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[0:15] Joe Rosko: Hey, what's going on? Welcome to Built for the Stage Podcast. This is Joe Rosko, founder of Built for the Stage, Broadway's number one fitness platform. If you haven't tried out Built for the Stage yet, go to BuiltForTheStage.com and we'll be on our way to trying seven days of working one-on-one with me on an online fitness app where we'll go over your goals, we'll talk nutrition, and we can set up a plan that's most appropriate for your goals and your aspirations of marrying your pursuit of fitness with a career in theater. If you haven't followed us on the gram yet, go to @BuiltForTheStage. Thanks again to BPN. You can check them out at Broadway Podcast Network or just BPN.fm. All right, we're talking about goals today.

Talking about goals. I didn't get to that, but hey, how are you doing? Coach Joe here. Uh reach out, DM @BuiltForTheStage, say hi. Doing an Instagram live at this very moment as I'm recording this podcast. So I want to talk about goals. There's this big misconception of how to achieve a goal. The first step to achieving a goal is to know what your goal is, to realize this passion or this desire that's in you, within you, that's the goal. That's what you want to accomplish something. Okay. And then after that, that's it. Like that part's over with. You wanting to be on Broadway is not going to get you on Broadway. It's not the what, it's the doing. It's the actions. It's the repeatable actions.

It's the systems. Working with performers now for 17 years and being a performer myself at one time, I guess I'm still a performer. But being a performer and working with performers for 17 years, this is not usually what we like to do naturally, systems or a process. We typically might just like to wing things. Or we know we're artists. We just kind of we don't want to be put in a box per se. But in this case of achieving goals, I believe you have to fight against that. I believe that you have to push into that um unnatural feeling and create systems for yourself.

[0:16] Joe Rosko: So during the pandemic, I thought Built for the Stage was over. So I started another business with a friend, and I've since even started another. So I'm actually juggling three businesses right now, and how I do that is not because I have a goal of having three businesses, or I have a goal of making this amount of money, or I have a goal of living in this area, it's not because of that, it's because I have systems, and those systems done repeatedly day in and day out leads to a result, and the result gets me closer to my goal. So if I'm consumed with, I just want to lose weight, I want to lose weight, I want to lose weight. That's my goal. My goal is losing weight. But I have no systems. I have no protocol per se or habits that are going to lead to results that are going to lead to my goal.

So an example of that would be I'm going to I don't know, reach out to someone to help me with coming up with uh nine different meals that I know are healthy and that will fit within my requirements to have energy to do my job to be healthy. I'll get those nine meals, and then each day I'm going to choose three of them, and I'm gonna have them every day at 10, 3, and 8 o'clock, and those are my three meals. And in between uh 10, 3, and 8, I think those are the numbers I said, at another X amount of time, maybe 12, you're gonna have your first snack of fruit. And at uh six, you're gonna have your protein shake after working out. And the next day, I'm gonna do it again. 10, 12, 3, 6, 8. Is that what I said?

10, 12, uh 10, 3, and 8 are the meals, and then 12 and 6, I think were the two snacks I put in there. Oh, but Coach Joe, I can't do that every day. My schedule changes. All right, no problem. Every night, a part of your system, a part of your ritual, a part of your habit is that I don't go to bed until I pull out my Google calendar and I schedule my next day to the minute, to the minute. Does it always happen? No, but at least I have a plan. And if I have a plan, I can count on a result. If I don't have a plan, then I can't count on for sure accomplishing a certain result.

[5:35] Joe Rosko: So going back to, oh, I don't have the schedule to do the same thing every day. Okay, fine. At night, what am I doing the next day? All right, at this time, this is what I'm eating. This is what I'm eating. Then I'm going to work. During work, I have this goal of I don't know, uh doing a play reading of a script that I wrote. So at lunch, I'm going to DM 10 actors I know to ask if they're interested on my calendar. I'm gonna put it there, and I'm committing to doing it. And I'm gonna feel good and delete them off my calendar and feel good about it, uh, knowing that I'm checking boxes and then the next meal, and then work is over, and then I go work out at this time. So make your calendar, all right.

