Hello, everyone!

I've been posting on the other forums for a couple of weeks, now, and have just discovered this one. Super cool!

I live in a rural part of Texas. I'm married with 2 kids. I'm a ballroom dance professional. I've just bought a studio and I'm loving it more than I ever imagined!

Like a lot of people, I've studied business, sales, self help, and psychology for years but never came across the Science of Getting Rich before. I'm thrilled to have discovered this course. Rebecca is my hero!

Blessings,
Rachel

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Rebecca is my hero!

Mine too!

Welcome to the course and to these forums Rachel! I have read some of your posts in the other forums and am happy to greet you here!

My son and wife, along with their 13 year old daughter, enjoy taking ballroom dance lessons! My wife and I enjoy ballroom dancing also; and have thought about lessons. You are providing a valuable service!

Welcome to the forums!

I love the forums and I especially appreciate Rebecca's gentle,firm but always fun approach to the PG course and through her coaching on this forum to others and myself, I have grown to become more like the person I would like to be!

Thank you for the warm welcome!

A word to anyone new to the forums: I highly recommend them! I read and post on these forums every single day. Usually that's the way I start and end my day. It keeps me feeling great and focused on the certain way.

I also listen to the book over and over again on my car CD player, and I do the course work very slowly -- about one every 4 or 5 days.

It's worked so far. Many of the things I've wanted have come through and the best part is -- it's fun and easy!

Welcome all.

The best is yet to come!
Rachel

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Rebecca is my hero!

Well, that's a total hoot, Rachel (and since you're from Texas I know you understand what "hoot" means). I'm a "Sooner born and a Sooner bred and when I die I'm a Sooner dead" myself, but generally get along fine with neighbors to the south. (Bless their hearts.)

I must confess: I have two left feet. So when it comes to dancing, you and pretty much anyone else who can do that at ALL, are MY heroes!

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the best part is -- it's fun and easy!

Glad to hear it! Because otherwise, it's just "work" -- and over these past 10 or 11 years since I discovered SOGR, I have been becoming more and more "allergic" to that four-letter word.

Well, that's a total hoot, Rachel (and since you're from Texas I know you understand what "hoot" means). I'm a "Sooner born and a Sooner bred and when I die I'm a Sooner dead" myself, but generally get along fine with neighbors to the south. (Bless their hearts.)
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Is it too late to back out of this course?

I wasn't born in Texas, but got there as fast as I could (or when my parents moved there)! I am Texan through and through!

Seriously, I am looking forward to this course, and the positive changes in my life and lifestyle that will come as a result.

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Originally posted by Rebecca:


I must confess: I have two left feet. So when it comes to dancing, you and pretty much anyone else who can do that at ALL, are MY heroes!

Thanks for the props! But guess what? Dancing is no harder than anything else. I teach people all day long who have "two left feet." In fact, I hear it so often I almost named my studio "Two Left Feet!" I suspect that if being a good dancer were something you wanted, you would have achieved it already.

I gotta confess, though. It's pretty easy for me to feel good all day when I have such a super awesome job! Who else gets paid to have fun?

Someday I plan to expand and small towns are my target. Perhaps I'll open a studio in your area someday. Come to think of it, I performed in Tulsa at a Salsa club a couple of years ago. I also know a lot of the studio owners in Oklahoma. Learning to dance is really fun and easy! Just sayin......

Rachel

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Originally posted by Rebecca:

I must confess: I have two left feet. So when it comes to dancing, you and pretty much anyone else who can do that at ALL, are MY heroes!

Rebecca, is that really true? Even if it is I think you could change that. Just playin' with ya.

I grew up in Ga and considered myself a Southern girl. Want to know something funny? I remember the first time I met someone at college from the South and then they said they were from Texas. And I thought, "Texas! that's not the SOUTH!"

Well, I'm probably right, because most Texans think of Texas as it's very own universe. Haha.

I have heard that to get to Texas from California is to go east until you smell it, and south until you step in it!

Sorry, I just couldn't pass that up!

Y'all are so funny!

Actually, even though I grew up in Texas, I spent about 15 years in California. My husband is from So Cal, and both my children were born there. I'm a bit of a snob.

I remember telling my daughter when she started imitating her teacher's Texas twang, "Young lady, we don't speak that way in this family!"

One more thought: You know that you should never ask a person if he's from Texas right? If he is, he'll tell you; and if he isn't, well, there's no need to embarrass him.

Nice to meet y'all!
Rachel

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Originally posted by Tom Strong:
I have heard that to get to Texas from California is to go east until you smell it, and south until you step in it!

Sorry, I just couldn't pass that up!

