I’m nervous about the future

Welp. It’s 1AM
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My girlfriend is asleep (in classic fashion with 3 pillows on her head) the dogs are asleep, and I’d be asleep too if it weren’t for that late afternoon coffee. (I do this to myself often unfortunately)

It’s pitch black except for the light of my cell phone shining on my face as I write this.

And as I lay here my mind is reeling, mostly about the future.

Some of you already know this but I still make my primary living as a fight coordinator and stuntman in the film industry.

And after the strike in 2023, it hasn’t really been the same.

Jobs are scarce, and even though thats had the silver lining of giving me more time (a lot more) for my content creation and business, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t stressed about the future.

But the thing about stress and something I sometimes forget, is that stress exists to move us.
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It’s our minds way of letting us know that we need to take action.

This stress about the future has had the happy side effect of giving me all the motivation I need to get my ass into gear to take that action.

To take my products like Short Form Filmmaker and 1 hour to infinite ideas to the next level. (yes that was a shameless plug)

Also… I’ve kind of…missed this in a weird way.

Having made a decent name for myself in the film industry I’ve been pretty comfortable the last few years

but before that, my entire story was basically a grind.

It was kind of all I knew.
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Touring with my best friends in my band, eating scraps and old venue pizza, barely making enough money for gas to the next city.

Then moving to LA and working odd jobs and doing live shows at theme parks.
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All in pursuit of doing the things I love.

I almost forgot what this feeling was like..being hungry again. Almost

I love it

The moral of the story is that we can either let the stresses of life immobilize us, or we can allow them to be the catalyst for change

To make us hungry for something different.

It’s the reason that instead of tossing and turning myself into oblivion I decided to pick up the phone to write this news letter.

I may be nervous about the future, but history has proven that I’ll be just fine.

I hope this helps

Caleb

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