Expanding Our Views: One Month at a Time vol. 17
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The Month to Manifest

The theme for January is about action steps to take based on the intentions that were set last month. I also call this "manifesting my future". My belief is this: while I do not think I can simply 'wish things into existence', I do believe that if I set specific intentions I will be more inclined to take hold of opportunities when they present themselves.
 
 

Last month I focused on what my dreams were. This month I am coming up with steps to take toward making them a reality. Join me!
 
 
 

The Process

To read more about the process I've come up with, proceed to my website. I've outlined the main points below:

- Accept where you're at right now. You will be more productive if you start from a place of compassion with yourself.

- Be prepared to work hard and put in the effort, but know that it's okay to enjoy the ride. The point of life is to enjoy it. If everyday is solely blood, sweat and tears then what will happen when you reach the destination and realize you missed out on years of joybecause you weren't paying attention? (Keep in mind there is a difference between loving the hard work you do and dragging your feet everyday, miserable and exhausted but feeling you need to keep torturing yourself in order to be "successful")

- Make lists. Seeing it in front of you puts the work into perspective. Be organized and it will make the tasks less daunting.

- If you can jump right into it your action steps, great! However, if you need to, start slow and steady working on the most important task(s) first.

- Celebrate and give yourself credit each time you complete a task.
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Thoughts as We Enter the New Year

I came across this site and felt it was a great thing to include. The site link is at the bottom, but what I found most powerful is pasted below.

(A quick note about the serendipitous nature of my life: Rainer Maria Rilke was a poet and my sister gave me a book of his many years ago. There is one passage in particular that touched me so deeply I will never forget it. Only while I was cutting & pasting this article did I realize the author mentioned the name Rilke in his introduction (not included here). I clicked the link and when I saw the quote he was alluding to I genuinely burst into tears. I had never seen or heard the quote outside of Rilke's book, and here I was looking at it in bold lettering across my computer screen.)

5 Questions for "Crossing the Threshold" [into a new year]      

• How can I let go of my need for fixed answers in favor of aliveness?
• What is my next challenge in daring to be human?
• How can I open myself to the beauty of nature and human nature?
• Who or what do I need to learn to love next? And next? And next?
• What is the new creation that wants to be born in and through me?

We look with uncertainty to the year ahead. But if we wrap our lives around life-giving questions — and live our way into their answers a bit more every day — the better world we want and need is more likely to come into being.

Happy New Year, everyone! May 2015 be a year of light and life for you and yours. And may we help make it so for others with whom we share this ride.
The Website
 
 
 

Those tenacious thoughts that just won’t go away should be viewed by you as intention talking to you, saying, “You signed up to express your unique brilliance, so why do you keep ignoring it?”
 
 
 

An Anecdote

I have no idea how, but somehow I landed on a mailing list for a studio that holds workshops where you can pay a fee and be seen by various casting directors, agents and managers. This may seem like a ridiculous and unethical concept to some, but the fact is that there is just no other way to be seen by these people. If you choose who you see carefully enough (and do a good job with your monologue/scene), there is a very real possibility of something positive coming out of it. Some studios are insanely priced and truthfully it's insulting, but some are quite reasonable. The one I began getting emails from was reasonable (although granted I had never heard of it before).

What was most interesting to me, was that I wasn't getting emails about just ANY workshop, but specifically their Commercial Casting Director mini forum. I had set some pretty strong intentions about booking a commercial, so while it took a few days of deciding, I finally signed up. I realized this was a huge opportunity and I would be silly to let $100 stand in the way of meeting 3 CDs that I really wanted to get in front of.
 
 
 

The feedback I received from each one was incredible and I was grateful I had gotten the chance to make initial contact. In the end, I'm not sure if the night could have gone any better and I made sure to send thank you notes the next day. I now have 3 commercial casting directors who know me personally and can use this as ammunition when contacting agents.

At the end of the night there was, of course, a deal if you signed up on the spot for another one. I was so pleased with the layout of the forum (discussion, audition, 3 mins of feedback in front of each CD), and felt that I got so much value out of it, that it was a no-brainer for me. I am now signed up for the pilot season Casting Director forum at the end of January, and I'm very much looking forward to it. Step by step, bit by bit, patience and persistence.

This is my example of how setting intentions can cosmically and energetically open us up to the opportunities that will make them a reality. Yes, these things cost money, but that's the whole reason I work! So that I can make money to spend toward what I'm passionate about creating.
 
 
 

My feelings about the pharmaceutical industry, wrapped up in this quote:
 

"Now, a new federal database shows that many of the doctors who were the top billers for Lucentis were also among the highest-paid consultants for Genentech, earning thousands of dollars to help promote the drug. The data raises questions about whether financial relationships between doctors and drug companies influence treatment decisions, even though physicians maintain they cannot be swayed."  

Oh, it raises questions does it!  Huh, fancy that. There is quite a bit more to this story, and darn good reason for there to be "questions raised".
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