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  • Week in review: October 12-18, 2025

    The last few days the shooting pain (i.e. sciatic nerve) traveling up and down my right leg caused moments of misery however I was reminded that injuries are a type of setback and setbacks are part and parcel of the journey towards elite levels of performance.

    Lessons learned

    • I partially regret going out clubbing – last weekend, I went solo dancing in South Bank at a beautiful venue and experienced what I considered a huge psychological breakthrough. For some context, I gave up drinking alcohol 10+ years ago and on that evening, I was able to dance: freely. No anxiety. Just me being me. No internal worries. Just being me. Though this is a psychological breakthrough, I very likely exacerbated my leg injury (more on this below)
    • No physical activity for the entire week adversely impacted my overall well being – at the same time, my body was begging me for rest and I’m honoring my body because I do believe that the body whispers before it screams

    What are some of the ways I spent my time

    Monday

    hour tattoo session, blacking out sections of right sleeve

    Tuesday

    Tuesday – due to my injury, I sat out from my own Tuesday Training session but had still showed up in person, for about an hour, and recorded a few clips on my DSLR

    Wednesday

    Wednesday – picked up Elliott from school, then had our ritualistic dinner (her a cheeseburger, me mixed doner)

    Thursday

    Thursday – during lunch break, limped my way to Canary Wharf and received a couple follow up steroid shots in order to shrink the size of my Keloid scars located on my chest, left jaw line, and right shoulder. Later in the evening, had dinner with my current employer. Finally, made the choice to travel to Vilnius from Nov 6th-9th for workshops and battles

    Friday

    Saturday

    Saturday with Elliott – played a memory game in her room (she also said she likes how I decorated her room with the nuggets), took her to her classmates 6th birthday party, shared a taro milk tea with her, grabbed a few groceries with her from M&S, watched half of the movie “The parent trap” (often found myself on the verge of tears — movie hits different as a divorced, single parent)

    Sunday

    Sunday with Elliott – played same memory game in her room, ate lunch in Chinatown and met up with an old co-worker of mine from Amazon, grabbed a few desserts from the bakery, Elliott accidentally performed a flip on the pull up bar and now has mustered up the courage to perform tricks (we watched some calisthenic videos), listened to a few spooky kids stories, sat at the dinner table and drew monsters and kittens

    Final thoughts

    I’m finding it a bit challenging to recall the events from the previous week so I may want to consider a few different options like maintaining a journal throughout the day, or perform nightly reflections. And at the same time, I question the motivation behind recalling the previous week’s accomplishments?

  • Analyzing my rounds from Kev’s Kitchen 2025 Oct. 07

    Tuesdays have become my training days. 4pm-6pm, my own organized Tuesday Training session. Following that, 7pm-9pm at Kev’s Kitchen. And though today is today, I am sitting out due to a hamstring injury (more about the injury over at Stretch Therapy Forum)

    Because I’m nursing this injury tonight, I decided to try and spend a few cycles re-watching my own dance rounds from last week in spirit of improving my ability to self-analyze and provide self critique.

    Why review my own rounds?

    Although I continue to train and practice, I think it can be helpful to sometimes pause and check in and reflect. I admit, I sometimes have a tendency to focus only on areas of growth while ignoring — an unintentional self invalidation — some of my progress. But I digress.

    Because I am relatively early in my dance journey — about 2.5 years in — I’ve relied on classes, mentors, teachers, instructors etc to help guide me. While I will continue leaning on this different paths, I also want to increase my own ability to (lack of a better word) judge where I am at, identify where I fall short, and then construct a plan to train and practice.

    Rinse and repeat.

    So, for now, I am going to leverage what I learned from the book Think Breaking and analyze my own rounds and also analyze some other dancer’s rounds that I inspired me. My thought is that if I pinpoint some quality in their dance I like and then if I notice it’s absent from my own, then I’m on the right path of improving self-analysis.

    And while there are many facets of the dance to analyze, I’m going to (in spirit of time) focus on on Dynamics. Again, there are many other parts of the dance I can dive into but because I’m new to evaluating my dance using this framework, I want to first familiarize myself with the terminology and semantics etc.

    Kev’s Kitchen

    Round 1

    My intention of this round was to incorporate the exercises we had been drilling for the hour leading up to the cypher, the drill focused on stepping flat footed with full force, as well as stepping on the ball of the foot.

