4 Lessons Dance Can Teach You About Growing a Successful Business

I love to dance. It’s such a great outlet for self-expression, while being active. It's just so much fun! The 6 years I spent dancing in a dance theatre in Poland were the best years of my teens. My daughter loves it too and is way better at it at 10 than I ever was.

I have to say with Covid, dancing opportunities have been scarce (except living room sessions with my 7-year old son :)) and I forgot how much I missed it. Last month I had one and it reminded me of valuable lessons dance taught me.

I use some of them in my business and while coaching my clients and today I want to share four of them with you.

1. Know the basics. 

To be a professional dancer rather than a hobbyist you need to learn the key principles of dance technique. Whether it's ballet, hip hop, or ballroom, without knowing the basic steps and moves you won’t go far.

Same with your business, you might get some clients from your immediate network and by talking to people, and that’s a great start! Like movement to the rhythm is a great start for dancing.

But to gain consistency and really scale your business to the professional level, you MUST learn some basic skills in marketing, sales, finance, etc. 

2. Practice, practice, practice. 

Nothing happens without action – consistent action.

It’s repeating the same moves over and over again, day in and day out. To do that, you grow patience. Because in the beginning, your moves (results) can be clunky, won’t flow well and you’ll be tired. Sometimes even discouraged.

But when you persist, you’ll start mastering them. The moves will start flowing with ease to the point where learning a new choreography (strategy or tactic) comes naturally and fast.

Until one day you become a professional without even realizing it. And to the outside eye, your expertise looks effortless. 

3. To achieve mastery learn to express yourself. 

The skills, action, and consistency form the foundation. Without them, you can never call yourself a professional dancer (the CEO of your business, expert to your clients).

Without them, you’re a hobbyist. 

However, to become a master you need a little bit more. 

You need YOU. 

Dance is a form of art. To create a masterpiece, the artist needs to express their emotion, be vulnerable, show themselves to the world for the world.

So that the audience can really SEE their art.

The same applies to your business. You attract your BEST clients by being YOU. By being authentic and expressing it through your marketing and branding.

4. You need great teachers to help you with everything above. 

There is no professional dancer who has risen to where they are all on their own. They have been blessed with the teachers and coaches who stood by them every single step of their journey.

Those teachers taught them what they knew, encouraged, picked up when they lost confidence, motivated, and help them rise to their full potential.

It’s the same with your businesses. All highly-successful entrepreneurs had mentors, coaches, and advisors along the way in their journeys. They were their teaches helping with achieving mastery.

Having great mentors helped me grow in my past cooperate career and now is helping me grow my business. When you feel supported, it's safe to be bold.

How about you? Do you have a mentor/ coach supporting you? Are you giving back by supporting others?

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!