From June 27th to July 31st, 2005
I’m trying something new here. I’ve done a good job at establishing strong habits that will support my creative process. (Regular exercise, eliminate/police my home hotspots, new evening/morning routines, better tracking of my finances thru Quicken, weekly assessment of goals/actions, etc.). It’s time to begin setting out short term goals, and then to assess my progress on them. To that end I’ve set up a “Monthly Goals” category. The idea is to take these new habits and use them as the foundation for realizing my creative ideas. I’ll begin modestly, taking this month to month. Baby steps.
I want my focus this month to primarily be on my acting. This doesn’t mean that I’m giving up on my other projects. It means that this month I will take massive action towards furthering my acting career. I will assess this process on July 31st, and post again then. Any time that I spend on other projects (Book, September dance project, songwriting) will be considered an added bonus. (Great if I do, but I won’t beat myself up if I don’t.) Any time spent on projects other than acting will be time that I choose to spend, just as the time I’m spending on my acting is time that I choose to spend.
“These things I will focus on for the next 35 days. I will assess this process on July 31st.”
Overall Goals
- Make each goal SMART
Give 100% of myself to my monologue class.see update 7/1/05 below- Memorize my monologue completely and have it down cold
- Warm up my body and my voice before class each week. (Reason: I want to be completely open and able to give my best during each class.)
- Spend time (define the amount of time) each week practicing my voice & speech (Reason: I want speech that is crisp and clear and completely within my control.)
- Spend time (define the amount of time) each week singing. (Reason: Strengthen my voice/build endurance.)
- Create a master “Acting Contacts” list. (Definitions: People that I’ve met who are in the industry that I want to keep up with/build better relationshiops with/learn from.)
- Create an “Action Plan” for regularly contacting/learning from/interacting with the people on my “Acting Contacts” list.
- Read (define #) plays/screenplays by the end of the month.
- See
(define #)at least 3 plays/readings/performances by July 31st.
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Plays I will see this month:
OTMA – Atlantic Theatre Company
Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls – Victory Hall (Jersey City)
–Update: 7/1/05–
Well, my monologue class has been cancelled. She offered a truncated make-up seminar on Saturday’s but that time will not work for me. So I am left pondering the meaning of this and I’m suddenly left with a hole in my schedule.
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