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01st October 2009
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How much time and energy do you spend treading the proverbial waters of the stream of creative expression and meaningful experience? How often do you ride the roller coaster of two progressive steps forward and two... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite24th September 2009
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Right now, in this moment, you have everything you think you deserve. You are living the life you believe you are worthy of. Your life experience mirrors your internal self-esteem. If you have an unhealthy low ... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite23rd September 2009
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It's a funny thing. Actors are driven to perform, to take on roles that bring a world of imagination, fantasy and mirrored life reflections into believable existence. In order to achieve the performance of a char... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite23rd September 2009
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What is it about celebrity that often results in a pattern of self-sabotage and public humiliation? What drives the crash and burn of those who seemingly have everything going for them? Celebrities have success, ... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite12th September 2009
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It'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... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite10th September 2009
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Just as learning your ABC's are fundamental to a basic education, learning the Four C's of Creativity are essential to life as a powerful and deliberate creator of your art and your life experience. If you are not... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite03rd September 2009
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It's a funny thing. What you excel at, what is your greatest gift, may not be obvious to you. You may believe that what you do and create so effortlessly is easily achieved by anyone and everyone. It comes so na... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite03rd September 2009
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"The unconscious is our best collaborator."- Director Mike Nichols
Did you know that you have a personal GPS system within you? It will tell you whether or not the turn, the choice, you are about to make will l... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite24th August 2009
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Life is a game. Whether you enjoy life or not depends upon the rules - your own personal rules of life.
Whether you realize it or not you guide your life, make your choices, based upon a set of rules you select... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite17th August 2009
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Ever want to tell someone to get a grip? Tell them that they have run amok in their minds and are not facing reality? Stop them from completely 'losing it' and self-destructing? How often have you told yourself to... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite13th August 2009
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You're obsessed. You're obsessed with your work, your craft. You think about your art, your character, painting, sculpture, upcoming tour, or screenplay seemingly every waking minute of every day. Heck, you even... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite13th August 2009
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Blocked! 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 certain... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite08th August 2009
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People often associate self-worth to worldly attachments and achievements. During your life, you are always trying to get something, be it education, job, money, or other material pleasures. You feel these things r... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite08th August 2009
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Many people come to me complaining that they're tired, exhausted, unable to find balance in their life. Some have incredibly busy schedules and others live a life of casual leisure. Yet, both are exhausted. I also... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite29th July 2009
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The simple truth is creativity functions best when you let go of resistance to the creative flow. Resistance comes in many forms. Anxiety over a creative block is a form of resistance. Finding Excuses And Reasons... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite23rd July 2009
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There 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... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite16th July 2009
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I 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... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite12th July 2009
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Your 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 e... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite07th July 2009
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"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" - Emi... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite05th July 2009
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"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 ... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite05th July 2009
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What drives you to succeed as a creative person? Is it the dream of fame, wealth and recognition? Is the thought of seeing your name up in lights what propels you out of bed in the morning? Having such a strong a... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite30th June 2009
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"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 an... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite30th June 2009
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Spending an entire day at an airport dealing with one flight delay after another was once a nightmare for me. I have since learned to look for the gift in every experience. My recent, and much anticipated, trip to... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite19th June 2009
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Well-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.... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite18th June 2009
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"Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen." - Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
Underneath any unwanted self-sabotaging pattern of behavior is fear. These undesirable ex... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite15th June 2009
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
The most exciting place to discover and actualize your talent is in yourself. What does it mean to realize your t... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite12th June 2009
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein
Everyone was born with the magical power of intuition. Intuition is a clear flow of information that is available to you that is aligned with you h... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite11th June 2009
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In my conversations with artists, actors, writers, singers and musicians I've noticed a pattern of three 'sinkholes' that suck the creative energy right out of a person. There are various nuances and sub-categories... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite05th June 2009
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Welcome 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... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite01st June 2009
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"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future." - Eric Hoffer You have the power to shape your future the way you want it to unfold. You are a magnificent and magically powerful being. Y... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite18th May 2009
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The 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 respo... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite18th May 2009
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I encourage everyone to reread the stories that awed and entertained us as children. I guarantee you will find new meaning as an adult in the works of Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, Frank Baum and his Wizard of Oz seri... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite18th May 2009
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Fear 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.