Um, and then at the end of the day, whatever you didn't delete and didn't successfully do, ask yourself why you didn't do it. Was it purely a matter of circumstance that was out of your control, or was it in your control and you just didn't commit to what you set out to do? Doing it's about the doing, and it's about the boring doing. I think that's another thing with goals is that people set out for these goals and they're like, Oh, I've been doing this for a week, a month, I've been doing this for a year, and I'm not at my goal yet. A year is too extreme. Let's pull it back to a week or two weeks or a month because tons of people don't even come close to doing something consistently for a year.

So a week, uh, a couple of weeks, a month, and then they fall off, and then they say it doesn't work, or they think that it could have worked, so then they go back on a couple of months later, and then they fall off. So why do we fall off? Because we don't have habitual routines set into place.

[7:29] Joe Rosko: Did I want to work out today? No. Did I want to work out yesterday? No. Did I want to work out the day before? I actually kind of did, but those other two days, yesterday and today, I worked out because why? It was on my calendar. I already committed. I said this is what I'm doing at this time, and I'm doing it. The podcast. I'm recording this right now. It's uh 3:51 p.m. on my calendar is 3:30. And I do it. I'm seven minutes and 45 seconds into this podcast episode, and a lot of you might be uh bored out of your mind or stop listening altogether. If you're still listening, uh DM me eight minutes of just DM me eight minutes, and I'll know that you were listening to this episode for eight minutes at this point in time, and I'm gonna send you some free swag.

So if you're listening to this, you made it eight minutes into this boring rant, then I'll send you some free swag. Just DM me at BuiltForTheStage. All right, back to the doing. Another example uh besides the calendar, it really kind of all already is based all around the calendar. I live and breathe off of my calendar. And if you don't know what you're doing, then you're doing nothing. That's my thing. You know, you can't just wander around and expect to get to a destination. Know the steps. A 5678, know the step. If you don't know the step, then we're not gonna get to where we need to go, which is you being in unison with however many people are on the stage or your partner. Let's get into theater.

So I want to book my next show. Cool, great goal. How are we gonna do it? What's the doing? I'm committing to submitting five tapes, five self-tapes a week. I'm committing to three. I'm committing to showing up for X amount of auditions uh a week. I'm committing to uh signing back up for my voice uh teacher and doing one lesson a week, one lesson every other week, whatever. But whatever it is I commit to, I commit to it and I do it. I create the systems, I execute the systems, I get results, and I get closer to my goal or I achieve it. If I'm just auditioning when I want when I feel like it, if I'm just going to voice lessons or dance class or acting class when I want, then your goal is gonna happen when it wants, it's gonna just you know magically appear, which it probably won't, or it's gonna take a lot longer, or it's just not gonna happen.

[10:28] Joe Rosko: So that's my episode today. Real short, 10 minutes. Get a calendar, either commit to it weekly or commit to it daily by making it the night before, and realize that you saying what you want is not going to get you what you want. You saying what you're going to do as nitty, gritty, and specifically as possible is going to get you what you want. It's the doing. It's the boring, tedious work. What we do on stage is the reward. It's not necessarily the work. It's work. Hell yeah, it's work. I remember it. I know what you all go through. It's work. And the rehearsals and the auditioning. Yeah. But aside from the rehearsals and actually booking the job and being in the job, the boring stuff is the making your calendar, is showing up the training when you said you would.

It's submitting the audition when you didn't feel like making the tape or going in that day. It's committing. It's doing. And then it's the reward. And it's not quick. That's my last thing. I'll say it's not quick. I started uh Built for the Stage in 2017. It's now 2022. Went through uh the pandemic, like a lot of you. Um went through sucking, you know, not knowing how to get this thing off the ground or do certain things. And then the more you do, the less you suck, and the less you suck, the more you're good. So it takes time. It takes time. Let's look at our IG live here. Nice congrats, Francis. Getting healthy, dropping some LBs. It's not all about that for everyone, but sometimes weight loss is a result of exercising and being healthy.

Thanks for the fire emojis. Appreciate that. Hey to you too. All right. Everyone, that's it. Just looked at my IG live. Check it out at Built for the Stage. Give us a follow for just theater entertainment, inspiration, fitness tips, all that stuff. Again, if you were listening back at the eight-minute mark, congratulations. DM me eight minutes and uh collect your free swag. I'm Joe Rosko. Yeah, I'm rooting for you. Just kind of digesting everything I just said. And uh yeah, hope you take it the right way. I'm rooting for you. Reach out to me if you need some help.