Yup giving it all up to God is the only way. Today I woke up feeling so
down. It's crazy. I was lost in my head again! why do I keep doing
that. it's usually triggered by a survival crisis. like having to pay
the rent. that freaks out my wife and then i feel pressured to perform.
then I start thinking about how I alone can make this work. then i
start forming all kids of plans etc. this is not the way. so I just
gave it all up and you know what a miraculous thing happened. first I
felt immensely better. how am i going to do the movie? where am i going
to get the money? I have no idea1 but i feel good and i realize now as
I have realized many times before that this good feeling of peace is
really really important. I should never leave it. I don't care what is
happening. if the lights are bout to get cut off or if the rent is due.
never leave this place.
The miraculous thing is now i feel
guided to solutions. like for instance even though I did not plan to
make calls logically with a set schedule today. I actually feel like
making calls. why because i don't have to. i should never set schedules
where I have to do something. that is a guaranteed way to get me to
feel pressure and then do it from a fearful place. like "I have to make
calls and I have to get donations etc. " this is the wrong way. let it
all go and let the spirit guide your actions. how do you know. by how
peaceful and joyful it feels. if you can't do it from this place then
don't do it at all.
its like to get results I have to get in a place where I don't care
about results. then I get the results. to not care means to not be
afraid of the outcome. to not care if I fail. the only way to be in
that place is to rest fully in god's grace. to really believe that god
is there for you. if you depend or look to the world for solutions
then you will be inherently fearful. so it is a paradox. to get good
results from the world you must give up the world and depend fully on
god then you can be guided to the right solutions.
What do you feel like doing?
Do that.
Go ahead, post that dumb video online, you could get some work
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Voice-over work in Indiana wasn't too lucrative, so Daniel Geduld made a classic actor's move: He headed for Los Angeles, Califronia. And like most Hollywood dreamers, Geduld didn't get hired for much.
So Geduld combined his creative talents with his abundance of free time. He took footage from the 1980s "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" cartoons, re-edited it and redubbed it to make the evil Skeletor and his cronies into a bumbling gang of losers. Geduld added incongruously peppy jazz by Django Reinhardt, called his farce "The Skeletor Show" and posted episodes on Google Inc.'s YouTube .
Geduld added his e-mail address to the credits, along with this line: "Please give me a job. I'm talented."
Actually, that was a joke. Geduld didn't think much could come of it.
But he was underestimating how much the Internet has broadened the ways people get discovered today, often for jobs in the entertainment industry that didn't exist until a few years ago.
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Enough people liked "The Skeletor Show" that it got mentioned on some popular blogs. Before long, several Web sites were paying Geduld to do similar comedic "mash-ups" for them. Video portal Heavy.com hired Geduld to be a voice for its new horror channel.
When he got the first e-mail inquiring about his services, Geduld, 30, was shocked. "Oh my God, this actually worked!" he thought. The first few gigs paid only around $500. But now he's making "enough to support myself," and offers keep coming. A tech company asked if he'd do promotional material. He got invited to a sci-fi convention.
"It just gets better and better," Geduld says. "I'm thinking of getting an agent."
One of Hollywood's animating legends is the story of the ingenue who got discovered by a studio honcho while she sipped a soda in a drugstore. The myth spoke to the lightning-strike luck that making it big generally took in a system controlled by a few big studios.
Now, the Web has blown things open. It is easier than ever to get discovered. Web sites trying to develop into entertainment hubs are hungry for people to write, shoot or star in new content, so its representatives scan for talent in the piles of homemade videos on MySpace , YouTube, Revver and personal blogs.
It's certainly no secret that the Web can launch new faces. The medium already has its tales of regular Janes who made it big, like Lisa Donovan, who leaped from YouTube to the cast of Fox's "MadTV," and Brooke Brodack, a Net video character signed to a TV production deal by Carson Daly. This is the vision that drove the creators of YouTube's "LonelyGirl15" faux-reality videos.
