I consider myself opinionated, in a good way, from my many years of experience in this wonderful world of Entertainment. From my point of view, I am sharing with you ABSOLUTE TRUTH, about 100,000 hours worth of professional experience over 25-plus years in this industry. I’m going to take that truth, that experience, compress it down and give you the very best ideas, insight, and advice that I can. I’m doing this so that YOU can use what you wish to use and become ALL THAT YOU CAN BE!!

Then I would give those actors some suggestions, and I would give them an incredible gift. I want to give that gift to you as well. I know when it was initially given to me it made a difference in my life, so I will give it you. I said, "Here, your job, actor (again with my agent hat on) is to go out there and network. Your job is to go out there and meet the producers. Your job is go out there and let people who do the hiring know that you exist and then have them perceive you in such a way that they want you to be a part of their project. Your job as an actor is to get hired so I can negotiate money and billing for you – that’s my job -- and I will do an incredible job of negotiating for you. I

will get you so much more money than you could ever get for yourself. And billing, I’ll get you amazing billing." And, for those of you who know me and know my history as an agent, those who know some stories about me -- Well, those stories are true. I negotiated and got seven times more money than was in the budget for a co-starring role, for example, and an incredible per diem for an actor. First position, co-star billing, separate card. It was the first time he ever had acted in front of the camera, and he never spoke in the film. That’s called negotiation. If you’ve heard that story, that story is accurate, and so many other stories that you’ve heard are also true. If you’ve heard anything negative, I don’t know about it, and it wasn’t me. J But, all of the positive stuff, I will admit to.

As an agent, I told them, "Let me give you a gift. I want you to take this home and put it on your wall. It is the 10 most powerful two-letter words in the English language.

A chapter from How To Become  A Magnet To Hollywood Success Workbook

BRAIN POWER
Our Genie to Hollywood Success
By Michele Blood

(Only a small segment about the Brain is on actual DVD so PLEASE do read all of this chapter)

Over the last few years, there has been an explosion of Revolutionary Neuroscience Research discoveries that at last are proving scientifically what we metaphysicians (positive thinking teachers) have been teaching for years.  98% of everything Scientists know about the brain has only been discovered since 1996. 80% of what they thought was true about the brain before 1995, has now been found to be false. WOW!! Isn't that amazing. And then WE listen to these so-called experts believe what they say and then that is what we create. WHAT they think is truth. I will give you a little hint here now. If it FEELS right in your heart then it is GOOD!!!

Anyway getting back to the amazing Genie we call the brain   I am just so very excited about this new information about the brain.

Nearly all of the medical brain research findings have fantastic proven results that applications as achievement, success, and motivational tools and techniques DO in fact work!!! How cool is that?? VERY COOL! This way you can KNOW that all of the techniques we are teaching you and tools we are giving you to help you have a VERY successful, happy life in this amazing and magical world of Entertainment DOES in fact work. Whether you believe it or not it will still work IF YOU TAKE the action steps Rock and I are sharing with you. You know we DO love you and want with ALL of our hearts and BRAINS J for you to have a successful healthy life and THEN you my friend will be on purpose and will be able to bring even more good and positive input into Film and TV worldwide.

Read what one of the leading research neuroscientists in the world, Dr Richard Restak, has to say in his book, The New Brain (Rodale Press, 2003)
"Brain Science is now capable of providing us with insight into the human brain that only a few years ago would have been considered the stuff of science fiction. An exciting consequence of this research is that by following certain brain-based guidelines, anyone can achieve expert performance in sports, any career, business, or academic pursuits. Such findings of course run counter to the old traditional theory that winners are born not made.  This is not so.  Instead, it is now clear that by learning about and applying this new research, most of us can reasonably expect greatly enhanced personal levels of achievement."

Isn't this marvelous?? Yes indeedy it is. See it does not matter if you have talent, experience etc although of course this doesn't hurt, it just matters that YOU WANT IT!! Then you can achieve it by following all of our visualization methods, positive songs EVERYTHING you can to fill your mind with over flowing good thoughts of WHAT YOU DO WANT. You my friend CAN be a winner. You see you are not in a race; you are winner, when you get what you want!!

