Maybe this sounds familiar. You have a project you started, but you never find the motivation or inspiration to finish it. You tell yourself there’s plenty of time, so you push it off…and you keep pushing it off until you’re pulling your hair out, running around with red cracks in your eyes and panicking like […]
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Soldiers plummet to their doom from a portal ripped open in the sky. They land in a pool and surface to see a war-torn city on fire. Aaaand I’m bored. I’m about to write this movie off as another action movie I’ll forget about in five seconds. But then things change. It rewinds to 28
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Isn’t it great when someone gives you a trophy for coming to the game? No? Good. No one wants a participation trophy…and if you do, eat a happy meal and get over it. Most of us want to earn the trophy, because the reward tastes sweeter when we sweat for it and prove ourselves worthy.
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What makes a main character the hero has nothing to do with how much screen time they have or simply having their name on the front cover in bold letters. The hero needs to be prioritized. How? By doing everything “Solo: A Star Wars Story” didn’t. I had no love for this movie when it
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You’re watching a new thriller in theaters, mildly enjoying the constant crashes and smashes on the screen. Suddenly, the main character figures out the real villain is his father! Whaaaaaaaaat?! Who could see that coming? What a great twist, right! Yet, you sit there blinking. There was no way to see it coming, so shouldn’t
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I want to share something with you that happens to me every time I go to bed. When I shut the lights off, it’s like all these whispers are suddenly allowed to seep out of the darkness of my subconscious and whisper in my ear, “You aren’t good enough. No one is gonna like what
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