Dance Boogie class.

 

Recently we’ve been working on “All That Jazz,” a number from the Broadway hit Chicago. Not my favorite hip hop fare, but there is a place for all styles of dance in this class and in my heart.

 

Anywho, our instructor has been working us through the fairly complicated routine for the past few weeks. “Come on babe, why don’t we paint the town…and all that jazz!”

 

It’s been fun and also a bit hard to master.

 

Okay, “master” is a bit of a stretch.

 

It’s been hard to remember the entire routine! It’s a long song with lots of different moves.

 

The instructor calls out the steps as we go but then at the end splits us unto two groups to “perform” the full dance start to finish for the other group. Yikes!

 

After practicing for what feels like a zillion hours, I noticed a few places where I always forgot the steps….


Wonder Twin powers, activate!

Posted By Merideth Mehlberg February 11th, 2012
Form of, the ocean! Form of, a wall!

 

Superheroes have been on my mind a lot lately, probably because my two-year old son loves them. Imagine a toddler singing the theme song to the old Adam West show. “Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh Batman!”

 

But I digress.

 

I think in metaphors all the time. It helps me process things in my life – and it helps my clients clear obstacles that have held them back in the past.

 

Recently I’ve been finding the imagery of superhero powers to be particularly poignant.

 

When you find yourself in a situation that butts up against your “stuff” like fear, summoning a super power can help you get through it….

I can’t get this image of Chevy Chase out of my head

Posted By Merideth Mehlberg February 4th, 2012

My ladder was up the wrong wall.” – Mary, Coaching Client

 

If you read my last blog you know that I love silly movies. Whenever I think of ladders, I think of the scene from Christmas Vacation when Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is hanging up holiday lights on his house. While standing at the top of an extending ladder, he haphazardly affixes the lights to his house with a staple gun.

 

Suddenly he loses his balance and the ladder veers away from the house into a tree. Fortunately he doesn’t fall to the ground; rather, he simply gives the ladder a push to get it to swing back to the house again, and continues hanging the lights.

 

Yes, it’s an inane reference, I know. I often think in pictures, so just stay with me for a moment and let me play through….

  

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