    Towards the end of my round, I attempted to change the rhythmic pattern and increase from “on time” (i.e. every quarter note) to “double time” (i.e. every eighth note) but eventually fell off beat — definitely a stretch for me. When I took this experimental leap, Kev said “too much too much” and that’s to be expected. A little embarrassing on my part but I don’t shy away from doing “too much” because, even as Kev said, it’s easier to go “too much” and pull back.

    (Body) Physical

    Dynamics
    • Contrasts – although I vary the speed/velocity of the step, there’s a lack of contrast in terms of energy; similarly, unlike Gabby’s round (see below) there’s not this consistent contraction and expansion like quality, going from slow to fast, smooth to sharp, small to large

    Round 2

    TBD

    Rounds that inspired me

    Gabby’s Round 1

    Dynamics

    • Contrast – she starts off smooth with her steps and then after a few counts, transitions to sharper, staccato like movements. Similarly, when she extends her limbs, she often changes from short distances to long distances. Yet another form of contrast: she’ll sometimes contract and dance smaller and then explode and expand.

  • I can see into the future

    I sometimes doubt decisions I make. I sometimes question what I’m doing. I sometimes lack conviction.

    But there’s one decision I made 1.5 years ago that I know, deep down in my bones, is the right decision for me: reorganizing my life to maximize time spent with my (6 year old) daughter.

    What sparked this thought?

    The following video that showed up on my Instagram feed:

    In the above video, a daughter surprises her father by visiting him in person, after the two of them not seeing one another for 5 years. By the way, even the idea of not seeing Elliott for 5 years makes me want to shed a tear.

    Back to the video. The daughter hid squatting in a cardboard box. The dad reluctantly approaches the box, wondering if someone is in there, and adopts a boxer position, ready to “punch the shit” out of whoever may be hiding in there. But as soon as he recognizes that the person is his daughter, he immediately throws his arms around her, grasps on to her so tightly, and the first words that he cries out are: “My baby girl ….” he continues to grip on to her tightly. “I fucking love you so much.”

    Pure rawness.

    Beautiful.

    Relatable.

    It goes to show that having a daughter can soften a man.

  • Organizational skills – incremental improvement

    I’ve been told throughout my life that I have a tendency to rush. I struggle with boredom, which according to Brené Brown can be defined as “uncomfortable state of wanting to engage in a satisfying activity, but being unable to do it.”

    People throughout my life would often (with good intention) kindly suggest that I “slow down” … when speaking … when learning a new skill … slow down they said. But for much of my life, I’ve felt similar Charlie Sheen, having only one speed: “Go.”

    And this urge to want to move through life quickly — in a rush — I think partially stems from this belief (argument made by Oliver Burkeman) that it’s a mechanism for avoid the following: we’re all going to die someday and that our time on this earth is limited.

    According to Oliver Burkeman, the average human life spans 4,000 weeks. I find that completely wild, don’t you? Death feels distance and the thought of it is unsettling. But after sitting with this negative emotion for a few deep breathes, a certain calmness follows. By radically accepting that my life is finite, my attention shifts towards ruthlessly prioritizing my life and ironically, the desire to rush dissipates.

    It’s ironic and somewhat paradoxical.

    By increasing awareness of life’s finitude, time begins to slow down. And in contrast, when there’s a lack of this awareness, when traveling through life as if there’s an infinite amount of time, I tend to rush.

    By accepting that my time will soon come to end, I temporarily free myself from what Burkeman calls the “brace position”.I drop the desire to get everything done immediately. Instead, I transition to a state of mindfulness, revisiting projects that I want to tackle, breaking them down into tiny, manageable bite sized chunks and slowly, but surely, chip away at them.

    Adopting the mindset of incremental improvement

    So again, instead of my default tendency to try and make one-off titanic shifts in my life, I am practicing the art of incremental improvement. I’m applying this mindset towards sharpening my organizational skills. Looking back at all my previous attempts on becoming an organized person — the desire for identifying as an “organized person” may stem from a fixed mindset, which can be counter productive for development — I had approached learning organization skills with sort of a “get it done and over with” mindset.

