Hello- Hope this month has treated you all well. Welcome back. If you read my post last month, you’ll recall that I ended the post with the following statement.
“I guess I just need a sign that this is the right path for me, and I need lady luck to pay a visit as well”.
Well as the title of this month’s post suggests, I got my sign. At least a big enough sign that I decided to interpret as a signal to stick with this crazy life. I have heard several stories from other actors, at all levels, that just as they make peace with the idea of leaving the industry, something pulls them back in. Well this past month, I got pulled back in, I have decided to keep at it.
Back in December I made a list of goals, and I have started ticking them off. One step at a time right? It hasn’t been easy emotionally but I keep soldiering on. I signed with a print agent this month, which I am very happy about. I am trying to open up as many channels into the business as I possibly can, VO agent is next…I’ll keep you posted.
The biggest sign this year is that I got an audition to put myself on tape for a series regular role, and got a callback. I have an agent in Portland, where I will work as a local hire, and he got me in for the role. I got the callback and I flew myself up to Portland to read for producers. It was a great experience, and it restored my confidence in myself. I was so thrilled to get the audition, then the callback, and had such a great time traveling up there that I count this as a big victory for myself. Did I get the job, no, but that can’t always be the defining term of success, getting in there and doing well is. It feels like a step in the right direction for me and I am glad for the experience.
I know it’s true that we never know what is happening behind the scenes of the bigger picture of our lives. We plant seeds as we travel through our time here, and they sprout when we least expecet to see them again. I am hoping that this experience is just that, a seed that will sprout into something down the line. Someone recently said to me, you have no idea how your efforts will manifest further down the road, and I believe they are right. I am trying to keep an open mind and an open heart to everything that presents itself to me. I am also putting less pressure on myself and celebrating the small victories along the way. Looking forward to more exciting times this year.