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I'm going to talk about something that has truly changed my life. There are two things. One is discipline and the second one is accountability.

So the first one is accountability. When I started this work nearly 30 years ago, I can't even believe it's been that long.

I really cannot believe it. It sometimes feels like it's so much longer than that, and sometimes it feels like it's, I don't know, like yesterday.

But when I started this work out, I had to be accountable. And I was accountable to my coach and I was accountable to a group.

And this group I was accountable to them every week. So I worked with my coach privately, and I worked with my coach in a group setting.

And it taught me a lot. And basically what it taught me was, is the number one person who I needed to be accountable to was me.

That if I said that I wanted to be a working actor, that I had to put my money where my mouth was, where I had to put my energy where my mouth was, that if I said I was going to do something, I really needed to do it because I did not want to show up to that group and say, I didn't do it this week.

Because of that I decided to make a difficult decision. But I think a very important decision, which was to open up my Weekly Accountability Group. To all actors.

So what I'm offering is a free class.

The class is on Fridays at 12 p. m. EST.

Not only do you get that class, but you also get my core work class, which is the weekly adjustment after that, because I want to teach you to be accountable to you, to be accountable. And a lot of people have been asking me about this and saying, would you open it up to the public?

And finally I decided yes.

One of the things that you need in order to be accountable is discipline.

Now, the funny thing is that I did not used to be very disciplined. As a kid, I would always look for the easy way out.

The funny thing is, though, if I think of some of the two most disciplined people I know on the planet, they're my parents.

So how did these two incredibly disciplined people bring up this kid who is not that disciplined?

One thing is they made life very easy for me, which I would manipulate out of them.

I was an only child and yeah, I was brutal.

When I wanted something from my daddy, I would open my blue eyes wide open and I'd go, "Dadsky" and he'd melt. Anything I wanted, he'd give me.

And my mom, the mummiest of the mummies, I call her. She also would, give in to my let's just put it this way, adorableness.

And I'm saying all of this with a big smile on my face.

But when I got older, I started to realize that they really were quite the example for me.

My father is now a retired corporate pilot. And I remember that man could pack a suitcase and he would have everything packed and everything ready.

And this is when you flew with maps, okay, not with GPS.

He was so organized. and so disciplined.

And if my father said he was going to do something, he would do it.

And if my father said he would meet you at six o'clock, he was there at 5:45.

Not only that, he was physically very disciplined.

When he retired, he started walking 10 miles a day, and that was in his sixties. My dad is 84.5 years old. and walks four miles a day.

My 84 and a half year old father is still physically disciplined.

Now let's talk about my mom. My mom is 85 now. She wrote her 10th cookbook. on