Have you ever heard anyone say, "Oh, I can't help it! It's just the way I am!" or "I'll never lose become a star or get that part etc etc etc or lose any weight." Well with the scientific advances now being made in learning how the brain works, no one is ever going to be able to use any of these excuses again and that includes YOU my friend!   There were lots of theories going around, however until the development since 1996s of the computer enhanced scan and imagery techniques and equipment such as functional MRI scans and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) imagery equipment; very few theories were proven as facts! NOW they are!!

Now, scientists at the University of California have been able to take a look at some very dramatic, pictures by looking at a scan of a slice of a normally functioning "live" human brain that is the thickness of less than 1/100,000th of a human hair! Never before could scientists 'see' so well how our brain functions!

What these scientists have recently learned, during a process called Brain Plasticity, is that brain cells (neurons) are constantly making structural changes in the brain, forming NEW synaptic connections with other neurons, and NEW neuron pathway patterns at the very same time that we are learning, or thinking or forming a NEW memory! Like for example learning your lines J what this means is that your brain is CONSTANTLY CHANGING!  The fantastic news for all of us is that YOU are going to have to drastically change the way YOU think about what YOU are able to accomplish and achieve!

For many years, psychologists, scientists and authors have written about and recommended what used to be called autosuggestion, affirmations, self-talk, or incantations. But it was not KNOWN or proven until just recently that this technique does work, why it works and how it works! Brain-science research now has verified that indeed this process does work! All of the MusiVation ™ songs and the visualization CD (which is also on your DVD) can help you to ENORMOUSLY and PROFOUNDLY expand your belief in the capacity of your brain for HOLLYWOOD SUCCESS! Plus you will be a happier more positive person and everyone wants to work with happy genuinely loving people. Your attitude will be so dramatically changed that even YOU will not recognize who you are anymore. Now that is COOL!!

You will be bringing out into your personality the REAL you that has been hiding. The confident, successful beautiful you that Rock and I know you really are!! No one was born with low self-esteem our life experiences simply have taught us this. (Or some call it baggage; so let's release this old baggage and LIGHTEN UP from the inside out) Now you can revert back to who you REALLY are. And you my friend are AMAZING!

It used to be believed that geniuses were born with more brain cells than the rest of us. This is now known to be false! Each of us is born with the same number of brain cells! (About 100 billion!) It used to be believed that your brain was "hard-wired" when you were born; that you are a product of your genetics alone, and therefore champions and successful people are born not made. Not true! Your brain is constantly growing NEW connections and NEW neuron patterns, every second of every minute of every day of your life! This means that your capacity is almost limitless! You are today a different person than you were yesterday! You are not the same today as you will be tomorrow!

You are constantly capable of CHANGE! Your brain's neuron patterns and connections are moving and changing with every thought, learning task, or memory that you experience! The total number and capacity of NEW connections, and NEW skills and learning neuron patterns that EACH of us and our brain can form, is the number 1 followed by 6.2 million miles of zeros! No human being has ever been known, (Einstein included,) to use more than 1% of this capacity! Phew!! WHO KNEW!!

What type of NEW neuron connections are you making? Are they positive possibility thoughts and memories? Or are they negative, 'That's the way I am' connections! Your brain-capacity for success is limitless! And it all starts in that little 3-pound thing, we call our brain.

Your brain will "process" information (the "what") and form new Dendrite Spiny Protuberances (DSP's) via repetition, association, and emotions.

Water and writers block
You probably already know that water is important for your body to function properly. But do you really know how REALLY important it is?  You've seen marathon runner's collapse halfway through the race due to dehydration because they didn't drink at the first water posts because they weren't thirsty at the time.  And maybe you concluded that since you are not a professional top athlete waster isn't that essential for your performance and general health. But that is false information YOU must drink lots of water.

