Lights, Camera, Take Action: Fifty-Two Weeks to a Better Life, One Movie at a Time($18.99Value)

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Everyone experiences pain and setbacks in their life. But life coaching can help you get back into the game of life by teaching you self-mastery over fears and beliefs that create obstacles to obtaining your goals. In Lights, Camera, Take Action, author and movie life coach Joe Williams-Nelson offers a guide to transform your life through movies. Throughout a yearlong period, Williams-Nelson details how watching one movie per week, reflecting on its message, journaling your thoughts and feelings, and following up with an action plan can help you gain control over your life. The movie "It's A Wonderful Life" will teach you to create a quiet space, to choose a title for your life plan, to choose a theme song for the year, and to find an inspirational motto for your life. "Jerry Maguire" will teach you to live with integrity, remain your authentic self, and create a mission statement. Lights, Camera, Take Action discusses the tools and principles used by some of the world's most successful people. It encourages you to follow along for fifty-two weeks while some of your favorite stars inspire you to create the life of your dreams. Lights, Camera, Take Action. 52 weeks to a better life, one movie at a time. By Joe Williams-Nelson Balboa Press Copyright © 2014 Joe Williams-Nelson All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4525-9278-7 Contents List of movies and action steps, It's a Wonderful Life, 1, The Long Kiss Goodnight, 5, G. I. Jane, 8, Jerry Maguire, 12, Groundhog Day, 17, Ordinary People, 21, Hoosiers, 24, Where the Heart Is, 30, As Good as It Gets, 46, Good Will Hunting, 53, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 57, Sommersby, 63, Lilies of the Field, 69, Rocky, 73, Daylight, 77, Return to Paradise, 80, Braveheart/The Passion of the Christ, 84, Ransom, 87, The Count of Monte Cristo, 90, Remember the Titans, 96, Forrest Gump, 100, Phenomenon, 104, Men of Honor, 110, The Natural, 115, Philadelphia, 120, To Kill a Mockingbird, 124, A Time to Kill, 132, Nuts, 136, The Prince of Tides, 140, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 144, The Poseidon Adventure, 147, Rounders, 151, Magnificent Obsession, 157, The Joy Luck Club, 161, South Central, 165, Life Is Beautiful, 171, Field of Dreams, 176, October Sky, 182, Simon Birch, 187, Boiler Room, 191, Contact, 197, Butterfield 8, 202, Rudy, 206, The Snake Pit/Girl, Interrupted, 209, The Shawshank Redemption, 214, Titanic, 219, The Mirror Has Two Faces, 223, The Matrix, 228, Grand Canyon, 235, The Wizard of Oz, 242, The Wiz, 247, The Legend of Bagger Vance, 252, CHAPTER 1 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Welcome to the first movie of the rest of your wonderful life. You can begin this book on any given day of the week or month. I have written it to coincide with the start of the New Year. The beginning of the New Year and birthdays are when most people are excited about life change. I need you excited to read this book for an entire year. Our first movie, Frank Capra's classic tale of a man who desires a life greater than the one he has, is timeless. Maybe you have already seen this movie. Maybe you have seen most of the movies in this book. However, you have never seen them in the context of using them for life transformation. With that said, watch as a young James Stewart and Donna Reed, span 20 years to give you the best life lesson anyone could ask for to begin the New Year. Your life is perfect and wonderful; you just do not know it yet. As is the case with human behavior one must learn this lesson through experience. It would be great if you just took my word for it, but it never usually works that way. George Bailey has begrudged his hometown of Bedford Falls for most of his life. George wants to travel the world and explore greater adventures than what awaits him in his father's business. Bailey Buildings and Loan is in the business of preserving the best of the town and the townspeople more than a business of profit. Watch as George learns the hard way, so you hopefully won't have to, that life's true currency exists in how well we treat people and ourselves on the way to getting where we're going. Enjoy the movie. Take Action Steps: Every time I watch this movie I have tears in my eyes by the end. I am usually overwhelmed with emotions that span from great appreciation to a strong desire to get busy accomplishing things in my life. I am hoping you felt the same way. Your challenge for this week is a series of activities to begin your New Year. You are beginning on my Life Mastery plan, and it requires a few things to go smoothly. 1. Create a sacred space for yourself in your home. This place is to be your sanctuary, where you go to honor yourself and your dreams. It can be a room or a corner. I have a few spaces in my home dedicated to my solitude and peace of mind. My bathroom, meditation & prayer space, or my favorite spot to cuddle up with a book are all my sacred spaces. I am a person who believes i