ACTION!!! This Ain’t no Dress Rehearsal

When was the last time you paid money to watch the rehearsal of a Broadway production or a your favorite artist's concert? Never, right? Or not unless it came along with tickets to the main event, VIP style ( I know how ya’ll roll.) No matter how fabulous a performer is, the rehearsal doesn't compete with the show. It’s a test run – they’re testing everything: Lights, make-up, moves. I remember onetime at a fashion show rehearsal a 6 foot tall glamazon screams "these shoes make my bunions hurt!" Ain’t nothing fabulous about that. Come showtime, she was one of the fiercest girls struttin’, bunions and all. That’s one of the many fun things about show business - you get to try it out before you show it off. But nothing beats the magic of ‘ACTION!’ So I ask you, why are so many of us ladies walking around the stage of life like this is a dress rehearsal? Honey, we’re rolling! ACTION!

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SO many of us fabulous sisters live like we’re on some type of waitlist, like we need some special invitations to our lives, to being 100% our fabulous selves. Meanwhile we got Sex and the City perma-play in our DVD players drinking wine and eating popcorn, trying to live vicariously through fictional characters! You know how it goes: ‘I wish I could be fierce like Samantha.’ ‘Carries so stylish, when they give me a raise, I’m going to get stylish too!’ ‘Life will start when I meet my Mr. Big.’ Honeychild, let me let you in on a secret. THEY are not going to give you anything. People give you want you want after you take it and they realize it wasn’t theirs to begin with. And become Ms. Big, then the men who approach you have to step their game up.
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It’s time for us all to call ACTION on our lives. Dress rehearsal is ova! Give yourself 100% permission to live boldly. Start writing that book, or take that class, or get that degree, go get that sassy haircut, change that job, start that business, lose that weight! DO IT TODAY! Because you know what living vicariously through other people as your life passes you by turns you into?A BITTER BITCH. That shit is spiritual cancer! Save yourself!
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Alas, I am here to help. Ever the bookwork, I have extracted a wonderful exercise from my current favorite book selection: The Smart Cookies Guide to Making More Dough. It’s called the CREATING YOUR PERFECT DAY exercise:

Imagine your perfect day. In a perfect world where you have everything that you want, what does your perfect day look like. Be truthful no matter how crazy it sounds (My perfect day included helicoptering to a spa, so go all out) Ask Yourself the following questions, write down the answers:

1) What time do you wake up? How do you feel as you greet the day?
2) Where are you(at home)? What does it look like?
3) Who is with you?
4) What kind of work are you doing? With whom?
5) As you had to face the day, how do you look? What are you wearing?
6) When and where do you work? How do you get there?
7) When you are done with work, how do you spend your free time?
8) What is your evening like? What are you eating and drinking?
9) When you go to bed that night, how are you feeling after spending a day doing exactly what you love?
10) What are you most grateful for and what are you most looking forward to as you drift to sleep?

This is what you want your life to be! Meditate on what you write down, and then get to work on getting it done! There is NO TIME other than the present.

Some fabulous books to motivate the hell out of you:

The Smart Cookies Guide to Making More Dough; Talent is Never Enough, John C. Maxwell; Piece of Cake, Cupcake Brown; Woman’s Worth, Marianne Williamson; Why Man Love Bitches (for you girls who are letting a man hold you back and need a verbal slap in the face) and Fabulosity, Kimora Lee Simmons.




'Til next time, Be FABULOUS!

xoxo,
Netta