    This attitude of wanting to rapidly get through things reminds of one piece of advice that Kit Laughlin passed on another forum member on Stretch Therapy, who was trying to rush the process of becoming flexible:

    “Just wanting to get it over and done with” is exactly why it’s not working for you. The attitude you bring creates the resistance you feel in your body. I guarantee zero progress with this approach. If you really don’t want to do it (for whatever reason) then don’t. Life is much simpler if you approach it directly like this.

    The above comment reminded me of another topic on the forum, a topic on failure and persistence; developing organizational skills for me has been (and continues to be) challenging. But despite the frustrations and setbacks, I persevere:

    No. That is what your mind tells you, no doubt, but when you try, and fail, and try again, you are developing persistence and determination; and you are signalling to the organism that you are serious about change. What you describe (the idea quoted above) is literally the reason so many people who desire change cannot bring it about. What you argue is a thought—that is all—and it is not true.

    Tiny little victory of pulling quotes

    And I want to hit pause for a second and share that I’m experiencing a proud moment: I was able to find the two above quotes within seconds, pulling them out from my digital organizational systems by:

    1. Launching my DevonThink app on my laptop
    2. Expanding the “quotes” directory
    3. Navigating to “L” (first letter of Laughlin)
    4. Linearly searching for the quote

    I consider my current approach fairly effective. And one way to evaluate effectiveness is by measuring the approach through the lens of the POET compass:

    • P – Presents well (on time and clear)
    • O – out of the way (invisible)
    • E – easy to use/get to (instant)
    • T – trusted (off mind)

    Based on the criteria above, I think that my quote management system works (for me, right now):

    1. Presents well – was able to relatively quickly (in the order of seconds) retrieve the quotes.
    2. Out of the way – Yes, up until the moment I wanted to fetch them, they were out of sight.
    3. Easy to use/get to – In terms of easiness, little effort (a few clicks) and a short linear search, which for me is acceptable since I’m not storing a huge volume of quotes.
    4. Trusted – I have not visited my DevonThink application for (probably) months and the application was certainly off my mind and yet, I could trust that I could return and retrieve the necessary quotes.

    Summary

    Here’s a reminder to self that I can slow down and walk the path of slow and steady.

  • My attempt to stop leaping out at 06:30am to pull out trash bins

    With my eyes still slightly shut, I slowly rose to consciousness this morning when suddenly, through the not so sound proof windows connecting my bedroom to the front garden, I heard the muffled sound of the dumpster truck slowing makes it way down the street. Based on decibal level of the metal claw wrapping its teeth around its current victim, I suspected that the truck was next door. Oh shit, I realized, I forget to wheel my own fully packed trash bins to the curb.

    I had …. maybe 15 seconds to the trash bin wheeled out to the front!

    Half naked, wearing only boxers, I leapt out of bed while still half-asleep sprinted towards the front door. I frantically twisted the knob, hopped over the two front door steps, gripped the handle of the trash bin, and began wheeling the trash bin behind me, anxiously wondering if I would make it out on time.

    Just as I reached the the street, the garbage man — a young lad who looked as though he was maybe 20 years old — said “Thanks mate”. I handed over the trash bin and he proceeded to position it such that the garbage trunk could connect its claw around the body of the bin.

    Now, this whole situation — of forgetting to roll out the bins on Wednesday evening, instead of Thursday morning — has happened not twice, but three times now, over the past 2-3 months. I’m not entirely sure what specifically changed in my life such that would’ve caused me to forget this weekly chore. Regardless,I’d really like to avoid these jump out of bed frantically instances. So, here’s one of the ways I am going to try and reduce the probability of that happening: adding an event to my calendar.

    Setting up an event in my calendar

    Just now, I added a recurring meeting on my calendar to remind me to pull the bins out at about 06:30pm every Wednesday. I maintain a calendar and have developed a habit, a practice, of checking it every day in order to see what’s on the horizon. If some event is coming up and not in my calendar, history has shown me that, chances are, I’m going to forget about it.

    Configuring reminders

    Now, not only did I add this recurring event in my calendar, I’ve setup my Fastmail settings such that now, by default, every time I add a new event to my calendar, the following reminders are automatically added, my phone (and laptop) showing an alert:

    • 1 day before the event
    • 1 hour before the event
    • 15 minutes before the event

    I find that these alarms are spread out sufficiently and give me little nudges, ways to warm up my mental cache for what lies ahead.

    Summary

    Will this weekly recurring event calendar help me avoid having to sprawl out of bed in the future and race to street while wearing boxers? I sure hope so. But we shall see.

