A slight adjustment

I've wanted to shoot a gun for quite a while now, and last night I *finally* got to do it. A friend and I arrived at the LA Gun Club and experimented with a .38 Special (revolver) and a 9mm.

Shooting the 9mm did not come easily for me - it kicked back so much that most of the time I completely missed my target. After getting so excited about shooting, that was pretty disappointing. Luckily, though, I found the revolver much easier to handle. Most of my shots were dead-on, and my hand didn't have to absorb all that force. Had I only tried the 9mm, I would have left the shooting gallery pretty discouraged about my marksmanship. Instead, I knew a bit more about handguns and could actually form an opinion about one of my favorites.

When I first arrived in LA, I borrowed a friend's car for a couple weeks while I got settled. Bless her heart, it was such a generous thing for her to lend it to me, but man, did that car drive me nuts. It was oddly shaped, noisy, and I just couldn't seem to park it correctly. One day on the freeway I thought to myself, "I can't live in LA. I hate all this driving and parking. I should have just stayed in New York." I went back to New York for a couple more months and had a realization - the problem wasn't LA and all the driving. It was the car. I resolved to go back to California and find a car that I LOVED driving. That slight adjustment made all the difference. On days when all I do is drive from one audition to the next, I can turn up the music, open the sun roof and bask in the glory of living in paradise.

Sometimes slight adjustments are more important than making drastic life changes. Every time we get a new piece of information, we can adjust our strategy and process to get closer to success. If we abandon everything we've learned because of challenging roadblocks, we lose all our momentum. Are you facing a challenge right now and considering a huge, drastic change? See whether a subtle adjustment can accomplish even more, allowing you to incorporate everything you learned about what didn't work from what you were already doing. One of the most important elements of success in this industry is the positive attitude we bring to each project, each meeting and each day. So it's important to have positive reinforcing experiences along the way, and those can't come from the despair of failing after the first try. Please feel free to share success stories (or challenges you're facing) in the comments section!

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