{"id":89,"date":"2016-10-26T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:30:26","slug":"make-it-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/make-it-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Make It Your Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you teach Pilates, you live in Joe’s shadow, whether you teach like he did or not.<\/p>\n

If you teach Pilates, you\u00a0are advancing his legacy through your own work,\u00a0whether you know anything about him or not.<\/p>\n

Making someone else’s work you own is often difficult. \u00a0It’s so difficult that we don’t need to\u00a0look beyond it\u00a0to explain the rift in the Pilates industry between the hard line classical devotees who stay true to what they believe is Joe’s work, often without having a clue what they’re doing, and the modernists who have fused and made Joe’s work contemporary, often without having a clue what they’re doing.<\/p>\n

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Unless and until you, what I call, “bring the story of your life to your work”, you’ll be selling the commodity that is “the P word” and when that happens, your efforts to position and promote yourself<\/em><\/strong> will be competing against the efforts of studios with\u00a0advertising budgets and\/or square footage and\/or equipment investments that are bigger than yours, and\/or more established than yours, who have staffs of teachers with more experience than you\/yours.<\/p>\n

When that\u00a0happens it’s really a shame\u00a0because the thing that makes it so amazing for clients\u00a0<\/strong>isn’t that you’re teaching whatever it is you’re teaching, it’s that they’re working with YOU. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do we know that it’s you, you, you\u00a0at the very center of the client experience? \u00a0Your clients are completely free to go anywhere, to work with anyone, at any time. \u00a0You don’t own them, they’re not indebted to you, their not bound in any way to you.<\/p>\n

They’re with you because of YOU!<\/p>\n

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There are other industries where creators step, in one way or another, aside giving their work over to others to interpret, to evolve, to be the starter for their own interpretation of the same thing.<\/p>\n

There are other industries where “bringing the story of your life to your work” is on display, for all to see.<\/p>\n

Paying attention to similar situations\u00a0helps us get smarter about our own realities.<\/p>\n

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Read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"kesha-article\"<\/p>\n

Watch this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"kesha-performance\"<\/p>\n

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And then watch this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"bob-it-aint-me\"<\/p>\n

Bob is absolutely a genius beyond measure and his interpretation of his own work is, without question, amazing.<\/p>\n

But there’s no dispute about the power of Kesha’s interpretation of it. \u00a0And if you read the article on what Kesha’s been going through, you’ll absolutely hear in her rendition\u00a0of “It Ain’t Me Babe” every bit of her pain, her hope, and the deepening of her gift. \u00a0Remember in the article how the author talked about her pauses? \u00a0Patience is hard to learn; Kesha’s performance of this piece let’s us know she’s learned it.<\/p>\n

Kesha has a right to interpret Bob’s work, even with Bob still alive and performing it himself.<\/p>\n

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Joe’s dead.<\/p>\n

You, and how you teach, and how you work are the only way for Joe to be relevant today.<\/p>\n

Without you, and your next client, Joe’s work will be as dead as he is.<\/p>\n

You have every right to Joe’s work – we all do.<\/p>\n

You have every right to make it your own – we all do.<\/p>\n

Then and only then will your unique talents, gifts and genius shine through.<\/p>\n

Then and only then will you have brought the story of your life to your work.<\/p>\n

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Be like Kesha and boldly perform master work, even right in front of the master or his most judgmental legacy holders.<\/p>\n

Be like Kesha and bravely make genius works your own.<\/p>\n

If you don’t, the world won’t\u00a0know\u00a0you, <\/em>and what you<\/em> can do – and neither will your clients.<\/p>\n

If you don’t, you’ll be the cover band of Pilates teachers.<\/p>\n

The world doesn’t need more impersonators of Joe, the world needs YOU!<\/p>\n

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Joe got his chance. \u00a0Make sure you get yours.<\/p>\n

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Need help? \u00a0I’m right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you teach Pilates, you live in Joe’s shadow, whether you teach like he did or not. If you teach Pilates, you\u00a0are advancing his legacy through your own work,\u00a0whether you know anything about him or not. Making someone else’s work you own is often difficult. \u00a0It’s so difficult that we don’t need to\u00a0look beyond it\u00a0to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-development","category-same-same-same-only-different","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}