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I was installing home equipment for a client recently, and as part of that experience, I led her through how to use Audacity to export an MP3 for submitting as an audition.

She was surprised to find out that I actually care a great deal, and get really picky, about how that audition MP3 file is named.

(And by the way, it works for both .MP3 voice over auditions and .MP4 video on-camera auditions.)

Here’s the skinny.

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A very quick tip today that I’ve found really useful, and I have one of my VA’s to thank for it.

Since I’ve been working with her, Stina has sent me a quick text each night, reminding me of the following day’s schedule.

I take that, and use it to inform my 3-2-1 list building. But instead of doing that work the next morning, I find it really helpful to do it the night before. Here’s how I accomplish that to put my mind at ease.

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When we think of amazing dedication, focus and discipline, we look to the morning rituals of the most successful among us: A-listers, CEOs, founders, and…presidents?

With the noting of how some presidents don’t pack a lot of work into their executive time, there are some very notable opposites.

One of them was Teddy Roosevelt, and buried in his crazy strict schedule was a simple habit all of us can adopt and learn from.

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If I asked you what makes the most money in entertainment, what would your guess be?

This entertainment category used to be dismissed as a huge waste of time, and was almost outlawed. And it makes more money almost immediately than all of the other categories combined, and in the shortest amount of time.

And you have amazing opportunities to work on these types of projects. But there’s one huge black eye that’s unfortunate for performers in this category.

Link to chart: https://www.statista.com/chart/16000/

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Well, that is a pretty click-bait-y kind of title, isn’t it?

It would be if it wasn’t really true. But what I’m going to share with you today is something that I’ve used for the last several years to really move me from knowing something to doing something about it.

And it has to do with the way I take notes, and what I do that’s the reverse of what most people do.

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When I hold my monthly business-building sessions with my clients over Zoom, there’s one slide that comes up during the session that I think is the most powerful.

It’s a list, that I call the 3-2-1 list.

But it’s a list with a very important physical feature. Here’s what a 3-2-1 list is, and what that one feature is that makes it so powerful.

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I love going to events where I anticipate learning something. I crave new information, new strategies, new tactics and how-tos.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with learning for the love of learning. But I learned something about the danger of this love of knowledge that I want to share with you in these next few videos, and then show you how to fix the situation.

This first aspect I see happening all the time with some of my clients. And it can lead to frustration and misplaced blame.

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