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This week's answer:
Wishful
Selling
Rochelle, I know how that can
hurt. Do you feel it in your gut like I do when the
roadblock or stop sign or red light appears? Another
good one is when a producer changes direction in
midstream. (I didn't mean to mix my metaphors again,
but somehow "changing directions in mid-road" doesn't quite say
it.) I know that this is probably not going to feel
like this helps, and may even feel like it hurts even more
than before you sent your e-mail to me, but, chances are
that you never had a sale to begin with. The wishful
thinking and desperately hoping part of you may have
wanted you to BELIEVE that you did. And there's
nothing wrong with that. As long as you keep the
right perspective. We have many parts of us, many
I's as the lauded philosopher, Ouspensky, indicates in his
writings. Your "I have to make a sale right
now" I just got a little louder than the other I's.
Maybe even drowned them out. The reality crash is
worse when we're not balanced and lost in
expectations. We have a tendency to live in the
future, especially when that future looks brighter and one
that has you selling a screenplay, without consulting the
present. That's why it's a gift. Or something
like that. (If one more person says that to me or
tells me about the footprints on the beach, I'm going to
give them a gift and strangle them on a
beach. Who's carrying you now, pal!) Not
really. Just chalk up the aforementioned outburst to
some producer in my past saying "no". In midstream.
Under a red light.
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