Your turn in the barrel

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I've been implementing the 101 program on myself for the last month, and it may be entirely coincidental, but I've gained more personal time, am sleeping less (healthfully) my body is recovering from my workouts (which are intense and brief), and some VERY interesting career things are happening.

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Now, while my belief system includes some things that some folks would consider magic, this last part is clearly the result of months and years of work. I'll be able to let you know some time next week (hopefully) but let's just say that:

1) Shadow Valley is finished, and looks great.

2)"In The Night Of The Heat" is poised to be a break-out.

3) "The Good House" goes to Fox Searchlight this week.

4) I got a phone call yesterday that was the single best piece of Hollywood news I've gotten since moving back down here. Now, what FELT the best was the news that, a year or so ago, a certain someone signed a contract long in negotiation. DAMN we needed that money. But this news comes as we actually have a measure of stability, and it's STILL rockin'. More later.

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But the most important thing about the 101 program is engaging with all three arenas of human life, and then consistently refining and raising your energy, while noticing and correlating your results, maintaining behavioral flexibility, and modeling the success of others. Also, to connect your new philosophies with whatever spiritual or philosophical structures you were programmed with before the age of puberty (unless they are disastrously unhealthy--in which case you have some VERY heavy lifting to do.) You need to search for those beliefs that produce positive results in all three arenas, so that you aren't doing "different things" but rather "expressing your essence." Just being who and what you are, although the situations and contexts vary. For instance, "The Way is in Training" means that whatever is important in your life, you have to work at it every day.

EVERY day I tell my friends and family that I love them, and inquire as to their needs.

EVERY day I move my body with grace and intensity.

EVERY day I deepen my understanding of the greatest writing in the English language, and how to produce it.

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Every damned day. What did the great pianist say? "If I don't practice for one day, I can tell the difference. If I don't practice for two days, the critics can tell the difference. If I don't practice for three days, the audience can tell the difference."

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU DO. Your life is composed of countless small actions. The actions are based on decisions. The decisions are based on your values, beliefs, goals, and emotional states. ALL OF THIS STUFF MUST BE ALIGNED. If you are in conflict with your own internal states, you will sabotage yourself---guaranteed. Meditating is one of the ways to clear away the smoke, inspect the wiring, clean the internal mirrors and windows so that you can see where you really are. Goals, and your success at them, comprise a map of your territory, and your travel plans. How long would you drive without checking street signs? Wouldn't you want to know where gas stations, rest stops, restaurants and motels are? When you go for a long drive, don't you almost always have a general if not specific destination?

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Unless you are one of the fortunate few who just Zen's their way through life and ends up someplace delicious every time, you need to align your inner and outer worlds, your remembered past and prospective future, your loves and your fears.

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Since they don't give you a "how to" manual for life in Kindergarten, it is your responsibility to create it for yourself, day by day...and then pass whatever you have learned that you have PROVEN VALID to your friends, children, community. This is the only way Mankind has progressed.

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It's our turn in the barrel, Dudes and Dudettes.