Hi guys! This is Jo Kelly! I hope
everyone is okay
and safe. Today we're going to be talking
about whether luck has anything to do
with your career.
As an actor or as a performer in
general,
a lot of people, and I think the culture
around the industry, is that you need
luck in order to be successful. And
we're not just talking about the right
time, the right place, the right
connections.
I think that the myth
about luck is spread out all over.
When people decide that they're an
actor, there's
a legend out there that you have to look
a certain way. So, are you lucky with your
looks or are you not lucky with your
looks?
Are you lucky with your natural talent?
Are you a natural actor like you were
born
to act? And that's lucky! Or you were not
and you have to do
hard work to get there and therefore
you're unlucky
and that can be unfair. What kind
of opportunities have you had in the
beginning so that you could
build your reel? People might
associate that to luck too.
The agent you have you might
associate that to luck.
The type of auditions like: "I was
ready for an audition, I went for it
and then I was unlucky. The casting
director was really not in a good day or
wasn't nice", or something like that.
Or you're not lucky about the type of
auditions or roles that you get or the
lack of auditions.
And then you get to set
and, of course, you can be unlucky because
there's the wrong
partner and you were going to be amazing
but then you got the wrong partner and,
therefore, you're out of luck and you
you're not going to be able to show up
fully or
you don't get along with the director
and you can say that is a question
of luck too. I think you get the
picture and you might have caught
yourself
in that space of thinking: "I'll make it" or "I'll
be good depending on my luck,
depending on if all these ducks align.
Then, I'll be okay. But if there's any
glitch in the system,
then it won't work". I polled the
group
of actors that I'm not working
with
and realized that people
really do believe that luck has a big
thing to do
in how well you do in your career.
The problem with that is that
it really leaves you in a place of being
completely powerless over your career.
If luck has a big part to do with your
success,
then it means you're basically a victim
of the odds, of whatever happens. Well, you
can get lucky or you're unlucky.
That really doesn't end
up really working for you if that's true
and if you
choose to believe in that because then
you're powerless over what happens.
And that's a terrible sensation and you
might have found yourself especially in
these moments feeling like: "Oh! It's
Covid and
nothing's happening and there's nothing
I can do and it's out of luck".
Actually, we'll touch on that next
week more deeply. But we're going to start flipping
that over its head
right now because
I don't want you to walk around as
victims in this industry.
And if luck has a big part in what
your success is going to be, well then
you're going to be a victim of your
luck or your lack of luck. And
there's no power for you
in there. So, I want to make sure that you
don't stay stuck in that.
What's really happening
actually is that
luck is everywhere, opportunities are
everywhere, things are happening
everywhere and
the coincidences can happen
when you are present, when you show up.
When I mean present, I mean your full,
authentic, instinctive self. And if you're
showing up
half yourself, half attracted by the
result,
half attached to how people perceive you,
half present to how right you're gonna do
it or how awkward you're gonna feel when you
speak, well
you are not really present. So luck
happens
and no one's there to catch it. Let's
close your eyes for a second and
and just savor the sensation of
"I'm gonna need luck in
order to be successful".
Now, let's try this on.
Luck is everywhere. There's people
everywhere. There's possible connections
everywhere.
There's work. There's movies are being
shot as we speak.
And if I'm present, I will match those
opportunities,
I will match those connections. I have
so many examples of the people who are
doing
the "Reset work", where
there is just tangible proof
that when you show up and you're
fully alive, fully open, you're not half there,
stuck in your resistances, in your
blocks and in your conditioning;
things that seem like magic happen,
things that
you can only think that is luck. But then,
if you take a few steps back and you
look at what happened,
what happened is that those people
were actually so present, were actually
so open, so fully alive that that is what
allowed the other person in front of
them to see them that way.
And if you're showing up and you're like
half there, well that's what they see and
therefore the magic,
the idea, the moment,
the possible connection, the possible
enthusiasm about you, whether that's
in a conversation or whether that is
on set or in an audition room, cannot
happen.
