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Hi, my name is Angie
Miller with AFFA.

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And I'm so glad you
joined me here today

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for more education,
motivation, and tips

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to take our teaching
to the next level.

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So I'm traveling here in New
Zealand for a couple of weeks.

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And that's where I'm
filming right now.

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Behind me is Lake Wakatipu.

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It is a glacier fed
leg in New Zealand.

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So I'm here in Queenstown.

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It's absolutely beautiful.

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And that's what I want to talk
to you about, is traveling.

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And how I believe
traveling has helped

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me to become a better teacher.

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And hopefully, with
any luck, traveling

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has helped me to
become a better person.

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So I want to talk
about five things

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that I've gained
from traveling that I

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bring into the classroom.

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And number one is acceptance.

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I truly believe that the more
I travel, the more and I gain

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an appreciation for how unique
and how individual we all are.

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And that is acceptance
without judgment.

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That is a true appreciation
for all of those differences.

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And I bring that
into the classroom

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when I lead my group
fitness classes.

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Because my goal is
to build acceptance

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by building community.

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But also to create
an environment

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of total inclusiveness, not
in spite of our differences,

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but because of them.

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To celebrate those differences
and to get a true appreciation

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for accepting one another for
who we are exactly as we are.

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And so the second thing that
I've learned through traveling

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is patience.

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Oh, my gosh, the long
lines, the traffic,

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all of the unexpected events
that happens, big crowds.

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And I think that teaching
requires a lot of patience.

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Right?

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When you lead large
groups of people,

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you have difficult members, you
have music that doesn't work,

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we forget our
choreography sometimes.

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And patience is the only path to
find our way through resistance

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and challenges.

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OK?

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So number three, the third
thing that I've gained

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from traveling, is flexibility.

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Flexibility to go
with the flow, and I

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know that goes right
along with patience.

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But so many times when
we are traveling-- so,

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my luggage was delayed by a day.

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So traveling to New
Zealand is long.

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It took three different flights.

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It was more than 24
hours, the traveling.

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And then I get
here and my luggage

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doesn't arrive for a day.

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So I end up walking around
what would effectively

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be three full days with
the same clothing on.

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So when we travel, we
need to be flexible.

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We need to go with the flow.

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But when we lead large
groups of people,

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we also need to be flexible.

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Sometimes we set
out with a plan.

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And we think that
that's the plan

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that we're going to follow.

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But we totally have to
adjust and change the plan

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because it isn't working.

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And flexibility
is all about being

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willing to adjust our plan.

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The fourth thing that I've
learned through traveling

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is perspective.

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So the more that I travel,
the more that I get out

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of my own world, my own worries.

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And I realize that
there's so much

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more out there to experience
and to see and to discover.

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So my name is Angie Miller.

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And those are my tips to
help you take your skill

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set wherever it is that you go.

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Thank you for joining me today.

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Keep doing what you love
and loving what you do.