The Struggling Actor Syndrome
Many actors listen to their peers as they accept their lot in life. I call it the struggling actor syndrome and the actor buys into a whole bag of excuses. Get away from those who accept mediocrity or non-action. Surround yourself with positive, energized, success driven people. I believe that your patterns of work and your efforts towards your goals are directly affected by the company you keep. Misery loves company; your creature will seek out the creature in others. They all respond to the name Misery.
Recognizing What You Want
Take a look at your life. Are your efforts to pursue a professional acting career based on what you really want? Your body, with Buster at control, cannot distinguish between the real and the imagined. And, remember, the amount of time it takes you to collect your "no’s" is your control factor. So train your Mind to visualize your expectations. Focus on how you’ll feel when you get the acting job. Focus on how you’ll feel by not letting yourself down. Focus on how you’ll feel when you are willing to take risks. Have that feeling now.
All you have to do for success is to know what you want and then create the actions needed to get results. You evaluate the actions. And, change them if the results are not to your liking. That’s right; you change the actions and make different choices to get the results you want. Make choices for your new career efforts by first knowing where you are and how your current talents and abilities fit within your efforts. Evaluate the results of those actions and take all new information gathered to put it into the next set of choices that you make. Evaluate which efforts are working and which efforts are not.
Many people keep doing the same thing over and over. They never accept that their choices and resulting actions need to be changed in order to get different results. Avoid this negative aspect of the human condition.
Recognize that if there is something you want and you’re not going after it the reason is likely that there is more pain linked to the fear of failure than the pleasure connected with the joy of success. If you’re going to change your behavior you’re going to have to change your focus and perception. Follow through with your actions and change the focus from pain to pleasure. You already know what will happen if you don’t follow through. You already know what will be the cost to you if you don’t take action.
Go to as many interviews and auditions as possible to fulfill the quota of "no’s" to get the "yes’s". The sooner you change your perceptions, the sooner the obstacles of life will diminish. It is illogical to expect them to go away. But, the effect of life obstacles can be redirected to your advantage. Focus and perception are the keys that unlock your potential for growth and pleasure. If you focus on your lack of opportunity, then you will manifest that lack as real. It’s the law of the universe. It is the law of attraction. You reap what you sew. You will begin to access your dreams if what you want is made clear and the actions you take toward them are realistic, systematic and consistent.
During your life you have had times when you dreaded having to do something. You kept putting it off until finally, for whatever reason, you forced yourself to do it. Perhaps you found the joy of doing it outweighed the pain of putting it off. If you have experienced this you know the power of changing your focus and your perception. The answer was action. You let yourself go for it! You used pain and pleasure instead of letting pain and pleasure use you. You can change your perception and say, “Wow, now I have time to explore new knowledge and more aggressive plans of attack and draw to myself more opportunity.”
Have a wonderful week, filled with new adventures and new knowledge.
I wish you well,
Russ
Monday, January 31, 2011
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