THE ORGANIZED ACTOR®

As an actor, you’re probably brilliant at making up stories. In fact, you may be so good at it that it’s actually killing your career. “But aren’t we supposed to use our imagination and bring stories to life?” Yes. Of course you are...onstage or in front of a camera, not in your life. Here’s a great example: You’re in the room and you’ve just given what you thought was a great audition. You’re feeling really good about it and then you get the dreaded, “Thank you” from behind

Sabotage is a rather dramatic word, don’t you think? The mere mention of it stirs up thoughts of “intentional acts to overthrow someone else.” or spy novels. The actual definition of the word is: “Any underhand interference with production or work; any undermining of a cause.” Consider that your “cause” is your career, and being aware of the ways that you might be sabotaging yourself is crucial to your success. The craziest part of it is, some of these actions might be so ing

Sounds a little redundant, don’t you think? I mean, if you don’t know what to do, then you don’t know what to do, right? As an actor, I think it’s easy to feel that way a lot of the time… wondering what to do next. Hoping something will happen, but not really trusting that it will. So it’s easy to feel like if you don’t know what to do, then you don’t know what to do. Period. But I think that way of thinking is the exact reason why you feel trapped or stuck or in wonderment.

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