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The Great Acting Blog: “Lets Give Ourselves A Pat On The Back”

04.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Sometimes we can get so caught up in the minutiae of day to day tasks that we can no longer see the woods from the trees. We get so wrapped up in the workload of getting a production off the ground or in the endless...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Knowing Our Limitations Leads To Progress”

01.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

We work our little cotton socks off to achieve one goal, then we go and up the ante by deciding that, next time, we will try to accomplish something a little bit harder. As we sketch out a plan to achieve this next conquest, we...

The Great Acting Blog: “Are They So Worthless?”

12.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 28 Comments

Being an actor is about telling the truth, in fact, cultivating personal truth is what actors spend a lot of their time doing. Then we reach out, offering the best of ourselves and hope we hit the mark. We do so with the best intentions...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Vision Creates A Sustainable Career Path”

01.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 40 Comments

If you don't have some sense of where you want to end up as an actor, if you don't have a vision for your work, then you are placing yourself at a huge disadvantage to those actors who do. There are innumerable opportunities in the acting world,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Define Your Goals Precisely”

29.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 34 Comments

So many actors fail because they don't define their objectives properly. A lot of actors grumble and complain because they don't feel they have any direction, they're not going anywhere. In the end, many walk away entirely because, frankly, their lack of direction leads to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Small Steps To Accomplish Big Goals”

21.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Yesterday's post was about setting goals high enough so that accomplishing them creates stress, and coming through this stress then helps us to grow. However, we don't need to dive into the stress from the word go. Oftentimes we need to gently ease ourselves into...

The Great Acting Blog: “Pick The Right Goals”

06.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

What are your goals? When you accomplished one of your goals, how did it feel? Was it worth the trade-offs we have to make as actors? And if it wasn't worth it, why not? If it wasn't worth the trade-offs then the goal didn't fulfil you, it wasn't what...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Right Trajectory”

05.06.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 15 Comments

The last few years, for me, have been about accomplishing very specific goals artistically, to find the correct artistic configuration (which takes longer than you might think), and getting my various working processes to work in harmony with each...

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