Have you ever decided to pivot? Was it because of a new perspective? Did it make you adjust your priorities?

There’s a plethora of possibilities that start with the letter P, but let stick with three for now. What are your priorities? Do you have perspective? When should you pivot?

One day you are walking along, confident that you are on the right path, and wham! something happens that makes you reevaluate your whole plan. Or years can go by while a subtle suspicion keeps nagging like a grain of sand in your shoe. Slow or fast, perspective tends to arrive when you least expect it.

After all, the map is not the territory. Once in a while your internal GPS goes wonky. You wake up one morning and discover that your true north is upside down. Time to consult your compass, otherwise known as your priorities. Your big ones that define who you want to be, not the minor errands on your to-do list. The place where your soul is at peace.

Any number of things can lead you to recognize a fork in the road. New information can come to light. You see another side of yourself in a photograph, a mirror, or someone else’s story.

Sometimes the message you need sneaks up on you. Energy is stuck somewhere in your personal universe, and you’ve been too busy focusing on the roadblock to pay attention to the answer that’s been tapping on your shoulder all along. They called that “barking up the wrong tree“ in Western Colorado where I grew up.

It can happen in your work, your relationships, or any area of your life. But by the very nature of consciousness, we tend to be blind to our own foibles. That’s why it’s so easy to point out someone else’s problems, while being completely oblivious to our own.

Putting together our Spotlight this week, I gained a bit of perspective. Anaïs and Idit from the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association reached out recently and requested a promotional collaboration for the ICMTA Teacher’s Gathering happening June 2 – 6 in Serbia, a first for Eastern Europe.

Reviewing their materials made it obvious that the ICMTA is the association this movement has long been asking for. People were after us for years to build something similar. Turns out I’m better at writing and publishing than I am herding cats and hosting huge events.

Conscious Dancer magazine began clear back in ’07, and coined the term ‘conscious dance’. Since about 2014 it’s been online mainly as Monday Love and the MoveMap. The golden thread for me has been the writing; my Editor’s Note in the early days, to this weekly blog/newsletter now.

And honestly, the writing has done me a lot of good. It just hit me how much of the oddly wonderful life I lead is a direct result of me putting a (hopefully) positive message out there week after week. The fact that I occasionally get encouragement from illustrious readers makes it easier to keep going.

What we called the Dance First Association was really more of an umbrella for the teachers and organization who subscribe to our promotional service. Many of them are former advertisers in the magazine. It makes more sense now to let Monday Love be the tentpole of our operation and leave the administration of professional associations to others.

For me, it’s a relief to get clear. I’d much rather support and collaborate with groups like the ICMTA than think of them as competitors. With that intention, I’d like to invite all the friends, family, and colleagues of anyone reading this to join the Monday Love list and become one of our growing body of readers.

Merci et à bientôt!

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Mark Metz
Monday Love
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