What's In Your Bones?

I did something today I haven't done in a long time - I judged a cheerleading competition - and for the first time in a long time, I felt totally in my element.

Well, okay, not totally. Full disclosure - as a former dance team chick, I was a smidge out of my element...but while I never tumbled or stunted, the basic concepts are the same. I can judge a cheer routine for overall elements - synchronization, crowd appeal, creativity, and showmanship - and leave the really technical stuff to judges with the cheer background.

But I digress - my point is, it just felt so good to be back in that whole cheer/dance team world again. Pre-princesses, I was blessed enough to travel all over the world dancing. I danced and cheered at some of the most amazing games the Arkansas Razorbacks ever played in football and basketball. I was honored to spend ten years with the group that's the gold standard for high school, college and all-star dance teams - Universal Dance Association. I even spent a few years as choreographer and coach for a couple of St. Louis high school teams, and we had a pretty good track record.

(For those of you thinking "what the heck is this dance team thing she's talking about?" check this out - or if you're a fan of "So You Think You Can Dance?" it's like the opening numbers, but with more synchronization.)

Anyway, here's what I'm really trying to say - I feel dance in my bones. It's just home to me. It's something that I feel supremely comfortable with and confident in - I know it, I know how to do it, I know how to fix it if it's not working - and having that feeling with something you do is just amazing. To me, it's as natural as breathing.

PR is not natural to me. I'm comfortable doing it, and I'm confident in my abilities, but I've had to work really hard at it - and I still work hard at it every day. I love that PR makes me push myself and grow professionally, but I don't know that I'll ever have the comfort level that I had - and I think always will have - with dance. Every dance I create or clean is a new challenge, and it's hard work, but it's work I know in my soul I can just do. I can't explain it, other than to say it's in my bones.

What's in your bones? For what activity do you have that kind of comfort level? What do you feel you were born to do?