The Great Acting Blog: “How Are You Doing?”

The Great Acting Blog: “How Are You Doing?”

Sometimes, how we feel influences how well we think we’re doing. But emotions are a poor indicator of our progress, they are liable to lead us up the garden path, and negative emotions can result in destructive decision-making. To measure our progress we need to strip the emotion away, and focus on our objectives and what we’re doing to accomplish them.

Some questions….

Are you improving day-by-day?

Are you seeing yourself grow artistically?

Are you on the right trajectory, for your work and life?

Are you getting more done and to a better standard?

Are you closer to achieving your goals today than you were yesterday?

Are you delivering work to a standard that makes you happy?

Are you working with the people you want to work with?

Compared to yesterday, last week, last year, and at other points in your life which made an impression on you, how are you doing?

What are you going to do differently?

Where will those changes take you?

 

I’m a big advocate of taking action, of just doing stuff. But sometimes you need to get off the merry-go-round and assess what you’re doing and how effective it is, without using how you feel as a measure.

 

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