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I'm going to be talking about a real coaching tool called getting a buy in.

And that buy in is about really getting a buy in from yourself, something that you need in order to commit to yourself and motivate yourself.

So I'm going to be giving you some strategies to achieve buy-in from yourself and then tell you why I'm teaching this very valuable lesson.

The first thing when you're trying to get a buy-in from yourself, you're trying to get yourself motivated, you're trying to get yourself committed to this thing of becoming an actor, is you want to clarify your visions and your goal.

What that means is that you want to define clear objectives.

Meaning, and if you've ever done any method acting, you want to find out, what do you want?

What does that character want, but what do you want?

You want to ensure that you have a clear understanding of what you want to achieve, and this is the biggie, and why it matters.

Why it matters.

Jen Sincero talks a lot about doing something because your life depends on it.

But this is the thing, as she says, Your life does depend on it.

This is what you want. Let's get clear on it.

I also encourage you, after you have written down what your vision and your goals are, or your goal is that I want you to visualize that success.

Even if you just write it down in a paragraph form, you're already a step closer to what you want to buy into.

Picture what success looks like, and this is the biggie, and how it will feel.

How it will feel. How will it feel when you achieve that award? How will it feel when you get what you want?

Visualize what that would look like.

The second thing I want you to do is I want you to assess the benefits, but also the challenges.

I want you to list your benefits and all of this you can do by just writing down.

You can listen to this podcast all the way through.

Then you can pause and then listen. Listen to it again, but this time with pen and paper and pause when you want to write stuff down. Assess the benefits and the challenges.

So you're going to list the benefits. Write down the positive outcomes that you expect if you buy in, if you say, "Hey, I am 1000 percent into this pursuit of becoming an actor," what would the positive outcomes be?

And then I want you to identify the potential challenges. And that means you're acknowledging the obstacles and you're going to start considering how you're going to overcome them and where you may need to get help to overcome them.

The third thing is I want you to align with your values and your interests.

Now, what does that mean? Your values are what means a lot to you. Is it the arts? Is it self expression? One of my values is always showing myself I can do it.

It's not about showing other people, it's for me. My biggest value is proving to myself that I can do it.

So you want to align your values and your interests. interests. So you want to take a moment to really reflect on your personal values, meaning you want to ensure that the goal that you want to be doing aligns with who you are and the interests you have.

So if I'm challenging myself as a coach which I actually did when I started this podcast 180 episodes ago. Actually, I think it might even be 190 by this point. I challenged myself to do something every week that I may or may not feel like I'm doing.

It was in the interest that I obviously have in coaching, but it also was the value of not proving to all of you that I could do it, but proving to myself that I could do it.

The other thing that you want to do around aligning your values and interests is finding personal value.

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