Heaven Hi!!!

I feel the need to send loving and courageous thoughts to author and publisher Norman Mailer. Mailer is recovering in a hospital after surgery to remove scar tissue around his lung, his daughter-in-law said Wednesday.
“He’s been getting better every time I see him,” Salina Mailer said. She didn’t recall the date of the operation at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Mailer, 84, gained instant literary acclaim with his first book, “The Naked and the Dead,” published in 1948 and based in part on his experience as an Army infantryman in the Philippines. He won Pulitzer Prizes for “The Armies of the Night” and “The Executioner’s Song.” His latest book, “The Castle in the Forest,” was published this year.”

People who have realized their creativity and feel the need to share it with humanity should be respected and cherished. Norman mailer displayed his brilliance and imagination upon the words on the page. Our loving and courageous go out to you. Get Well.

Be BOP!!!
Thom

Heaven Hi!!!

Tiger Woods’s incredible achievements are perfect examples of BOP and many important qualities successful people develop and demonstrate on a regular basis. Focus, commitment, a perfect balance of visual acuity, focus, and total physical control, being completely present in each moment and the power of listening to a coach to learn and nurture such qualities.

Tiger not only consistently wins high stakes tournaments, but also frequently sets records such as the lowest score, being the youngest champion ever, and has therefore established himself as the greatest player in sports history at his age.
I bring this up because Tiger Woods, with all of his skill and talent, has a coach in fact, many coaches. Butch Harmon worked with Tiger to improve his swing. His caddy helps plot strategy. He has lawyers, accountants, public relations advisors, investment counselors and other people coaching him in different areas. Tiger’s most important coaches, where his parents. They also have the most seniority on his coaching staff!

Parents instill the mental, emotional, and psychological foundations that will be your guides on the paths to your outcomes. In Tiger’s case, his late father Earl was a military man who introduced him to “BOP” the state that an athlete must be able to enter to succeed. He taught him how to balance his body, to be completely aware of his body in relation to the ground and golf club, to visualize the course so he could see the cup where the ball should go and most importantly, to be present in each moment. When Tiger was practicing his swing as a child, his father would do everything he could to distract him, to hone the vital skill of staying focused in each moment. The point is that no matter what skills we have, we need coaches to maximize our success.

Are you coachable? I’ve found in teaching my Acting For Real classes that 20% of people are and 80% are not. Which group do you fall in? Let me know.

Be Bop!
Thom

Heaven Hi!

Last night I had sushi with Tom Bell the internet marketing guru, he has helped millions of people to make money on the internet, by showing them how to do it right and stop dreaming about it. He loves the Acting for Real method, The Books, products, courses and he was excited about how we will work together, but at first he didn’t think we could partner up, because he thought the Acting for Real Book was for people who where broken and wanted to find a way to mend or heal and that is not a pond that he wanted to fish in because it is to hard to get people to wake up and take action.

Why did he get that impression, I kept asking myself, you know when something is not being seen like you intended it to be?

For a short time I felt like we had failed then I realized, in Acting For Real there are no failures only outcomes. So what was Tom telling me that by fishing in a pond where there were no people that had money are that people would not admit that they were broken and needed help. Then it came to me, The marketing was wrong. Thanks Tom for bringing that to my attention. So now we are re writing the sales page and letting every one no what Acting For Real?.

Acting For Real is not about being broken it’s about being Awake. It gives you the way to wake up and take action and turn your dreams into a reality. A dream without action is a fantasy. You learn how to work smart, with success intelligence and the power of positive behavior. Thanks Tom.

Be Bop!
Thom

p.s. If you quack like a duck–walk like a duck, and look like a duck. You’re a duck! But if you talk like a success–walk successful and behave like success.
Guess what?

You’re a Star!

Heaven Hi!!!

Every once and awhile, along comes a writer that grips the American ideal of the times. However, do we sometimes misconstrue who people are by their writings? After the launch of the new book The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” written by Hunter’s wife Anita Thompson, many things broke the original viewpoints the mainstream public had about Hunter S. Thompson.

It wasn’t a reckless obsession with liquor, drugs and gunplay that made the late Hunter S. Thompson the undisputed king of gonzo journalism. Instead, it was old-fashioned principles such as working hard and telling the truth, enlivened by the glee Thompson took from learning and from being right. Thompson’s wife went on to further comment that, “I don’t deny his lifestyle, because his lifestyle was pretty extreme,” Anita Thompson told The Associated Press, but that lifestyle was made possible by his success as a reporter and writer, not the other way around.

In our society today we find that we focus a lot of our attention on the negative traits and behaviors of celebrities. Our focus further fuels our celebrity friends, who were originally successful because of their talents, to be focused on how much water to put into the well of negativity that we draw our water from. Talent is replaced by extremity, whether that is with alcohol, drug addiction, or eating disorders. We as the audience should encourage others to focus on their talents, and not on their extremities.

Encourage a BOP life to where you will be aware of your talent. To be the star in your own play in life. Hunter S. Thompson impressed the world with his marvelous stories, and a great contributor to literary society that has taken his accounts and taught them to other aspiring writers.

He will forever be remembered.

Be BOP!!!

Thom