It is all in the pitch!  At PopUp Business School from day 1 on our course we talk about pitching your idea, your product or service and selling it!  Turns out it is exactly the same in the movie industry!  Before I even got to LA to write my movie I had been asked "pitch your movie to me"!

2 weeks in LA!  2 weeks learning and writing but who cares!? How many words have you written? How much progress have you made? Have you gotten over yourself and got it done!?

I can't believe how fast the first 2 weeks have flown by and I have LOVED every minute here

The big screen writing experiment has started!  Katie and I touched down in Los Angeles after an 11 hour flight on Saturday, 9th March and had a day and a half to settle in before it all started! Want to know what the experiment is? then click here, if not read on to find out what has happened in the first week!

Recently I have been doing a series of articles on creating space in you life, nature abhors a vacuum and this one is about using that space you create intentionally. 

​Once you have created space you have to be really careful what fills it.  If you aren't intentional with what you fill your space with then someone else is going to fill it from you. 

How do you get new things to come into your life?  How do you uncover new opportunities? How do you find the next project to work on?
 
One of the lessons I have learned over the last few years is that if there isn't any space in your life how can you take on new things.  My last post was about creating space and why it is difficult and this post is about why you should create space.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment - Vince Lombardi
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I started my Movie in a Month course today and the first thing it asked me to do was to sign a contract with myself committing to finish my first screen play.   

This scared me!  I have no idea how I am going to do it; I have no idea if I am even capable of writing a screen play and it is asking me to commit!!????  I don't like promising things I am not sure how to do!

This is Katie and I on the plane on the way to Los Angeles yesterday!  We had an awesome 11 hour flight where I wrote 4 blog posts and had a huge amount of fun working on my projects and thoughts.  We landed in LA around 2 pm yesterday and made our way to our Airbnb in Santa Monica

What do you fill your life with?  It is completely full at the moment.  Every minute of your day is spent somehow!  What are you actually filling it with? 

Have you made a conscious choice of what you put into your days, weeks, months and years?

Just because something feels uncomfortable the first time you do it should you stop? 

We run an event at the PopUp Business School which is called walk like the president/first lady.   The basic message of the exercise is to change your body language to change the way you feel.  So we ask people to adopt confident body language and then walk round the room and meet other people.  The exercise creates some real energy in the room and gets people going!

In 2017 with ChooseFI Podcast I ran a contest to find someone with a cool business idea to coach and support for a year.  The plan was to coach one individual to create a resource of how to start a business that would help many more people like you.