You've left another audition feeling defeated. You're pissed because those damn nerves took over your body... again. The real you actually never stepped foot in that audition; your nervous representative did. You go home and wonder if that casting office will ever call you again. The next audition you get forces you to replay this scenario over and over again, and you wonder if you even have what it takes to become a working actor. Instead of learning from the experience, it now haunts you. Packed with insider secrets from a working, Hollywood actress, Playing Small: The Actor's Guide To Becoming A Booking Magnet is an incredibly readable and rich tapestry for any actor, especially those pursuing a career in film and television. Life and Career Coach, Christine Horn, pulls back the curtain of her own successful career to teach us one simple, yet complicated lesson: your thoughts are sabotaging your career. And she is brave enough to allow the piece to unfold with a distinct straightforward simplicity that never loses its edgy intellect.This game-changing book will challenge you to push past the strategy you think you know and force you to identify the BIG fears that have held you back from running toward your dreams with your fullest potential. You will learn how to break through your psychological roadblocks that have kept you playing small and feeling stuck in a cycle of stinking thinking, useless comparison, procrastination, fear, shame, doubt, and worry.With hundreds of successful client stories under her belt, Christine teaches you how to find the fun in acting again and how to become a booking magnet.
"Stop Playing Small: An A to Z Guide to Living Your Bigger, Better Life" provides an alphabetical listing of the key terms every reader should have in his or her tool kit for living a life of greater satisfaction, depth, breadth, and meaning. Many readers use the book on a daily basis, exploring a new term each day to gather daily inspiration. Or, having a particular need, they may turn to the fully cross-referenced index for the term or terms describing their immediate situation or challenge, and gain new perspective on what they face. And many read the book cover to cover, gaining an ever-growing understanding of the ideas, tactics, and strategies they can access to find greater success in the business of living. Written by Leadership and Performance Coach Mark Rothman, "Stop Playing Small: An A to Z Guide to Living Your Bigger, Better Life" uses wisdom from many sources, as well as examples from his experience with one-on-one coaching and facilitating coaching circles and group experiences, to demonstrate how our internal stories shape our progress through life. The stories we tell ourselves determine whether we will move forward, headlong into our biggest and best lives, or shrink back and stay small and confined. By understanding key terms that narrate life, readers discover new ways to ratchet down the magnitude and power of stories of self-criticism, and cut open new windows through obstacles of which many readers are not even aware. "Stop Playing Small" offers tools to liberate readers to live the better life, the one each reader was born to live. "Stop Playing Small: An A to Z Guide to Living Your Bigger, Better Life" will help readers understand what it means to live a bigger, better life. This fully-expressed life begins with appreciating the life they live right now, but take for granted. They will understand how, if life were a movie, the stories readers tell themselves may summarize only those plot points in which the hero -- the reader -- failed. Too often, readers will learn, they omit, or at least downplay, the happy endings they also experience. Readers will discover their 'better' lives as they begin to revise these stories, based on what they learn from "Stop Playing Small." Readers will begin to experience that 'better' happens whenever they can expand into the space the Universe holds out for them and begs them to fill. The more we can inhabit this space, the more we will live a complete and fulfilling life. In turn, readers will see themselves more frequently meeting their own standards, and enjoying the growth of self-esteem that comes from new levels of personal effectiveness. "Stop Playing Small" helps us eliminate stories of limitation and scarcity. Readers will learn the world is abundant and limitless, and they are, too. Fulfilling this 'better' life means living a life in process. Readers will come to understand how to live in the process of continual learning, continual growth, and continual striving to do a little better today than he or she did yesterday. As "Stop Playing Small" shows, progress in this process is not measured by the terms or standards of others. It is an internal experience and a mental commitment, a set of intentions that, when fulfilled, increases their power and, subsequently, their own satisfaction with their lives. "Stop Playing Small" will help readers see how they can fully embrace this process, and infuse their lives with the energy of expansion. They will experience more joy as they see their stories start to have happier endings."Stop Playing Small: An A to Z Guide to Living Your Bigger, Better Life" combines sources from many wisdom traditions, the inspiration of famous leaders, popular culture, and transformative thoughts from 12 step programs, mythology, literature and poetry to help readers discover new pathways to living the life they want to live. Even more, they will begin living the life they were born to live.