  • Developing organizational skills

    The cycle of disorganization followed by organization

    Yesterday morning, I had a (often recurring) thought to improve my organization skills. I’m aware that this repeating desire comes in cycles, periods of deep disorganization, followed by frustration — frustration from being unable to find something I saved, frustration from dropping the ball on some project — ending with a crescendo of hyper-focus organization. This pattern, that I’m becoming more and more aware of, motivates me to approach this (not novel at all) situation in a more mindful way, especially after reading this hacker news quote from this pursuing the forums this morning:

    “[The Artist Way] is great for identifying underlying creative blockers and helping you discover if the current rut is the same rut repeated or something new“

    Sometimes, our problems tend to repeat themselves. And while nothing is wrong, per say, with a problem repeating itself, I do want to minimize the time I spend recycling the sames solution over and over. And instead of berating myself, and in spirit of a growth mindset, I ask myself: how can I learn more about organization and how can I develop more skill around organizing?

    Why get organized to begin with?

    There’s this baseline assumption I hold: that organization skills improve the quality one’s life. But is this rooted belief of organization helpful? Is it accurate? Is it true that acquiring additional skill may help me realize certain (personally, professional) projects?

    Breaking down organization into concrete buckets, into discrete skills

    Before jumping the gun (as I’ve done many times in the past, leaping to problem solving prematurely), I think it would be helpful in my situation to zoom out and break down organization into several skills. Upon creating these categories, it might be useful for me to then perform a self-assessment because by approaching this with honesty and compassion, I can then give myself what I need

    Different ways to bucket the skills

    Organizing Creativity

    Thoughts that pop up while writing this article

    • What role does knowledge of Reiss Motivation Profile (RMP) play as it relates to a fixed vs. growth mindset. How does my low desire for order impact my motivation to develop organizational skills
    • What are some resources (e.g. books, courses) have I tried in the past? What worked? What didn’t work? Where am I at now, in my journey?
    • What are the trade offs of developing organizational skills, of becoming more organized? Can I really have the “best of breed” approach, leveraging the (assume) creativity sparked from lack of organization?
    • Can I develop organizational skills that have less to do with how it looks — especially from the outside — and more of a growth internally? Similar to DBT, the behavior might look the same but the internal feeling is different

  • “Rethinking ambition” – Reflection on: Podcast episode by Maya Shankar with guest Jennifer Romolini

    While walking the pups this morning, I had a sudden urge to listen to a podcast and I pulled out my iPhone (13), launched Apple Podcast, and navigated to one of my favorite podcasts: A slight change of plans. After not listening to any of her podcast episodes for nearly a year, I scrolled down to an episode titled “Rethinking Ambition”

    After listening to the first few seconds, I momentarily considered skipping and swiping to another interesting, useful episode; I had the thought of “what could I possibly learn from an affluent, white, privileged woman talking about about ambition.” Damn, I was so wrong.

    I set my judgemental thought aside and proceeded to listen to the remainder of the 30 minutes (or so) episode (I admit, I’m a bit embarrassed for my judgemental thought however, as learned in dialectical behavior therapy, a thought is just that: a thought) and here are a few favorite moments

    Favorite moments

    Sliding her resume back towards the interviewer when he (somewhat) condescendingly asked “What school is this?”

    She was interviewing for an entry level position as an assistant for a media (I think magazine) company. Apparently, even for entry level positions, applicants tend to have graduated from pedigree schools (e.g. Harvard, Yale), and the college that Jennifer attended did not fall into that category. And I love her tenacity, her no shits taken response “Just because you haven’t heard of the school doesn’t mean it isn’t a good school.”

    Turns out, her no non-sense reply lead to her actually landing the job since that attitude, apparently, is part of what it takes to put out fires as an assistant. She valued her 10+ years working as a waitress and applied what she learned in customer service; this makes me wonder what sort of stories my own mom, who worked at a diner during her teenage years, would be able to share with me as well.

    Toeing the line

    Jennifer said she was of “toeing the [company] line” and that’s an idiom I’m not particularly familiar with it. Though I’ve heard the phrase before times in the past, I wasn’t completely sure what it meant and as it turns out, it’s one way to say that you follow rules and orders and behave obediently.

