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Your Prison Door Is Not Locked

February 22, 2012 0 Comments

A famous magician once challenged every maximum prison warden in America to lock him up in their most secure cell. ” Within one hour, I shall escape from your cell,” he goaded them.

And so this famous magician went around America one jail at a time, escaping from prison cell after prison cell, no walls, no bar, no locks could contain him until he came to the very last prison where they clamped him in irons and threw him into his cell.

In a short time he was out of his irons and he went to work on the lock with a hair pin he had smuggled in under his tongue. For the remaining 45 minutes he worked furiously on that lock, prodding, picking, twisting and turning… trying all his tricks, but he could not figure out this lock.

His hour was up and our frustrated magician admitted defeat and in exasperation slumped down against the door… it opened… they had never locked door.

Are you fighting to unlock a door that is already open?

2012 Copyright Seven Sentences – Your Spiritual Prison

The No More Excuses Blog

February 21, 2012 2 Comments

Imagine there was nothing standing in your way, no ropes around your shoulders holding you back.

Why do we often feel so restricted, so restrained and unable to move forward?

Oppression is often spiritual and ethereal, a web of lies has been spun around us; lies that keep us passive, ways of thinking that take away our hope and blind us to the actual reality all around us.

We often think we need the approval of others to succeed; we think we require an agent, a manager, an investor or a career break through before our lives will ever take off.

So we negate the power that has put in our own hands, through a false subservience to others?

We all need the help and support of others to achieve our dreams, but we are never called to be prisoner to the lies of an oppressor who will convince you that you are powerless to change your situation.

I’m here to tell you that your creativity doesn’t need to be held captive by the opinions of other people – the spiderweb you see has no power.

2012 Copyright Seven Sentences – No More Excuses Blog

The Problem With The Hollywood Pie

February 17, 2012 6 Comments

There is a dangerous illusion that lives and breathes in the hills and on the streets of a place like Hollywood.

I call it the fame illusion.

It probably exists in other place too.

That seductive whisper that promises you future happiness. This happiness is always tied to your “future” success.

It tempts you to keep on striving, searching and fighting for your piece of the fatmans pie believing that only once you have eaten it will you be truly satisfied.

Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with the pie, it’s just the lie about the pie… it promises happiness but instead too much of it it makes you fat, self satisfied and immobile.

2012 Copyright Seven Sentences – Hollywood Creative Blog

Ride That Wave All The Way In.

February 15, 2012 2 Comments

Energy comes in waves.

Don’t despise the lull, it’s a chance to breathe, so breathe, relax and enjoy the smells and sounds of everyday life.

Don’t push it when the waves are weak and not worth riding.

Wait. Be patient and be prepared.

Here comes your wave. You know it’s yours because you are in the right place at the right time; paddle for your life, pop up and enjoy the ride.

2012 Copyright – Seven Sentences – Creative Rush

Beware Your Passion Will Take You Places

February 14, 2012 2 Comments

Passion takes you further than you could ever imagine. Passion short cuts the process and leaps overboard without questioning or thinking too much about the dangers lurking beneath the surface.

Passion is a dangerous thing. Passion is also a good thing.

Without passion we would all be walking mathematicians trapped inside a lifeless algorithm, dying as we lived inside a system built to contain and control our passions.

Artists need passion more than they need training.

Training is paint by numbers, passion is living a life full of color.

2012 Copyright Seven Sentences – Create with Passion

The Narrow Path To The Deep Stirring Pot

February 11, 2012 8 Comments

The journey towards deep artistry is narrow and dangerous and at times you often wonder if it is still worth continuing. Don’t be distracted for there are many side roads offering you a different route, an easier path, a road paved with gold.

But the path that leads to deep artistry and improved creativity does not by necessity lead to financial success.

Sometimes I wish it did.

Do you want fame or do you want to create work that comes from the deep stirring of your soul?

A stirring so deep, a groan so wonderful, so full of both pleasure and pain, that every living soul stands transfixed, wooed in wonderment.

You can use your artistry for money, for fame, for power and significance, or you can use it for something entirely different… it’s a long road, you choose.