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Top 5 books I recommend to actors!

  Top Five Books I Recommend I have mad respect for the masters of the craft - Meisner, Uta Hagen, Stanaslavsky, Chekhov, Strasberg, Adler, and the list goes on of amazing acting teachers over the years.  These books aren't from them, I have Uta Hagen in my top 5; but the other books are a little newer.  One isn't even an acting book, but a life book.  If you follow my blog, you have … [Read more...] about Top 5 books I recommend to actors!

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Win The Morning Part 2 – Morning Rituals

Morning Rituals Welcome to Part 2 of Win The morning   you can click on here to read Part 1. We all have things we like to do in the mornings.  Humans are creatures of habit.  We create habitual behavior.  We get up on the same side of the bed every morning.  We start the coffee pot, we use the restroom, read the paper, brush our teeth, etc., etc., etc.  You get it, we develop habits in life; … [Read more...] about Win The Morning Part 2 – Morning Rituals

Morning Mashup – Live your life for you, no one else.

Live your life for you. Mistakes are ok! Life can become so much about other people's opinions, experiences, and we don't even realize it. We shape our entire world on other people's experiences and opinions of life. We are shaped growing up by learned or reactionary behavior that eventually just becomes every day life... To not give a flying Fidget spinner, about what people think of you is … [Read more...] about Morning Mashup – Live your life for you, no one else.

Morning Mashup – Creating Space

Morning Mashup - You need space. In our world today our minds are 24/7, even when we sleep we cannot turn off the busy or stressed mind.  Letting go can be the hardest things to do.  We have spent our whole life learning to worry and stress over things, we have been taught that the only way to success is hard work, and suffering.  Now, while I am not discouraging hard work, I am also asking … [Read more...] about Morning Mashup – Creating Space

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