Holidaze

If you have been following this blog, you may have noticed that it's been awhile since my initial post. Alright, quite awhile. Okay, okay, six months to be more precise. You're probably wondering what happened to all the excitement which accompanied that post. I wish I had a great answer but I don't. All I can say is, I got caught up in the HOLIDAZE!!!!!

It started with the smack talking amongst friends as we neared our Annual Turkey Bowl Game, the only football game we play all year which leads to injuries and many upset significant others, and ended with my birthday at the end of February, in which I normally join the witness protection program to hide from family and friends. By the time I turned around, it was the second week of March my company, Brooklyn Star Entertainment, was still under staffed. The media packet for our play, "38" still hasn't been completed and my blog came to a complete stop after only one post. I was very disappointed in myself and how easily I allowed myself to be distracted which led me to my first observation.

OBSERVATION ONE
Stay Focused

This should go without saying but there is a BIG difference between knowing something intellectually and understanding it emotionally. It's like a parent telling a child not to play in the street. It's not until the child understands the dangers of playing in the street or the dangers of an angry parent that they eventually avoid playing in the street.

I understood staying focused on the intellectual level so much so that I had tons of reminders going off on my iPhone telling me what I had to do but I kept ignoring them because emotionally, I couldn't get myself motivated to work and I needed to find a solution. For me the answer was a mental picture. I picture myself at 70, hair graying, glasses, tattered clothes and a cane. I don't need the cane to walk but as an old man I plan to be pretty curmudgeonly so I use the cane to hit small children, it's what old people do. Anyway, in this picture I'm sitting there going over how I could have done things differently in my life. Thinking about how if I had only "Insert whatever I need to do here" things could have been so different and like magic, out of nowhere I get that second wind.

I've told you what I'm doing to stay focused, so let me know what you do so that we can help each other.

Until my next post. May your star shine brightly.

On the Edge

I'm finally here.

I can see it, smell it, taste it, touch it and I'm terrified of it. You're probably wondering what it, is? It's, the end.

For the past two years, I've been struggling to build a website for my production company, Brooklyn Star Entertainment. The driving force has always been the hope that once my ideas were out there I would connect with others and have a career above the line in the entertainment industry. The struggle is finally over since the foundations of the site have been completed and I'm meeting new and interesting people everyday.

I can't hide behind hope any longer, it has to give way to hard work. This is my moment of truth where everything I've told myself and believed will be tested. Are my ideas good enough? Am I as good a writer as I think? Can I be organized enough to keep a production on schedule? Will I be able to motivate actors through a scene?

You're all welcome to join me as I seek answers to these questions and those that haven't been asked yet through this blog which will relate my real life experiences as I build my production company from the ground up.