Emily Blunt's Moxie: The Power of Intention

Actress Emily Blunt walked into her audition and firmly announced "I'm here to play Queen Victoria and I'm not leaving until you give me the job". She then focused and commanded every scrap of energy and talent within her to deliver her best performance possible and did not leave that film audition until she was awarded the role.

That, my friends, is MOXIE! The power of intention enables you to Command Your Stage. Emily's ability to muster up her moxie is a shining example of the secret to superstar success. Know what you want and put every part of your being - your thoughts, feelings, choices and actions into alignment with that desire. Speak and act in the direction of your dreams. Let no one and no thing stand between you and that which will make your heart sing.

The difference between those who can't reach the next rung on the ladder of achievement and those who rise above the competition to become extraordinary is Moxie. To reach superstar success you must hold within you a self-focused commitment to an authentic burning desire. A self-focused energy is not about stomping over everyone else to get what you want. It is about acknowledging and honoring who you are and what you want and allowing yourself to have that.

"I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it." - Jodie Foster

Allow the child within your heart, to rise above. In your heart of hearts, you know what you long to do. Notice if the child within your head, what is called the Inner Critic, is holding you back by Finding Excuses And Reasons why you can't have what you want, why you can't do what you want to do and be who you want to be. The acronym for Finding Excuses And Reasons is FEAR. And when you're in fear you turn your back on yourself and retreat, often by taking a path of least resistance.

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person." - Albert Einstein

It takes chutzpah to walk into an audition and declare a leading role as yours. What's the worse that could happen? If you don't get the part you're no worse off than you were when you walked into the audition. Any thoughts of failure by not landing the role and what that means for you is stuff you just made up. Doesn't make it true. There will always be another role, another opportunity - unless you get in your own way through fear. What's the best that could happen? You get what you want!

In order to get what you want you have to first know what you want. Then focus all of your thoughts and actions in a way that will support getting it. That self-focus is the first, and essential, intentional step required for superstar success. With each succeeding step you take as you move closer and closer to your goal continue to focus in that direction with the same power of intention. You'll begin to marvel at how your life experience shifts from struggle to seemingly effortless flow as you fully invest yourself in your creative endeavors.

Muster up your Moxie. Have the confident courage to achieve authentic greatness with unrelenting drive and passion.

Valery is a Moxie Master, Mentor & Coach who can teach you how to claim your truth, own your power & command your stage with my unique Moxie Therapy process. Muster up your Moxie!: The confident courage to achieve authentic greatness with unrelenting drive & passion. Get free tips today a http://www.MoxieTherapy.com

How To Tell If Your Choices Are Good or Bad

"The unconscious is our best collaborator."- Director Mike Nichols

Did you know that you have a personal GPS system within you? It will tell you whether or not the turn, the choice, you are about to make will lead you to your destination or not. It will tell you whether you are on the right path to achieve all that you dream of or on the road to a life unfulfilled, a dream never achieved.

This GPS system is your birthright. You experience this GPS system every day of your life yet you may not know how to use it. If your life is not going in the direction you desire, perhaps you are reading its indicators upside down. Maybe you've done a good job of ignoring or justifying the alarms it sends off. You just may not be paying any attention to the darn thing at all!

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Henry David Thoreau

Your personal guidance system is your emotions. Emotions are indicators of whether or not you've made, or are about to make, a good choice. Your emotions are served up by your Inner Being, Higher Self or what I lovingly call the Wizard Within. Wizards are alchemists. They know, precisely, how to turn dreams into reality. Your Wizard Within is there to guide you every step, every turn, on your way to the fulfillment of all experiences you desire.

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong

Simply put, the Wizard Within will serve up a bad feeling if you're headed in the wrong direction. Similarly, if you're headed towards achieving your aspirations you will feel good! Your emotions artfully guide you every moment of every day. As a creator of your life experience, you are a masterful artist! The question is, what is guiding what you chose to create?

"Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art." - Konstantin Stanislavsky

Use your GPS to guide you as you make all of your choices, big and small. I paid attention to my Wizard Within last Sunday. I was at Home Depot buying plants for the home I just moved into. I paid for my selections and was putting my plants in my car when an uncomfortable feeling came over me. "Gee, I bought a lot of plants for $33.89!". I 'felt' that something was wrong. I looked at my receipt and saw that I was not charged for the two rather large hanging plants that were hooked onto the back of my shopping cart.

