I'm here to tell you to never never stop.
You got it.
You were actually right when you recognized your ability to channel sacred divine inspiration. That's the truth.
You are brilliant. Thinking anything less than that is not serving you or anyone else. Accept
that you're brilliant and move on.
Believing in what's possible for you is so crucial, because....well it's really everything. It's not just crucial, it is really EVERYTHING.
Here's why. You are going to act according to what you believe. If you don't believe me, take smaller examples.
You gotta say yes to any opportunity you can to grow your craft. Even when you don't feel ready. Especially when you don't feel ready. Just make it a habit! Just decide that you're going to be the person who volunteers.
I understand wanting to be prepared and professional, but look at a certain point you got to realize that time waits for no one. Would you rather wait until your monologue is perfect (as in the best you can make it) before you go to an acting coach, and have 3 months go by and still haven't worked with them? Or would you rather take it to them messy?
Ideally, yes it would be so dandy if you had done as much character development and practice as you could-that is great. But I am saying when the opportunity springs up on you to work with someone great, don't say no because you don't feel good enough. I'm just gonna call it out- that is literally stupid.
Why the heck do you think anyone demands perfection of you? If you are in a setting to workshop something with someone....it dang well better not be perfect. Look you wouldn't have the invitation to work with someone if you weren't ready to grow.
The Reason Why
The reason why I always say yes is... it is because that is how the real world of my industry is. In the performing world, even when you have months to rehearse something, LIVE theatre and performing is about being flexible, and about being able to take direction on the spot. So that is why when today, whilst scrolling upon instagram I saw there was a Zoom Masterclass with a broadway actor, and he was going to coach five lucky singers on the call, that would be chosen from posting funny Disney Tik Toks on your instagram and tagging them, what do you think I did?
Why I went straight to my tik tok and sent four disney videos to my instagram story and tagged them!
And guess who got to sing for the broadway actor? Yup- ME!
Wanna know what thoughts went through my head?
-Oh darn it! I wish I would have known yesterday so I could have prepared a song for him, I don't want to look bad.
-Ah, is that weird to post my old videos on my story? What will people think?
LAAAAMMMMMEEEEEE
As Elizabeth Gilbert says, "your fears are the least interesting thing about you".
I wasn't completely un prepared- I always am working on a Disney song. And it is always being developed. Another thing to say to yourself is, what is REALLY the worst thing that can happen?
ON BELIEF
Back to what I was saying about belief: Say you are a runner- you have sort of always wanted to do a half marathon or marathon. You have done a few 5ks before, and even some 10Ks. You have almost signed up for a marathon a few times. Or maybe you have signed up, but feel less confident. But let's take it back to the 5K.
You sign up for the 5K, and then you what? You go running, building up your distance, because you know you are going to do the 5k. In other words...
you believe that you can build up to being able to run the 5K.
This is important ya'll. Sounds obvious, but look at the principle behind it. If you REALLY didn't believe you would ever make it up to running 3 miles, no matter how long you trained...then eventually you would stop. If you even started in the first place. You literally only keep training because you trust the process of building the endurance. You believe you can do something, so you trust the process. But if you actually don't believe you can run a marathon, well then you obviously will not try. Because what sort of use of your time and energy is that?
So.
If you want to do something new. Something great. I invite you to do two things. 1-recall "wins" in your life and somethings you are proud of you have done, and 2-you must seriously consider what someone who does believe does in relationship to your goal.
1. RECALLING WINS
First, give yourself some credit. You must start making a "Did List" and not just a "To Do" list. You gotta remind yourself that you are capable of TONS.
2. RETHINKING YOUR THINKING/ BE WILLING TO FEEL FOOLISH
So, this is where the out-of-comfort-zone part comes to reality. The part where you actually step out of your comfort zone. It's a nice phrase, but it's not embodied as much as it is talked about. We all have areas we are farther a long in our comfort zone than others. Like for me there's probably not a class in the world I would be intimidated to go to. I am not wired that way. But in the social category, my spot on the comfort zone chart would be much lower.
So since you act according to what you believe, if something continually isn't working out I want to ask why. You also should know there will be a cute sentence with the word "but" that will follow immediately after you come up with these beliefs.
So when I say, "If I truly , like actually believed I was good enough and capable and am going to get hired to perform at Disneyland, then what would I do?
The answers that follow, is the recipe for my up leveling.
The answers that follow, will be things I can come up with reasons not to do.
Example- I would work with this voice teacher. Then my brain will say why I can't work with that voice teacher yet. Just as an example.
Here's another one.
If I KNEW that I was going to get this job at the marketing agency, what would I be doing right now? If I KNEW that my photography business would grow rapidly, what would I do differently now?
This is the way to begin thinking!!
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