Are Your Goals Too Big?

At the beginning of every New Year, I ask my clients to send me their goals for the year. Usually their lists are very long, their goals are very similar and they tend to look something like this:

• Get my SAG card
• Become President of a Studio
• Get an Agent
• Perform on Broadway
• Sell a Screenplay
• Open a Production Company
• Land a TV series.
• And so on, and so on, and so on …

Last year, however, one of my clients only had one rather simple goal: Send out 1 picture a week to 4 soap operas – The Bold & The Beautiful; Days of Our Lives; General Hospital and The Young and the Restless.

When I asked her to tell me more she said that in the past she’d always come up with huge goals that never lasted beyond the end of January. This time, however, she sat down and analyzed what she really wanted, what she was really willing to do and what was realistic for her to do, and she then wrote out her New Years’ goal as follows:

• What she really wanted: Land a part on one of her favorite soap operas
• What she was really willing to do: Send her headshot and resume out, but only to her favorite shows
• What was realistic for her to do: Spend 30 minutes a week marketing herself, which translated into sending out 4 pictures a week.

Sometimes we get so caught up in our goals that we forget to ask ourselves if a particular goal is something we really want or if we’re just pursuing it because all of our friends are or because we’re too scared to go after what we truly want.

We also get so caught up in the size of our goals, that when it comes right down to it, we forget to break them up into bite-size pieces that we can actually manage. My client’s honesty about what she was willing to do enabled her to stay on track because her plan was realistic and doable for her.

Now it’s your turn to ask yourself these same questions:

• What’s the one thing you’d really like to accomplish this year?
• What are you willing to do to accomplish that goal?
• What’s realistic for you to do?

By focusing on just one goal, asking yourself these questions, being honest with your answers and creating a doable plan for yourself that you can follow through on, the chances of you accomplishing your goal have just increased 100%!

To Your Success,
Sharon

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Sharon Moist, also known as The Industry Coach®, is a highly
sought-after professional career coach, whose clients include
Hollywood Power Brokers and A-List Celebrities. After 5 years as a
Hollywood Agent, Sharon left the agency to open her own coaching company.

As The Industry Coach®, Sharon has clients from all areas of the
entertainment industry who represent such projects as: 24, Desperate
Housewives, Las Vegas, The Unit, Navy NCIS, and CSI: Miami, among
others, as well as companies such as Industry Entertainment and HBO,
and talent agencies, including Innovative, Endeavor and the William
Morris Agency.

For more information or to work with Sharon directly, you can visit
her website at: www.TheIndustryCoach.com

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