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It’s a secret

You can read and study this formula and still not remember to do it. That’s why sometimes it seems like a secret.

But if you will paste these steps in a prominent place and follow them, you will have the best possible chance at commercial voice success.

Step One- Have a very specific goal. Write it down, remind yourself with notes, make it a mantra.

If your goal is to get ten new voice clients by your birthday. Make a list of potential clients, get your demo ready, make appointments, audition, send CD’s in the mail, start a blog, make new contacts, get involved. Get all these activities on a calendar and take action.

Step Two- Find a proven plan and follow it. (This blog is a proven plan. ) There are plenty of others. Find out what others have done to earn the success you want. Find out how they did it and get started adopting their methods. YES. COPY THEM. There is absolutely NO shame in copying success.

People copy failure all the time. Go to the ghetto and look around. The people there are duplicating a lifestyle daily that often leads to failure. If you are in the ghetto mentally or physically, get out. Leave it behind. Get on a bus and get as far from it as you can. Start over. Remember what Ray Charles did when he got fed up with failure? He moved from Florida to Seattle. The farthest he could get away. That was symbolic for him and it worked.

Step Three- Get a successful partner. It is important to pick someone who is actually successful. Someone who is probably better than you. Develop a win win relationship with them. Learn from them.  Sometimes you might only be able to find a partner on a video or in a book. Use it.

Step Four- Get some crazy action going on. Get in gear and get moving forward toward your goals. List the steps and start to do them. The only way to make things happen is to act on them. If you want to be a speed guitar player, grab a guitar and practice . If you want to be an actor, go where the actors are. If you want to be a commercial voice over artist, get yourself where there is a microphone and opportunity.

These actions must be  done in real life. It is not enough to have a plan. You must put it in sustained action. One good way to make certain you are doing these things is to put them on an actual calendar with a deadline. As Tony Robbins says…”make it a must.”

Step Five- Keep going and build momentum. Stay with it. Ride than bronco. Day after day, good weather, bad, happy sad, up , down. Keep going.

Copy these steps and apply them to your voice work and you will have the very best chance of being a commercial success.



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