Happy New Year!
This is always a somewhat melancholy time for many of us...and an opportunity to allow clearing the clutter (literally and figuratively) and discover what we want to focus on at the beginning of this year.
I read a great article this week http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230333.
It looks at the difference between goals and systems. It really spoke to me.
We all have goals. Yet, somehow, it's not always easy to reach them. We aren't always in control of the goal. But we ARE in control of the system we take on.
Committing to the process, not the goal makes complete sense to me.
I will use myself as an example. I haven't written "this book" yet...you will fall over and hurt yourself when I have finally completed it and published it I know...
I realize now, I was too focused on the "I will complete my book this year" instead of the process of creating "writing time" each week.
Daily schedule/weekly schedule of process takes the pressure of "deadline" off, and allows us to find the creativity to evolve.
Have you created some of your "dream big goals"? Sometimes they seem daunting, unattainable, too good to be true. However, if we work from a process, we find the reality that supports the possibility of those dreams to come true.
Perhaps one of your dream goals is to perform on Broadway. That is a very broad goal. So if we start with process - dreaming doesn't get you there. Do you study your craft regularly? Are you auditioning regularly??? Are you getting regular call backs? Are you trying to take classes with major casting directors to gradually become known? What are you being recognized for? What do you want to be recognized for? Are you developing that skill? that talent? that possibility? Have you done any professional performing? Do you have an audition book that you can sing solidly?
The embracing of the process puts it in YOUR hands. You have to be realistic. Process takes time. It takes practice. It takes a realistic view of where you are and where you are going.
Goals are great - if you are willing to embrace the process. I can't write a book and publish it, if I don't make time to write. Well, DUH.
You can't work as a professional artist if you don't work your process to become professional in craft, and in business. Wanting it, setting the goal and not reaching it happens when the process is ignored.
Some people are big ideas people. Some people see the detail. As artists in the business of show, we need to be both. Or we need someone in our circle we trust to balance that which we do not see, and can point it out clearly.
This is why we study; this is why we have coaches and teachers, and mentors and the like - to not tell us how great we are, but to challenge us to think beyond what is comfortable.
What do you want???? That is the big picture, no matter the answer.
How do you get there??? Those are the details. That reveals the process.
Sometimes the process reveals another goal. Imagine!
Choose to reveal the authenticity of you in every aspect of your process. The more authentic you are, the more your process develops, and the clearer those goals appear.
It's your journey. You are entitled to change your direction if your process takes you there.
Welcome to a new year to each of you!
This is always a somewhat melancholy time for many of us...and an opportunity to allow clearing the clutter (literally and figuratively) and discover what we want to focus on at the beginning of this year.
I read a great article this week http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230333.
It looks at the difference between goals and systems. It really spoke to me.
We all have goals. Yet, somehow, it's not always easy to reach them. We aren't always in control of the goal. But we ARE in control of the system we take on.
Committing to the process, not the goal makes complete sense to me.
I will use myself as an example. I haven't written "this book" yet...you will fall over and hurt yourself when I have finally completed it and published it I know...
I realize now, I was too focused on the "I will complete my book this year" instead of the process of creating "writing time" each week.
Daily schedule/weekly schedule of process takes the pressure of "deadline" off, and allows us to find the creativity to evolve.
Have you created some of your "dream big goals"? Sometimes they seem daunting, unattainable, too good to be true. However, if we work from a process, we find the reality that supports the possibility of those dreams to come true.
Perhaps one of your dream goals is to perform on Broadway. That is a very broad goal. So if we start with process - dreaming doesn't get you there. Do you study your craft regularly? Are you auditioning regularly??? Are you getting regular call backs? Are you trying to take classes with major casting directors to gradually become known? What are you being recognized for? What do you want to be recognized for? Are you developing that skill? that talent? that possibility? Have you done any professional performing? Do you have an audition book that you can sing solidly?
The embracing of the process puts it in YOUR hands. You have to be realistic. Process takes time. It takes practice. It takes a realistic view of where you are and where you are going.
Goals are great - if you are willing to embrace the process. I can't write a book and publish it, if I don't make time to write. Well, DUH.
You can't work as a professional artist if you don't work your process to become professional in craft, and in business. Wanting it, setting the goal and not reaching it happens when the process is ignored.
Some people are big ideas people. Some people see the detail. As artists in the business of show, we need to be both. Or we need someone in our circle we trust to balance that which we do not see, and can point it out clearly.
This is why we study; this is why we have coaches and teachers, and mentors and the like - to not tell us how great we are, but to challenge us to think beyond what is comfortable.
What do you want???? That is the big picture, no matter the answer.
How do you get there??? Those are the details. That reveals the process.
Sometimes the process reveals another goal. Imagine!
Choose to reveal the authenticity of you in every aspect of your process. The more authentic you are, the more your process develops, and the clearer those goals appear.
It's your journey. You are entitled to change your direction if your process takes you there.
Welcome to a new year to each of you!
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