Do you have one? It’s okay to say “no.” So often I get the enthusiastic “yes” and I know it’s not true. Welcome to your own personal GPS blog post. A really smart way to view your professional pursuit is to embrace another form of GPS I call: Game \u2013 Plan \u2013 Synergy baby!!<\/strong><\/p>\n All successful businesses, sports teams, and entrepreneurial leaders have a game plan, right? If you try to navigate Hollywood and you believe that you don’t need a game plan to pursue a professional acting career, well, I hope you enjoy being the Mayor of Crazy-Town.<\/p>\n 1. WEEKLY SEGMENTS ARE CHEWABLE<\/strong> \u2014 When it comes to anything in life that seems at odds with our normal learning curve, keep it simple. Think of your life and available energy\/time as a weekly thing. Eight hours of sleep leaves 16 hours x 7 which equals 112.<\/p>\n 2. QUARTERLY REVIEWS ARE VALUE IN H.R.!<\/strong> \u2014 If you’ve ever been hired to work a regular job, it’s very common for the guidelines of employment to come with a 90-day trial basis. Once you have your game plan, part of the synergy I want you to feel comes with reviewing how you’re doing every 90 days.<\/p>\n 3. SEMI-ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS SAVE CAREERS<\/strong> \u2014 You hit the half-way point in the calendar year. You have a weekly plan and you review that quarterly but you assess it every six months. Why? Because an actor’s pursuit is NOT remotely linear, nor does it necessarily remain on the same tracks.<\/p>\n 4. ANNUAL REORGANIZATION IS PARAMOUNT<\/strong> \u2014 To stop, and consider the necessity to ‘Reorganize’ your business annually is not a bad thing in any way. Bear in mind that we cannot pursue acting in a bubble. We have lives, maybe kids, other jobs to make money, life partners, friends, family etc.<\/p>\n 5. GOALS v. TASKS IS THE KEY<\/strong> \u2014 A goal is NOT a task. A series of tasks, well-planned and well-executed, are the key to accomplishing a goal. Example: the common actor goal of “I want an agent.” Whereas Kevin would say: “I want to create seven agent meetings.” Why? Because getting a rep is left to THEM to decide and creating meetings is up to you.<\/p>\n 6. BUILD YOUR BALANCED ACTOR DIET<\/strong> \u2014 Never forget this Kevin’ism: “They don’t add extra hours into a 24-hour day for you to have time to pursue your career.” The reality is, no different than one’s caloric intake, is the absolute requirement to manage your LIFE and ACTOR time.<\/p>\n 7. IS YOUR TIME-BANK SUFFICIENT?<\/strong> \u2014 You cannot create or engage in Game Plan Synergy unless you know for certain how much time you have on a weekly basis. You must sit down and intelligently arrive at a clear number of hours.<\/p>\n CONCLUSION:<\/strong> You are the CEO of your business and the master of your life. You must stand before your desires, goals, dreams and deep desire to work as an actor and put together an executable game plan to accomplish it. This is Game Plan Synergy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is your acting career game plan? Do you have one? It’s okay to say “no.” So often I get the enthusiastic “yes” and I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinwest.jotfolio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}