13256: Expect Nothing. Enjoy Everything.

Raw transcript:

Oo, I had a really convenient, compact
little phrase dropped in my lap today.
Uh, I just I couldn’t wait to share it
with you. So, I opened up my camera and
my microphone and here we go. Uh, a way
to handle the vagaries of this business.
One way, maybe you’ll like it. Maybe you
maybe you’ll uh gain some joy from it.
Let’s talk about it in this episode of
the VO Heroes podcast.
It’s hard to explain how our business
works to even people in the business
sometimes people that are newer or
people that have made assumptions about
the business and but certainly for
people that are outside the business and
often to ourselves. Why does this happen
to us? Why do I work so hard on a spec
piece or on a on an an audition and and
it goes to the ether and nothing
happens? You know, it’s like I I I can’t
rely on this business. Okay, I get it.
It’s it’s a completely
screwy way to make a living. There’s no
guarantees.
There’s no, you know, course you can
plot for yourself unless you’re very
very very successful
and have a multitude of things being
offered to you. Certainly the vast
preponderance of of all of us are kind
of like wondering what’s going to happen
next and we can never accurately predict
that, right? So what if you just adopted
this and this is what was dropped in my
lap today. Expect nothing,
enjoy everything.
And this isn’t just some polyiana thing.
This is like a mental health statement
because if you remove the responsibility
of trying to figure out the future,
which you simply can’t do, and you give
yourself the permission to have a blast
with what we do and remember the joy of
being an actor or a voice talent or a
writer or one, you know, a multihyenate
of those three.
Wow, what kind of freedom does that give
you? you know, it’s just awesome. So,
once again, expect nothing. Not going to
be disappointed if there if you didn’t
have any expectations that were
violated, right? And enjoy everything
even when things don’t go your way. You
know, like you don’t get a part. If I
don’t get a part, here’s my immediate
thought.
I’m so happy for the guy that got the
role. Some actor somewhere got work. and
that’s so cool. Or I’ll see a part in a
show, an episode of a television series
that I auditioned for and I didn’t get
as usual, which is, you know, the common
uh and but I’ll see who got it. Oh, this
is great for them. Or if I see somebody
who I know, it’s like enjoy everything.
Even the stuff that people looking from
outside in, like you didn’t get the
part. Why do you why are you so happy
about this? You’re not you’re not
ecstatic about it. you’d love to have
gotten the role, but somebody did. Some
member of our tribe got the work. And if
you don’t have any expectations about
what you might get or not get, if you
decouple the outcome from the pursuit,
like you’re not auditioning and then,
you know, holding on to getting that
part so tight that when you don’t get
it, you’re like deflated and mentally
hit. Like it just it’s just so freeing.
So, third time. Tell me what you think.
Expect nothing.
Enjoy everything.
Tell me what you think in the comments
below. I’m talking about on
vioheres.com. That’s where we hold the
conversations. That’s where it’s nice
and polite and respectful.
Hopefully, you’re on that page. Uh but
however you’re listening or watching to
this, I appreciate it uh watching this.
Uh you can hit the like button if you
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can share this with uh an actor or a
voice talent or a writer who might be
holding on to expectations a little too
tightly for their for their mental
health or their their healthy mental uh
activities. Forward it to them. See if
it see if it helps. I’m David H.
Lawrence the 17th. I thank you so much
for watching and for listening and I
will see you in the next episode of the
VO Heroes podcast.

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