Here I was, in the parking lot, clearly getting away with my freebies yet I didn't feel good. In that moment I had a choice. I could hop in the car and go on my merry way knowing that I cheated the system or I could march back into the store and pay for my hanging plants. Which choice would make me feel good? To the sales clerk's shock and awe, I went back into Home Depot and paid for what was overlooked. I felt good again.

Why didn't I feel good about getting away with not having to pay for my purchases? It would be one thing if I were not aware that I wasn't properly charged. However, I did know. In that knowing I could choose to be a cheat and a thief or I could choose to be an honest person. As an honest person who stands centered in the truth of who I am there could only be one choice I could make that would be in alignment with that truth. Being in harmony with your truth feels good! Inauthentic choices do not feel good.

That experience was a simple example of how your emotions are GPS indicators of what life direction you are headed towards yet you can expand upon its simplicity and use it for all of your life choices, personal and professional. Use your GPS and Happy Journeys!

"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player." - Albert Einstein

Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mindset Mentor and Coach who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that often come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Empower the Wizard Within tips"!

How to Rise Above the Pecking Order

Where are you in the pecking order of your life? Are you above or below the "measuring up to" rung you hoped to be on at this moment in time? Where are you in the heirarchy through which you define your life achievement; your sense of self-worth and accomplishment?

If you had answers to those question in the form of higher than or lower than you are on a ladder to nowhere fast. To map your place in this world, know where you stand, you constantly measure by means of more or less than what you believe to be the ideal, the model of who you 'should' be. From this vantage point you can make sense of the world. Nonsense!

Those who define themselves according to a self-imposed pecking order will never experience satisfaction and a life well lived. There will always be someone who seems to be better than, have a life richer than, they are. Like the dog chasing a car, life is a long exhausting chase. Even if the car is caught, the high rung achieved, there will be the search for what to do next.

"I can't get no satisfaction." - Mick Jagger

What is this pecking order anyway? It is an arrangement of things (objects, names, values, categories, etc.), in which the things are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another. Those who live by the pecking order are constantly fighting for a higher position or defending themselves against a lower position. Validation fluctuates depending upon the rung of the moment achieved. The heirarchy of other things and people determine one's self-esteem.

The truth is you are here to be you. Your purpose in life is to express your full potential, develop and expand your own unique gifts, your talent, what you bring forth into this world, without exception. This is your birthright. The only ladder, the only pecking order to consider in the expression of an authentic life is where you are, or are not, in integrity with your truth. The only place of measurement is within. Nothing external can deliver your unique voice, your creative contribution. Only you.

"The best thing you can do is get good at being you!" - Denis the Menace

To seek validation from the position of others is to hold yourself hostage, a victim, to the perceived 'rankings' of others. You give up your personal power, your truth, in exchange for the power you think others have and can give you. Think of the shopaholic who runs out to buy the latest Louis Vuitton purse or Rolex watch because she thinks that if she has that item she will move up a rung or two on the status pecking order. There is a moment of shear joy at the point of purchase but very quickly sights are set on the next bling that will deliver that elusive rung. Shopping is what people do because they think it will take them from who they are to who they want to be. More nonsense! There is a clear distinction between buying a Prada bag because you enjoy its beauty and utility and buying it to make you feel better about yourself.

You are you. You have always been you. If there is any part of you that you are unsatisfied with it is because you are not expressing your full potential in that area. You are holding yourself back and no one else. So stop all this measuring; looking outside of you to define yourself. Look within. Honor your authenticity; your uniqueness. Ask what your Higher Being would want to do and express and act positively upon that direction!

"Be who you are and say what you feel. Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mindset Mentor who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that often come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Empower the Wizard Within tips"!

Show Up Aligned With Your Dream to Turn it Into Reality

"Eighty percent of success is just showing up." — Woody Allen

Showing up in your life is, indeed, an ingredient to success in any endeavor. How you show up, what your state of being is, defines what it is you succeed in creating, experiencing. Do you show up insecure, doubtful, full of fear or do you show up present, standing centered in the truth of who you are, fully engaged in your dreams, your desires? Both states of being succeed in creating an outcome. The former creates more experiences of your insecurity, doubts and fear. The latter creates the actualization of all that you desire.

"It's the vibes man!"

We live in a vibrational universe. As Albert Einstein said, "Nothing happens until something moves". Living things have a vibrational quality as do what you perceive to be solid, man-made. Put anything under a super duper microscope and you will see tiny atoms and molecules moving about. Energy. Everything is made up of this vibrational energy. Including you.

