Tag Archives: success
The Inner Battle: How To Win Every Day – Free eBook
My readers have been so good to me, I decided to give something back. I’ve made The Inner Battle: How To Win Every Day, a free download. The Inner Battle is the shortest, and hopefully the most important ebook you’ll ever read. When lived, it will give you the courage to win your inner battles […]
“Never Tell Me the Odds”
From Empire Strikes back: C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1. Han Solo: Never tell me the odds. So…what’s the point? Well first, Han Solo is the pimp-daddy of the galaxy. (I need to get me some pants like his.) But more importantly, I think Han Solo […]
Become Your Dream Self
What is your ‘Dream Self?’ It’s a concept I came up with while writing a screenplay (which was about a novelist—go figure). However, I found that it applies BIG TIME to real life. (Don’t you love my advanced writer’s vocab? I thought so.) DREAM SELF Quite simply, your dream self is you long to […]
The Continued Adventures of Boba Fett and the Importance of Never Giving Up On Your Dreams
When I was maybe 14 or 15, my brother and I began to write a novel about the continued adventures of the bounty hunter Boba Fett. I had grown up loving Star Wars (in fact, I was born less than a month after the first Star Wars movie came out.) I can’t remember who had […]
Challenges vs Resolutions
“People often make resolutions to create change, especially on New Year’s Eve. But resolutions are one of the biggest scams going—they usually don’t have staying power. You focus on what you want but often end up getting what you don’t want. Instead, why not focus on what you already have first? By focusing on the positive […]
Famous Failures
I saw this and couldn’t resist putting it on my blog. I hope one day I can have my name in a video like this. (I’ve got the failure part down, now I just need to work on the success part.) Thanks to Ryan Trimble for sharing this.
Stephen Covey’s “Self-Awareness” Turned Literal
So I’ve been keeping a video journal. I started about a week ago. I’m reading Naked Lens by Michael Sean Kaminsky, and it has you do an 8-week workshop called the “Video Regeneration.” Today, I did the exercise called “Instant Replay.” This activity involves watching your yourself in your video journal entry and taking notes. […]
Be Interdisciplinary. Like DaVinci. And Bruce Lee.
Something that’s been on my mind lately is the seemingly ever-growing list of disciplines I’ve already been pursuing and which I have recently started or re-started pursuing. Here’s a non-inclusive list: Currently Actively Pursuing: Writing Fiction (Novels) Writing Non-Fiction Screenwriting Directing Film (Fiction and Non-Fiction) Acting Editing Blogging Video Blogging Pursuing, but taking a very […]
Working out with a Celebrity Fitness Trainer has its benefits…
Special thanks to Kurt Lee Hurley, the Celebrity Fitness Trainer of Baywatch. Check out his web site here.
