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When I Grow Up | Caitlin Sloan | TEDxWestMiddleSchool


good money elected Nick dr. Walker and
I’ll give us one else culture inviting
me here today my name is Caitlin slum
national dancer Missouri contemporary
ballet Missouri contemporary ballet is
the only professional dance company in
Penn Missouri the 60th of many cancers
including myself rehearse six hours a
day five days a week we put every ounce
of our heart and soul to each day in
order to make it in order to achieve the
seemingly impossible
it takes countless hours of hard work
sweat and sometimes tears to make
something so beautiful about it but
worried ik am a professional dancer I
was a student the likely student
preparing to be a professional dancer is
strenuous and that work is never-ending
while my peers come out at the local
coffee shop for the mom I was a ballet
class while my friend said summers of
the pool
I had it all across the country to
further my training with the prestigious
Valley believe that Sunday hope to join
the Deacons are men here at parties I
also rehearsals for our next performance
but these were sacrifices I was willing
to make to achieve my goals I knew that
I wanted to be a professional ballerina
and was willing to put in the work to
make it happen and it did
I have spent the last nine years in to
professionally I imagine performance
leaders all across the country and even
traveling to South Korea two days as a
guest of luckiest as their citizenship
it’s the night dream job and I’m so
grateful all that I’ve experienced now I
know that not all of you during becoming
a professional ballerina but you know
that your goals and dreams and
aspirations and just like me you can
make your dreams become a reality but
it’s going to take a lot of work so does
that exactly I believe there are five
respective skills you must possess and
you dream to reality
he’s a responsibility time management
resilience perseverance and
self-confidence even you seem like a
canary
as opposed to skills but with practice
any person can develop these qualities
in order to reach their goal first off
responsibility taking responsibility for
yourself as the understanding that your
success or your failure
it’s a tiny amount of effort you put
toward achieving your goal each day you
have choices to make you can make a
choice solve it one step further toward
your goal or not
you lost in your homework or your extra
practice may not see what the big deal
for one day those days start to add up
and eventually you realize that a month
or a year has passed and you’re no
closer to reaching your goal than you
were before if your goal is to be a
ballerina
you have to each other diligent in your
training you have to attend every class
every rehearsal every performance it
takes a lot of hard work and this is
true for any ensuring you have what your
dream is a big commitment father if you
take responsibility for your goal and
take steps to make it happen you will be
successful the next skill you need to
develop this time management we all know
24 hours in the day and yet how is it
that some people seem to be able to fit
so much more than 24 hours and others in
great time management this is the
ability prioritize what is important to
be most productive as the inner choice
is yours
today so you can do what she wants to do
tomorrow
Nellie what your goals are is the first
step to managing your time effectively
it’s not a clear picture of what you
hope to achieve it is much easier to
prioritize activities that support your
future some mazes not easy to make the
choice to fund the extra work however in
the long run you’ll be so happy you made
a responsible choice for your future and
that’s a question you should always ask
yourself okay future self thank you for
this decision and the answer is no maybe
time to reevaluate your choices the
third state needs to develop is
resilience the resilient is worried to
cope with the setbacks that will
inevitably see in their life they’re
going to be hard days they’re going to
be tight and it feels like nothing is
going right and you’re never going to
achieve what you set out to hopper it is
important to remember that a bad day is
an actual of that life there was a time
I thought my dance career might be over
i enhance pursue seasons with a company
in Arizona at the end of my second
season my contract was not renewed
Elvis hates the choice going through
even a lead insert and move on to
another career or a mark on the
strenuous task of traveling around the
country doing auditions helps to
audition and was so fortunate to get a
job at missouri contemporary ballet i
love me plug in my home and answer the
company that I’m very passionate about
this is not really silly not have hard
days however I know that if I can
overcome the loss of my first
professional yes contract and we want to
find a company that makes me much more
professionally satisfied those little
setbacks are no big deal enticing
like a step backward is really the
universe’s way of nudging you in a
closely related to resilience is
perseverance successful people have
learned to keep trying and rework their
steps until they need herbal as been
said the definitions and user view the
same thing over and over again expecting
different results this is easily
applicable to ballet if you’re working
out and you stuck without success
you can’t keep trying it the same way
it’s acting at one time you’ll magically
have a different results you have to
evaluate what is going on and make
changes this is true for anything this
rate that your first attempt is going to
be successful it takes a lot of trial
and error to figure out in the end
if you give up after one unsuccessful
attempts that is not likely you’ll reach
your goal it went up on the stairs first
three tests an executive row here Singh
can’t act slightly quality hit me it’s a
little as we all know a spirit arts in
karma Hollywood and Broadway legends if
you’ve given up because of those
comments the world wouldn’t miss out on
a truly amazing entertainment if you
could look after one failure that are
working this out all you have to offer
so do yourself thank all of us a huge
favor
and never go up on your dreams I promise
finally and perhaps most important and
self confidence self confidence is
trusting yourself in your abilities we
all unique qualities that make us
special and this is a great thing the
world needs every one of your individual
characteristics that said before and
know not all of you dream becoming
professional ballerina and that is a
good thing because between the world of
: seven million
we need doctors and teachers and
librarians at artists in every single
person’s dreams and ambitions to work
together in other words we’ve in the
world a great place so no matter what
you hope to achieve be confident in
yourself and yet the best self
confidence comes from knowing you put in
the time in the work and achieve your
dreams ultimately dreams don’t work
unless you do the great thing is if
you’re passionate about what you do it
won’t feel like work every day don’t
look a gift because you could just spend
your life do what you love
one of my favorite quotes by how about
throwing goes like this don’t ask
yourself what the world needs ask me
some what makes you come alive and go do
that because what the world needs is
people who have come alive the world
meets you and your unique qualities and
passion so put it to work oh you and
yourself
and spend your life making the world a better place give me money luck
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