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” - Aristotle

Vibration is the language of this Universe. Sound is a vibration. Vibrate and there is a responding vibration. A communication; an understanding between vibrations. You've seen how this works. Put two tuning forks together, strike one to generate a sound and the other will begin to vibrate with a matching tone. Place two pendulums together, strike them randomly and they will soon begin to sway back and forth in unison in the same direction. If you've ever been to a concert and the audience applauds for an encore, it is not long before the entire audience is clapping in unison, matching the vibration of an imperceptible leader.

As the creator of your experiences you emit a vibration through your thoughts and feelings that reflects a matching experience back to you. Therefore, it is not what you say that delivers what you want, it's how you feel that manifests your outcomes. This is why affirmations do not work unless you believe what it is that you are saying. For example, in your best Stuart Smalley imitation (from Saturday Night Live) you affirm "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me!" and your next thought is "Yeah, right! Who am I kidding" and feel less than what you affirmed, what you are communicating to the Universe you want to experience is more outcomes that will continue to affirm your feeling, your vibration, of being less than good enough, smart enough and likable.

To show up in your day, in your life, in alignment with all that you desire you must hold the vibration of that experience. What would it feel like to accomplish your highest goals? Who would you be, what would you do, what would you have? How would you feel if you achieved all that? Feel it with every bone, every atom and molecule within your body and hold that energy within you. Focus your actions, your choices, on that vibrational energy. It is a way of acting as if what you desire has already been delivered to you and you are enjoying it at this very moment. This present moment.

It is in your moments of now that you create your future outcomes, whether it be one minute from now or ten years or more. Holding the vibration of your past experiences that you did not want will only serve to create more experiences of that which you do not want. Holding the vibration of what you worry for your future will create outcomes that match what you worry about.

There is an easy way to tell what you are emitting vibrationally. Check in with how you feel. If you feel rotten, reach for a thought, or a series of thoughts, that will make you feel better about yourself and your current experience. If you feel good, build and act upon that good feeling to create more experiences to feel good about. It's really that simple. Be mindful of how you feel, your vibration. Check in to focus and align your vibration so that it matches your deepest desires.

“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.” - Denis Waitley

Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mindset Mentor who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that often come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Empower the Wizard Within tips"!

Let Go of Being Right to Get What You Want

Your Inner Critic, that nagging internal voice of self-doubt and fear loves to be right! Being right, to that egoistic nagger, is associated with being worthy. In order to feel worthy you have to be right! At the expense of everything else you want in life. Would you rather be right or happy?

Being right is an either/or equation for most. “Either I’m right or your right? If you’re right then what does that make me?” And the Inner Critic responds with “not good (or smart) enough”. So you fight for your rightness to feel better about yourself. You see people fighting to be right in your personal and professional life. Heck, turn on the television and you’ll find lots of people pontificating on their rightness on talk shows and news programs. Much of the comedy programming you see is based on a character trying to prove he is right about some inane thing.

"Don't find fault. Find a remedy." - Henry Ford

The truth is, it isn’t an either/or world. It’s an AND world! You can be right AND let the other person be right too! You can get your viewpoint communicated effectively without making the other person wrong. This ability is one of the key secrets to turning your dreams into reality. Here’s an example.

A man runs to the local FedEx station with three golf clubs tied together, wrapped in brown paper, with a proper shipping label pasted around the middle of the package. He’s rushing because the last pick-up of the day is in another minute or two and he has to get these clubs to his brother in another state no later than tomorrow morning.

The FedEx employee says they can’t ship those clubs packaged this way and he will have to bring them back in packaged in a proper FedEx box. So the man screams and yells at the employee “These clubs are very securely wrapped and you can easily read the label to see where they have to go! You’re just wasting my time over your stupid rules! I’ve got to get these clubs to my brother tomorrow morning or he won’t be able to play in the tournament! You’re going to ruin his life! FedEx s*#ks!” Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration but you get the idea of where this conversation is going.

As the two men continue to argue, the last scheduled pick-up of the day comes and goes without the golf clubs. The man was right; it would be easy to ship the clubs as they were. So, who won? Nobody. The man didn’t get the clubs shipped to his brother on time. FedEx lost a customer that day.

How else could this scenario have played out that would still allow the man to be right AND get the clubs shipped out with the last pick-up?

