Phase I Project

Knowledge:
1) I'll help my fraternity's chapter grow with me being the President.
2) I know I will be celebrating my one year anniversary of being with my current girlfriend.
3) I'll move up to a classroom lead at the school I work at.
4) I know I'll be finally moving out of my parents' house.
5) I know I'll be in two more plays.
6) I know I'll be working at an internship that involves Psychology.

Hope:
1) I hope I'll have enough money to go back to school.
2) I hope I'll be with an acting agency.
3) I hope that I can help my family keep the house.
4) I hope that I can go to Ireland and spend a few months there.
5) I hope that I'll be happy.

Stretch:
1) I'd love it if I could find a way to financially guarantee that my family keeps their house.
2) I'd love to go to Chicago or LA and pursue acting.
3) I'd love to be able to go to graduate school.

Vision:
1) I want to "make it" as an actor.

I want to "make it" as an actor by September 29, 2011. It's going to be difficult to accomplish this for many reasons. The first being that "making it" is such a subjective idea. There isn't really a definite goal that once it's reached, I'll know that I "made it". If I make it into a blockbuster movie, to someone else that could mean that I "made it". If I make millions of dollars, that could also mean that I "made it".

To me, "making it" as an actor is the ability to consistently submerge myself into a role. I did it once for a play where I was someone who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed seven little girls. That role messed me up mentally to the point where I was physically suffering from it. I did a couple more roles after that but I didn't work at it as hard as I should or the way I did that other role.

Another reason that this will be difficult to accomplish is that, 12 months is not that much time, as much as it is. I'd have to save up money to move out of AZ. I would move out because I have a lot of actor friends who said that there eventually is a ceiling in AZ and you have to move to LA and Chicago to grow. I'd want to do it here in AZ but if there is a ceiling, I'll need to get out and I don't think I will be able to hit the ceiling in 12 months.

My last reason is that, I'll need to grow so much as an actor to be able to submerge myself on a consistent basis. It seems like every year, Leonardo DiCaprio puts out movies where he just absolutely kills it acting-wise. He's one of the most consistent I have ever seen. But it took him years to gain that experience.

People involved in my vision, I'll start with my family. I wouldn't want to leave them because of our horrible financial situation that we're in now. I feel like I'd be abandoning them. My mom has always expressed her feelings about my sister and how she kind of abandoned us and does her own thing. She's proud of my sister, she just wishes my sister gave back more.

Another would be my fraternity brothers here in AZ. They'd all support me and probably try to get money together to help me out. There are also the fraternity brothers who live in California who are always willing to help a brother out. I could live with one of the brothers until I got on my feet.

Someone else would be my girlfriend. She'd support me for sure but I don't know how a long-distance relationship would work. I would do long-distance if there were more stability in our relationship. Then again, after 12 months of being together, we would be more stable than we are at the moment so I guess that's still up in the air.

This is the link to my prezi.
http://prezi.com/bzo_med0ufrf/bis-402-a-12-month-journey/

The Warrior

P. 96, it is commented that the Warrior "immediately tackles it and tries to save the day". It makes it seem like the Warrior is just itching for a fight or for a cause to try and win. It is also talked about how the negative Warrior takes everything as a contest. I've had that before in that I always wanted to prove I was right. I am one of the Founders for Epsilon Sigma Rho Fraternity, Inc. I wanted to fight everything single unjust issue that we came across. But I've learned to pick and choose my battles. We believe in multi-cultural awareness. I was very ignorant about other people's perspective. But now that I am able, for the most part, to look at things from the other side of the story, I feel better equipped to handle problems.
There is a flaw pointed out about our society. The stereotypical family has the dad as the Warrior and the mom as the Caregiver and if one of them were to be gone then who is supposed to mold the children as those archetypes? We as society need to put more emphasis on equal roles and duties instead of gender norms.
It surprised me that the Warrior was the root of a sense of identity and not the others. It makes sense that the one who defines the boundaries is the one responsible.