{"id":36,"date":"2011-02-01T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/?p=36"},"modified":"2011-02-01T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T15:43:36","slug":"will-it-be-the-stiletos-the-cowboy-boots-or-shaggin-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Will it be the Stiletos, the Cowboy Boots, or Shaggin&#8217; Shoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Monday, I get a motivational message coming across my emails from Belinda Ellsworth, a speaker that presented at Convention 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here is her message, I smiled as I read it as my 14 year old daughter is dead set about being asked to the sweetheart dance at school, she is sure and ready to have the resounding, &#8220;NO!&#8221; waiting for the already afraid young man that dare ask her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>WOULD YOU LIKE TO DANCE?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.&#8221; &#8212; H. Jackson Brown, Jr.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While I believe that most opportunities are those we make for ourselves, I also know that many opportunities simply arrive in front of us, asking, &#8220;Would you like to dance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether or not we are ready to dance with Opportunity. Or must we say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to dance. I haven&#8217;t prepared.&#8221; Or, &#8220;Hold on for a minute while I go get ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Opportunity says, &#8220;That&#8217;s okay. I will find someone else. I may be back again, and perhaps you will be ready then.&#8221; What would you say today if Opportunity arrived and asked you to dance?<\/p>\n<p>Opportunity can be an impatient suitor. If you can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t dance, he will find someone who will. So, get your dance shoes. Take your dance lessons. Get a new suit or dress. All of these are analogies for doing today what you can to be prepared for when Opportunity offers you its hand to dance.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great week!<\/p>\n<p>Step into Success, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>www.stepintosuccess.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-success-express.com\">www.the-success-express.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But as I hear her tell me the chatter at school of the Providence Day Prom,how much the budget is, where it will be, and the unsure freshmen daughter telling me that she hopes she gets invited one year.\u00a0 I tell her like it is, if you always say, &#8220;no&#8221;; who would dare ask you as a friend in the future&#8230;have fun&#8230;go, laugh, and dance&#8230;be with friends and live your life.\u00a0 We have a stamp like that, don&#8217;t we?\u00a0 Live, Laugh, Love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you missed an opportunity to share Stampin&#8217; Up!?<\/li>\n<li>Are you making your demonstratorship all you want it to be?<\/li>\n<li>Are you waiting for the &#8220;perfect&#8221; time to hold your own event, that seems larger than life?<\/li>\n<li>Have you missed the opportunity to ask somone else to dance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE&#8230;LET&#8217;S DANCE!<\/h3>\n<p>Share your thoughts!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Monday, I get a motivational message coming across my emails from Belinda Ellsworth, a speaker that presented at Convention 2009.\u00a0 \u00a0Here is her message, I smiled as I read it as my 14 year old daughter is dead set about being asked to the sweetheart dance at school, she is sure and ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation","category-opportunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamweb.mastampstudio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}