I wanted to write about planning. Oddly enough, I was watching "Tropic Thunder," a crazy spoof on "Rambo" style movies where Robert Downey Jr. plays an Australian actor portraying a black man and Tom Cruise does a bring-down-the-house performance as a manic Hollywood executive.
At each moment of this crazy film, I was in awe of every single element. The actors, the sets, the planned comic sequences--and the kind of resources necessary to bring everything together. With my small little webisodes, I feel almost embarrassed at trying to do what others are spending every drop of energy and every resource to produce.
Yet, what a delicious endeavor.
I've always wanted to just be an artist. While my job requires me to do many artistic things, I'll always yearn to devote myself 100% to my art.
I'm not going to fool myself into thinking I can replace my current salary, but I'm not going to stop trying to be the artist I am inside.
My revelation last night was the notion of redirecting my energy into maximizing my time outside my professional career towards planning and execution. In my near future there are target dates, opportunities for me to meet, learn, perform and persuade the right people to get me to a different place. I have to say, that a lot of those lessons can happen at work, which is a great opportunity. But outside work, I'll need to allow for rest, education, rehearsal, development and performance, with all of it being calculated and planned. Every step from here on out will be deliberate, with the intent being maximum impact.
Yours in premeditation,
Angel Bright
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