In talking with my life coach and personal pastor this week, I realized that I had more distractions than I needed for my purpose-filled lifestyle. I had to look inside and ask myself, Why am I allowing these people or these things to stop me from progressing? Its hard to look inside sometimes–knowing all the [...]

I’ve been thinking about words that inspire me and keep me in line and so I came up with 11 words that I’m keeping in the stable for 2011. Honor – I gotta give honor to God for all my blessings and talents. I gotta honor myself in how I do my work and what [...]

My 2010 was such a success that I’m actually anxious to improve on the strategies that I used in 2010 in order to make 2011 even more successful. I love to share information and so I want to share these tips with you. Create a vision board.  Get a white piece of paper (poster size) [...]

Yes, I’ve made it to the 70th day. All I can say is I’m glad. It was hard pouring out my soul and being introspective during this time. But going through this made me realize that I must listen to my inner voice and do things that make me feel good and make MY life [...]

You know those times in your life when you’re stuck in the middle? You don’t know when to go left or go right. You wanna try something new but you’re so used to doing things a certain way that you just ride the fence. But, riding that fence sure can be uncomfortable sometimes. As your [...]

I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what you do if I see you doing something wrong to a child, I’m going to speak up. I don’t care if you threaten me, I don’t care if you can hurt me, I don’t care if you’re bigger than me, I’m going to speak up. [...]

I’ve been hearing all about the iPhone4 mishaps. Yo! What’s up Steve Jobs? I guess Apple has been batting a thousand for so long maybe it was time for an antenna not to work. I hear that duct tape does the trick, but people all over the internet and especially twitter have being going bonkers [...]

So, again, here I am keeping it real with you. When I’m feeling down about worklife or homelife, I don’t feel like exercising. Its crazy because I usually am a great workout person. But there are days, and I’ve had a few recently, where I don’t feel like picking up a barbell or looking at [...]

So, in the beginning of this Lifestyle Change, I was very optimistic to get my greediness under control. I was doing so well. Notice I used the word “was.” Well, I’ve hit a few bumps in the road. Some stress has entered my normally blissful life and now I’ve noticed that I eat more when [...]

The greatest lesson in making the transition from author to award winning filmmaker is how I act on a daily basis. For years and years, I’ve written screenplays that I believe are quite good. But, I registered them with the Writer’s Guild, told a few people about them and didn’t really act on them to [...]

I was recently speaking with a college student about my audience reach on Facebook. He looked at my facebook profile and said under no uncertain terms, “You need more friends.” My numbers were somewhere around 1,400 and he said, “I needed more friends.” I thought to myself, “Who is this lil college student think he’s [...]

Sometimes I think I could write a book about my life and call it, The Adventures of the Odd Colored Crayon. That’s always who I’ve been. In times when the crowd wanted to sit and clap, I wanted to stand and cheer. In times when people wanted to ignore issues, I wanted to paint the [...]