But the lesser-known story is of non-stars like Geduld, riding the Web's radical openness to find new kinds of online entertainment work.
Often these online jobs are with sites that may be a step above the user-generated schlock of YouTube, but still are sorting out the economics of attracting advertising. As a result, discovery sometimes comes with modest trappings. And it often extends to people who wouldn't have made it through Hollywood's old-school gatekeepers -- or even tried.
Consider the experience of Jessica Hagy, a 29-year-old freelance advertising copywriter in Ohio.
Last fall she started a blog that commented on the world through clever diagrams. (You have to see it to get it -- check out http://indexed.blogspot.com ) Aft er brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis encountered the blog in Los Angeles, they e-mailed Hagy and eventually asked her to produce diagrams for content debuting this fall on their growing comedy site, JibJab.com. There aren't big bucks involved, maybe a few thousand, depending on how much advertising the segments attract.
"It just seems to be the new modus operandi for creative people," says Hagy, who has yet to meet the Spiridellis brothers in person. "There are so many more people out there than you could find before. ... I was just a random kid in Columbus, Ohio. How was I supposed to find anybody under the old way?"
This is not to say everyone who airs dumb stunts or lip-synchs on YouTube has a chance of landing real work. Representatives of professionally produced content sites who pore through user-generated videos see more rough than diamonds. When there are decent finds, competition can be intense.
Jason Marks, a former MTV executive who oversees programming and development for Heavy.com, swears this story is true, and that similar things happen several times a month:
A while back he came across a YouTube video of some young guys "in their dorm room, flicking boogers on their wall." Marks was only mildly amused, but he sensed there might be something in these kids, so he figured he'd scope them out. Marks says he left a message for them -- and got his call returned by someone in a very prominent talent agency.
"They refer us to their agent!" Marks says. "I'm not even kidding, man."
In many ways, today's talent search is a reprise of the height of the dot-com boom. Then, sites such as AntEye, Icebox, Mediatrip and Z.com cast themselves as "incubators" and served as scouts for film studios and television networks, essentially producing low-cost pilots and hoping for a hit.
That model has resurfaced. Last year, UTA, one of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies, launched an online division to scout for people who could be in videos for ad agencies, Web sites and traditional media outlets. While most agencies refuse unsolicited work, UTA encourages online submissions.
Grouper.com, a site owned by Sony Corp., recently decided to stop trying to make money from user-generated videos and will focus instead, under the name Crackle, on scouting online prodigies for Sony.
But Steven Starr, a former talent agent who heads the Web video site Revver, says what he sees emerging is "a creator economy online" whereby the Internet will carve out its own slice of the action, rather than just serving as a development league for TV and film.
"That will start to make it possible for any creator to develop income and careers online and not just be fodder for large media enterprises that are looking to move them off onto other platforms," Starr says.
Even if untapped talent is not necessarily easy to find, the economics of Web entertainment startups dictates that they try hard to do it. Old-school casting calls -- and Hollywood's union contracts -- wouldn't work for digital media that comes together quickly and relatively cheaply.
"Hollywood as it exists today was built to produce a relatively small number of very large productions," says JibJab's Gregg Spiridellis. "The new studios ... in digital are going to exist in a way where they can produce a very large number of small productions. I need to produce content at the price of the craft services table on a television shoot."
Sometimes, online video can juice an entertainment career already in progress.
Nick Stevens had a decent life as a comedian in New York, supporting himself with acting and writing gigs on TV and radio. But things got more interesting after he launched a zero-budget video blog in his living room. Called TownieNews.com, it features rants by fictional Boston sports nut Paul "Fitzy" Fitzgerald.
Fitzy developed such an online following that a Boston TV station, believing he was real, called to set up an interview. (Stevens set the reporters straight.) The blog also got noticed by the people at Heavy.com, who hired Stevens to host their regular "SportsCenter" takeoff known as "The Burly Sports Show." Stevens plays himself, more or less, but Fitzy appears as a character.
