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- ***Are Outrageous Outbursts Now an Effective PR Tool? Oh My! - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" - Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz The media is filled with bizarre tales of rude and downright bizarre behavior that was once exhibited by self-loathing attention seeking narcissists and now may be used as a clever inexpensive tool for massive publicity. In ...
Views: 1471(3 votes) - FEAR - The Gift Its Good For - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteFEAR - The Gift Its Good For We all know there is healthy rational fear. We protect ourselves from raging fires, stampeding bulls and any real threat to our existence. When the danger passes so does our fear. We shake it off as a duck shakes off water. And we move on. There's a ...
Views: 1470(1 vote) - *** Intention Has Power: 5 Steps to Powerful Intention - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite“Unless you marry intention to action, you end up with only a brief affair.” - author unknown Many people fill their days with thoughts of who they want to be, what they want to do and what they want to have. "I want financial freedom. I want a new car. I want to take a vacation this year. I ...
Views: 1462 - In Transition? The Dr. House Answer to: Now What? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteOne of my favorite TV Shows is House, M.D., about a brutally honest brilliant, irreverent and controversial doctor who trusts no one. While devoid of any bedside manner, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles in order to save lives. The title role is masterfully played by ...
Views: 1459 - *** How to Discover True Nature vs. Conditioned Nurture - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteThe most empowering question anyone can ask of a child, or even an adult, is "Who do you want to be when you grow up?" A child will respond with wide-eyed wonderment and enthusiasm while the adult will often respond with a woeful look of that was then, this is now retort. "He who trims ...
Views: 1455 - *** How to Transform Performance Anxiety - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteIt's a funny thing. Life provides an abundance of timely lessons often delivered in unexpected ways that can easily go unnoticed if you're not paying attention. Once you're tapped into the messages presented to you to guide you in the direction of your dreams life becomes a whimsical series of ...
Views: 1440(1 vote) - Raising Affluent Children: 4 Parenting Tips - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteThe hardest job you'll ever have is being a parent. And of course you want to be the best parent you can be. How do you keep a child from being spoiled? How do you teach values, compassion, work ethic, and self-esteem? How do you foster empathy, honesty, self-reliance, self-control, kindness, ...
Views: 1438 - *** How to Resolve Instead of Just Solve Problems - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” - Dr. Seuss In these hectic, often stressful days, many people measure themselves on ...
Views: 1435 - *** The Key to Financial Freedom for Artists, Actors, Writers & Musicians - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteWell-meaning, yet woefully misguided, advice from parents, teachers and other loved ones such as "You'll never make a living as an artist" has become the foundational belief and mantra of the artist's Inner Critic. What's worse is that this also woefully misguided Inner Critic loves to be right ...
Views: 1432 - ***Creative? Create Your Life Instead of Living As Its Creation - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteHave you ever thought life would be different for you today if you had a different childhood? Have you ever held thoughts such as: "My Mother never really cared about who I was." "My Father told me that I'd never amount to anything." "People won't like me if I don't agree with the ...
Views: 1432(3 votes) - The Gilded Cage: How to Break Free - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteIf you’re feeling trapped by your wealth instead of completely free then there’s some misguided understanding of what it means to have wealth and the extraordinary opportunities it affords. Most people believe wealth buys freedom when often it’s quite the opposite. Many successful people, ...
Views: 1426 - How to Win A Heart: Show Up Naked - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience." - Jack Lemmon, Actor Jack Lemmon was one of the ...
Views: 1424 - *** Allow, Instead of Seize, the Day - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteI've been giving a lot of thought to the various messages we've received over the years and generally highly regard. Many success and self-help experts have told us that we need to "Seize the Day". "Carpe diem" they tell us. Well, what the heck does that mean? How does one "seize the ...
Views: 1416 - *** Show Up Naked - Honor Your Authenticity - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet." - Bob Dylan When you show up naked, vulnerable, authentic and open, you allow others to genuinely see who you are. You've heard the old adage, "Actions Speak Louder than Words". It's true. When you fully realize that what you ...
Views: 1409 - *** Is Creative Block Just Part of Your Process? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteBlocked! Words are not spilling onto the page; color choices elude you; you can't embody the character you've been chosen to portray. Simply put, you're stuck! It's not the first time you've been stuck and certainly not the last if you're a creative being. In your stuck-ness you beat ...
Views: 1408 - ***The Art of Flow and How to Tap Into It - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteI've often affirmed, "Let go and flow." Flow generates inspiration and births the A-HA moments of your clarity and vision. All struggle is out-of-flow experience. Where you struggle is where you have turned your back on and said NO to you. Denying who you are and what you are here to be, do ...
