Thanks for hanging with us! We’re right here with weblog 3 from our mini collection on the 7 Habits of Extremely Efficient Folks! When you didn’t see the primary two but– you’ll want to try these earlier posts! So let’s discover behavior 3!

Most individuals lately have HUGE to-do lists. It could possibly really feel paralyzing, particularly to creatives! Not all actions that find yourself on our “to-dos” truly transfer us nearer to our success. Figuring out the KEY actions that you have to concentrate on first is VITAL to discovering success in ANY trade.

So how do you differentiate your duties? How do you set-up your day to have success right here? It’s essential to be taught the phrase “no” and when to make use of it.

There are vital and non-important duties and pressing and non-urgent duties. It’s essential to construction your day to incorporate sufficient time engaged on issues that aren’t pressing however ARE vital. When you don’t put aside time for these duties, it’s straightforward to get caught within the worldwind of smaller issues that maintain you busy however don’t transfer you in direction of your objectives. To do that, you have to be continually occupied with what YOU have to do, what you possibly can DELEGATE, what you possibly can AUTOMATE and what you possibly can say NO to. With that in thoughts, you have to schedule your week to get the whole lot achieved. Don’t anticipate to FIND the time. Put the time within the calendar. When you by no means work on the massive image, you possibly can’t ever anticipate to attain your huge goals. If meaning saying no or asking another person to do it– you have to! In any other case, you’re simply coasting by way of reacting to issues as an alternative of taking motion in direction of your objectives.

So listed here are a couple of suggestions for you for level quantity 3!

• Create a weekly schedule that outlines your every day actions. Block out time for submitting for auditions and doing trade analysis. Create your weekly schedule on Sunday night time or Monday morning and cling to it as carefully as you possibly can. The extra you observe your scheduling, the better it is going to be to put aside the correct period of time to get your duties accomplished.
• Do your MOST IMPORTANT WORK FIRST. Deal with the self-tapes, the audition submissions and your vital relationship constructing duties earlier than you hop on the household electronic mail string, do the load of laundry or open social media. You’ll really feel extra management over your day if you may make time to do that regularly.
• Discover what you’re doing that’s getting you optimistic outcomes in your life. Prioritize these issues!
• Ask your self these questions when scheduling your duties: 1) Is it vital? 2) Do I want to do that now? 3) Can another person do that? 4) Can I automate this for the long run? 5) Does this transfer me nearer to my goals? 6) Is the result of this motion vital to my profession and/or private objectives?
• TIME BLOCKING! I’m a BIG fan of this technique! Generally after we give ourselves mini deadlines we transfer quicker. In case you have all day to do an merchandise, you’ll take all day. When you give your self a timeline, you’ll work to do it inside that time-frame. Tighten your deadlines on particular person duties and watch the way it adjustments your productiveness.

Be happy to remark beneath on any motion steps these rules encourage for you and we’ll get busy prepping behavior #4!

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Colleen Finnegan Kahl is an achieved Theatre Arts Educator, creator of this text, and President of Actors Connection. Colleen is an knowledgeable serving to aspiring actors put together for casting calls, discover an agent, and optimize their performing coaching for theater and tv.

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