Stevens, 33, says he lives pretty well on what he gets paid to do two of the online episodes every week -- which sometimes amazes him.
"The guy who was buying his coffees with nickels and dimes in 2003 and having beans on toast for lunch is very thankful," he says. "The Web is great. The single greatest distraction from employment is also the single greatest enabler of employment."
Original article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/08/01/discovered.web. ap/index.html
At some point you are ready. Ready to do your work. But the task can seem so daunting as to be totally undoable. We've reached this point on our path where we know what to do but how to do it? No matter what your project is I would like to intro duce you to a new way of bringing it into form. It is at this stage that we will be tempted to run back to the old fearful ways of the old world. But, don't forget it was because we realized that those fearful pushy ways didn't serve us that we started on this path in the first place. That is why it is vitally important that at this stage of living our purpose we don't run back to the old ways of the past. For many of us we will then be left in a quandary " how to get our work done." All we've been taught is fear based pushy coercive techniques to get anything done. But there is a better way. It's a process of allowing instead of forcing.
In our society right now most things are done in a fearful pushing manner. A manner that is out of sync with the universe. A manner, where you feel you have to make something happen. What we are going to discuss is a new way of getting things done by allowing them to happen. In this process you will use trust and faith, prayer and intention to set things in motion. Or rather, to get in tuned with what is already in motion. The goal here is to align yourself with that which is already happening. And to be a catalyst for it's unfoldment on Earth. This is totally different from the old way of trying to will something into existence. Whatever your project or work is, realize that ultimately it's God's project. Please remember that no matter what the form, be it a book, a business, a film or an invention. Don't start to think that it is your project alone. Because when you start to think that way you feel alone and then you feel that it is up to you to make it happen . Then you get stressed out and fearful and start to use pushy coercive business tactics to force it into existence. Pretty much 99.99% of the business done today in our world is accomplished in this manner. It is a highly inefficient way to get things done. Which is ironic, because to most of us this new method will appear at first to be the inefficient one. Why, because most of the time you will appear to be doing nothing of consequence. But that is only because we normally think being busy and running around is doing "work" when in reality most of that activity is just wasted energy. This is especially true when the business or project is going against the flow of the universe, which unfortunately happens to be most of the time. In the future, which is upon us, we will complete projects using this new method. The heart of this method is trust.
When you do a project in a spiritual way, you realize you are not alone and your main goal is to get in alignment with that which exists already. You want to get in tuned with what is already happening. When you do this you because an instrument and things come into your awareness and start to happen synchronistically. You don't follow mental "to do" lists; instead you will be intuitively guided moment to moment. Sometimes these inspirations will not make any logical sense at all. But it all starts with the question, "God what would you have me do today." Of course you will have needs, wishes and desires but you will give those over to God. Then you will seek to get in alignment with Gods solutions to what appears to be your problems. This is the proper way. All the solutions already exist. It is only man today who believes himself to be separate from God that thinks he must make things happen using his own will power. But the power of Love is so much more powerful. And, that's what we are really talking about. For this new way to work you will only seek to do things that are in alignment with the higher order. So that means things that are in alignment with the higher good. There will be no more destructive creations.
Anyway back to your project. The first thing you must do is, sit back, relax and enjoy the show. I.e. watch the process unfold. You will have thoughts such as:
"But God cannot handle such a big project. I'm going to have to jump in there and make it happen!"
But if you think about that for just a second you will realize how silly that thought is. I mean we're talking about God here. And if it's the same God that created us that that means he handles much bigger projects than yours every millisecond. In every moment whole universes are created and destroyed. So don't you think he can handle this? Ahh but now you say:
"Well yes but not my project. I'm not worthy of god's help."
