I tend to talk a lot about self-discipline. Why? Because I believe that self-discipline is the key to success. I think that once you know yourself and take control of your life, you can do anything .
Often times we mistaken a slew of features for a more powerful effective app/experience. Yet sometimes it’s those same long lists of features that end up making the app hard to grasp, or in some cases ultimately useless.
Six Ways to Make People Like You Dale Carnegie Rule 1: Become genuinely interested in other people. Rule 2: Smile. Rule 3: Remember that a person’s name is to him or her is the sweetest and most important sound… Rule 4: Be a good listener.
When I worked in casting I met great people. I also met not great people. Not to say they weren’t nice or that they weren’t good people. They just weren’t great. Some people would walk into the room and immediately not only shake my hand, but also drum up a conversation with me.
I’m not great at getting things done. When I was in college, if a paper was due on the 22 nd of April, I didn’t even remember that I had to write that paper until the 21 st .
When I was in the 4 th grade, I had a teacher named Mrs. Dyson. No she didn’t make vacuum cleaners. But she did make me crazy. She used to say one phrase over and over.
When starting out I think every artist should have three jobs. Sounds stressful right? Well it is, but it’s a worthwhile process. Here are the three jobs I’m talking about: The idea is that this is a process. It’s a refining process that will carry you into a place of success.
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein “I don’t have time.” “Really?” I asked my brother, “You can’t carve out even a few minutes?” “Oh, I don’t know.” He responded.
In college, a professor once told me, “Saying yes to everything means that you’re saying no to something else because you don’t have the time to do it.” A while back, I quit a job because it made no money. I worked as a barista to bring in some extra income.
When you decide that you want to become an actor, you always imagine that you’re the next big thing. You imagine that you’re Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, or Gerard Butler. You see yourself as the leading man. The Hero.
When I was in college, I thought I was a real writer. I had taken a screen writing class and I was deeply inspired. I had all sorts of glorified images in my head of what it was like to be a screen writer.
Two weeks ago, l was on a photo shoot in Beverly Hills. I was shooting modeling shots of about 14 people for a talent agency. As I was taking pictures, one of the actors and l started talking. I asked him what he did for a living besides acting.