“I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.”
Chadwick Boseman
My mind is playing the famous instagram reel and tik tok videos where one is simply some restlessness and then wild applause. The second is soft music and then a voice with a dignified British accent saying, “Ladies and Gentleman, Her” and thunderous applause from an invisible audience.
I will admit, I have used one of these sounds in the past on a tree hugging reel.
The most important applause to receive is your own.
Our hunger for approval is one we need to focus to overcome. To begin creating your specific ocean of love, as Chadick Boseman suggests, you may in addition create your most satisfying outcome yet.
Focusing on your “Ta-Da’s!’ as well as your “To-Do’s” will automatically create a more favorable environment for satisfaction, success and waves of virtual, real and inner applause will become a daily experience.
Remember the end of Chadwick Boseman’s wise words: You have to live in truth. Don’t hunger for approval of others, focus on acting in alignment with your truth.
What is the first step you will take to create waves of applause both from other people and more importantly from yourself?
“You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.”
Your Ta-Da’s – the actions you have taken and the stuff you get done live in your truth.
They don’t have to be thunderous or huge. Your Ta-Da’s may be as simple as “I got out of bed before 7:30 am today!” or “I got out of bed today.” Either is a Ta-Da in your truthful space.
Your truth is not a space to compare to others, your truth is a space of delight – a space of inner applause and a space of infinite ta-da’s.
I can hear the ocean waves of love and admiration reaching your shores, my shores, our collective shores.
The door to the present moment and the future opens.
Ladies and Gentleman, Her!
Julie JordanScott is a Creative Life Coach, an award-winning storyteller, actor and poet whose photos and mixed media art graces the walls of collectors across the United States. Her writing has appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers List, the Amazon best sellers list and on American Greetings Holiday cards (and other greeting cards). She currently lives in a manse in Sussex, NJ, where she is working on finishing her most recent book project, hugging trees daily and enjoys having random inspirational conversations with strangers.
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Very interesting approach!
I have not received much approval, never mind applause from other people. The reason is I am a stickler for truth and honour. I have always walked my own path. It’s a bity thorny at times.
Julie, you shared some timeless quotes today. I had to stand up, stretch, and get a fresh coffee while thinking about what you said. Framing our day/week/life in terms of our ta-da’s rather than our to-do’s is something I have been working on in somewhat different terms. I am routinely very tired, from husband’s illness and passing (8/1/21), from chemo, and from recent pneumonia (common occurrence with chemo). So I have claimed a schedule that allows me 2 work/client periods a day and extra sleep. I often think I have done “nothing” at the end of a day, but I record my WINS as I’m going to bed, and it’s astonishing how much I actually did do. Often bravely. Thanks for a good think!