Views: 1400(3 votes) - *** You Are Enrolled in a Cosmic Grade School - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteWelcome to your life, the attendance in a universal elementary school of sorts, where you are here to learn, develop and enjoy your being. You are here to learn your ABC's of Abundance, Being-ness and Consciousness. In the rich generative soil of physical reality you are meant to grow and ...
Views: 1398 - 2011: 3 Steps to Be Accountable to Your Excellence - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteTruth is, you already are accountable. You are the ultimate creator of all that you do, all that you experience. While you may not have created certain events in your life, you are the generative force behind what you have that experience mean for you. Have to allowed yourself to become the ...
Views: 1391(1 vote) - *** The Inner Critic Kidnaps the Artist Soul - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your Soul." - Walt Whitman For many artists, challenges are very personal. And one of the biggest challenges is the Critic in the room, the Inner Critic. This gnarly Inner Critic is the voice of your self-doubt and fear. It is the ...
Views: 1390 - Affirmations: The Most Important One - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence” - Friedrich Nietzsche While traveling the road of life's journey of growth and fulfillment many people recite affirmations such as "I am rich without a hitch" or "I am strong, I am safe and all is well." ...
Views: 1382 - *** Stress Relief: Take Up Cog-Knitting - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteGranny may be on to something that our comparatively inexperienced presence may not be aware of. We often run to Granny for her sage, sometimes cryptic, wisdom. And Grannies knit. Are the two related? Would we be well served by picking up a pair of knitting needles and a skein or two of yarn? ...
Views: 1371(1 vote) - Fakin' It? Not Really Makin' It? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteAs I was driving along the Malibu coast Paul Simon's "Fakin' It" blared through the radio. I had the volume cranked because I had the top down and was singing loudly and badly along with the song. It's such fun to let go and sing, especially if the sound of your voice could turn wine into ...
Views: 1370(6 votes) - ***How Actress Courteney Cox Empowers the Wizard Within - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteHardly a day goes by when I don't read or hear of some celebrity or politician publicly humiliating themselves in an unconscious act of self-sabotage. Some get up, brush themselves off, learn a few life lessons and go on to reach even higher levels of achievement. Others take a few steps back ...
Views: 1367(2 votes) - Do I Have to Be The Good Wife? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteWhether in the media or creatively integrated into television dramas we've watched time and again the dutiful wife standing beside her husband who's been caught in some sex scandal, criminal act or any other type of behavior requiring a public mea culpa. Some look sincerely supportive. Others ...
Views: 1362 - The Past - You Can Change Your Story - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteWhere is the past? Some people will say that the past is ‘behind them’. If you look ‘behind them’ you will not see the past. Others will point to their head and say the past is ‘in there, in my mind’. If you were to surgically open their head you would not ...
Views: 1353 - ***Who Are You? Misguided Blockhead or Masterful Wizard? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteWho are you? Some say that a person is a product of his or her choices. Much like the causality dilemma of "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" that evokes questions about life and how the Universe in general began, who you are can be rooted in a circular cause and consequence pattern of ...
Views: 1352(5 votes) - *** Creatively Blocked? Let Go of "It Has to Be Good" - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteThere you are again, staring endlessly at the blank canvas or page. Perhaps you are sitting at the piano, clueless as to where to place your hands. Are you struggling with how to develop your character in the role you've just landed? Are you frozen with a creative block, stuck in ...
Views: 1346 - *** Blocked Creatively? Here's a Get Out of Jail Free Card - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteThe most damaging restrictions on a creative person's freedom are self-imposed. What may have started out as a new idea, a new methodology, becomes routine, a habit, after awhile. Habits are the comfort zone. Once snuggled into a comfort zone there is a tendency to stay. However, this is not ...
Views: 1343 - Rock and Roll Your Way to Empowerment - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteIt's a funny thing....for me, at least. Whenever I feel a bit turned around or completely lost in the dark invariably a powerful piece of wisdom comes to me in the form of a rock and roll lyric. I believe poetry, lyrics in its musical form, is the highest expression of the divine human spirit. ...
Views: 1336 - Inner Critic: The 4 Year Old Driving Your Car - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteLife is a journey! It can be a easy free-flowing miraculous journey or it can be a journey of wrong turns, dead ends, crash and burns and arduous uphill routes. Some people are able to move forward in the direction of their dreams; others continue to make wrong turns or get stuck in a rut. If ...
Views: 1329 - Overwhelmed? Here's How to Move That Elephant - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite- Have you ever procrastinated long enough for an elephant-sized pile of to-do post-it notes to congregate on your desk? - Have you ever taken on a project that is just to big to tackle? - Are you backed into a corner overwhelmed at the giant-sized task before you? Uh-oh. You have ...
Views: 1301 - Aging: A Powerful Beauty Tip - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteIn today's abundance of beauty lotions and potions, nips and tucks, that serve to resist and camouflage the signs of aging we rob ourselves of the most powerful beauty enhancement resource available to mankind. I'm speaking of the aging process itself. The prevailing and repetitive message we ...
