4 Time Management Tips For Performers
From students, entrepreneurs, actors, models, singers, dancers and brand ambassadors, time management can be a challenging topic for everyone. In the show business, it’s tricky for performers to survive and thrive professionally and emotionally. If you are feeling your career is not going forward, it’s time for you to realize the importance of time management. Stop procrastinating and spending
time inefficiently. Here are some tips from Castango to help you see some progress.
Plan Ahead & Don’t Overdo It
I get it that you have a lot on your plate. As independent contractors, most performing talent struggle on a daily basis to balance their time and energy from their side jobs, classes & training, auditioning, working on set, and personal life. The last thing you want is be exhausted or sick when you show up on set after working overtime. Why not just try to focus on completing one task in each aspect of your life daily? Always plan ahead. Best practice is to set up your day the night before. Because then you will know exactly what you need to do next day and that way you can have a good peaceful rest. Don’t leave any assignment until the last minute.
Prioritize What’s Really Important
To prioritize tasks, I like to use different colors to represent different levels of priority. Save some time for personal errands and yourself to relax, use around 40% of the time on your day job and at least 30% for career development. On the road of chasing your dream, you need to have a stable side job to help support your artistic career path and passion. Despite the traditional part-time job options, you can also apply
for some freelance short-term jobs and build up your resume on Castango. Once you get booked, you can simply get paid online just days after the job is completed! Self-development is another big aspect of your daily life. You can spend time taking classes regularly on perfecting your skills like public speaking, acting technique or researching potential business opportunities. It also helps if you can set 10% of your time aside for social media, updating your resume or your website to send to your network of industry professionals. Also, make time to get up-to-date headshots and shoot video clips for your video reel. Breaking down each area of your life and aiming
at one task for each day can help you stay stress free.
Pick A Tool
Get a planner and use it! And writing down the due date matters. If you are tech savvy, try using digital tools like Google Calendar or Todoist to specify and block out a time frame for each thing to do in a day. Take down all the important dates for appointments, auditions or meetings with professional pros. You will enjoy a sense of achievement when you cross off each little task on your list. We all know time is a constant: what you need to do is to manage your focus, attention and the energy you put into your daily tasks. So breaking your major tasks down into smaller steps or actions and managing them with your favorite tool can keep you organized in the long run.
Chunk Your Tasks
Combining similar tasks is one of the fastest ways to make the best of your time. For instance, you can make all of your phone calls at once. Or you can even make your calls at a same time every day and make a routine. That way you won’t get carried away with multiple calls in a day.
The ideas listed above can help give you more time in a day. Don’t let anything else in life to get in the way of your own performing business. By applying these tips, you’ll discover your performing career will get less stressful and happiness will ensue!
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