1. THINK BIG: Vision, Dream, Mission

To become a performing artist you will need a certain goal:

SUCCESS!!!

What is success? How can you measure it? Happiness? Money? Golden Clown??????

Success is a state of mind. A feeling that last for a while..... You can feel success for a couple of days (e.g. having a good weekend), for several months (e.g. having a new car)  or for years (e.g. being a prize-winner at the circus festival).

Can you be successful for a lifetime?

With 25 years entertainment career behind me and with my mission to carry on a well known 100 years old brand, I think you can manage it.

In our world the question is not quantity, it is the question QUALITY. Quality is a main driver of the modern competitive market to become the first, to become the best .... to become successful!!!

THINK BIG! And make your dream become a mission!

The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. 

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life)

How can you reach your dream?

Well...... to become a performing artist, especially in circus industry is a big challenge for all of us. Challenge for the "new comers" without circus family background ("private people") and it is a challenge for the circus families as well. To become a successful artist you will need to create an amusing show or act. Like most of the things in this world success has a recipe. It is a complex task to create a good act and it is necessary to adapt new aspects to accomplish it. Why do many new comers fail? The private people do not have the circus background and hardly understand this life style, meanwhile many circus families do not improve their knowledge and aren't open to new aspects.

To become an artist and to develop a good performing act you need to manage the following key factors:

1. Tricks, techniques, teacher or mentor, place of study... 
2. "Be Different!" - concept of the act (e.g. theme, innovation).
3. "Wrap the act!" - performing skill methods, choreography, music, costumes & make up, equipment(s)...
4. Career management.
5. Luck.

The first key factors evaluate the circumstances around you: WHAT we have?
The rest of the factors try to answer the following question: HOW will we reach our goal?

All key factors should be managed on the highest level. Of course many of us cannot reach the maximum of each key factor but you need to try to maximize them to become competitive.

"Only the best is the best"

- Motto of LEGO

In my next blog you can read about the first key factors: Tricks, techniques, teacher or mentor.....

Until than THINK BIG! .... Focus on it! .... Act!


All the best..... be the best!

György Losonczi