    New words I learned

    • repudiate – to refuse to accept or reject

    Quotes

    “Ambition is a force and you can harness that force for good or you can harness that force in a way that takes you away from yourself and things you care about. We think success has to be big when it’s so often, the most satisfying success is quiet and small…I’ve designed my life in such a way that nothing is neglected: my relationships, I’m not neglected, work is not neglected. Everything is in balance.”

    The above quote resonates with me because upon reflection, much of my ambitious endeavors in the past — for example, climbing up the corporate ladder at Amazon to become a senior engineer — contained a shadow, a slightly misunderstood (from my perspective) drive and ultimately, disconnected me not only from others around me, but disconnected me from myself and spiritual development.

    “I’m going through the challenges of life. I am riding them like a wave, much more naturally because I’m not gripping, nothing requires that hold on me.”

    The above quote reminds me of Oliver Burkeman and how he talks about (radically) accepting what lies ahead — that we are all finite human beings with a limited time on this earth — and with acceptance, we free ourselves from holding the brace position.

    “Is to have a spaciousness, I think that is success. And when work is all consuming and doesn’t have boundaries, and when you are chasing something inside of work that you’re honestly never going to find, you lose all of this other beauty, which is what a successful life really is.”

    Again, resonates with me in the context of work because for about 15 years of my life, I relentless searched for spiritual development within my work and I believe I was looking for the right thing, just in the wrong place.

    Summary

    Overall, solid episode 4.5/5.0 rating and would recommend listening to. Definitely left me in a pensive mood and had me reflect on how grateful I am for my current situation in life: working a 9-5 job with flexible hours that allows me to single parent my daughter and pursue creative opportunities (e.g. dance).

  • Carol Dweck’s Mindset – Chapter 1 & Chapter 2 Recap

    Is this book even for me?

    I was pursuing a bookstore — Waterstones, the Wimbledon location — and ended up purchasing Carol Dweck’s book titled “Mindset: Changing the way you think to fulfill your potential”, despite some initial hesitation. Before walking over to the checkout counter with book in hand, I picked the book off the shelf and skimmed the first couple pages and quickly learned that Carol Dweck posits there are two development mind sets: fixed and growth.

    “Isn’t it obvious that a growth mindset is better generally speaking and I definitely possess a growth mindset, right?”, I thought to myself.

    Turns out, like most things in life, it’s not so simple, not so black and white. In reality, as the book points out, there’s a general tendency for most people (me included) to possess a fixed mindset in some areas of our lives while at the same time, holding a growth mindset in other aspects.

    In any case, so far, even after reading only the first three chapters, I’ve already not only started questioning some of my beliefs, but also recognized that some parts of my life where I’ve unknowingly and unconsciously held myself back from even making an effort — even trying — certain activities.

    Two mindsets: fixed vs growth

    So, what is a growth mindset anyway? It is the belief that through through consistent effort, strategies and help from others, you can develop certain qualities (e.g. smartness). This mindset differs to that of the fixed mindset, that certain qualities are set in stone, unmovable, and a consequence of this belief we may end up experiencing “urgency to prove yourself over and over again”.

    With a fixed mindset, an individual’s underlying intention or motivation is driven to prove something about themselves. For example, say I consider myself “smart”. As a result of labeling myself as such, I may pursue certain activities that prove  — over and over again — to both myself and others that I am actually smart. Or I may end up avoiding certain behaviors all together out of fear of disapproving myself.

    In contrast, with a growth mindset, the main objective is to learn and growth. To this end, individuals with a growth mindset approach activities through the lens of learning, through applying effort.

    Captured Quotes

    “If you are somebody when you’re successful, what are you when you are unsuccessful?” (pg. 32)

    “Becoming is better than being” (pg. 25)

    The top is where t”he fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it’s where many growth minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.” (pg. 48)

    “The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome” (pg. 48)

    “What I mean is that even when you think you’re not good at something, you can still plunge into it wholeheartedly and stick to it.” (pg. 53).

    Self Realizations

    Avoidant behavior due to impact on (self-imposed) beliefs

    As mentioned above, I for sure thought that I held a growth mindset across all domains in my life (personal and professional) but reading this book puts me in deep reflection. Already, I’ve self-discovered that I tend to avoid crossword puzzles, drawing art with a pencil, Rubik’s cube, building physical objects with my hands, all because I don’t posses the natural gift or talent. As a result of lacking these possessions, I avoid pursuing these activities all together since distort an image — of “smartness” — I hold about myself.

