Today I spent part of the day organizing a kid’s acting class to teach that I have been working on putting together since September.
With the help of Craig’s List, brochures, an ad in the paper, and word of mouth I have managed to collect about 7 potential students. Modest fair, I know. Recently, my thinking has been that if I could just get a class going with at least 4 people that more would follow by word of mouth by the students and their parents.
At this point, I have given a date for the class to the few parents who have expressed an interest and now I am just going to hustle and somehow miraculously get at least four people to come. I have no idea yet how I will pull this off – but I am confident that the chill of failure will make me sweat enough to pull it off.
Organizing a class has been much more of a challenge than I had originally anticipated.
There is a running theme with all of the projects in my life taking much more time than originally anticipated, I would have to say. Is it just me or do all of you out there also feel that it just takes so long to legitimize your own life?
I am a part time teacher. Part time producer. Part time screenwriter. Part time coat check girl. Part time housewife. Full time actress with a part time paycheck.
Wearing so many hats gets exhausting. But I’m gonna fake it till I make it, nonetheless.
After all, failure only happens to those of us who are trying in the first place. And when you fail as many times as I have, you eventually stop wincing when you get knocked down and start to enjoy and even relish the battle scars. That’s my goal on the way up (and sometimes down), anyway.
Tags: actress, coat check girl, Craig's List, failure, housewife, kid's acting class, parents, producer, screenwriter, students, teacher