And maybe you've heard that man can live without food for a very long time, but will succumb because of lack of fluids and brushed it off because the likelihood of you ending up in the desert without food and water is miniscule. But you must to pay more attention to water. You know, when you think you have writers block or are finding it a challenge to remember your lines … well my friend it could simply mean that your baring is not functioning correctly because it is simply not hydrated enough. So when you have creative work to do DRINK WATER J. A runner becomes dehydrated his pulse rate goes up, his body temperature increases, his blood pressure drops and his circulatory functions gradually degrades.  And the same is happening to you if you're not continually well hydrated. 

Your brain which only makes up 1 to 2% of your body weight use over 30% of your water-intake, so it's no surprise that even small water deficits has a crucial impact on your brain.  And a poor brain performance has a direct impact on how much new stuff that you can learn and how well you remember it.

And remember that less water will reach your brain since 45% of the water in your body travels in your blood vessels - and if your blood pressure goes down, so goes the flow of water in your body.

Did you know, that your concentration can drop as much as 10% And just 5% dehydration will drop the performance of your brain severely - that's severely as in a 50%+ drop. And don't count on thirst to be a reliable indicator of when you should drink your next glass of water - by the time you are thirsty it's already too late - you are 2% dehydrated and your performance has already dropped 10%.

You see, DSP's or Dendrite Spiny Protrusions or Protuberances grow in your brain when you learn - or as you learn - so they are vital to learning new stuff - and to keeping your memory healthy. And contrary to common belief and scientific truths just a decade ago the ability to learn has nothing to do with the number of brain cells, but with the number of DSP's you generate. So even if your brain cells wither and die it won't affect your ability to learn as long as you give your DSP's the best growing conditions - water and nutrients.  Add to this that sufficient amounts of water has a measurable positive impact on preventing colon cancer, kidney stones and urine tract infections and you would be stupid to ever becoming dehydrated again.

Memory
How many of you are worried about gradually losing your memory?  Well first of all, you need to remember to stop worrying about those things you can't control!  But you CAN control or even improve your memory!

Losing your memory seems to be the great terror of our age.  Anxious baby boomers are constantly assessing the fitness of their memory, but one of the great positives about this is that if you take steps to improve your memory, it can be a shortcut to an even more tempting goal: improving your intelligence! Yes we can become smarter!! And it in this area that research is just starting to jump in and find some great results and ideas that can be again applied outside the medical field into the self-motivation and achievement field.

The most important finding from the research is that memory is effected by the usage levels of our neuron patterns.  In other words, if we, as we get older, use certain neuron connections and patterns less and less, those patterns literally atrophy, and it is much more difficult for nerve impulses (thoughts) to go down those pathways.  This is a problem that is absolutely easily remedied!  The old adage, "Use it or lose it!" vital for you.  As we get older, we become more consistent in our daily lives, with certain patterns of activity developing.  We drive along the same routes and stuck in the same rut day after day, with the same activities. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a wasted life."

This is bad for the brain!  It is like trying to be a world-class wrestler like our good mate Rock by only exercising your left arm and nothing more. It doesn't work. What should you do about it?  Get out of your rut.  Drive a different way every day.  Read different magazines, take new trips, use our visualization CD, and try new things.  And above all, exercise ALL of your brain. AND begin to REALLY listen when others are speaking. STOP yourself from immediately cutting in with YOUR stuff. Listen and you will learn and grow more BSP's.

Get out of your old thinking box.  Learn about NEW things.  Another thing that you can do is get smarter that your brain!  As we get older our brain tries to outsmart us.  It is a biological fact that the brain cannot store energy. It constantly needs to replenish its energy after it performs a given function. When we get a great idea or thought up from our subconscious, neurons to our conscious level, it is first placed into short-term memory.  Unless this thought or idea is then taken by us and put into long-term memory, the idea will disappear or dissipate within 30 seconds to 12 minutes. So it is vital that we use artificial methods to take down these new thoughts. Write it down or do what I do I always have a small tape recorder with me.  Later I put these ideas into a tape folder and then list them then when I have time to write a new song etc I go to my tape file and have them transcribed.

