Today the hubs and I went in for our annual money talk with Ray the CPA. This is the meeting we have every December to review our revenue, move around where money lives so it…
Posts tagged gratitude
Gratitude, Then Goals
’tis the season… for talking about setting GOALS for the next year, right? I have a somewhat unique approach to goal-setting, and it starts with gratitude for exactly where we are RIGHT NOW. I call…
Why You Pretty Much HAVE TO Be a Leader
Recently, an actor tweeted me to ask how to stay focused on her goals and dreams when every day it seems as though another person she has admired in this industry is revealed as being…
A Breakthrough About Our Enoughness Project
Ahh… I feel like I can exhale. ๐ I’ve been facing mad resistance as I build the enoughness curriculum. Not because I don’t know what I want to teach, but because there’s so. much. of….
Celebrating 20 Years
It was 1999. I was an actor in Los Angeles. Having been burned by “golden handcuffs” earlier that decade when I first moved to Hollywood, I knew this time out, I’d only ever cobble together…
Reclaiming Our Inner Artists
If I wanted to do the math on how many SMFA ninjas typing exercises I’ve led over the years, I’m sure the number of actors involved would be up around 2000. Heck, if we count…
Gratitude First. Then Grind.
I was journaling about perfectionism, enoughness, and how over time — when we’re solution-focused people — we walk into every situation observing problems. Because we’re so focused on solutions. ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ So on its surface, it…
Here’s to 18 Years!
July 13, 2001. Keith and I had decided to meet in person after two months of emailing, calling, and falling in love on every level other than physical. โ I flew into Salt Lake City…
A Letter to Our First Member
I’m going through some pretty heavy-duty upper-limit problems, impostor syndrome, and enoughness fluctuations as we expand Brand Bonnie Gillespie beyond its comfy showbiz niche. What does that mean to you? Well… nothing unless you also…
888 Days Sober
I remember Googling. I Googled a lot. It was always something like, “How to drink in moderation,” “How to moderate drinking,” and even, “How to negotiate sobriety.” Wow. A whole lot of scrolling, reading, searching……