Browsing Category Mindset

Inside the Actors Studio

in Mindset on October 27, 2012 January 13, 2019

Decided to give myself the Q&A of Inside the Actors Studio after watching a particularly good ep on Bravo. Now it’s time for the Proust Questionnaire. What is your favorite word? Bliss. What is your…

never diminish your victories bonnie gillespie

Keep Going

in Mindset on May 20, 2012 January 14, 2019

This isn’t the “post Pacific Pole Championships post” in which I talk about volunteering for this spectacular day of motivation, and then brag on Danielle for her amazing routine (and her third-place medal), or on…

SMFA Essentials

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Motivation

in Mindset on August 27, 2011 January 17, 2019

I’m tired. I’m overworked. I’m launching a new business that is, frankly, exhausting me. I’m scared. I’m deep in my resistance. But I had a dream in the wee hours that has been my motivation…

I Has a Ring

in Chart Harmony Mindset on April 11, 2011 December 6, 2020

I first moved to Los Angeles in August of 1993. Yes, August. In a U-Haul. With my estranged daddy and 13-year-old kitty. Towing my badass car behind (yes, the same car I *still* drive). Five…

Clutter

in Mindset on February 20, 2011 August 24, 2019

So, we got a new-used sofa this weekend. Between putting the finishing touches on the production schedule for our first shoot date of the Somebody’s Basement Sketch Comedy Troupe, writing my column for the week,…

Intention

in Mindset on March 30, 2010 January 18, 2019

Last week, I was talking to a new friend about an issue we both — sorry, let’s be honest, an issue we all — have faced: Getting hurt. I explained to her my philosophy in…

Post-Clutter-Busting

in Mindset on January 17, 2010 January 15, 2019

Well, to be fair, I should call this post Post-Clutter Busting Workshop, because I haven’t done any actual Clutter Busting just yet. But I will. Oh yes, I will. Lemme back up. So, I show…

Pre-Clutter-Busting

in Mindset on January 16, 2010 March 8, 2019

Okay, so I’m pretty freakin’ excited. And I know I’m facing some major change. The major way I know I’m facing some major change is that I’m majorly sick. And I rarely get sick. Not…

Suicide

in Mindset on October 4, 2009 January 14, 2019

Not sure I’ll ever understand suicide. I mean, of course I understand the emotional heaviness, the absolute despair, the certainty that nothing will ever get better and that there is no hope. I’ve been there….