Life is designed to bring up your stuff. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. We can avoid it. We can deny it. We can ignore it. But eventually, we see that to get to where we want to go, we have to work through the stuff we’d rather step around. There’s never around. There’sRead more
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Not unlike the DreamWorks movie, if you want to make your Dragon work for you, you first have to know you have one. Once upon a time, we were given a travel companion to help us navigate through life’s travails. As we grew, so did our Ego Dragon: by processing information, evaluating situations, making judgmentsRead more
The experiences we are looking for in the world seem to show up out there. They might be in the form of getting a girlfriend or booking a job or going on a cruise or getting an agent. But what they really represent is the feeling you are looking for (and actually already possess) insideRead more
Judith Lasater, a wonderful yoga teacher and writer, tells a story about “selling the goat.” It’s a metaphor for taking a step back and gaining perspective on your life when a situation is troublesome or stressful and it’d be helpful to see it with a new pair of eyes. She suggests, “selling the goat” –Read more
We all have great ideas. Inspired light bulb moments. Thoughts fueled by creativity and intuition. Brilliant flashes of genius that reside within us but are connected to something much larger than ourselves. And then we THINK about them. (Don’t do that!) Over and over. And again and again. The more we think about the originalRead more
It’s a great story. A sixteen-year old girl gets discovered sipping a strawberry shake at Schwab’s pharmacy. (Actually, it might be a myth-within-a-myth because some people say she wasn’t even at Schwab’s. See how illusions prosper!) Anyway. That story creates the unhealthy myth association within each actor’s psyche that when they move to LA they’reRead more
You are! Duh. Except that you don’t see yourself that way. You see yourself through the dirty mirror of the left-brain’s Maddening Mind Matrix. That is, when life gives us a big fat “No!” – which it will invariably do if you’re out in the world pursuing your dreams – we personalize the “No” inRead more
As actors, the conduit through which we tell stories and express is through feeling. But it’s often hard to access deep feeling when our lives become a defensive gesture in order to survive. We develop a thick armor around us as a means of self-preservation. I get it. If you’ve been made fun of forRead more
What is the manifesto of your life? What are you saying with your life? If you had to leave tomorrow; what are you leaving behind? Start paying attention to the narrative you are weaving through your words, actions and thoughts. If you don’t like your story; start telling a new one. If you don’t likeRead more
Start looking at your life in context. You might get some valuable insight: You’re doing just fine! Actually you’re doing better than fine. (I’m taking a page from Helena Bonham Carter, who now makes her husband, director Tim Burton, compliment her when they’re working together. “He has to give me a good compliment, which isn’tRead more