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I don’t believe it. That is why you fail.

“I don’t believe it.” -Luke Skywalker “That is why you fail.” -Yoda If you’ve been reading Lights, Camera, Wisdom for a while, you know I love Star Wars. In my opinion, The Empire Strikes Back, is the best of the bunch. In it, Han Solo and Princess Leia fall in love, (which made my 13-year-old…

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Choose Like Luke Skywalker To Change Everything

How Being Like Luke Skywalker Changes Your Clarity, Wisdom, and Decisiveness. This week’s quote: “You’ve failed, your highness. I am a Jedi like my father before me.” Sometimes, I pretend I am Luke Skywalker. I know, I know. “Huh?” But bear with me. Choosing makes me struggle. I agonize, and I hit the breaking point…

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Words, Camera, Action!

Words, Camera, Action! How beloved movie and TV quotes can spark our creativity, inspire us, and improve our lives. Welcome to a brand new feature on this site. If you know me at all, you know how much I adore movies. Particularly, I love the words characters say. Good screenplay writing will tug at your heart….

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Get the Calendar Template to Increase Your Productivity and Ingenuity

Get this Calendar Template to Increase Your Efficiency, Productivity, and Ingenuity! Do you want to become more efficient and productive? Write down your to-do list, by project and day on this calendar template. Only, don’t think of it as “I have to do X.” Change your internal story. You’re lucky enough to get to strive and…

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Problem-Solving Matrices

Five Tips to Use the Creative Problem-Solving Matrix to Improve Your Skills In this week’s episode, I explore the problem-solving matrix. I delve into our process when approaching an issue to solve. I’ve developed two matrices. The first looks at traditional approaches to arriving at solutions. Additionally, the second provides a creative perspective. If you…

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How to Get Out of Autopilot and Re-energize Your Mind

How to Get Out of Autopilot and Re-energize Your Mind Enjoy this mini-Tell Your Story Better podcast episode 161.5. In it, I talk about a simple technique to get you out of autopilot and into your more creative, energized mind. It’s a simple technique, but it really works. And it does so without you having to…

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The Art of Finishing

The Art of Finishing Two heavy boxes arrived in this afternoon’s mail. My husband carried them inside. I screamed and ran over to them with scissors. These boxes held my version of art. They contained my author’s copies of my latest book, Speak From Within. Two of my books have been fiction. The first two…