"Irreverent in approach, these guides include tips and advice from leading authoritimes, aiming to help with life's big decisions and challenges, as well as hobbies. This book should help readers how to watch and understand basketball. "
Welcome to the wonderful world of Pot Limit Omaha! With four hole cards instead of two, PLO is a far more nuanced game than No-Limit Hold’em and one that emphatically rewards greater skill. This makes it a very profitable game for serious players – especially when playing at the small stakes where recreational players consistently make expensive preflop and postflop mistakes. Mastering Small Stakes Pot-Limit Omaha is a thoroughly comprehensive guide that will give you all the tools you need to gain a huge edge at lower stakes play. Fernando "JNandez" Habegger is a successful high stakes professional player and leading PLO coach with his own training site at PLOMastermind.com. He has trained hundreds of players to become successful at PLO. In Mastering Small Stakes Pot-Limit Omaha, preflop play is broken down by identifying nine different hand categories and analysing how hands within each of them are handled preflop. Postflop analysis is based around the powerful technique of the Four Pillars of Postflop Play. The combination of these two creates a powerful gameplan that constitutes a fast track route to domination at the lower stakes. Further topics include adjusting to live play, PLO tournaments, building the right improvement habits, dealing with variance, and managing your PLO bankroll.
How to set up a band for playing live covering the use of PA systems, monitoring and sound checks. A comprehensive and detailed guide that nevertheless manages to use plain English.
Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games is a must-have if you have ambitions to move up the stakes. Renowned poker player and leading coach Jonathan Little brings together ten No-Limit experts to provide cutting-edge information for the keen student. All the authors are established coaches for pocarr.com, the prominent backing company. Pocarr has helped numerous players to climb the poker ladder and succeed at the highest levels in events such as the WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) and SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker). Success beyond the lower stakes demands a highly specific skill set. Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games will show you how to develop this skill set so you can rise to the top of the game. Topics include: * Quick tips for beating the low stakes games * Adjusting your preflop strategy * When to c-bet (continuation bet) * How to defend against c-bets * Navigating multi-way pots * Basic ICM (Independent Chip Model) and advanced ICM * Medium stacked final table strategies * Strategies to crush live poker Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games is the essential guide for anyone who is serious about wanting to succeed at the high stakes and make a significant income from poker.
Secrets of The Electric Guitarist You play guitar. You love guitar. Now learn the REST! Secrets of The Electric Guitarist offers solid gold advice about being a great overall guitarist and musician, and the music business. Rick Stack provides an insider’s look at the world of a working musician, with practical “how to” steps, about playing in a band and performing, writing and recording music, buying music equipment, and health as related to being a musician. The book will keep you entertained with stories from Rick’s musical experiences. Are you ready to begin your journey of being the most complete guitarist and musician you can be? Shredding out cool riffs and licks is awesome, but there is a lot more to being an amazing guitarist as a working musician. You will learn all about starting a cover band, original band, being a band leader or a sideman. You will also learn the best way to run rehearsals, get great gigs, and tips on how to get your performing game rocking. Discover how easy it is to get started writing your own songs, and with Rick’s help you will get a clear road map to the recording process, with making home demos and going into a professional recording studio. You will gain insight into having effective and efficient guitar practice sessions. Learn health related advice to stay in top form and not get injured. Are you unsure what 6L6 tubes are or what scale length is on a guitar? Find out all you need to know about music equipment, so you can get amazing tone. Anything you do beyond playing as a hobby is going to require some knowledge of the music business. If you would like to be (or are already) a semi-professional/weekend warrior, or full time professional musician, you will want to know the secrets that will allow you to navigate the music industry with confidence. And how about making money? There is a myth that musicians don’t make much money. Rick dispels this myth and gives you a clear plan of attack to make your music career flourish. Secrets of The Electric Guitarist is a reference to use any time you embark on one of topics contained in the book. This is also a fun read for “guitar nerds” who love all things guitar. It took Rick over 35 years to learn everything in this book. You can learn it all here!
This power-packed book on beating no-limit hold'em is one of the three most influential poker books ever written. Negreanu headlines a collection of young, great players Todd Brunson, David Williams, Erick Lindgren, Evelyn Ng and Paul Wasicka who share their insider professional moves and winning secrets. You'll learn about short-handed and heads-up play, high-limit cash games, a powerful beginners strategy to neutralize professional players, how to mix up your play, bluff, and win big pots. The centerpiece, however, is Negreanus powerful and revolutionary small ball strategy. You'll learn how to play hold'em with cards you never would have played before and with fantastic results. The preflop, flop, turn and river will never look the same again. A must-have! 504 pages
This book is one of the all-time classics, a landmark in the development of bridge, especially in the field of card play. First published in 1948, it is now back in print after being unavailable for a number of years. In it, the author reveals what counts in play and defense and shows the reader how to join the ranks of the experts. This is a book that every improving bridge player must own.
Offers an innovative approach to teaching and coaching sport that combines contemporary theory with the experience of practical and reflective work in real sport environments. It covers a wide range of team and individual sports, including archery, table tennis, flag football, skiing, cricket and track and field.