When told that he needs to have the clubs packaged in a proper FedEx box he could have responded: “I understand (allowing the FedEx employee to be right) and here’s my problem. If I don’t get these clubs to my brother by tomorrow morning he won’t be able to play in the tournament he’s dreamed about his whole life!” With the acknowledgement that he was right, the FedEx employee now has good feelings about the man in front of him and wants to help him. People do want to help others when they can. He replies “I see, fill out this new shipping label while I run out back and tell the pick-up guy to wait a minute. I think we have an extra box in the back somewhere that you can use.”

FedEx employee is right. Man gets the clubs to his brother on time and is happy, goal accomplished!

“The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let go of being right. It is your ego, your Inner Critic, that thrives from being right all the time. Focus on what you want. The man in the above example wanted to ship the clubs to his brother that day. Without making the FedEx employee, or himself, wrong he got what he wanted. He allowed them both to be right!

Try this approach in your daily life. See how letting go of being right by making others wrong delivers more of the good experiences you want to have and less of the bad experiences. Allowing others to be right, too, empowers you!

“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance” - Robert Quillen

Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mindset Mentor who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that often come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Empower the Wizard Within tips"!

The Key Driver of Creative Success

What drives you to succeed as a creative person? Is it the dream of fame, wealth and recognition? Is the thought of seeing your name up in lights what propels you out of bed in the morning? Having such a strong and clear goal is a definite motivator and, if you work hard and pay your dues, you can absolutely achieve that goal. However, if you want to be successful without the feeling that you are battling your way through life your motivation to get out of that comfy bed in the morning has to come from somewhere else. There must be an even bigger motivating driver.

To have ambition and want to be successful is a fine thing but it isn't enough. Ambition and want are just words that describe desire. To understand WHY you have such desires is quite another thing. True genius, true art in any form, comes from passion. Great actors aren't great because of their technique. Anyone can learn technique. They move an audience as great actors because of their passion. Passion is the driver that motivates every bone and breath in your body to achieve.

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose." - Bette Davis

If your desires are not in alignment with your passion you can be successful but you will not be fulfilled, satisfied. You will live a rich famous life and still yearn for the elusive thing. You will get up in the morning wondering what is wrong with you. You have all that you desired yet you feel that there is still something missing. You are missing the nourishment that feeds your soul, your heart.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart. When work, dedicated commitment, and pleasure unite to become one and you reach into that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. Through the experience of devoted passion you will reap richer stores of knowledge than any text-book or course of study can give you.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This dedication to authentic passion always and absolutely carries a demand and a responsibility. It is up to you to honor and stand centered in the truth of who you are. Speak and act in the direction of your innermost passions. If you do not, you are betraying your own authenticity. If you are Finding Excuses And Reasons (F.E.A.R.) why you cannot pursue your passion you are hiding your true estate. You are acting in bad faith. You are 'dissing' you.

Now it must be said that passion without action is just a dream. You actualize your passion, bring forth the dream into the world, you must do something! This is where the Inner Critic can, and often does, step in to hold you back. What if you really put yourself 'out there' and stood naked to the world boldly following your heart's desire and fail? What will happen then? Will you just whither and die? If not, who will you be? Very scary thoughts!

You will not die. Your commitment to your truth and passion will motivate you to respect your actions and your reaction to the opinions of others. Failure is just a stepping stone on the road to success. Your passion will motivate you to look at the proverbial rocks you tripped over, examine them, and overcome whatever obstacles that get in your way. You will love the process of making mistakes, learning and growing as you expand and fully express your passion and talents that are your birthright. Whatever struggles you encounter will be met enthusiastically for they are definitely worth the ride of your life!

“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.” - Proverb

Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mindset Mentor who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that often come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Empower the Wizard Within tips"!

Empowerment Tips from George Michael - Pop Star

Spending an entire day at an airport dealing with one flight delay after another was once a nightmare for me. I have since learned to look for the gift in every experience. My recent, and much anticipated, trip to Italy began with such an unexpected day. Instead of pouting thinking my entire trip was off to a bad start I decided to look for the gift; and found it.

It was in the music piped through the speakers that permeated every corridor and concourse. Lyrics calling out to me to remind me to stay centered in the truth of who I am, someone who enjoys life and can magically turn lemons into lemonade. This time the message came to me through the voice of pop star, George Michael.

