Since writing down goals worked so well last year, I’m going to do it again. So here are my comedy goals for this coming year.
Side note: I recommend everyone write down their goals (not necessarily comedy) somewhere and not look at them for six months. You’ll be surprised how much of them you’ll have achieved.
Performing:
- Get on stage 450 times this year
- Do at least 8 road gigs
- Perform at 3 different colleges
- Perform at Rutgers University twice
- Bark only 1-2 nights per week while having spots 6-7 nights a week
- Average 4 spots per weekend night
- Get passed at 2 different clubs in NYC
- Practice my full set at home daily
- Enter 5 comedy contests, place in 3 contests and win 1
- Enter 5 comedy festivals, get accepted and perform in 2
- Perform in 15 improv shows
- Perform in 3 sketch shows
- Act in 20 web videos
- Give my motivational speech 20 times (details coming soon!)
- Get booked to 2 commercial / modeling gigs
- Get a TV / Film credit
Producing:
- Produce my own weekly show where the average attendance is 30 people
- Start or join an improv group
- Run a weekly open mic
Writing:
- Write every morning
- Get up to having 45 solid minutes of stand up
- Write 75 blog posts that are not performance critiques
- Write a performance critique of every set within a week of the performance
- Write 52 sketches
- Write a spec script
- Write a pilot for my original sitcom
Learning:
- Take 3 improv classes
- Take 2 film acting classes
- Take a commercial auditions class
Traffic, Marketing and Finances:
- Get my facebook fan page up to 1,000 fans
- Get to 200 RSS subscribers
- Get 2,000 unique visitors a month to the blog
- Earn $8,400 from comedy this year
- Find a 20 hour a week job that pays $40 an hour (doesn’t have to be comedy)
- Have my ebook downloaded 5,000 times (details coming soon!)
Holy crap, I just set 35 goals! I can barely count that high. Last year I had 14 goals and achieved 12 of them. Here’s to achieving the same proportion of goals this year!
Hey Ben,
Firstly, I downloaded your ebook, and thought it was great. Props for that.
As far as writing sketches and sitcoms etc, have you tried using xtranormal.com? You can basically do text-to-speech scripts to make short films, it’s awesome. You should check it out.