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• Casting: Interview subjects for A Path Less Traveled Production
• The situation sucks
• Difficulty is not a standard
• Always, always, always focus on what you CAN do
• Sometimes opportunity will come knocking
• Growth and Discomfort : Getting outside of your comfort zone
• Whatever you focus on only grows stronger
• No one can make you get fit.
• People who think of themselves as badasses
• Where does confidence come from?
• Perception and Rejection

Casting: Interview subjects for A Path Less Traveled Production

Casting a collaborative ongoing internet-based video podcast/documentary composed of video interviews of talent accompanied by still image portraits & supplemental video.

Seeking to highlight professional & aspiring artists of all kinds (performers, entertainers, musicians, image creators, models, and more), the stories they have to tell, and the causes they want to talk about.

We will be taking an honest look at artists’ successes, setbacks, failures, and struggles in life and the lessons they’ve learned as a result. We highly desire anyone who is currently on or who has experienced an unconventional path in life. This includes unconventional jobs, life circumstances, living arrangements, and more. But anyone with an interesting story to tell is welcome.

Your story, struggles, and what you’ve learned on your journey are of far more interest to us than how successful (or not) you consider yourself or what you look like.

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Roles:

Interview subject

Seeking subjects willing to talk about their lives and challenges they’ve faced including setbacks, failures, passions, art, inspirations, special talents, interesting stories, causes you believe in, and more. Because this is a collaborative experience, the exact outcome will vary with each individual. Select portraits of subjects will be highlighted in the podcast as well as video interviews. With your permission, filming may involve accompanying you during your day to capture you doing what you do.

Location:

This is a nationwide multi-month project starting in Southern California and making its way to other locations across the United States based on accepted applicants.

The situation sucks

Yes, the situation you’re struggling with sucks. But answer this question:

Are you going to let it stop you?

If the answer is no, great! But then that raises another question:

If you’re not going to let your current circumstances stop you, what are you doing beating yourself up and making yourself feel miserable when you could be pushing forward and working on overcoming whatever it is you are struggling with?

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Difficulty is not a standard

To you it may be the hardest thing you’ve ever done and someone else may do it and call it “Tuesday”.

Difficulty is not a standard and people’s lives should not be treated as if it were.

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Always, always, always focus on what you CAN do

Always, always, always focus on what you CAN do.

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Sometimes opportunity will come knocking

Sometimes opportunity will come knocking. But most of the time, it’s you that has to get off your butt, go door to door, and do the knocking yourself.

You create opportunities with your actions.

Excerpt from: I have no opportunities published on: Sep 7, 2014 @ 15:20

Related:

• “I can’t do that”
• “It’s too late.”
• “Someday”
• If you want something extraordinary
• Energy flows where attention goes.
• Stop wishing for more time
• What you do in your free time determines what you’ll be doing when you don’t have a choice.
• Who is in charge?
• If you have the power to change something that is holding you back, and you don’t…
• Self-imposed limitations: A tough pill to swallow
• Your life story
• Live with intention. Every day.
• What it means to “live life to the fullest”
• It’s not too late to make a conscious decision to improve…

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Growth and Discomfort : Getting outside of your comfort zone

Growth & Discomfort: Getting outside of your comfort zone

Dealing with discomfort, fear, and situations we don’t want be in — or situations that we are completely unfamiliar with — is an absolutely essential part of growth.

Who we are is a result of everything we’ve had to overcome in life and the attitude we chose to adopt during – or as a result of – challenges we’ve had to face.

You can choose to look at difficulties as disruptive and something to dread – or you can look at them as opportunities for growth and self-improvement. Because difficulties & discomfort are simply one side of a coin while opportunities for growth are the other.

You can’t have growth without some degree of discomfort.

We may not be able to choose or even like the challenges that life throws our way, but we can always choose our attitude towards them.

Originally Published on: Nov 5, 2012 @ 15:48

Related:

• Strength from discomfort
• Overcoming overwhelmed
• Life isn’t always easy
• Life isn’t fair.
• Don’t you ever give up
• How to reduce the size of your problems.
• Contrast is good
• The persistent drip
• The most successful people in the world
• “I wish I knew then what I know now”

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Whatever you focus on only grows stronger

Whatever you focus on only grows stronger.

If you truly desire a positive change in your life, then focus on what actions you’ll take to change things for the better — don’t dwell on what isn’t going well.

Originally Published on: Jan 23, 2012 @ 09:15

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No one can make you get fit.

No one can make you get fit. And no one can stop you from getting fit if you truly want to. Your fitness is your choice.

Originally Published on: Sep 15, 2013 @ 06:20

Related:

• Making progress is more important than making excuses
• If you have the power to change something that is holding you back, and you don’t…
• A tough pill to swallow
• There are many things in this world that you are not responsible for

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People who think of themselves as badasses

Sometimes people who think of themselves as badasses are doing, dealing with, or have survived only a fraction of things that others consider typical.

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Where does confidence come from?

Where does confidence come from?

Look in the mirror.

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Perception and Rejection

One person may look at something and see one thing. Another may look at the same thing and see something else. It’s not the thing that’s different, it’s the perception of the person looking at it.

Your creativity, originality, genius and the value that you offer won’t always be recognized or appreciated for what it is. Just because some people fail to see the value in what you have to offer doesn’t mean you should stop offering it.

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