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I watched the premiere of Fox’s new reality show “On The Lot” tonight. It’s actually a decent show, fairly entertaining and it definitely has some gut wrenching moments as you just start to like someone and then they blow it royally.

It got me thinking though about these opportunities we have in our lives to do something special or “make it big” and how a lot of the time, we blow it because we put so much pressure on ourselves. When we get so worked up about something really important, something strange happens to us. First we get nervous because hey, I have this HUGE thing to deal with now…I’m on the spot, I have to produce something! That immediately puts us in panic mode and once we are there…forget it. Game over.

So how does one stay out of this mode? You just have to step back and take a breath. It reminds me of art school. Every teacher I had always gave me so much work it seemed impossible to be able to do all of it each week. So to keep from being overwhelmed I literally did one thing at a time. I think my drawing classes were the hardest because I was really only good at certain media and had to focus and concentrate very hard and work very hard to use the media I wasn’t so good at. And in time, these moments all passed. Looking back on it now, I still wonder how I managed to get through some of my classes. I wasn’t the most talented student but I worked hard and really focused on what I was good at. When I did that, I produced some great work.

So, again relating this to my experiment on this blog, we must be aware of ourselves and our surroundings and find that inner calm, that peace that allows us to project outward the confidence we have inside. When you can harness that confidence and clarity and calm…that’s when you can do really great things. Didn’t Yoda teach us all this in the Empire Strikes Back?

Truth is universal, and the universe is listening.

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