Because no matter how much you think
your potential is great,
if you are not able to be present in the
moment,
no one can see it. So once you start
being really fully you, fully instinctive,
fully human, alive, unblocked, untamed,
untethered; when you're really present,
that's when people see you.
I want you to really listen to this
carefully. I know it sounds like
obvious. When you are really
present, untamed,
unconditioned, unstuck in
people-pleasing habits,
not trying to do it right, but you're
really, really there;
no matter what you're feeling, you're
there with your feelings,
with everything that you are, not trying
to be good, not trying to look good,
not trying to look different, not trying
to do it right, you're
there with everything that you are,
fully alive, a 100%  instinctive;
people see you. When you're not
a 100%,  what people see
is the missing bit, so they cannot
see you.
What they see is your resistance, so they
cannot see you.
And, therefore, what we call luck doesn't
happen.
You don't even know you missed it. You
were not there.
You were not paying attention to the
moment. You were not paying attention to
that person in front of you, again
whether that's in a conversation with an
agent,
with a friend, in an audition, on set...
If you are not there, people cannot see
you.
The moment cannot happen without you
being there. When you're making
your acting life depend on luck,
what you're doing is you're not
taking responsibility,
you're hiding, you're not going full on
for what you want; 
and you're using the lack of luck as the
excuse,
as the shield, as what is going to
protect you from being responsible.
I know that might be painful and
uncomfortable to hear and some of you
might be like:
"get her away from my screen", and that's
okay
because I'm only working with people who
are willing to be 100%
responsible, 100% authentic. When you're
using the lack of luck
as an excuse for you not to work; you are
hiding,
you're not going for what you know deep
down you truly can do,
you're using it as an excuse. There is no
luck.
If you show up exactly how you are:
fully open, not resistant,
unblocked, with your fears, with your
anxiety, with everything that you have
going on, (I'm not talking about an improved
version of you,
I'm talking about a present version of
you.
It means with everything that you have
going on, 
We're not talking about you becoming
someone else. You being,
that's what we're talking about),
then you will start to see luck in
places you had no idea were possible.
There's no hard work to be done. There's
nothing to learn.
It's only unlearning and it's ease. It's
only being with what is.
When you do that work consistently,
your level of presence impacts
everything you do.
So yes!, Sonya was in a taxi
in another city and the result of all her work was her
presence.
And she was so present, she connected in
such a deep and authentic way with the
taxi driver;
that he kept asking her questions
because he found her so interesting.
Because present people are rare.
Instinctive, human,
alive, open, people are very rare.
So, when you see one, everyone stops
because everyone wants it.
It reminds everyone of what that's like
and they want some of it.
So she's conversing with this taxi
driver and he keeps asking.
He was a friend of the writer
of the play that she was directing.
So he arranged a meeting for them.
That's one of the
things that happened to her or of the
things that happens to participants who
are doing this work. It's not magic.
It has nothing to do with some method
or some technique. It has to do with you
being nothing less than the perfect you,
not a better version, you! Is it
difficult to have access to that right
now? Yes! No matter how much you might
want to be fully open, fully present,
fully instinctive,
you might have no access to that because
you weren't wired that way, you weren't
conditioned that way.
You were conditioned to be behaving in
learned behaviors and people pleasing.
So that's why we do the work we do.
That's why we do the "Reset Journey".
We give you a month and we give you the
tools and the shovels to go
in there and unlearn, unwire, uncondition,
so that you can be your fully, authentic
self like you were born to be.
When that happens, everything changes
because you're present. And when you're
present, people see you.
When people see you, magic happens.
Maybe the conclusion to this is there
is no luck, there's only magic when you
show up.
Oh, I like it! It sounds like a
slogan, like an old ad slogan:
"there is no luck, there's only magic when
you show up".
Love that! If you
have any questions,
let us know. If you're interested in
doing this work,
write RESET in the comments and we will
send you some information. Right now,
we're still helping
and supporting during Covid with a BOGO (buy one, get one free)
support system. Let us know if
you're interested in that too
and write BOGO and RESET and we will get
in touch with you and we'll make it
happen.
Thank you, guys! See you soon! Bye!
