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We often don’t think we are. Awesome. Or we vacillate between delusions of grandeur (“I’m king of the world!”) and downright self-annihilation. What if we just set the dial more in the middle? That pretty much all of us ”“ by being here on this planet, walking a walk (whichever one we’re on!) and doing the best weRead more

  Have you ever felt like you are the only one doing all the work? In relationships? In your career? In love? At your job? You look around and it seems as if everyone else is getting help and freebies and things line up for them with no effort at all. Well, at one level thisRead more

If all we want is more of you than how could you ever be wrong? Think about it. In all your artistic endeavors, what has been asked of you? As a musician, poet, painter, writer, actor, sculptor, designer, novelist, singer ”“ the same has been asked of artists throughout history. We want more of you in there.Read more

Academy Award nominee, Charlotte Rampling recently said, ”˜”˜I’ve always, since the beginning, had my antenna out, like, ”˜You can’t get me.’ It makes you more interesting when people know they can’t get you.’’ She should know. She’s been in the business for over 45 years, made over 100 films and TV projects and started in the business whenRead more

Be yourself. We hear that all the time now from self-help books to TV shows, in songs and philosophies, indeed, even in the foundation of what it is I’ve been teaching actors for almost 20 years. Being yourself is all we can ever be. To think we will ever be anything but ourselves is not only pointless, butRead more

They say when you assume you make an ass out of you and me. Well that’s for sure. But we still do it all the time. We get tiny parcels of information about things and then immediately fill in the blank based on our own stories. We jump to conclusions created out of our own limited understandingRead more

If you’re reading this you’ve probably graduated from the 3rd grade. That means there’s no going back. That’s a good thing. You got your lessons and are moving on up. So why is it we don’t trust that the things we learned when we were at a certain phase in life have stayed with us? Life isRead more

I was in Fiji a couple weeks ago enjoying the clear blue skies and equally clear blue waters, not a care in the world, when I looked at myself in the hotel mirror. Womp Womp. Cue Horror Music! Who the hell put those there? And why? Why would they do this and destroy an otherwise amazing vacation?Read more

There are many. It’s conditional. We equate love (receiving it more than giving it, but sometimes that too) with an absurd non-mathematical equation: If I do this, I’ll be loved. If I don’t do that, I won’t. It’s illusory. The premise that perfectionism is built on is faulty. That is; there’s something fundamentally wrong with us that needsRead more

Our bodies sustain us. They carry around our hearts and minds and hopes and dreams. They can communicate the most subtle (yet complex) feelings with the blink of an eye and a smile. They rejuvenate themselves when we slumber. They produce enough energy at times, it seems, to light up an entire city or at least get us throughRead more