New Year, New Year's Resolutions right? Wrong…If you know my stance on resolutions (see last year's blog) then you would know that I'm a believer in you are what you were on Dec. 31st, any additional let's say dietary improvements would have come sometime before you inhaled the Thanksgiving Turkey and the Christmas Ham, just saying. Any way I have come across a few goals that I want to accomplish that I honestly couldn't have prior to a few months ago when I decided to seriously go down this journey of laughs. I and the comedy partner in crime had a sit down on New Year's afternoon discussing the plans for the New Year and what we want to do to get this show on the road, literally. I'm putting these goals out there because I've found when I talk big (public ish) the more likely I am to do it. So here goes.
- By year's end I want to get a paid gig become a real professional. In some way shape or form I want to get paid for the funny! I understand that for many comics this takes years and I know I am probably no exception to this rule, but if I don't put it out there I won't go for it. I'm not saying I expect to be a traveling headliner doing shows across the world, but by next year I do want somebody else to have paid for the coffee I drank in that Borders New Years afternoon when we came up with these plans.
- Expand the Network. Get my ideas out there and rub shoulders with those people who can help me get to where I want to go with this journey. It's a simple task that comes with hard work and dedication to the craft. In order to be in those circles I have to work like…excuse me harder than those who are in these circles. Gotta stay humble and always looking for a crack in the doorway of success. Like the late great James Brown said it "I don't want nobody to give me nothing, just open up the door and I'll get it myself"
- I want to get to a point that by March I won't be afraid to go on any stage being confident in my work and material. I say March (late march) because this will be the six month mark and by then there will be no turning back. And honestly I don't want to. I've set in my mind to do this, and this experience thus far has granted me a wealth of information about myself and the world around me. I've learned so much from these past 3 mos and I'm excited about what I what I am going to learn in the future.
- Finally a goal is to open up and basically be a scrub for somebody you all may know, again hard work there are people who have been in this for decades and don't have that opportunity. I know cats who have tried their hand and all this and were really good but quit because they didn't see a break like this in sight, and I understand there logic, lucky for me I haven't been a logical creature for quite some time…
- All this being said I have one more goal that will probably take a whole new blog to be able to explain and I will further explain and hopefully somebody out there will get something from this because the next blog is a personal but more importantly it's a lesson in owning what's yours…whatever it may be…
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