Feeling Stuck In Your Dance Learning Process? Do This Now (AND SEE RESULTS FAST!)

If you're doing that regularly, no wonder you're getting stuck and feeling stuck and not progressing as fast as you'd like to. In this video I'm going to talk about why you're feeling stuck in your learning process and what you can do to actually see improvements faster. For the best social dance tutorials and tips, please subscribe to my channel, hit the notifications bell to be notified whenever I post a new video. If you are new to my channel, hi, my name is Monika and I help men and women develop permanent dance skills and just feel better, look better when dancing in social settings. Feel free to apply for my one-on-one consultation where we're going to identify your dance goals and I'm going to determine if I can help you incite my confidence through dance online program. If you're interested in the consultation, stick around till the end of this video. I'm going to tell you exactly how you can apply at the end. Here we go. Number one, stop comparing yourself to other people. This is hard to do but crucial. You have to stop. These days you have YouTube, you have TikTok, you see amazing dancers every day. They just show up on your feed. Whether you are aware of this or not, you are comparing yourself to them whenever you see them dance. Think about it like that. You see a great dancer and we usually tend to watch people who are better than us anyway, right? Because you're striving for something. You want to be like this person, you want to be like that person. So I'm assuming you tend to watch people who are better than you anyway, right? Better dancers than you. Not as good as you or just starting out. Super beginners, right? Am I right? Yeah. Once you see a great dancer, automatically in your mind you go, I don't look like this or why don't I look like this? There's always something, this little thought that appears whether you want it or not. It's just there. If you're doing that regularly, no wonder you're getting stuck and feeling stuck and not progressing as fast as you'd like to. Keep in mind that when you see those amazing dancers, know that they started from zero skills and they spent a lot of effort on getting to where they are now. But you're not seeing the hours they practiced, the months, the years perhaps. You're only seeing final result. When I started dancing, it was before 2006. There was no TikTok. There was not even YouTube. So I wasn't bombarded with amazing dancers left and right. And I could focus on my own journey and just being better every day and comparing myself to myself from the past, not to somebody else. And that's why I improved so quickly. Be honest, do you do that? Do you compare yourself to the people you see dancing? And are you a little bit overwhelmed by great dancers? Let me know and let's give each other a little bit of support because learning how to dance is not easy. Second reason why you might feel stuck is that you might be learning something that's not appropriate for your level. You might be learning movements that are too difficult for you. And sure, we all want to learn amazing looking moves that would shock our friends. But keep in mind, you can't run before you walk. It's a process getting there. What happens when you don't have the dance foundation, you don't have the dance basics yet, but you found an amazing looking move and you're learning that move from a tutorial? You will either try learning it. You'll spend a ton of time practicing. But because your body is not ready for that specific move, you're going to eventually give up because you'll realize that no matter what you're doing, this movement won't look as good on you as on the teacher or dancer doing the move. Or two, you will learn that move, but you won't be able to use it when you're dancing, when you freestyle. You won't be able to match it to different songs that are playing in the club, let's say, or the wedding at a party. You won't be able to transition between this new movement and other moves that you learned previously. So it will be a little bit of a time wasted. If you're a beginner just starting out, do not go for the hardest moves. Start with the basics. Start with basic level movements and build up to the more advanced ones. How can you recognize the basic movements? Usually the basic movements will have less going on in them. So any movement where you're just moving one body part at a time should be where you start. This is what I would do if I was you and just starting out learning. So it can be either footwork and nothing else, or maybe just hip movement and ignore them. Try to move everything else at once so you're not overwhelmed. Start slow. If you found a movement that you really really like and you would like to learn but it looks a little bit complex, just save it for later. You can still learn anything you want, but don't rush it. Finally, number three. Consider that when you're spending a long time learning something, you put in a lot of time and effort into learning how to dance, but you still don't see results. You don't feel like you made any progress. It might not be your fault, but it's the method of learning that's at fault. Maybe you're just using the method that's not right for you. The solution here is simple. You can just try a different method. So let's say if you're only learning from YouTube, try a dance class. If you're taking group classes but you feel like you need more one-on-one attention from the teacher, one-on-one feedback, sign up for private classes, sign up for an online program with one-on-one feedback like mine. But there are options you can try. If you're spending let's say six months learning, following one method, and you're not getting anywhere, it's time to switch the method. If you'd like to get a complete transformation, so go from somebody who doesn't dance at all, who doesn't enjoy dancing, to a person that's confident dancing in any social setting, you can book a free consultation with me and let's see if I can help you. Let's see if we can work together. Who I typically work with is adults, men and women, who either never tried learning how to dance but they just know they don't enjoy themselves when it comes to dancing in public, or people who try different learning methods like group classes, private classes, learning on their own on YouTube, and those methods didn't work for them. If you're interested, you can apply for the consultation below this video. There's a link that will take you to a short survey and then you can book your session right away. Let me know if this video was helpful you guys. I hope this helped. Let me know if you'd like to see more videos like this helping you learn, not just the dance moves, but just how to dance more efficiently and more effectively. I'll be happy to create more. If you like this video, please click the like button, subscribe to my channel, hit the bell to be notified whenever I'm posting a new video every week, share this video with your friends. Thank you so much for learning from me and I'll see you in the next video. Bye!