Solid weeks work.

I had a very solid week at the rink.  Will has me working on the first dance of the next test set (Swing Dance) and I've needed to get my mohawks more stable so I can do them at speed on-the-fly.  Figured out my problem was that I wasn't changing feed directly under my center (I do that a lot...) and once I started focusing on it, things evened out quickly.  Also spend time on the 3-turns.  At my lesson last week, Will commented that I was a bit too "frantic" and trying to force them.  I needed to relax and let the turn happen on it's own. That solved that problem.  Same deal on the forward cross rolls - trying to go at it too hard and needed to slow down.

This seems to be a common theme for me - not just on the ice, but in life generally.  My first approach to any task is to go at it full-bore, as if determination and sheer force of will would get me through.  Often as not, I end up as a bull in a china shop and really just need to relax.  I've caught myself doing that at work lately and am trying to drop it down a few notches and not try to make things happen - rather, set the conditions and let them happen.

That's going to be a tough one.  Not my "default setting" by any means.  If I'm going to keep from killing a partner, I have to learn this.  As a dancer, having that sort of "force of personality" was an asset, but on the ice it just seems to lead to chaos. 

Slow down.

Relax. 

If you know me, you know just how hard that is going to be.

Hell, I even type fast.