Hey, hey yall... Have a wonderful and excellent day and year. 

Hello friends, fans, and family, 
thank you for checking out my website.  There is so much that I want to say and there is so much that I can say but I don't want to bore you. So, I am going to keep it short and good, hopefully, haha. I am a SAG/AFTRA actor. I enjoy doing a lot of things and acting is one of them. Acting is a lot of work but it is also a joy to do. My goal is to have an on going role in a TV show or shows.

​I also want to do some movies. If I had to make the choice of choosing between movies or TV, I would choose movies. However, I would like to do both. I also want to produce movies, shows and such like that. Eventually, I want to be able to do some directing and producing as well.  So, yes, I have a lot of ambitions and also I am not young. I am very much a where of my age and lack of experience and lack of popularity. So, with that, if I just go off of that, it is telling  me to give up and go away screaming, haha. And I might just do that, however, I am working really hard every day to achieve my goals. ​

Hello friends, fans, and family, 

​I just wanted to say, Happy Thanksgiving! Have a wonderful day and rest of your day and month. Love y'all. 

Hello friends, fans, and family, 
how are you doing today? I hope and pray that all is well. I think that you are awesome so you should know that you are awesome. Being awesome is a thing that only a few people can do... or so I am told and I am here to say that you are totally awesome. 

Today I am going to talk about staying motivated. Staying motivated is not an easy thing to do once the flow of the start of the thing has ended. Now you are left with the continuation of that thing for the duration needed to complete said thing. After motivation fails you, you will have to depend on discipline. Discipline is the key for moving on when your motivation fails you. You will regain your motivation as long as you remember that this is something that you want and that you knew that it would not be easy to get to where you are. Lastly that you can do it. You are well on your way to achieving your goals.  

I am going to close with, stay motivated can be as simple as remembering the that you are blessed and that you can still workout when so many less fortunate people would love to workout and be healthy. Remembering this shall keep your motivation. You can do it and consistency is the key. Stay Focused, Stay Strong and Stay Motivated. 

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Hello friends, fans, and family, 
first I want to say thank you so much for your support and love you are awesome. Thank you. I am working on my fitness goals and maintaining said goals are a challenge for me. Mainly is because I enjoy eating sweets. So, I am learning to taper this craving. This is mainly why I have a free day. My free day keeps me sane and motivated to move forward in my fitness training. I aim to do a body transformation, even though I know that this is going to be a long journey I still believe that I can do it. I will show you all a before and after photo(s). 

I will keep you all posted if you guys are interested in all of that, haha. You know, my real fear as an actor is never achieving my goal of being a principle actor. In this difficult arena of acting people quit acting every day for various reasons. Being an older actor I fear of not reaching a spot in acting where I can get principle and/or reoccurring roles. I know that I am harder on myself than anyone else but I feel that I have to be this why in order to bridge the gap as it were that I am facing as an older actor. 

Being older is not my only obstacle as much as I hate to mention it but I will because it is a real thing. I am also a black man and my finances also play a part into all of it as well. So, for me looking at my career I personally feel like I am working against the clock and I am behind the power curb all at the same time. I encourage myself contently because of all of this. My belief in God and family holds me and this allows me to keep on keeping on. 

I am also into fitness as well and the best fitness example is self. If I am able to show that I can achieve my fitness goals this would prove that i have the discipline that is needed to do what is needed. I would be proving this to myself first of all of to all who choose to support me in my fitness efforts. Consistency is the key. I know that I must be consistent in my workout as well as my eating habits. 

I am going to close with, don't allow yourself to be discouraged and sad for failing in an attempt. You may fail 100 times 100 but all you need is that one time to succeed. Learn from your failures and improve. You can achieve your fitness goals. You can achieve any goals that you set your mind to. Whether it is going to college and/or starting your own business. Do your research and get it done. You can do it. 

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Hello friends, fans, and family,
Isaac M here. I just wanted to talk about what I done to get through the Pandemic in March of 2020. With all of the productions closing and/or closed for an estimated time of 15 days at the time. I was very concerned because I am a working actor trying to get my bills paid from month to month. This unseen closer didn't just affected me it affected everyone. Being out of work until farther notice I had to find some sort of income. Also at this time I was getting a lot of I told you so. This I told you so was not talking about the pandemic no, this I told you so came from and was about something else.

