Do you ever feel stuck? Trapped? Like one of those old-school cartoons where your feet are spinning fast but you remain standing in one place? (Cue sound effect.) Or maybe you feel like you keep returning to a point in life you thought you had departed from years ago. Or maybe you’ve just been feeling for aRead more
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What Alan Rickman & David Bowie Taught Us About Acting. We lost two greats from the acting and music world last week. Their insights about creativity and how to be a bad-ass will be missed. David Bowie and Alan Rickman. I thought it was worth sharing some of their inspiring words to help us have greater creativeRead more
How to Win Back Your Power We’ve all been there. In a meeting, negotiating what we want, during an interview or even sometimes in personal relationships. Something is said that makes us lose our centeredness (sometimes for a second, sometimes irreparably) ”“ and we no longer engage in that interaction from a place of empowerment. We start doubtingRead more
Acting, Being an Artist, Empowering You, Fear and Failure, Just Say Yes | 0 comment | 11 January, 2016 | 0
6. Worse Case Scenario Exercise. If you were to do the one thing you knew you had to do to get where you wanted to go, what’s the worst thing that could happen? I mean the absolute worst thing? Go ahead and think through the worse case scenario in detail. For example: Let’s say you getRead more
7 Ways to Re-think your Career (and Life) in 2016 pt.1 What??! A new year is upon us already. Gulp. Forgo the resolutions (which have scientifically been proven to not ever win out!) and instead, try to take a more practical day-to-day approach to the work, your career and your life’s goals and purpose. With little stepsRead more
The Rules of Acting There aren’t any. Whatever works for you to get you into the moment and present and fully available emotionally is a way into acting. That’s life. We often doubt our natural abilities because we listen to what the “experts” say ”“ especially for years ”“ thinking that if we don’t subscribe to aRead more
As actors, you’re going to have many victories and many periods where nothing is happening, but both of these periods are essential to when you book the job. When you’re not booking, it doesn’t necessarily mean that there is something inherently wrong, or that you have to go seek out a new magic formula thatRead more
Breakthroughs. Where do they come from? What do they mean? Can you have them if you’re trying to have them? Or do they just occur when we least expect them? Breakthroughs occur in two ways. 1). Through effort. 2). By letting go. But I think they are intertwined and require a little of both. WhenRead more
Life. We’re all in it together. As we near the end of the year, here are 10 ways to set you squarely on your path for 2016, aid you on your journey, and ultimately lead you to getting what you desire in life (because you deserve it!): 1). It’s possible. We live in a worldRead more
After the Paris attacks, the Dalai Lama said, “We cannot solve this problem only through prayers. I am a Buddhist and I believe in praying. But humans have created this problem, and now we are asking God to solve it. It is illogical. God would say, ”˜Solve it yourself because you created it in theRead more