    But now, it seems blatantly obvious that all those skills above — crossword puzzles, Rubik’s cube, building physical objects with my two hands — can be cultivated.

    So, what can I put into practice, now?

    Crossword puzzles? Rubik’s cube?

    We shall see.

  • On Oliver Burkeman’s 4,000 weeks: “Decide in advance what you want to fail at”

    The book “Four thousands weeks” by Oliver Burkeman profoundly impacted me when I blasted through reading it this past year and I’m currently considering picking up the book and reviewing my hand written annotations marked on each pages, notes I took: summaries, quotes, questions, etc.

    But before reaching to grab the book, the following thought emerged: if the average life spans 4,000 weeks and I was born in 1988, how many weeks left do I have left on this earth?

    Well, according to the date calculator website, 4000 weeks from May 16th 1988 (my birth date) lands on January 13th, 2152.

    Given that today is September 13th, 2025, that leaves me about 16,932 days left. Or, put differently:

    • 2417 weeks and 4 days
    • 46 years, 4 months
    • 556 months

    That’s … somewhat confronting.

    But from my current perspective, the above time frame, oddly enough, feels like a substantial amount of time left. I mean, sort of is.

    All the meanwhile, I recognize how precious and tender life is, how an instant, your world can turn upside down. So, I ask myself: how do I want to spend my remaining days?

    Or, perhaps if I take one piece of advice, a suggestion, from the Four Thousand Weeks appendix, I might want to “Decide in advance what to fail at.”

    Deciding in advance what to fail at, to me, makes me radically realize and accept that, as a finite human being, I have limits. I can’t “have it all”. And instead of sighing with disappointment, I breathe out tension, some tension in my body washing away. Right now, I’m resisting and fighting the urge to enumerate a long list of things I want to do however, for the purpose of this exercise, let’s list some of my pre-planned failures:

    • A stand up comedian
    • A magician
    • A father to additional children
    • A psychologist or psychiatrist treating patients with mental health
    • A principle software engineer for a major tech company
    • A famous book author
    • A world class break dancer
    • A digital organization dad
    • A touring DJ
    • A politician
    • A medical professional who works for “doctors without border”
    • A professor or teacher of children
    • A world class dog trainer
    • A touring dancer
    • An entrepreneur running a 7 figure business
    • Living quietly in isolation on a farm raising a bunch of animals

    The above list seems silly. However, at some point in my life, I wanted to do the above. And if I’m being honest, a part of me resists the idea of human limits and part of me is drawn towards working towards ALL of the above at the same time.

    But as I type these words out, trying to tackle more the a dozen ambitious goals in a single life time, seems ridiculous.

    And so while I no longer know exactly what I want to do with the remainder of my life, I do have a few ideas on how I’d like to spend the next few years:

    • Raising Elliott as a single dad – this has become my #1 priority in life. Had you asked me if I ever envisioned living as a single dad in a foreign country, I would’ve thought you were crazy. But here I am.
    • Dive deep into mastering myself within the craft of dance and contribute the street style dance scene
    • Work part time as a tech lead and sharpen skill set – prepare for the storm of artificial intelligence (AI) take over
    • Connect and limber my body and calm my nervous system down

  • House Dance 1:1 – Beauty in boredom & Gamification

    Today, I had a 1:1 dance private with Francesa Miles and while the initial agenda she had initially stitched together had us focusing on use of space — which we did go over — the dance lesson took an unexpected turn and I learned that some of the recent critique I’ve been receiving around my transitions (from one concept to another, or from one movement to another) stems from avoiding the discomfort of boredom. In addition to this realization, I also learned the power of creating mini games that serve both as a constraint and as a fun objective that also ends up manifesting some desirable movement qualities.

    Main takeaways

    • When thinking about engaging the chest and torso, consider engaging the back of the torso, the shoulder blades, an area often overlooked
    • Create little objectives, games that can spark or motivate certain movement qualities
    • Experiment with permitting myself to experience the feeling of boredom at least a couple times before transitioning from one movement or concept, to the next

    Follow up

    • Double time a step and accent every third step

    Double time consists of 16 counts and with a movement (e.g. pas de bourree) that consist of 3 steps, we can perform the movement 5 times and gives us one (half note) count before we return back on the “1”