Discover the “Best” Way to Advance Your Film Career
by Ian Agard
Would you like to know the single most important thing you can
do to advance your movie career?
Set clear, specific written goals.
Goal setting is something very few people do and is absolutely
essential for achieving anything extraordinary throughout your
profession, whether working in movies or not.
From my own experience I have always had dreams and desires
(in my head) of things I wanted to accomplishment in my career
but the problem was that they remained just in my head. With
my dreams and desires just floating around in my head it
became quite easy to be sidetracked, forget or simply give up
on achieving anything worthwhile.
My struggle and frustration from my lack of progress in my
movie career had me searching for answers.
Was success in the movie industry really based on luck? Maybe
I was not lucky? Maybe making movies was not my calling?
However, everything changed for the better for me once I read
a book by Brian Tracy called “Goals: How to get everything you
want faster than you ever thought possible.” http://www.amazon.com/Goals-Everything-Want-Faster-Thought-Possible/dp/1576752356
I strongly recommend that if you are not currently in the
habit on setting goals for yourself and your career to read
this book.
Basically, the book details how we as human beings are fully
responsible for creating the type of life or career we want
and the single best way to guarantee our success is through
setting goals. Here are the benefits of setting clear goals
for your career:
6. CLARITY:
You will have more CLARITY: You have to know where you want to
go to get there. Setting goals requires you to develop
clarity. This is the first and most important step to creating
a career that you love and want.
5. FOCUS:
You will develop a stronger FOCUS: Whatever you focus on your
get more of: if you have clear goals and focus on them, you
will get more of what you DO want (your goals) and less of
what you don’t want.
4. EFFICIENCY:
When you get clear about where you want to go, you set up
steps and actions to get there. This increases your efficiency
because you are working on what is really important. When you
work on what is important, you will accomplish more than you
ever expected.
3. DREAMS
You will get what you really want in life, rather than
settling for whatever comes you way.
2. INCREASED SELF-CONFIDENCE
As you set and reach your goals, you become more confident in
your ability to do what you say and get what you want in life.
Success breeds more successes. And the number 1 benefit of
setting goals is:
1. RESULTS
There are numerous studies that prove that less than 3% of
people walking on the face of this earth have written goals,
and according to research, these people accomplish 80% more
than those who do not. That is an astounding difference, is it
not?
Your goal could be as simple:
I will finish writing the first draft of my screenplay by July
20th, 2009.
Or
I will direct my second feature film by October 10th, 2009.
I know for a fact that since I started setting career goals
for myself starting back in 2008 that I have achieved more in
my film career within the past 12 months then I have in the
previous four years combined without having any writing goals.
What about you? Are you happy with the progress or stage your
career is in? Do you want more or feel you have the talent,
drive or ambition to accomplish more?
“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he
is reaching out and striving for his goals” – Aristotle
To Your Success.
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Ian Agard – Writer, Director and Producer of the new movie
“Bend and Break” http://www.bendandbreakmovie.com/
To get info about my ebook “Stop Waiting and Make Your Movie”
visit: http://www.ianagard.com/how-to-finance-your-movie
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Copyright (c) 2009 Peter D. Marshall / All Rights Reserved
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