Haha, Tom! I have a cousin who lives just south of Amarillo. Yeah, you can definitely smell it! Anyone who has ever been through her town doesn't forget it!!! LOL

I have to confess that I lived in El Paso many years ago when I was in the first through fifth grades. At that time Juarez (sp) was a sleepy, delightful town to visit! I didn't get to California until I went into the Marine Corps at age 18. Other than four years in Japan I have been here since!

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Rebecca, is that really true? Even if it is I think you could change that. Just playin' with ya.

Dawn, I probably COULD -- if I cared. Actually, I grew up in a religious denomination that, well, let's just say they frowned on dancing. So it was just something I never learned to do well. At the same time, they didn't allow drinking, so I never learned that either. Neither one felt like any kind of lack to me, though, so it's fine.

In fact, when I was a kid, I thought that asking someone if they'd like a drink -- meaning alcohol -- was just something on TV and in the movies. I had no idea people really did that in their homes. Well, I've learned a bit since then ...

(But back to dancing, did you see that movie a few years back called "Wild Hogs?" The character played by William H. Macy is talking about how he just isn't a dancer and he says, "The music moves me, but it moves me ugly." Well, I saw that movie on a plane to Ireland and the other passengers must have thought I'd lost my mind because I laughed right out loud -- and for a good while, too. I SO understood!)

Anyway, I can't let this Texas stuff pass without throwing in my personal favorite jibe:

I have quite a few relatives who left Oklahoma and moved to Texas. So -- even though I haven't lived in OK for decades -- we always tell them, well, every time an Okie crosses the Red River into Texas, it raises the average IQ of both states.

No, seriously, I love Texans (bless their hearts).

(And Texans -- as well as Okies and a whole bunch of Southerners -- will recognize THAT, too. You can say pretty much anything about anyone -- as long as you add, "bless his/her heart" to the end of it. Ain't we civilized?)

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Anyway, I can't let this Texas stuff pass without throwing in my personal favorite jibe:

I have quite a few relatives who left Oklahoma and moved to Texas. So -- even though I haven't lived in OK for decades -- we always tell them, well, every time an Okie crosses the Red River into Texas, it raises the average IQ of both states.

No, seriously, I love Texans (bless their hearts).

(And Texans -- as well as Okies and a whole bunch of Southerners -- will recognize THAT, too. You can say pretty much anything about anyone -- as long as you add, "bless his/her heart" to the end of it. Ain't we civilized?)

Rebecca, you are a hoot! I have to tell you, even though I've lived a lot of places and wasn't born in OK, I've lived here longer than anywhere else. It's also the first place I remember, so it's "home" to me. Mark kind of got "stuck" here (for which I am grateful because otherwise we probably would never have met!) when he was in college and his parents moved to Australia, bless his heart! LOL

We have a sort of rivalry going on. Texas is not my favorite place in the world (actually, of the places I've been, Hawaii is! Imagine that! LOL) and OK is not exactly dear to his heart. When we go to Texas for something, he always has to sing to me as we cross the border... at the top of his lungs, of course! I return the favor when we come back! LOL

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Originally posted by Rebecca:


Anyway, I can't let this Texas stuff pass without throwing in my personal favorite jibe:

I have quite a few relatives who left Oklahoma and moved to Texas. So -- even though I haven't lived in OK for decades -- we always tell them, well, every time an Okie crosses the Red River into Texas, it raises the average IQ of both states.

No, seriously, I love Texans (bless their hearts).

(And Texans -- as well as Okies and a whole bunch of Southerners -- will recognize THAT, too. You can say pretty much anything about anyone -- as long as you add, "bless his/her heart" to the end of it. Ain't we civilized?)

Somehow I knew you would say that. And yes, funny about the Wild Hogs. Elaine from Seinfeld comes to mind too. But you'd have to be a Seinfeld fan. I'm guffawing. :-)

I know all about the "bless their heart" too. Too funny.

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And yes, funny about the Wild Hogs. Elaine from Seinfeld comes to mind too.

Well, now, Dawn, dancing just isn't one of my gifts. But I'm not as ... mmm, graceless ... as Elaine! At least I don't think I am! (And thanks for that: That image just caused me to stick my thumbs out and laugh out loud.)

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Who else gets paid to have fun?

Don't know how I missed that question before, Rachel.

I do!

RE: the "bless their hearts" thing. My friend from North Carolina suggested using this to head off complaint sessions about someone unpopular. Just cut off any comment beginning with that person's name with "Bless her heart." It serves to remind everyone that we should love and bless her/him even though he/she may have done some stuff we don't like. Also, it's a graceful way of just interrupting the complaint. Sometimes that alone will remind everyone that complaints are counter productive.

@ Rebecca:
Here's my world CMI: Everyone should get paid to have fun!

Love and Blessings,
Rachel