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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

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

What to do When You Feel “Stuck” in Life I’m stuck. No you’re not. You don’t understand. I’m really stuck. What makes it seem like you’re stuck is your insistence that you are. It’s true we travel through different phases in life ”“ some that seem to last a very long time, and others thatRead 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

When we’re on the outside looking in, when we compare ourselves to others, when we listen to the glossy, photo-shopped stories the media feeds us about people who’ve “made it,” we often feel like there’s something wrong with us. We lack what other people have. I remember early on during my spiritual path when IRead more

EVERYTHING you want is in the Unknown. We’re not taught the physics of creativity so we listen to the pseudo-self (our Ego) — which tells us that the unknown is a scary and unsafe place to be. And it tries to prevent us from going there. But a deeper part of us craves the unknown,Read 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

James Cameron said that. And he should know. He made PIRANHA II. Absolute 1981 trash. But if he’d given up after such a dismal failure he would have never created AVATAR. Indeed, his future successes were born out of his early failures. Fail. That may seem counter to what we’ve all been taught, but onlyRead more

Long before I wanted to be an actor/writer/director/teacher, I wanted to be a cheerleader. Yes! A cheerleader. Suffice to say, that dream was shot down quicker than you can say, “Gimme an A!” I grew up in the Midwest and back then the only thing scarier for a boy wanting to be an actor wasRead more