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Author: Valery Satterwhite18th May 2009
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The 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... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite18th May 2009
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"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. S... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite13th May 2009
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"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. "... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite11th May 2009
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"Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer
Four people on four different street corners witness the same traffic accident. The police arrive and ask each o... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite08th May 2009
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"Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection." - Bente Borsum
Bente Borsum is a talented actress who performed with the Norwegian National Theatre and was a director of the Norwegian Nation... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite07th May 2009
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"Who am I Kidding?"
"Who am I to do this?"
"What am I thinking?"
"I'm not (fill in the blank) enough."
These are questions creative people in the visual and performing arts ask themselves every day. Th... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite05th May 2009
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"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 t... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite16th April 2009
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Artists 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 resistin... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite16th April 2009
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"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, "Ac... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite14th April 2009
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"This above all; to thine own self be true." - William Shakespeare
What is integrity?
What does it mean to be in integrity?
If you look up the word "integrity" in the dictionary you will learn that it come... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite07th April 2009
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Where you are in your creative expression mirrors where you are in your life flow. If you are blocked creatively it is an indication that there is a disruption in your energy flow. Something isn't working. And th... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite01st April 2009
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"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.... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite03rd March 2009
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"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark." - Zen saying
Have you heard anyone say,
"It is better to give than to receive."
"Rich People are (all negative attributes assigned to rich people."... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite20th February 2009
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Are 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 answere... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite20th February 2009
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is the Wizard... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite20th February 2009
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"Each relationship you have with another person reflects the relationship you have with yourself." - Alice Deville.
You have a lot of personal and professional relationships in your life. Some relationships are ... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite20th February 2009
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I was having fun watching my two cats play one morning when I had one of those magical moments of clarity. It was an'out of the blue' moment that enlightened, empowered and inspired me. The pussycats were playing a... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite05th February 2009
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What did you get punished for as a kid? What got you into trouble?
What did you get rewarded for? What got you 'kudos'?
I ask these questions because the answers will shine the light on the set of rules take... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite01st February 2009
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Have you ever looked at your cat or dog and knew exactly what he wanted to "say" to you? Have you ever noticed that someone's body language said something very different than what the person was saying? Have you ev... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite31st January 2009
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Is your life full of lemons or lemonade?
Expressing your Inner Wizard is about seeing lemonade instead of lemons rather than making lemonade out of lemons. If you believe that your self, your environment and th... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite28th January 2009
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What did you get punished for as a kid? What got you into trouble?
What did you get rewarded for? What got you 'kudos'?
I ask these questions because the answers will shine the light on the set of RULES take... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite27th January 2009
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"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." -Shakti Gawain
According to Sherry Buffington, co-developer of the CORE Multidimensio... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite22nd January 2009
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One of the questions I get asked most is "How did I get an Inner Critic?" That question is usually followed by "How do I get rid of it?" These are both great questions and since I get asked about the Inner Critic ... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite21st January 2009
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TV's "The Donald" seems to have patented the line "You're fired!" but unfortunately, many people get fired from jobs and aren't launched into national celebrity, and you might be next.
You might get canned, pink... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite20th January 2009
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There are two kinds of busy. Forward busy and Away busy.
One is a day filled with activities that move you forward in life and the other is keeping busy primarily to avoid having to be alone with our thoughts.
... Read >
Author: Valery Satterwhite15th November 2006
With the Ford Motor Company constantly trying to retain its position as part of the United States' Big Three in the automobile market, it is now planning on creating another plant that would surely be able to create and produce the much needed number ... Read >
Author: Chuck Smith
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