"I think there's something you should know
I think it's time I told you so
There's something deep inside of me
There's someone else I've got to be."
- George Michael "Freedom"

I remembered the 'old me'. Well, it wasn't really me back then. As a child I put who I was so far on the proverbial back burner that I forgot I was there through a good deal of my adulthood. Many of you have been or are in that suppressed place now, pretending to be someone you are not. That state of being simply doesn't work. It doesn't feel good. It's exhausting.

Oh, like you, I was able to Find Excuses And Reasons (F.E.A.R.) why my life wasn't working out the way I wanted it to. It was because of things beyond my control such as the economy, a mad control freak boss, a jerk of a boyfriend, the glass ceiling, the good old boys network. Yeah, right. My life wasn't working out because I was not being true to who I was. I was pretending to be a shark of an analytical corporate executive when I was really a whimsical playful artistic spirit itching to create with my right brain instead of my left.

Facing each day wearing a 'false me' suit sucks the life force right out of you.

"Take back your picture in a frame
Take back your singing in the rain
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man."
- George Michael "Freedom"

The heart of the message is that at any time, in any moment, you can step back into your power and live your life authentically in alignment with your truth, your passions and in tune with what inspires you. You can simply tell that Inner Critic of yours who's been handing you marching orders since you were knee high that you are rewriting the game plan and are fully in charge from this second forward. The Inner Critic will grumble and complain and throw some drama in your way here and there to trip you up. But like the scared little imp it that it is, the Inner Critic will finally settle down and behave. It will grow up and learn how to serve you instead of hide you.

"All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me."
- George Michael "Freedom"

From what I've read from time to time in the headlines, perhaps it's time for George Michael to listen to that voice deep inside of him calling to be something else. As a brilliant and talented singer and musician he has chosen to follow a pattern of self destructive behavior instead of channeling that energy into the magnificent gifts that are his birthright.

"I won't let you down
I will not give you up
Gotta have some faith in the sound
It's the one good thing that I've got
I won't let you down
So please don't give me up
Because I would really, really love to stick around."
- George Michael "Freedom"

Nearly eight hours later I was boarding my flight to Italy dancing down the airplane aisle having turned a lemon day into lemonade.

Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mindset Mentor who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can move overcome the struggles that often come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Empower the Wizard Within tips"!

A Profound Empowering Influence: Dr. Seuss

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem & smarter than you think." - Winnie the Pooh

Some of the most profound and enlightening literature is found in the stories we heard and read as children. Philosophers such as Winnie the Pooh, Dennis the Menace and Dr. Suess taught us how to live authentically with confidence. And we often abandoned those lessons; pushing them aside as "stuff for kids". As we grew we abandoned authenticity, lost confidence and often lost our ability to play, create with abandon.

"The best thing you can do is get good at being you." - Dennis the Menace

That's our purpose in life; to express our full potential. Yet many people work hard, even throughout a lifetime, to express someone else's unexpressed potential. The people allow the should-ers, the people who tell them who they should be, what they should do and what they should have, dictate their life. And so they live a life unexpressed, with their story untold, their song unsung.

I suggest we treat ourselves to an afternoon or two, or twenty, devoted to revisiting the stories we read and adored as children. We marveled at these stories, these characters, because they called out for us to acknowledge and embrace who we are at our deepest core. We were inspired to live loudly and create expressively. Winnie the Pooh, Dennis the Menace and Dr. Seuss remind us that we are individuals with unique gifts to bring to the world. Our purpose in life is to....

"Be who you are and say what you feel. Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss.

Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mentor who specializes in empowering creative people in the visual & performing arts to create more profoundly, more prolifically, and more profitably. Empower yourself to trust your intuition, acknowledge your truth, and disarm your fear and self-doubt. Valery spent years developing and implementing a proven unique "Inner Wizard" methodology to empower other creative people to express their full potential. Join now at http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Artist Resource/Marketing Directory" too!

Integrity Ignites Effortless Creative Flow

"This above all; to thine own self be true." - William Shakespeare

What is integrity?
What does it mean to be in integrity?

If you look up the word "integrity" in the dictionary you will learn that it comes from the Latin word, "integer" which means "whole". Integrity is an unreduced or unbroken completeness, wholeness, totality, incorruptibility. It is an unimpaired condition and the quality or state of being complete and undivided. Integrity is found in a state of being who you are and, allowing others the same right.

When you are "in integrity" you are in alignment with who you are at your deepest core; your truth. In any area of your life where you struggle your thoughts and actions are out of integrity, you are not behaving in alignment with who you are.

