I was lazy far too often. Procrastination and I were good pals. The amount of time I could waste watching the same TV show I've seen a million times before instead of doing something productive is ridiculous. I dare say that I could have achieved much more if I would've overcome my laziness. This is something I intend to curve starting now. (That's not to say that I'll never be lazy. I'm bound to have some weeks were it can't be helped but I will make an honest effort to be productive more often and get into a new pattern of thinking)
When you look at the most successful comedians (Louis CK, Bill Burr, etc) you'll notice that one of the things they have in common is that they work hard (like ridiculously hard). So for 2014 in the spirit of working hard and improving as a comedian I intend to write an hour of material which equals up to about 5 mins of material every month . This isn't really an insane idea, many comedian practice this system. I'm choosing to do this for a few reasons:
1. It will be a challenge for me. I don't have the luxury of getting stage time 500 times a day so I'm hoping this will force me to go out and seek stage time more frequently.
2. It will force me to write. I procrastinate writing all of the time, having a deadline and a goal will give me more motivation.
3. It'll force me to move out of my comfort zone and expand into different comedy styles.
4. Most importantly it'll help me get better overall as a comedian.
Successfully writing an hour isn't really my goal. It doesn't really matter if I succeed or not as long as a give an honest/best effort. The point of this challenge is for me to improve as a comedian and to learn to get into the same mindset that successful comedians have.
Let's do it
(I'm aware that this blog is probably jam-pack with grammatical errors and other fuck ups...but whatever I'm not a novelist....It's still written better than a youtube comment)
Tommy
