The 10 Pillars Of A High Achiever

Through 14 years of working in the entertainment industry, I’ve learned that there will be many ups and downs in a dream pursuit. There will be obstacles, and good days, and opportunities, and rejections. The High Achiever (a.k.a. you!), needs a game plan through it all. The High Achiever needs to handle all of these moments intentionally and carefully, in a way that effectively keeps them on the path to success. That’s why I developed the 10 Pillars of the High Achiever. Here are the 10 pillars:

Hollywood loves to preach scarcity: there are never enough opportunities; succeeding is incredibly rare. That’s a cute story, but I’m not here for it. Successful people don’t believe in scarcity, they believe in abundance. The truth is, there are an abundance of opportunities available to you at any given time.

When you focus on a shortage of opportunities, you put a lot of pressure on anything that comes your way. That pressure creates anxiety and affects your performance. It creates an energy of desperation like, “Wow! I got an opportunity! I better not blow this because it may be the only shot I get.” Ick.

When you believe in abundance, it takes the pressure off of any single opportunity. It also leads to consistent strategic moves-moves that you wouldn’t take after a rejection if you believed another opportunity was never going to come. If…