Tonight I was inspired. Really. Not just saying that in the flippant way people say, “uh…mazing.” But in the way that makes you sit on a couch and stare at wall for a couple hours. I picked up a magazine today and found an article about Angelina Jolie that really got me thinking. She wrote a screen play and has now directed her very own creation. It is a very worth read, and I won’t spoil the article for you by spelling it all out, but I will leave you with a few of the quotes and one of the main points that really left me pondering my own course in this short life.
One section reads, “you have to admire her. If she felt the need to write and direct, something lighter would have been the easier choice…..Easier still would’ve been to continue on as she had been: big movies for money, small movies for soul, sitting back as the coffers filled. Being a movie star is not such a bad life. But this woman, a pure product of Hollywood, is not only wildly ambitious…. [she] knows that capital kept out of the game is not saved but diminished. To get big, risk big.” Vanity Fair Writer
“There’s a famous quote, if it doesn’t scare you, it’s not worth doing. I think there is truth to that.” Angelina Jolie
She goes on to talk a bit more about other things that spoke to me as well, and while I do my best to be as open as possible there are some things that are just legitimate TMI. So I will keep the how and why to myself on those items, however, the words above….I can’t tell you why they speak to me exactly. I might never know. But after dealing with what felt a little bit like a season of winter in my life, I feel spring upon me. I feel like it’s time to enjoy this unreal day to day we call The Boudoir Divas, but also time pull up the sail because I feel the strong winds ready to take this adventure to a new height. We just need to decide what that is, and there are so many different pictures that could look like. What an amazing place to be. I feel so blessed. I don’t know what season you are in in your life, but I pray that you too are able to soon enjoy a season where the snow settles and all you see in front of you is an overwhelming excitement and adventure. Risk and reward.
So if you are in the grocery store line, I recommend grabbing this article, read about someone who seems to have reached all her goals just to stretch herself to new place she never thought she could go. Uh- mazing 😉 – M
if it doesn’t scare you, it’s not worth doing… exactly where I am at right now! thank you Marissa for sharing… I needed to read that!
Thank you for sharing Marisa, I can’t believe I just came back from a meeting with the property manager of the place I want to rent for Boudoir by Marie and browsing through your blog found this article so perfect for the moment I am on…. I think I am in changing seasons 😉 I am so scared of taking the business to its next level, and reading this article gives me a little bit more confidence…. I think I’ll still do it, even when I am scared… 😉
Thanks again!
as the finishing touches go on my garage-turned-boudoir-shooting-space, the butterflies are flocking in little fear-bunches in my belly. i loved this article and totally missed the “capital” comment. LOVE IT. thx for sharing. thanks too, for inspiring.
Great read! Well written. Thanks! xo!
ps~ It’s funny.. 3 yrs later I still check back @ this blog. There is ALWAYS something inspiring and I’m certain that it really is because of the work you and your team have done that has inspired thousands of us who never thought we’d get anywhere near honestly doing what we love for a living. God bless, and thanks again!