Complacency
You may not be willing to make the change for fear that you could lose what you already have. Complacency is a dangerous place for a person who wants to succeed in this or any business. It takes courage to pursue an acting career. It takes courage and it takes being able to evaluate yourself, your abilities and talents objectively without emotion. If you can’t do this, you’re setting yourself up for many disappointments. Most of these disappointments are created by you. You are totally responsible for your career growth and you are the only one stopping you. Once you accept this as truth you can find out what you are doing and why. It may be easy to blame someone else for your lack of opportunity or advancement.

What is it that stops you from acquiring knowledge and putting it into the physical repetitions required to achieve a talent. Achieving any talent will always take the same path. That path requires actions that will lead to the no’s in order to get to the yes’s. The no’s are equally important. The process of talent almost always stirs up an internal battle that could result in procrastination, apparent laziness or fear of rejection. To combat these ordinary responses you can learn to accept that the anticipated pain that might come from failure is not greater than the pleasure that will come from success. You can change old patterns of non-action and learn to over ride the fear that the pain of failure by focusing on the pleasure of success.

To overcome this complacency, you must be willing to risk. Take any action to experience the real, rather than the imagined, outcome. Accept that there can be no failure if the process of success requires a given number of no’s in order to achieve a yes. You may be content with your misery. You may be content with the knowledge that you’re not making waves or rocking the boat. One thing you can be sure of: no pain, no gain. If there is no risk, you’ll get no change. Your life is what you allow it to be. You may find this difficult to accept. It may not even matter that you are unhappy.

Rules
Procrastination, apparent laziness or fear of success, like all excuses, can be eliminated by an action based regiment. You “gotta be in it to win it”. Play the game. Play it by understanding the rules. The rules are simple. Everything deals with odds. You play 50 to one. The sooner you play the odds the sooner your desired results will appear. Knowledge from a class, a book or wherever must be put into physical action for knowledge to become useful. Without this process the road to talent is closed. It doesn’t matter that you know most people don’t follow through. It doesn’t matter that you know most people won’t fulfill their wishes for their destiny. It doesn’t matter that you know most people use a litany of “poor me” excuses.

If you are not doing what is expected of any aspiring actor, regardless of your talent potential, then you have to acknowledge the reasons and re-motivate your desire. Try asking yourself, “Why might I be punishing myself with non-action?” Ask yourself, “What about me gives me the right to tell people I am an actor even though I never do the things necessary to claim that profession as mine?” Ask yourself “What is it that allows me to continually humiliate myself?”

Physical and Spiritual Unity
Your lack of action is part of life’s effort to keep you from physical and spiritual unity. It’s part of the game of life. Understanding how to read your excuses will help you to find what motivates you to non-action. For the next day I want you to carry around a traveling notebook. Every time you hear someone using an excuse for why something wasn’t done or why something can’t be done, write it down. The same is true for you. Be consciously aware of your excuses for non-action and write them down as well. At the end of a week period look at the excuses and seek out a common denominator of all of them. What do all the excuses have in common? It’s like a riddle. When you find the common denominator for your excuses you’ll find a key to unlocking the motivation of your non-action. You may find your motivating force for non action is the same in all the areas of your life.

What you may not know is your physical side has one agenda and your spiritual side another agenda. Both are in need of your life energy to fulfill their agendas. The physical need is to keep your life energy for survival. The spiritual need is to keep your life energy for growth and experience of the journey.

The power of your life energy and the control and use of it through talent could have a powerful impact on someone’s life. On one hand we have the spiritual growth through talent that moves our civilization on the incredible journey of evolution and on the other hand, we have human life dedicated to survival of the fittest through the ‘flight or fight’ responses.

There is no wonder that your efforts are met with hostile forces. It is still you and you alone who have the power to succeed in this journey. You should anticipate the planet working against you when you start working against it. This happens every time you choose to take actions to blend your spiritual power with your physical power. The need to avoid pain or the anticipation of pain is a fundamental effort of the body.

What you may not know is that your body does not differentiate between real pain and imagined pain. To the body, they are one in the same real, imagined, emotional or physical. Your physical self will use your life energy to protect the vessel at all costs. That includes protecting it from you as well. If you have any thoughts of redirecting your life energy for talent, according to your body, you should think again. In either case they render the body inactive. That is the primary effort of the physical self.

Have a great week... and remember, it's all up to you.
I wish you well.