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Goals for the New Year
wishes are good and goals can be acted on
Just some random thoughts on what is the first workday of the year for many people.
I’ve seen so many people setting goals for 2024 that are deeply dependent on other people cooperating (book a guest star, win a specific award or sell a screenplay).
Instead, I want to do work that might make the muses smile. I want I connect with a role in a new and deeper way than I ever have before and do something with my acting that is scary and fresh (but not foolishly reckless); I’d like to hone my ability to commit to the moment I’m playing and both the immediacy and terrors/joys of it.
Those other concrete tangibles are great wishes, but become more solid goals when couched as what we do, regardless of what others do or do not do.
Instead of ”book a guest star,” perhaps “get off book on sides faster by practicing a new memorization technique and so allow myself to explore and discover more” or “take a bigger risk with the material to do something no other actor can do except me.”
Instead of “win a specific award,” maybe “contact 4 new professionals in a meaningful way for possible collaboration each month,” or “find a photographer that captures the kind of roles I play brilliantly in the eyes of the photos of people they take.”
