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Find Your Courage to Lead… at the movies
Courage is a call to action — one that creative leaders never, ever ignore. Leadership directs change. Leadership drives growth. And Leadership generates success by overcoming the fear of failure. All because true Leaders build the courage to make decisions and accept the responsibility for their choices, alone. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain – ADMIT ONE – Think about the last time you went to the movies. Everybody goes to the movies to have a good time, to be entertained for a few hours, to experience the thrills, chills, loss, and love of an adventurous life. But did you…
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Build Mutual Respect with the Skills of Sherlock Holmes
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated. -Sherlock Holmes, The Reigate Puzzle Sherlock Holmes was known for many things, including strong leadership, quick wit, and a phenomenal acting ability. But, his most famous quality was deductive reasoning from astute observation. And he began almost every case by meeting someone new. Someone who had just experienced a horrific event. Someone whose trust Sherlock had to earn. Someone who had to believe Sherlock could and would help them. Respect…
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How To Ask the Wizard of Oz for Luscious Abs & Stronger Inverts
Do you want stronger, more controlled inverts? Do you hate doing boring ab crunches but want the healthy core necessary for advanced pole tricks? I’ve got the answer. The secret to sexy, powerful abs that WILL give you a beautiful, flowing, seamless invert is something called the Full Hurricane. This awesome and deeply sensual movement shares its roots with every inherently feminine dancing style, whether its Belly Dancing, African Dance, or Exotic Stripping. It is undeniably erotic, engaging, and has plenty of playful variations (which I’ll talk about in a minute). “Todo, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” – Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz Before you can…
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Make Decisions the Way Mother Goose Taught You
Sometimes its hard to make the right decision. You’re afraid to take a step forward and make a big mistake. You don’t want to waste the time and effort trudging down the wrong path. You search and search for the RIGHT answer but you end up with more indecision than you started with. Plus, the situation keeps changing. The path you were 75% sure of three days ago has completely changed and now you’re back to a 50/50 chance of picking the right way. Or worse. You find yourself in an endless circle of doubt…. “Ring Around the Rosies Pockets Full of Posies Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.” -Mother…
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Get Rid of Shyness & Dance with Confidence
Is your dancing inhibited? Do you get anxious when performing in front of a group, even in your pole class? Are you afraid to dance for you lover? Are you afraid to dance in front the mirror? Make A Wish You’re not alone. Many of my beginner students are afraid to let go of their inhibitions and express their sensual nature through movement. And one of my readers recently asked “I was wondering if you had any advise on getting over the whole embarrassing/shy thing.” Happily, overcoming your performance anxiety is absolutely possible for everyone. And the best part is that, the confidence you gain while dancing will propagate into…
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How The Matrix Can Help You Discover Your Life Purpose
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re wasting your life? Running in circles, forever busy, but never getting anything of consequence done? You know that if you could just figure out what you SHOULD be doing with your life, you would finally feel the passion and motivation that’s been missing. “You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.” -Morpheus from The Matrix What you’re looking for is your purpose. And…
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Create a Meaningful Life
How can you know what really matters in life? How can you know if what you are doing is what you are meant to do? How can you know if what you are doing has any meaning at all? The short answer is this… What matters in life is to know the meaning of life. And the most powerful way to know something is to create it. So what matters in life is to create the meaning of your life. If that seems a little confusing, here’s the long answer…. Your Meaning vs Their Meaning First, what you are doing does have meaning. Your life will always mean something. But…
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Get Rid of The Blues, or even Reds or Greens
Do you ever find yourself in a Blue Mood? You can’t seem to shake that sad feeling and you just want to wallow around in it. Maybe you’re absolutely green with jealousy that you got passed over for that promotion. Or perhaps your seething red with anger? Turning purple from withheld passion? Face ashen gray with fear? Walking around under a black cloud? Sometimes you feel permeated by a color that fills you up and eats at your bones. (okay maybe that’s a bit harsh, but you get the picture). When the mood is too hard to fight off, embrace it instead. By embracing the mood, you stop wasting energy…
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Recipe for A Leap of Faith
“Regrets can hold you back and can prevent the most wonderful things from taking place in your lives.” –Eileen Caddy A Leap of Faith is like making spaghetti sauce. You cut up and prepare a bunch of different vegetables and spices, add each ingredient to a huge pot, and let the flavors meld together until it finally turns into sauce. In the beginning, you don’t have sauce, you’ve just got a pot of vegetables. And there is really no way to know exactly how long you have to let everything cook together before the sauce is done. Sure, you know it’ll take an hour or so, depending on your Aunt…
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Express True Love
“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it” — Thaddeus Golas Love It’s elusive, awe inspiring, and in the context of creativity, absolutely essential to the true expression of your art. In the creative form, love exposes the artist to the world. Your fears, your joys, and even your sanity are on display. You cannot hide. But love also gives back to you, the artist, with a deeper sense of acceptance. You may find acceptance from your friends or family, lovers or strangers, but only with True Love can you find acceptance of yourself. A Garden Path So how can you ensure that each word you write, each picture…