You see when I told certain people about me becoming an actor and perusing a career in acting most of theses people had nothing good to say to me. ​I was told that I would never make it and that I should "get a real job" which did not sit well with me. I work very hard as an actor. It is a very demanding business. Besides, I always wanted to be in entertainment and I knew that I could do it if I gave it my all and never gave up. Notwithstanding, I also knew and know that I have a lot to learn and prove. I must prove that I am a capable actor and that I could perform as an actor in the industry of TV and even movies. I am totally grateful seeing how far I came. I know that I have a long way to go. I was performing as a background actor and auditioning for principle roles. This is especially hard because what I need is for someone to allow me the opportunity to perform and then land the job. I also need for that production to allow me to do the job over a period of time for credit ability.  There is so much to cover and I could easily veer too far off topic. Also, I don't want to try to go into all of the details. There is a lot within those words by itself. Anyway, although I have friends and family who supports me some friends and family don't think that "I" can do well in acting and entertainment. I have proved them wrong countless amount of times over different topics but being that this process is much, much slower I fear the worst. So, ultimately I am fighting myself and not them at all.  

To put it in a short form, I realized that I have to be constantly learning, ever diligent, friendly, grateful, honorable, and hungry. Of course there are more ways and even better ways than this way but this is the way that I know. Working long hours is not new to me and putting in work is not new to me. However, I want to be constantly learning and moving forward towards my goals.  This was not always the case sometimes I went backwards and other times I was at a complete stand still. So, this leads me to my next point and that's being patient. 
          I got into this industry at an older age and I know that time is not on my side. I don't have connections and I don't even think that I can do it at times. But I continue on, I continue on learning, I continue on networking, I continue on producing content, and I continue on telling myself that I can make it. It is hard to tell yourself something because you knew how you feel about what you are saying to yourself. 
I started producing content on YouTube years ago so I visited that and started making more content for YouTube. I was pleasantly surprised when all of my music was placed on my channel. I only had 500 subscribers on YouTube at the time so I did not meet the requirements to monetize my videos. I was just creating content to grow my channel and because I enjoy doing it. I did not get many people commenting and I also did not get much interactions with my videos. 

I actually wanted more interactions in my video I was not even thinking about monetization. When they merged all of my videos onto my channel this increased my subscribers from 500 to 1400. Needless to say I was stoked about it. I made several videos talking about it. This merge gave me the boost that I needed to make more content and to get a small sense that I could do this. I still did not meet all of the requirements for YouTube monetization but I was well on my way. I am totally grateful, before this I was at my end. I was ready to fade into the dark. I was renewed. My business sense had returned. Putting out videos and other content was easy again. No I still was not monetized but in my head a major optical was conquered. 

I am going to close with, you may stop just short of the finish line if you give up now. Yes, there may be a ways to go but I dare say, you can do it. Don't give up, never give up. May god bless and keep you always. Thank you for reading and thank you for your support. 

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Hello friends, fans, and family, 
I hope that you are well and having a great day. Thank you for reading and sharing in my life. You are awesome. This blog "The Journal" is about my and things that I do. Putting this together is at a time when and while I am in most eyes a "no body" but I thought that if I start now then I started. So, come with me in my journey of life. I will do my best to try and motivate you and encourage you.

I am an actor so I will start with that. When I started my journey in the of acting I was not sure how to succeed. Most people success stories had one of two elements that I did not have. First thing is money, and two connections. I had neither but I was and am determined to succeed. So, I did and I do have determination. However, I had no clue as to how to go about doing anything. So, I did a lot of things over time and one of those things was take acting classes. I still enjoy taking acting classes but I am thankful that I know more now than what I knew then. I did my best to be a sponge and learn and research as much as I could. I asked many questions and researched acting and entertainment. My focus became TV and Movie acting. I tried to learn about this portion of the industry. I did have some limited success but it was not until I started doing background work that I really started learning.  Networking and meeting people is and was a very important part of my learning. I learned about the industry and about acting in general and specifically.  

Everyone one's journey is different but what I can say is that what is the same is the drive and determination that you will need to succeed in any industry. I am using acting as an example but you can apply and adjust the principles to help you in any niche. One step at a time and one day at a time is very important. Having a plan and objective keeps you focused. You will have failures don't be discouraged. Learn from it and improve and keep pressing on. You can do it. However, it does take efforts, time, determination, drive and discipline.  

​At the bottom of a mountain looking up it looks impossible but if you just focus on taking that next step you will reach the top in no time and wonder why you was so afraid. You can do it. Thank you for reading and this is my blog for today. I will post once a month and more if I am able. Thank you again. 

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