Posts made in October, 2012
In The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 291: Morning Made!
Day 291: I fire up my computer and find in my inbox an email from a lovely artist/actress friend. It reads, “I just spent a few minutes reading dreams on your site… it lifted my spirits!” My heart expands and my smile explodes. This email has just made my morning! Thank you, Lovely Artist/Actress Friend! Have I mentioned lately how much I adore the Declare Your Dream experiment and our Dream Collective? Well, I do and for just this very reason. I will now be making my way to www.SeeADream.com myself right now to get a little more of what Lovely Artist/Actress Friend is having: a spirit lift. Until tomorrow, create from what you have…spirits to lift. Kelli Joan...
Read MoreMorning Motivation — Are you directing your life?
Are you directing your life? You are the star of your own blockbuster movie! You write the script, you choose the locations, you choose your leading lady or leading man, you choose your supporting cast. You are the director. Direct your life in the direction you want it to go! Direct your health towards longevity and feeling good. Direct your relationships in a way that is right for you. Direct your finances towards security. Direct your career where you dream of it going. Direct your thoughts so they make you smile. You are in control! You decide when to say, “action.” You decide when to say, “cut.” You have so much more power than you realize. Use...
Read MoreIn The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 290: Editing Lessons
Day 290: Scene 8 is as good as I can get it for now! I need feedback from Producing Partner. This scene isn’t an introduction piece, it’s an action scene and for some reason, I hit a wall with feeling I don’t understand the pacing and dynamics of how to edit a scene like this with interview bites intercut into the reality. I need some editing lessons. And, I need to work on that because again, I’m probably not as bad at it as I think I am. We’ll see. I will have many more lessons and opportunities to work on these types of scenes—32 more opportunities to be exact. Yes, that’s right, I have 32 more scenes to edit before December 31st at 11:59pm. Gulp. Today is...
Read MoreMorning Motivation — Are you following your light?
Are you following your light? In a world where advertising of what you don’t have, the salacious, the bad, the ugly, the underbelly of human nature bombard you, it’s easy to be scared. It’s easy to feel less than. It’s easy to complain. It’s easy to compare. It’s easy to compete. It’s easy to let your anger out. It’s easy to judge. It’s easy to see the worst-case scenario. What if you choose to stop falling victim to it? What if you choose to focus on the positive instead of the negative? What if you choose to focus on the solution instead of the problem? What if you choose to look for the answer instead of being lost in the question? What if you...
Read MoreIn The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 289: Let’s do this week!
Day 289: Okay, it’s time to get serious. It’s time to get focused. It’s time to edit scene 8! Now, the good thing about this scene is the reality of the scene is pretty much done already. What I’ll be focusing on today is layering in interview narration of the scene. I can do that! I also need to read a new guest writer’s first draft of her article she just sent me. I’m very excited to be adding some new voices to the site in the next few weeks. Woo hoo! More to come soon. Happy Monday! Oh how I love Mondays. We can make anything we want out of the week ahead! It’s so exciting, don’t you think? Let’s kick some serious ass this week and create...
Read MoreMorning Motivation — What matters?
What matters? Stop right now. Take a deep breath. Take another one. Get your bearings. Calm your core. Center yourself. Plant both feet on the ground. Feel into your heart. Take another deep breath. Now, what matters? Do that. What are you going to create?...
Read MoreIn The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 288: Officially Slowing Down
Day 288: It has taken the last four days but my motor is finally idling instead of revved up. I definitely need to rev up excitement and energy to get my creative editing done but it’s different than pulling off very public appearances and events. It’s a more focused, calm, quieter energy that I need to draw from to do my writing and editing work. And after a month of going non-stop 100 miles an hour, I’m happy to officially slow down and quiet my mind and get into a different kind of creative state. I’m ready for that almost meditative zone that comes from focusing on one project and one project only. I’m ready for some flow. I can feel that I’m almost there. ...
Read MoreMorning Motivation — Who are you?
Who are you? Instead of letting your family, your friends, reality TV, celebrities, fashion, trends or society tell you who you are, figure it out for yourself! Free from labels, attachments or ideas of who you think you should be, figure out who you really are—at your core essence. You are so much more than what anyone else thinks of you! You are not someone else’s idea. You are not an object. You are not a statistic. You are not a punch line to someone else’s joke. Dig deep into your heart and find out what’s in there. Don’t be afraid to discover yourself. Step into all of who you are. Live your truth. Discover you. Know yourself. Create from who you...
Read MoreIn The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 287: Slow restart but still, a start!
Day 287: So technically, I’m done with scene 6 and scene 7. I say technically because I really could edit more on both of them and I might. But for now, I’m saying I’m technically done with them and moving onto scene 8 today. I gotta pick up my pace! But, at the same time, I MUST do good work. I know I said this during the last edit crusade and it was true then and it also applies to this one: this edit pass is crucial and key to actually having a completed documentary film. In other words, if I don’t take this pass and take it well, we will never finish! Dramatic? Yes. But nonetheless true. I can’t say I got in a good groove yesterday. There was no real...
Read MoreFeatured Dream of the Week: “To live financially free in a simple life!”
Each Friday, the Declare Your Dream Experimental Motivation Project features one of the declared dreams in the experiment. The goal is to highlight the dream and put collective positive energy towards the dream manifesting for the Dreamer. This week’s featured dream was the 13th Dream to arrive in the experiment. DREAM PRAYER Light to focus on why your Dream matters to you. Light to take action towards your Dream. Light to never give up on your Dream. Light for your Dream to manifest. With love and belief in you and your dream, The Declare Your Dream Community To get motivated to Declare Your Dream and to take action towards making your Dream...
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