Last week I listed a few of the lessons I learned from the Hollywood stars I was fortunate to meet (and talk with) when I grew up. Let’s keep that conversation going right here because there are a few more more items I noticed which, I believe you’ll agree, are worth considering.
1) Hollywood stars look perfect on film, yet they struggle with life’s issues just like you and I do.
2) They have writers who write their scripts and directors who give them ideas (and sometimes tell them what to do).
3) When something goes wrong in one of their scenes, they get to reshoot the scene.
Now, let’s now think about you and your life. You’re the star in your own movie. Do you want your life’s movie to be a hit?
If you do — lucky you — unlike the Hollywood stars I described, you get to write your own script and you don’t have to depend on someone else. Have you written a script for your movie?
If you’ve already written your own script, does it include personal and professional successes? If so, good for you. If not, time is rolling by, so you’d better get started on your script today because every movie director knows that nothing good happens when the script is kept in the writer’s head.
And what do you want most from your life’s story? Do you want your movie to be the story of someone who is busy, busy, busy — or perhaps someone who is racing from one activity to another?
And do want your movie to be full of wonderful memories and experiences? If so, what do you want those memories and experiences to be?
I’ve personally and professionally worked with hundred and hundreds of people and I’m absolutely convinced that life is short, yet memories and experiences last forever. Do you agree?
If you do agree, have you listed the memories and experiences you want to be part of your movie script?
And here are two more items to think about.
If something goes wrong in your script (or mine), we get a chance to change it (and that’s usually a struggle, isn’t it?), yet — unlike Hollywood stars — the things we include (that we wish had never happened) are there for us to remember forever. Yipes! We’d better be certain we don’t include those things in our scripts. Agree?
Finally, how long do you want your movie to be? I actually doubt if you or I get to decide how long our movies will get to run, so my suggestion is that you (and I) need to get started on our scripts, stories, experiences, and memories today or else our movies are apt to end before we get started.
I suggest that, If we get started now, we have a chance to have our movies be hits. If we don’t, we’re just depending on fate for the success of our individual movies.
Does this make sense to you? Please leave your comments here.