I love Drew Barrymore. What is there not to like. She likes to smoke a blunt, like me . She goes from guy to guy, like me. She likes to re-taste her leftovers from time to time, like me.  She experienced a difficult childhood, like me.  I SO wish I had a mom to take me to clubs at nine where I could smoke and start coke. Maybe I would have went crazier sooner than later.

Okay, maybe one day that will be funny. Maybe,not. But, I digress.

I was on the toilet hungry, getting mad at myself that I can’t even cheat on this diet. What is there left, moss? Anyhoo, I look up and there she is Drew Barrymore staring me in the face. She was on the cover of an old magazine in an African basket that I got from Wal-Mart. It compliments my Zebra shower curtains. Seeing Drew smiling at me, at first I was a little angry because I was so hungry and when I am hungry I get irritated by all I see. But, then I thought of a deeper message that her smile gave me.

If you take a look at her career and her childhood, this girl might not have stood a chance. We all know about the Barrymore curse. She probably would have made it anyways but, who knew if she was going to keep her career up. And when I look at her and see all that she has become, it not only makes me proud but, teaches me a lesson in reinvention.

We could all use some reinvention from time to time. I asked myself, “where did she get her strength from?”

Where do we all get our strength? I don’t think it ever goes away. I think that it is like an energy source, you can always draw from it. This girl went from Hollywood child star to piranha and now producer/actress mogul. When the going gets tough, the tough needs a changing. What do you hate in your life? I know people in my life that are fantastic dreamers.  I am one of them. But, then there comes a time when you have to put action behind the doing

I think the whole point of the book “The Secret” wasn’t to make us think that there is a mystical process out there for us to follow. It was to remind ourselves to start dreaming again and stop focusing on the negative. This thinking in itself is not radical. What is radical is that you’d be surprised on how many people are not clear on their goals. Just because you are clear on your wishes and dreams does not mean that you are clear on your goals. The easiest way to get clear on your goals is to ma p out a clear and quick route to get you there. Don’t forget to draw in alternate routes. Once you are clear on your goals, the trick is to put constant action behind it. It is as simple as that. You want the lover of your dreams? Yes, you can cut pictures and placed them on a board and dream all you might. However, if you don’t go out on dates, work on you,  and get clear on the attributes you want them to have, then possums to no avail nothing may happen. But, if you put action behind the deeds the returns will be a hundredfold.

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