Views: 1271(1 vote) - Creative Empowerment: 6 Steps to Shape Your Life - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteYou create your life as an artist uses color. There is no experience that you cannot change. In this miraculous life you are given the gift of a creative being. And with this gift that is your birthright you create your reality according to your beliefs. It is your creative energy that makes ...
Views: 1268 - *** Why Successful Actors Self-Sabotage - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteI opened up Sunday's Parade Magazine and read an article about "The Mixed-Up Life of Shia LaBeouf" written by Dotson Rader. Shia is a 23-year old wildly successful actor who's latest film is "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". I saw the irony in the title of the article and the title of the ...
Views: 1264 - Self-Awarness Journey? Your Mirrors Have Blind Spots - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteThe vehicle you use to travel on your road to self-awareness and abundance is self-examination. The process of self-examination is a journey of twists and turns, straightaways with frequent glimpses in your side and rearview mirrors. As you know from your driving experiences, mirrors have blind ...
Views: 1263 - *** Are You Creatively Blocked or Are You Resisting? How to Know the Difference - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteArtists of every kind; painters, photographers, sculptors and actors will tell me that they are blocked. When we examine their specific challenge we discover that often they are not blocked, the are really resisting moving forward. There is a vast difference between the two. If you're ...
Views: 1261 - Weight Gain, Fear, and the Pussycats - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteI was having fun watching my two cats play one morning when I had one of those AHA moments. I had one of those 'out of the blue' moments of clarity that enlightened, empowered and inspired me. The pussycats were playing a leap-frog kind of game when the play turned into aggression. Both cats ...
Views: 1195 - *** The Hidden Enemy of Talent - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. When you act out of fear, you create what you fear. All of my clients have been praised and admired for their talent. You'd think that they have plenty of self-confidence ...
Views: 1148(1 vote) - *** The One Step Remedy for Anxiety - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteAnxiety! It has power. It has the power to stop you cold, in your tracks, as you freeze in your attempt to move forward in your life. Your anxiety gets in the way of you being, doing and having what you want in life. What is anxiety? The dictionary will tell you that anxiety is a sense of ...
Views: 1115(1 vote) - Stuck or Exhausted? Stop Dragging the Reluctant - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteAre you: - stuck in a rut? - often tired even though you get enough sleep? - procrastinating even the easy things? - finding excuses and reasons why you can't be, do or have what you want in life? If you answered yes to any of those questions then you are spending your days dragging The ...
Views: 1101 - Complain Pill: Throw it Down the Drain! - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.” - Antoine Rivarol I was sitting at a local Starbucks snuggled up in a comfy chair with a good book and a piping hot latte when I heard a woman exclaim, "Traffic was a bear getting ...
Views: 1091(1 vote) - Stop Tolerating, Start Living - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteAre you putting up with things in your life that annoy you or drains the energy right out of you? A good majority of people have been carrying around suitcases filled with unfinished projects and things they are tolerating. You could be tolerating an annoying neighbor, excess weight, or a bad ...
Views: 1042 - *** The Key To Expressing Full Creative Potential - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite“Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it” - Emily Hilburn Sell You were born with a magnificent gift. You came into this ...
Views: 1039 - *** How to Slay the Fear Monger Through Creativity - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteFear cripples creativity. Nothing new there. We've all experienced fear as we reach for inspiration, motivation and satisfaction. Fear dwells at the bottom of the pit of desperation. Fear is the lowest of lows. I have a client who came to me and said that she felt like she was stuck in a ...
Views: 1004(1 vote) - *** Fear Success? Top 5 Indicators - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." - Marianne Williamson It's strange to think that fear of succeeding could be such a big issue and do much damage. I've found it ...
Views: 910 - Show Up Aligned With Your Dream to Turn it Into Reality - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery Satterwhite"Eighty percent of success is just showing up." — Woody Allen Showing up in your life is, indeed, an ingredient to success in any endeavor. How you show up, what your state of being is, defines what it is you succeed in creating, experiencing. Do you show up insecure, doubtful, full of fear ...
Views: 887 - *** How to Let Go of Being Right to Get What You Want - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteYour Inner Critic, that nagging internal voice of self-doubt and fear loves to be right! Being right, to that egoistic nagger, is associated with being worthy. In order to feel worthy you have to be right! At the expense of everything else you want in life. Would you rather be right or ...
Views: 872(2 votes) - How to Improve Your Self-Esteem - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteWhat is self-esteem? Self-esteem is much more than pride in oneself or self-respect. It is much more than how much a person likes, accepts, and respects himself overall as a person. Self-esteem is about confidence. Our confidence in our own ability to think and to cope with the basic ...
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