From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home What are your 2014 Goals? Have you been thinking about them yet? Well, you know the best way to jump start your life is to do just that! For me, the most effective way to achieve my dreams has been setting exciting, challenging and tangible goals on a regular monthly basis and then watching myself make progress with these goals. If there is no PROGRESS, then there is no excitement, and then, of course, you’re gonna give up pretty quickly. And you know what, before ya know it, 2015 has come and you’re nowhere closer to your dreams then you were in 2014. Now… I know, believe me I know, there’s always gonna be that little chatter box in your head giving you a million reasons NOT to follow your heart, and that’s ok! That’s all part of the PROCESS . That voice is just there to guide you immediately towards the other voice, THE ONE IN YOUR HEART that says, “Just pick up the pen and write. Write from your heart. Write from your gut.” And once you start to do that regularly, and that’s the key here,[…]
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Blog #47: Get Ready Los Angeles
From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home GREAT NEWS! On Friday, October 11th at 7pm, “Sleeping With The Fishes” will be showing at The Chinese Cinemas on Hollywood Blvd! The film made it into the 16th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. Since I won’t be able to be there, I would love for all my LA friends to go and be there for me! And make sure you stay till the very end, as ALL those credits role, cause you’ll get to hear my NEW single,“Getting Out Of My Own Way”. Check out this month’s news to find out more about it: OCTOBER NEWS I leave you with these thoughts…. Beauty starts from within. And then, as time passes and you accept that beauty, everyone around you cannot help but see your inner beauty shines oh so bright and abundantly on the outside. Silence the mind and find out all you can be and do.
Blog #28: The Perfect Snowfall
From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home I was going through my past photo albums the other day and came across this picture I took up at Mohonk Mountain House back in 1993. The day was as calm and quiet as snow falling. As I walked out of Mohonk Mountain House in the early morning, to see how much snow had fallen the night before, I was blessed with this visual. I hurried to capture this most serene picture of The Perfect Snowfall. It was not planned, it just happened. I did not question it’s beauty. Instead, I quickly rushed back into my room to grab my camera and quickly returned to the front porch to find nature’s beauty untampered with and snapped the shot! And this is how I plan on moving forward in 2013. As the journey continues of finding Pinocchio a home, I make a promise to simply live my life, take my chances at doing what I love and not question how or why, but rather just step into abundance naturally, as it comes, taking pictures to capture the tiny little miracles that cross my path as I venture into unknown territory[…]
Blog #11: “Thoughts Become Things”
From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home I met a man last week at a speed dating event who had a very negative attitude towards the music industry and the creative industry overall. He said there were no great artists anymore, and that there was just no way to make money doing art. He was once, as I discovered listening to him talk a bit more, a man of passion when it came to writing and story telling. His passion must have been stomped from society’s pressures and maybe he felt he had to give up his vision job as a writer and take on a safer job that paid well. As we talked, he said how he was a writer and how he had been a news reporter as well for some time in his past. He went on to say how he knew how to write a story, a real story, coming from nothing more than a few simple facts, but those skills, could not pay the bills, and so he took a job on Wall Street working as a copy editor years ago. He then said how he hated the job,[…]
Blog #10: Saying “Yes” to The Power of Positive Thinking
From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home I am sitting on my bed with my wonderful friend, “Mr. MacBook Pro” on my lap doing some music business and I am thinking, “What about if I just write a blog now, right in this space of abundance that I am feeling right now.” Let me explain, you see, I have been spending a great amount of time over the past year praying and staying connected to my higher power asking him for guidance on what action to take next on this journey of life. And as I have been practicing this concept of living with faith rather than living in doubt and lacking, I am noticing that abundance is coming into my path pretty smoothly without my pushing or pulling or tugging or controlling any part of it. The great news about it is that I am not letting those fears, “False Evidence Appearing Real”, scare me away from this abundance. In the past, I most definitely would have and I have spoken about that need to stay under the radar to keep myself small in past blogs and it is wonderful to share with[…]
Blog # 9: Letting Go Of “The Plan”
From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home What do I want to talk about right now? It’s been a few weeks since I wrote the last blog. As that time has passed, I have experienced quite a bit of new awareness surrounding the vision I have of making money fully through my art and the money it is going to take to fund this vision correctly, in the hopes that by being focused on this vision, day in and day out, it will guide me towards financial abundance. As this awareness has recently hit me, I have found a new willingness to begin the process of finding another “B” job to continue to fund my “A” job, my vision. This awareness of my need to search for another job became even more clear when I was faced with a family emergency that forced me to think about the areas in my life which still remain to be off balance. It is my responsibility to be willing to do what I need to do to allow abundance into all the areas of my life.
Blog # 8: Accessing the True Self To Create Abundance
From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home Yes, accessing the true self to create abundance is the next theme. And I find it perfect to talk about this now, at the very start of 2012. I do not want to put my foot anywhere into 2012 without that foot being a part of my true self. I will be the first to tell you that living in truth and being exactly who I am is not easy, until I accept that “that” is who I am, take it or leave it! Sure, I have wished I was someone else more times than I would like to admit. And yes, I have dreamed of having someone else’s life as well. But in doing that, it has guided me in the opposite direction to having an abundant life. In wanting what is not mine or is not in my reach has only made me unhappy and incomplete. During 2011, a change occurred.
Blog #4: Security vs Freedom
Where Will Life Have Taken You By Your 20 Year Reunion? From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home The Big Twenty! I went to mine this past weekend at The New Rochelle Raddison Hotel. As I type this blog I am thinking to myself, “Should I include my personal life into these blogs?” The answer is yes. Absolutely! Life is what makes art happen. So yes, let’s talk about this experience for a moment, if you don’t mind. The main thought that comes to my mind is: Choose freedom over security and watch life start to open up. Now, this does not in any way mean to live life like a gypsy, which I admit, I had been doing for many years. Yes, I had been living day to day, not taking into account anything but my career as a singer and songwriter, my desperation in wanting to “make it” in the industry. That, by the way, has not allowed for me to have much of a balanced life. It’s like I was stuck in the air on a seesaw for so many years with The Incredible Hulk, my ego, as my partner[…]
Blog #2: I Wonder… Does This Fear Ever Subside?
From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home I am letting you know from the very birth of this blog series that there is this voice inside of me that desperately wants to believe that I am wasting my time doing what I love most, music. It’s telling me that no matter what effort and energy I put towards writing, singing and creating music, it will never be enough, so I can forget about ever doing it full time! I hear this voice so loudly in my head sometimes that I start to panic. I want to introduce this voice to you now so that you can get a clear picture of my experiences along this journey, both internal and external. So, the past day has been focused on me pausing and breathing, rather than jumping right into a full list of actions that will lead me toward getting my music out there on a larger scale. I have been reconnecting with the idea that I do not control anything in my life no matter how much I want to believe I do. My ego would make me believe I was a superhero if I[…]