Life is about shortening the gap between where we are and where we’d like to be. In all aspects. Think about it. You want to get healthier or lose weight. You want to have a more committed spiritual practice. You want to be more creative and book more creative work. The only way you’re goingRead more
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The answer to everything you are up against in life is. . . well. . . you. Or rather, you hold the answers to all your questions. But in order to access them, you have to ask different questions that require you to express your needs. Why is this so hard for us? Why areRead more
When I was a kid growing up in Indiana, I’d spend my summers collecting live bugs. There were acres of woods behind my house and empty fields full of more insects than you could imagine. Much to my mom’s disapproval, I’d grab empty canning jars from our basement, poke holes in the lids and goRead 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
As any follower of yoga will tell you — it’s all about the practice. But Patañjali – the founder of the yoga sutras more than 2,000 years ago believed that yoga was a metaphor for life itself. All of life is practice. Not just yoga. Or an acting class. Or practicing the piano. Or runningRead more
Life isn’t a destination. There’s nowhere to get to. Once you get married or book your TV show or win your award or buy your house or any of the number of things you desire as the end goal, you’ll discover that once you have them, your life is still the same. Sure, the external,Read more
That really says it all. In life and in our acting — the goal is to be fully expressed. We rarely allow ourselves to do this on a moment-to-moment basis because we become prisoners of our own minds criticizing us, judging us, telling us what is appropriate and keeping us playing safe. So we endRead more
We expend so much energy trying to look good, maintain control, focus on the end results, micro-manage and worry about things that are insignificant, that we lose the ability to be fully expressed, liberated and free in the moment. You’ve got to stop caring how you think other people think of you. The truth isRead 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