Posts made in March, 2012

Day 71: Spring Forward

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Day 71:  Spring Forward

Day 71.  This day flew by!  Of course it did, I lost an hour.  Is it just me or does daylight savings time seem to be here early this year?  Doesn’t it usually happen in April?  I don’t know.  It’s always a surprise to me when it shows up.  I actually love having an extra hour of sunlight and I’m certainly ready to spring forward. In my mind I jump on a magical big box springs and fly forward in all of my projects.  Wheeeeee! Until tomorrow, create from what you have…an extra hour of daylight. Kelli Joan Bennett is a filmmaker, actress, writer, entrepreneur, advocate for creative thinking and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Think Outside The Box Inside The Box Media....

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Day 70: Contrasts

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Day 70:  Contrasts

Day 70.  Taxes are done.  Lines are almost memorized.  Phlegm is lessening.  It’s a gorgeous day out and I feel blessed, lucky and all around thankful.  The lingering bug definitely sucks but I wake up this morning with a lovely sense of safety and comfort and the crystal clear recognition that I have nothing to complain about.  What an entitled little brat I can be.  I need to work on that.  It’s so easy to lose sight of how good I have it the majority of the time when something shitty shows up and slows me down or stops me from getting to whatever it is I think is so damn important.  Health is what’s important.  Without it, we’re screwed.  As I think outside the box...

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Day 69: In Sickness and in Health

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Day 69:  In Sickness and in Health

Day 69.  It’s 4:08am.  I am awake with a stuffy nose and cough—a head and chest cold all in one.  This after I thought I was out of the woods.  Today is day 8 of a lingering sickness.  I thought it was over last Saturday.  The low-grade fever and sore throat were gone and I was feeling great.  But alas, my immune system did not win the battle, which is when I found myself awake in the wee hours of the morning downing a shot of Nyquil.  I don’t think the off the charts pollen count right now is helping my cause.  It seems my allergies tend to weaken my immune system to where I can get a bug easier or, it keeps my immune system down and allows a bug to last longer than it...

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Day 68: Acting in and on a Dream

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Day 68:  Acting in and on a Dream

Day 68.  I just now put my declared dream in my mailbox for the mailman to pick up today!  Not sure what the hesitation was about.  Perhaps that it seems silly to mail it to my PO box which is basically like mailing it to myself?  Although true, no, that’s not why I hesitated.  Putting it in the mail is like saying, “yes, this is a serious dream I’m going to make come true.”  It makes it official.  It makes it real.  It makes it something to actually act on.  Action is on my mind today.  Taking it, avoiding it, fearing it.  I’m in the middle of memorizing lines for a film I’m “acting” in next week and I’ve had two nights in a row of anxiety dreams. The first one I was...

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For Immediate Release

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For Immediate Release

ALEXANDRA JOAN BENNETT WRITES COLLEGE DESK COLUMN FOR THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX INSIDE THE BOX MEDIA La Crescenta, CA [March 7, 2012]  Think Outside The Box Inside The Box Media Launches College Desk Column—Articles, Interviews and Opinions from the Desk of College Freshman Alexandra Joan Bennett who is on a Quest to Find the Perfect Major and Path in Life  Think Outside The Box Inside The Box Media announced today that the column College Desk by Alexandra Joan Bennett has launched on the website. College Desk is a first-person account of the pressures and realities faced by a college student in today’s world where the astronomical costs of going to college make being...

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Day 67: Flying Time and Panic

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Day 67:  Flying Time and Panic

Day 67.  I change the counter down to 299 days.  The first thought I have when I realize I’m officially below 300 days left for my year is, “holy shit, time is running out!”  What’s interesting is I typed “Day 67” first but it didn’t feel panic inducing at all.  I should reread Day 14: The Time Paradox to remind myself of the psychological hijinks around time and the concept of it.  Most of all, I should stay calm and not panic.  Too late.  I run around the house as I scream, “there’s only 299 days left in the year!!!!  Oh my god!  There’s so much to do!  I’m never going to get done what I set out to get done.  Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!”  Okay, I feel a little better.  Now...

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Day 66: From the “Concept”

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Day 66:  From the “Concept”

Day 66.  Since the economic downturn in the Fall of 2008, I too often got stuck, felt paralyzed and powerless in life by thinking that I was missing what I needed to create, whether it was the necessary cash, willpower, resources, funding, equipment, crew, skills, support, inspiration, motivation, meaning, encouragement or passion.  “I can’t do that because I don’t have this.”  “As soon as I get this, I will do that.”  “Once FILL IN THE BLANK happens, I’ll start—or finish.”  It was always something I didn’t have that stopped me, slowed me down and kept me from creating or completing my creation. The lid was randomly blown off this limited thinking “box” I...

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Day 65: Declaring a Dream

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Day 65:  Declaring a Dream

Day 65.  I find it oddly difficult to “Declare My Dream” for the anonymous experimental motivation project.  Which is silly because it’s anonymous—no one will know which dream is mine.  I’ve already made a bold declaration of my dream of making a narrative film.  I should just do my postcard on that.  But, since I’ve already declared it, everyone will know it’s me and, I feel like I want to declare another dream, something else.  But what?  It’s not like I’m short on dreams, I have a million.  But when I wrote “I am” on the back of the postcard on Friday, that’s as far as I got.  I have stared at it ever since.  You see, I don’t want to declare just anything.  I...

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Day 64: And then there were 3!

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Day 64:  And then there were 3!

Day 64.  The next stage of development on project one has officially begun!  When this whole yearlong experiment was formulating in my mind starting back in August 2011, I had envisioned shooting the first film in February.  Obviously, that didn’t happen.  The first draft was only just delivered on February 4th.  Things are moving a bit slower than I had originally planned but they are moving forward. I connected Screenwriter Monica with Director Brenda yesterday and it was a smashing success.  Turns out that cat people and dog people can get along!  We had an epically long and lovely creative meeting in front of the fireplace on the patio of Panera in Santa Monica.  So...

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Day 63: Giddy giving thanks!

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Day 63:  Giddy giving thanks!

Day 63. You know how after you’ve been sick and you finally feel better and it’s as if you just got a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart and you’re bouncing off the walls?  Well, I’m bouncing off the walls! I’m not only feeling better but I’m bloated with gratitude as well.  What incredible people I know and have in my life and in my sphere of influence?!?!  Luck be a lady, and I be that lady, right now! Until tomorrow, create from what you have…and give thanks for it, I know I am. Kelli Joan Bennett is a filmmaker, actress, writer, entrepreneur, advocate for creative thinking and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Think Outside The Box Inside The Box Media. Follow...

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