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What can you do now that will make your next job, the one you have booked, so much better?  Focused effort today will pay off soon. The Production Lane, when we are actively rehearsing and performing, has the least amount of discretionary time. Use your time now, in the Booked Lane,  to free up your mind for the work you love to do. This is personal work, professional work, aspirational work.  But all of it is for You, Your Growth, Your Life.

The Booked Lane is one of the best times for actors to work on our mindsets. We have the energy and the motivation to cultivate our next job, which we just booked, into a great experience. The Booked Lane is a transitional period, between Ready Lane and Production Lane. Basketball players of excellence know how important the Transition is - how they navigate the court between Offense and Defense is everything. The game can hinge on how prepared the players are to handle the transition. The same goes for actors. The more we become comfortable 'in the transition', the more we will enjoy and find rewards over the span of our careers. Worth it.

Your minds will determine so much about your next job. When you are in the Booked Lane, when you have some time before your next job starts, how you Approach the job will affect how you Experience the job. We all can get stuck thinking So Much is out of our control. But our Thoughts, our super power, are almost totally in our control. Let's use this to make this next job meaningful and possibly even Career Changing.

Actors have more control than we think. We can shape the experience of our next job, our next Booked Contract, with the power of our thinking. If your brain keeps circling to thoughts of nerves, self doubt and unworthiness instead of joy, abundance and Let's Go... Here are some ways to align your thoughts with your emotional health. Let's make this next job as amazing as you are.

The Booked Work Flow Lane for Actors is a time of transition. You are moving from the Ready Lane, where you are available to work, to the Production Lane, where you are under contract. No matter the length of time between accepting the offer and starting work, and no matter the length of time of the contract, you will thank yourself many times over if you make some decisions now... And answer the question: You booked the job. What do I Want Now?

Amazing! You have accepted an offer for work. You are officially in The Booked Lane, one of the 3 Work Flow Lanes for Professional Actors. Ready. Booked. Production. This lane is High Energy. We get a natural dopamine hit, a beautiful energy surge, when we get an offer, and again when we accept it. These next podcasts are to support you as you travel in this lane, en route to Production. A beautiful place to be, where Everything is Possible.  

We can treat our memories as facts. But they are truly creative layerings, painted each time we revisit a particular memory. Different every single time. How can we use this for our emotional wellbeing? For starters, we can stop beating ourselves up for anything we did in the past. Think of these memories, the good and the bad and the boring, as the library of us.  Each volume open to interpretation by the reader, or the viewer.  That is very freeing.  And healthy.  We can be onto our primitive brains, when it returns again and again to the same memory. What is it telling us?  And...when we use our higher brain... What do we want to make that mean?  

This is the 5th Podcast in a 5 Part Series about The Ready Lane - the work flow lane for professional actors who are Available for Offers. You are familiar with the 90 day Idea as well as some emotional tools and decisions you can choose to use if you want some support and guidance as you navigate this time in your career and life. The Horizon Line is still there. Whether you are in the Ready Lane for a hot minute, or for months and months, the Horizon Line is beautiful and available. Celebrate yourself, seek some beauty, check in with your CEO (that's you) and then Get to work on your next 90 Day idea. You are never alone. We have all been there, and if you are committed to this work, you will be in the Ready Lane again and again. Nothing is owed us. Nothing is fair about the Actor Life. But. Everyday brings the possibilities that weren't there yesterday. Thank yourself for what you have done to get here. Get coaching or coach yourself. Your Future Self is Waiting to Thank You.

This is the 4th podcast in a series of 5 for Ready Lane Actors. Here we dive into some ideas for those days where you seek more focus. And some of them, you won't want to do. That's where tenacity comes in. We do them anyway. Or at least, some of them. We will thank ourselves later. Possibly, you will find your time more rewarding, your days more structured, your calendar more focused. Possibly, none of the above. All is available to you if you want to explore. One of these ideas might serve you in this work flow lane, if you would like more organization, or ideas on what to do when you have the abundance of time. Because without a production, a stage manager, a scheduler, telling us what to do and when, we can drift. And that can feel comforting. But for career longevity, we can stop the drift When We Choose To. Just good to know.

There are stretches in our Ready Lane lives when we feel a bit (or a lot) lost. If we are not auditioning, or are auditioning and not booking, for an extended period of time, our primitive brain wants to ring all of the alarm bells. Not helpful. What is helpful: Separating the facts from our 'story' about our work. Reaching out for help. And recognizing that we are the CEO of us. Most of the time. This works in two distinct ways. We run the business of us. That kind of CEO.  And. We generate being and staying Creative, Energized, and Open. Because the Good News is that any day, any moment, Almost Anything is Possible.