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Dreams on Spec

I found a wonderful article that was perfect for the screenwriting blog but because it has examples of great stories about perserverance and triumph for whatever your dream is, I've decided to include it here. This is more evidence to never give up on your dreams! Ever! Peace, Love and Happiness, N. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dreams on Spec By Daniel Snyder I was sitting in a well-furnished office on the 20th Century Fox lot, asking James L. Brooks (“Terms of Endearment,” “As Good as It Gets,” “Broadcast News”) about the art and craft of screenwriting. “I never knew anybody,” he was saying, “who ever got a Writers Guild card who didn’t have a hard time when somebody said, ‘What do you do for a living?’ saying, ‘I’m a writer.’ Your voice always catches on ‘a writer,’” Brooks said. “From the earliest stages, it’s what your secret thought was that you wanted to be and what of course you knew was impossible to be.” Brooks was ...

Are you living your dream?

I was thinking, can you really live your dream if you are not working in your dream job? Let's face it, we all have to work in some capacity or another. It's in our nature to be productive in some way. Those who are retired still find ways to spend their time whether it's through volunteer work or community service. What about the rest of us? I ask you, are you working in your dream job? Is working outside of what you were truly meant to do a total waste of time especially if the work is unsatisfying, unpleasant, boring or just je ne sais quoi? These are questions that we all should be asking ourselves. I found this article and thought it may be worth pondering. Top 10 Reasons Why You Must Have Your Dream Job by Joel Garfinkle, Dream Job Coaching 1. Allows You To Be Your True Self All of The Time It takes a tremendous amount of energy to step into a false persona for work and not be your true self. Your dream job will enable you to not be “Jekyll and Hyde” but will allow yo...

Quote of the Week

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." ~ Unknown

Quote of the week

All dreams appear impossible until someone else makes them happen. - Unknown

ABCs of Success

Even if you didn't meet all your goals in 2007, you can still knock them out in 2008. Hope you enjoy these ABC's for success. ABC's for Success by Jewel Diamond Taylor Avoid negative people, places and habits. Believe in yourself. Distance yourself from those who belittle and discourage you. Clutter hinders efficiency. Get rid of any clutter in your home, work space and the emotional clutter in your mind and spirit. Develop financial intelligence and discipline. Save and spend wisely. Endure the tough times. Don't give up! Trouble don't last always. Family and friends are a treasure. Spend more time with those who matter. Good character is wealth. Be someone other people can respect and depend on. Health is a precious gift. Make some form of exercise, healthy eating, water and reduction of sugar, salt and fatty foods a life style priority. Invest in your future, because that is where you will be the rest of your life. Just do what matters. Remain focused on ...

Design Your Ideal Life

Before you even begin to design your ideal career, you need to design your ideal life. Most people set goals that are much too small because they don't believe something bigger and better is possible. Now is the time to go beyond your current limitations and beliefs and find out what you really want to do in life. The biggest mistake people make is trying to design their lives around their careers. It really works much better the other way around. Start by designing your ideal life and then figure out what sort of career would support it. Most of my clients find it isn't so easy to design an ideal life. I'm giving you a blank slate, and you can invent absolutely anything you want. Where do you want to live? Who do you want to be? What would a normal day look like? Now describe your ideal life in glowing and vivid detail. You can write it down in a journal or draw pictures. If you aren't much of an artist or writer, you can cut and paste magazine pictures. You get the id...

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Coachfucious will give you access to a new kind of power. The power to make the impossible happen. Coachfucious will coach you to declare an impossible future and design a structure for fulfillment that will help you to reach it. Coachfucious helps you to step back so that you can see the big picture and give you a new perspective in your life, career, personal relationship or whatever you desire. Today is not the first day of the rest of your life. Yesterday was. Live authentically, Coachfucious www.coachfucious.com