It has been said that ALL of us, each year, have about four great new ideas, that if we acted upon any one of them with persistence, that idea could make us millions dollars! I am sure there MUST have been a time that you saw a new invention or saw a new film and you did you yourself. I HAD THAT idea!! Well my friend YOU did not take action. So get all of these new ideas down before your shot term memory loses them forever. I really think that these new ideas are floating around in space and a few of us take in these ideas however it is the people THAT take action first who deserve the wins!

New brain-research confirms that the repetition of statements over and over forms new neural pathways (neurodes), that can subsequently fire as a "belief", and that when this neural "belief" pattern fires, it will trigger new activity or actions on the part of the individual, directly in line and consistent with this new belief!  This was written about by Napoleon Hill in his book "Think and Grow Rich, Norman Vincent Peale in his book, The Power Of Positive Thinking and Claude M Bristol in his book, "The Magic of Believing" and these authors were all writing about this back in the 1920 30's and 40's and too many other authors from our past to even mention all of them here.

It's so wonderful to know that the things we're speaking about today as far as the metaphysical, where Meta just means beyond or above the physical.  Which means whenever you are thinking, you are being metaphysical.  It's as simple as that, it's not woo woo stuff.

Now, let's have a look at some of these statistics.  We have 100 billion brain cells.  Do you realize that?  We have 100 billion brain cells.  Now, the brain is stimulated, no matter what your age, when we begin to thing about something new or when we start to create new thoughts.  When we start to learn something new, the brain is stimulated and it begins to form b s protrusions, which we choose to call DSPs.

This person may have just learned a new language or just become emotionally excited about something new and they're starting to think.  They are thinking of something, not the old belief systems or old tapes, they are thinking, so DSPs are being formed.  When you are emotional or excited, even if you are pretending to be excited it has been proven that DSPs will still be formed.  So, act as if and you will become.  This is extremely important to know.  Even if you are just pretending and you start to go, "Whoa!  I'm excited.  I'm really excited."  Even if there are doubts and fears lying underneath, you will still get new DSPs growing in your brain.  So keep doing that for all of your life so your brain stays stimulated.  Let's repeat this about being emotionally excited, even if you're pretending.  You can absolutely get this information instantly into your long-term memory as well, which is also extremely important.

Now what I think is something else that is absolutely phenomenal that they've found out recently is that we have 6 levels of thinking.  But did you know that only 1/6 of those six levels is the conscious mind.  Where we think we're thinking all the time, is the conscious mind, and it is only 1/6 of it the other  5/6 of our thinking is all done in the subconscious, which is where we start creating our belief systems.  That is why the information you are learning about your own conscious mind, the subconscious mind, and how to change the thinking patterns is vital.  5/6 of your thinking is done at the other levels and it's going to create for you stuff anyway if you don't consciously choose what you want to create and put it into your subconscious mind.

So, isn't THIS ALL EXCITING ?  I love neuroscience because it's proven that even our doubts and fears cannot stop our success.  We can even pretend our way to success.  Cary Grant said, "I pretended to be Cary Grant for so long I ended up becoming Cary Grant." 

Note: For more information on the new discoveries of the brain go to www.brainconnection.com  and also I HIGHLY recommend you invest in yourself by getting an amazing course on CDS by an amazing fellow I have had the honour to meet Doug Bench at www.scienceforsuccess.com  He IS amazing and the way he teaches through his INTENSIVE studies of the brain is fun and very easy to understand. He products are the most entertaining when it comes to the topic of our amazing brain. Everyone thing else I have studied has been very laborious Doug makes the brain FUN! And I am all about us having fun while we learn and then we take much more of the information into out long term memories as there is the emotion of joy involved. SO even FUN is in FACT important in helping us learn more. AGAIN how cool is that!

So, my friend, let's go on to the next exciting topic…