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Fighting Financial Fear
By Miata Edoga of Abundance Bound, Inc
I always encourage aspiring actors to step outside of the box when it comes to determining what things you can be doing to ensure continued financial stability while you pursue your acting career. I know that, when I arrived in Los Angeles, I assumed that I would wait tables, bartend, register with temp agencies – I mean, this is what aspiring actors do, right? It isn’t that there is anything necessarily wrong with those jobs. What I would like to suggest, however, is that those of you who are doing them take a moment to be really honest with yourself, and ask whether your “survival” job is really fulfilling the task you had hoped and expected it to fulfill. Seven years ago I could have won a prize for the number of different jobs I did to make ends meet. I was really struggling to find a balance between the need to pay my bills and the freedom and flexibility I needed to pursue my acting career. But, in spite of all of these “dead end” jobs, I was still broke, miserable and, ironically, too busy to really pursue my acting goals. What I was fortunate enough to learn, and now what I hope to share with fellow artists, is that the choices we have with regards to how to make money are actually much wider and more varied than we often make them out to be. It is actually okay for us to set our sights higher than “just getting by”. What I know is that we can build financial security, and even wealth, while simultaneously building our acting careers. Actors are among the smartest, most creative people in the world. We are not afraid to work hard. It is simply a matter of re-directing some of the energy we are currently giving to jobs we hate, and putting it into alternative ventures that can genuinely satisfy us emotionally and financially. The one thing that continually sets most people back is fear, primarily of other people’s opinions, and of failure. When it comes to fulfilling our deepest dreams it can be a debilitating force. Fear is not the same thing as caution. Setting up a strategic plan is right and proper and tips its hat to caution. But fear is what you need to conquer, or you will forever dream and never live that dream in reality. Which would feel better to you - living with fear and not taking the chance, or taking the chance and living the dream? At first, taking the comfort level of not stepping outside of your current boundaries might feel the best. But then why do those dreams still exist in your mind, if living in your comfort zone is really so rewarding? One of the most rewarding scenarios that we witness from our clients is when someone decides that they are going to do it - they are going to step outside of their own personal boundaries, and they are going to reach for their dreams. Maybe it’s starting their own small business outside of acting. Something that, with the right amount of planning and work ethic, can ultimately give them the freedom and money they need to really build the acting career they want. Wouldn’t any of us feel more than a little nervous doing that? You can actually see it - the hope in their eyes, and the fear that tinges that hope. What happens is that the fear is told to sit back for a little while, to just go along for the ride, and who knows where it will all end up? The reward? When the first goal is met, when the strategic plan has been set up, when the steps are being taken. The fear-tinged hope begins to change to a confidence, and the can-do attitude that brought the person to the brink of their dreams is now carrying them firmly into living those dreams. There is nothing more amazing! Fear is usually fear of the unknown. So, educate yourself further on what it is you need to do. Say out loud what it is that you want for your own life, then write it down, and then begin exploring. What classes are being offered – at Abundance Bound, and also through other resources in your community? Who can you talk to (not just fellow actors) to find out what things they are doing to develop financial independence? What books can you read that will help you start to develop the skills you need to have success. All of these things will help ease the fear a little, replacing inaction with action. This month, what will YOU do to ask fear to sit back for a little while? |
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