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Launch of Moving Life Blog!
It’s nearly go time! I’m so excited to be quickly approaching the launch of my new blog, Moving Life Blog! My name is Nicole Crist (read more about me here) and right now I’m just finishing up the...
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My Very Un-Glamorous 2011 Word of the Year: SEED
It’s no news that New Years Resolutions just don’t work. I’ve always felt it a bit silly to begin new initiatives for personal improvement on some special, magical day. Why not just start now? Why not...
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2010 Year in Review
There have been a lot of year-end reviews out in the blogosphere, and this one will be no exception. All my favorite heroggers (my short list of hero-bloggers) have done annual re-caps to reflect and...
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It’s a New Year, Take Off Your Hat and Fix That Hat Hair!
I shrug off my coat, hoodie, and pull off my winter hat as I catch a glimpse of myself in the elevator door. EGADS! Understandably, my hair has been under a hat plus two hoods for the past hour of my...
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The 4 Big & Hairy Lessons I Learned this Christmas
Big & Hairy = Hard to Ignore Christmas time means fly time! Over the years I’ve been in a frenzy of my creative work overhead on the silks, hoop and etcetera for the holiday season. This year was...
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A Few Essential DO’s and DON’Ts of Aerial Dance Performance
I loved how just this past week there were four different aerial dance shows happening in NYC to choose from! The showcase I did go to left me itching so much it’s inspired me to write about it. So to...
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The Thriving Artists Project, THE Place To Be
Only full asses allowed! If you know me then you know I like to do things right. I like to ‘crush it.’ Give it all you’ve got or don’t do it all. I hate to ‘half-ass’ anything. Ok, I think you get the...
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On Not Staying Down When Kicked
“It’s a hard knock life, for us, it’s a hard knock life..!” As I hear the cast of ‘Annie’ singing in my head I know deep down I’ve got no right to be whining. Yes, it’s been a hard week. Yes, I wish...
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Are You Under Valuing Yourself?
I love that I get to fly with what I do, which is aerial dance. I get to figuratively fly, as in, ‘wheeee look up, there I am over your head!’ and I get to literally fly as in ‘Nicole we love you and...
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5 Minutes Late and an Exploding Kombucha
If you want to skip ahead to the moral of this story, here it is- plan ahead! The 5 minutes late part I usually leave for hot yoga about 20 minutes before class begins. It’s only a five minute walk to...
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Done is Better than Perfect
Today’s post comes from Melissa Foster, of Brilliant Life Design. I love Melissa’s blog and ezine, and when I read this article I knew I had to share it with you, my dear readers! It couldn’t come at...
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Inspiration, Meditation and Perspiration
I got a note from a reader the other day “Looking forward to future readings. It seems like your thing is inspiration, meditation and perspiration… Keep it going!” To which I replied, “I just might...
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Sustainable Creativity: A Review
I absolutely adore Michael Nobbs, the self-described artist, blogger and tea drinker. And may I add to that cake-eater too. He has a blog (and now an ebook! yay!) dedicated to his simple and delicious...
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And The Haters Fulfill Their Purpose
I was sitting drinking coffee at the airport with one of my talented aerial dancers, on our way home from an out-of-state performance engagement. This particular dancer has a tendency to ask me...
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12 Reasons to Get Your Butt to Class TODAY!
If you’ve ever wavered on whether today was the right day to go to class, this post is for you, from someone who understands! Dance class, yoga class, bikram class, aerial class, spin class, whatever...
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Introducing a new series- Knowing When You Work Best
For a long time I was getting no where fast. I was stratching my head, just downright perplexed, for months! It wasn’t until on a phone call with my mom that I had my lightbulb moment. I don’t need...
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Go Slower to Speed Up! 1 Simple Step to Keep You on the [Metaphorical] Dance...
The concept of actually slowing down to speed things up was introduced to me by my Uncle when I was about 7 yrs old. He had lured me into raking leaves in the backyard after falsely promising I would...
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You are Not Invisible, and a Moment of Gratitude
The danger of long subway rides Yesterday I took the subway to Astoria, Queens, somewhere I haven’t been in over five years. I was going to meet with an old friend, a former dancer of mine, to help...
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Biggify First, Then Get Help
Lately I’ve been trying to biggify my own self by taking on more bookkeeping clients. (For those of you who don’t know, bookkeeping is one the many hats I wear- that particular hat for nearly ten...
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On Getting Creatively UNSTUCK!
The Battle of Selves! You might have noticed that I haven’t been around (online that is) so much lately, which is not to say that I haven’t be around (offline) because in real-life I’ve been all over!...
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Techie Post: How to Remove All the Dates & Times from a Thesis WP Blog
I don’t generally write about technie stuff on here, though I may one day post on rigging for aerial dance. Ha. Today I tried to google how to remove the date and time stamps from my WordPress blog,...
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Vacation Self is Your Best Self
My mom would always say “you are your perfect self on vacation.” Meaning that without the stress of your everyday life- bills, work, rush hour traffic- you are free to let your ‘true personality’ come...
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On Finding Strength to Fly
I’ve spent the last few days in Grapevine, Texas at the Flavour Sisterhood’s annual conference, where this years theme was all about stepping out on a limb and learning you can fly. SOAR actually....
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A Safe Place Means Creative Space
Safe Place = Creative Space I recently answered a ‘question of the week’ on the wonderful 365 Days of Genius website. The question was “Is there a place where you feel most able to create?” The answer...
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You’re So Glamorous! Yah, Right.
Three weeks ago a pigeon poo-ed on my husband. And two weeks ago a rat, I repeat, A RAT, scurried across my (open-toe shoed) feet. This is NYC living at it’s finest, folks! I stopped on the street,...
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A Review: Bethenny Frankel’s ‘A Place of Yes’
When I tell you I love Bethenny Frankel’s new book, A Place of Yes, it doesn’t quite get my point across. Not fully, anyway. Let me just say I read this book with all the quickness in the world. As...
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