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How to stop procrastinating…

September 30, 2010 0 Comments

Procrastination kills passion slowly, it suffocates dreams by wrapping its hands around the umbilical cord of life and cutting off all the oxygenated blood. So although you remain pregnant with your dream, it is never born, it never comes to life, it never walks in the reality of your world. Procrastination steals time, it steals years, it may even steal your life. When you put something off until tomorrow, you should know that tomorrow never actually exists.

Thus my number one rule for avoiding Procrastination is this… “Never say you’ll do something tomorrow, always name a day and a time for doing the tasks that you wish to avoid. Also remember that a dream like a child is born undeveloped and immature. You have to feed it, give it discipline, shape it, and teach it if you wish for it to reach adulthood.

Harry is the Champion

September 22, 2010 2 Comments

The race was run on Thursday last week, it has taken me a whole week to recover. I didn’t just lose… I was thrashed. I was overtaken at the end of the first lap and my eleven year old nephew Harry was never sighted again… until the finish line when he ran back and helped me run the final stretch. Harry is the Champion and these pictures prove it. I love Harry because he never stops trying, year after year he kept on racing, he kept on improving and eventually he won. So now the training begins… I am determined to beat him next year but I need to get fit and to lose a few pounds.

The smile of a Champion

The Crucial Moment

Powering Away

The Gap is Widening

Just you wait until next year Harry

The Race of a lifetime…

September 13, 2010 1 Comment

Today I must beat Harry, my life, well at least my dignity depends on it. Harry is my nephew and every year we have an annual running race, as yet I am undefeated. Harry is 11 years old tomorrow, I wish I was racing him tomorrow because the idea of losing to a ten-year old is not so palatable. Harry is also off to the South Island Cross Country Championships. I fear losing to Harry, I fear losing to my nephew before his voice has broken… Gloating in boy soprano is almost unbearable.

There is only one way to beat a ten-year old… you have to burst out of the blocks, puts yards on them early, crush their spirits.

i’ve had bad news

September 12, 2010 4 Comments

The roller-coaster nature of my life and my career has taken another downward dip and I find myself searching for the reason for this particular season. Surprisingly for someone who writes a “very public” blog I recently realized that I am not that good at sharing my disappointments with those around me. There is a tendency to feel “invalid” when someone passes on your script, or you don’t get a call back or something just doesn’t turn out how you planned. Feeling invalid is a type of “shame” that can make you hide from the world which is in the simplest sense, a very “silly” yet understandable thing to do.

It’s silly because everybody gets turned down numerous times in their life and it is always better to share your disappointments with friends lest you carry them for too long and they become part of you. So here we go… I am learning to share my disappointments and not be ashamed, to let other people into my life, not just the highs but also the lows.

Recently I had Lucky & Rich in front of an Oscar nominated Director and I was incredibly hopeful that he would become part of our project, but in the end he said no.

Learning…

September 5, 2010 0 Comments

Learning is everything. Possibly the only question we need to ask ourselves in every situation (good and bad) is simply… “What am I supposed to learn from this?”

If you are really bright you will learn from everything and never really have to learn the same lesson more than a couple of times. I however, am not that bright and I am constantly learning the same lessons over and over again. C.S. Lewis said, “People need to be reminded much more than they are taught.” I don’t know about you but I need to be reminded everyday to reorder my priorities.

One of the things I am constantly learning is this… “Life is not all about me.”

Say a prayer for people whose homes have been destroyed…

September 4, 2010 0 Comments

A massive earthquake struck Christchurch New Zealand last night. I’m okay but say a prayer for these people whose homes have been destroyed…

Dreams are never free

September 2, 2010 1 Comment

Creativity and poverty often hold hands and walk down Hollywood Boulevard. Many a creative soul has drifted down those paved sidewalks dreaming of their own star, but struggling to pay the rent. Some say that dreams are free. And while dreaming doesn’t cost you a dime, chasing them can cost you everything.

If you are going to spend your life chasing dreams, it’s important to make certain that the dream you chase is actually yours, not somebody elses and not birthed out of an innate search for your inherent value. A dream can never take the place of faith, it can never love you the way a friend can. Dreams in one sense do not exist, they live in an imaginary vapor that lingers right in front of your nose, forever making promises that can never be clasped in the reality of the moment.

P:S: Comments please…