"The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner." - Byron Katie

To live in alignment, in integrity with who you are you:

- Speak what you know to be true even if it may cause conflict.
- Ask for what you need and want from others.
- Behave according to your personal values.
- Make decisions based on what is true for you, not the beliefs of others.

"Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do." - Don Galer

When you are in integrity with who you are, life flows seemingly effortlessly. When you are acting in ways that are not in alignment with your truth you don't feel good. You may be frustrated or upset. You may think less of yourself and beat yourself up over the choices you have made.

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" - Albert Camus

Notice what you say to yourself and others. Be mindful whether or not those statements are in or out of alignment with who you are. Think and act in integrity with who you are and observe how your life transforms from one of struggle to creative flow.


Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mentor who specializes in empowering creative people to succeed in their craft and business. She teaches people in the visual and performing arts how to tap into and trust their intuition, acknowledge their truth, and disarm their fear and self-doubt. No longer willing to continue as a starved creative spirit who lived conditioned inauthentic life Valery spent years developing and implementing a proven unique "Inner Wizard" methodology to empower other creative people to express their full potential. Join now to create more profoundly, more prolifically, and more profitably at http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Artist Resource/Marketing Directory" too!

Show Up Naked - Honor Your Authenticity

"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet." - Bob Dylan

When you show up naked, vulnerable, authentic and open, you allow others to genuinely see who you are. You've heard the old adage, "Actions Speak Louder than Words". It's true. When you fully realize that what you do is the fullest expression of who you are, you are enlightened. You honor the integrity of you. What you do honors your authenticity. You live consistently with the highest realization of what you know to be true.

Is your life experience is a reflection of your deepest authenticity?

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - Shakespeare

When you live from a place of deep authenticity and let others to see your true self you a free. The proverbial chains of self-doubt and fear that hold you back from your fullest expression as a person, an artist, a creative spirit, are dissolved. You are free to create with abandon abundantly. Your inner most thoughts inspire you to fulfill your unlimited potentiality. You are energetically and enthusiastically engaged in each moment of your life. You feel good!

"No one man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one." - Hawthorne

Living an inauthentic life doesn't feel good. My people cover themselves up with trappings of who they are not, or who they think they 'should be'. And in the pretending comes the despair of the lie. The despair isn't created from lying to others, it is delivered through the lie to oneself. Dishonoring who you are. Doing inauthentically. Being a lie.

"To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves." - A. H. Almaas

So, who are you? Who is this true self? Your true nature is the unconditioned part of the self that lies buried beneath the acquired traits, characteristics, and habitual patterns of your personality. It speaks through you as your Intuition, your Higher Self, or what I lovingly call your Inner Wizard. The conditioned part of you, the "supposed to be, should be, unexpressed" part of you is the ego, the Inner Critic. Unlike the inspired Wizard Within, the Inner Critic is full of self-doubt and fear. These to parts of you are integral a physical being, a human. Both play a role.

The question is, which part of you is showing up in your life expression? You may be asking, "If both parts are integral to me as a human being, am I not both the Higher Self and the Inner Critic? And the answer is no, who you are is the Higher Self, a full expression of your truth and potential. As a human in physical form, you've created this misguided Inner Critic to keep you safe, hold you back from fear and pain.

And now you might be thinking, "I need to feel fear, pain, self-doubt in order to create my art. I won't be the artist I am if I don't have fear, pain and self-doubt."

True. You can travel to the deepest depths of pain, fear and self-doubt, totally immerse yourself in those emotions to create your art without showing up in your life from that place. When you show up in the costume of pain, fear and self-doubt you are presenting yourself to the world inauthentically. You can remain authentic to your Higher Self and use the expressions of the Inner Critic as a tool rather than a way of being.

I invite you to explore the Inner Critic beliefs, expectations and vows that do not represent your truth. Try showing up naked in your life. Realize that when you fully connect with the Higher Self, the Wizard within, the one you've always known was there, you can create a profound meaningful relevant impact in your art and in your life experience.

"Be who you are and say what you feel. Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss


Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mentor who specializes in empowering creative people to succeed in their craft and business. She teaches people in the visual and performing arts how to tap into and trust their intuition, acknowledge their truth, and disarm their fear and self-doubt. No longer willing to continue as a starved creative spirit who lived conditioned inauthentic life Valery spent years developing and implementing a proven unique "Inner Wizard" methodology to empower other creative people to express their full potential. Join now to create more profoundly, more prolifically, and more profitably at http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Artist Resource Directory" too!