But you are. And he is helping you. God's help is available to everyone. It's not that he doesn't want to help people or that people are not worthy, it's that we choose, consciously or sub consciously to reject him and his help. We are like children who want to pretend we don't have any parents. But God being the loving parent that he is will let the children believe in this delusion as much as they want to. Constantly protecting them from themselves, but in the process letting them learn the lessons of separation. Eventually they wake up and want to come back home.
Dump all your old ideas of how things get done in this world. It will not happen from your will power, your fear or your separate actions and ideas. Take all your concerns to God as you have been. Then trust that it is happening in the background. Be open to the signs when you are nudged to take action or when someone is brought to you. You are already very good at this so there really is no problem . For you it's just a matter of really believing that it can happen this way. But all that is required is your effort to believe and this you are doing. Soon your project will be done and you will be able to teach this new method to others. Yes the old world is being destroyed but a new world is being created and you are a part of it so do not fear. All you need do is set back, relax and enjoy the show.
You have many compasses to help guide you along the way, they are:
Does it
feel right?
Are you at peace?
Is it effortless?
Does it flow?
Is it joyful?
When you're about to take an action use these compasses to guide you. This is how you will know if you are in the flow or not.
"But what about money?"
Trust, you already have everything you need right now in this moment to take the next step. All will be provided for in the right time and place for your project to come into being. Know that. Accept what is happening. Stay out of fear. If you could see all the blessing coming to you, you would be so overjoyed but instead you look at your drab world and let that tell you what to believe. Don't listen to it. Stay focused on the spiritual. Stay out of worldly dramas. Know that you do have the money. Just have fun with it, trusting that the means will be provided for you. You must trust in this process. Do not worry about how you're going to make it happen. You are not going to make anything happen. Instead you will discover what is already happening and go along with that.
By William Spiritdancer
Stage
one - AWAKENING
In stage one, we are the restless. We go through life asleep to our
true purpose for existing. We feel restless, searching for meaning in
the meaningless things of the world. We live a never-ending search,
looking for happiness and peace in everything outside of ourselves.
At some point, we realize we are barking up the wrong tree and turn
within. Many times this will be brought on by a crisis in our lives.
Eventually we start to awaken to the idea that we were born to make
a difference; that there has to be something more to our lives. We are
not just cogs in some machine. We realize that who we truly are is important
and that we have something meaningful to contribute to the world, even
though we may not know exactly what that something is. It is at this
point of awakening that we enter stage two and begin the journey of
finding out exactly why we are here and what we are supposed to do with
our lives.
Stage
two - DISCOVERY
In stage two, we are seekers, determined to discover what is our gift,
what it is that we love to do? We start noticing what we really enjoy
doing for the pure joy of it versus for money and recognition. Eventually
we understand without a doubt what it is that we love to do, and we
realize that this is our gift for the world. Once we realize what this
gift is, we can enter stage three.
Stage
three - INITIATION
In stage three, we are artist, determined to cultivate our gifts and
win the battle against our ego and the many inner demons that arise
to convince us that we are not worthy, not good enough, or that no one
will need what we have to offer. We will deal with issues of survival,
and money. But eventually we will defeat these demons. We will begin
to understand that there is a larger purpose for what we love to do;
that there is a loving higher power that is guiding us; that what we
love to do is a necessary and meaningful part of healing the planet.
At this point, fears about survival will be washed away by our deep
desire to help make the world a better place. We will finally answer
the questions: "Why am I here?" and "What am I supposed
to do with my life?" When we realize that we are to heal the world
with our gifts, we enter stage four.
Stage
four - PURPOSE
In stage four--the last and final stage--our life purpose has become
clear. It is clear who we are, why we are here, what are our gifts,
and how we are to use these gifts to heal the planet. Now our focus
shifts from what we can get with our gifts to how can we can give and
contribute unconditionally. Now we see that there is much work to be
done. No longer do we stand back and feel powerless. With God at our
side, and his love in our hands, we boldly jump into the fray. When
we give of our gifts freely and unconditionally to the world, we have
become dream masters!