Dance Your Best Life

“I used to have dreams and goals for myself! Nowadays my life seems to revolve around dancing to the tunes of others. I have precious little time for myself and find it very difficult to say “no!” to colleagues, family and friends. I dance to many tunes all at once: motherhood, lover, employee, friend, daughter, sister, boss, counsellor, cook, cleaner, wife, and more! The sad thing is that I have danced to the tunes of others for such a long time that I have almost forgotten my own music; my dreams, skills and desires feel like they are drowned out forever. I feel tired, worn out and I hardly even know what my music is anymore…”

Dancing ’Round the Handbags’® is a more than a self-development book for hard-working women, it is a catalyst for changing and balancing the way we work and live.

Using the metaphor of the ‘handbag’ and the ‘dance’, coach, public speaker and Brit Writers’ Award winning author Lynne Copp helps you to dance your best life.

The Dance is a metaphor for what you do each day; dance to the tunes of others. The multiple roles of mother, wife, boss, friend, daughter, colleague etc. means that you are so busy dancing to the tunes of others that you have little time to dance to your own dreams, aspirations and potential; your own music.

The World of Work Is Changing

The Handbag in this book is a metaphor for you. For example, The Mirror chapter explores your image; how you see yourself, The Lipstick chapter explores how you mask stress (‘put on a brave face’).

By reviewing your dances and de-cluttering your handbag, you will return to the dance floor of life, to dance to the tunes that you want to dance to.

The working environment and its demands for ‘more with less’ is putting untold pressure on women and some are in danger of wearing themselves out if change doesn’t take place in the way we run our organisations, as well as our lives”. It is no longer appropriate to run our businesses using out of date management practices that focus on performance at the expense of engagement, flexibility and all other aspects of a modern working culture.

‘Dancing ‘Round the Handbags’ supports women to dance to their own music, whilst maintaining balance between work and life.

Balance is our natural state of being; it is the meeting point of two complementary opposites in the dance of life.