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Personal brand photography with Hope Matchett 💫 Hope is a coach for creative business owners and entrepreneurs. She’s been in the trenches of the creative field for 10 years and has a lot of experience when it comes to finding that fine balance between being creative, running a legitimate working business model, and still having a good personal life. 👍🏻 I love this photo of her because I think it shows off some of the great personality traits that Hope has. Her desire to share her experiences & knowledge with people walking down a similar path that she’s walked is such a bright and beautiful thing. You can see the joy & excitement for what she does written all over her face. It takes vulnerability to put yourself out there to help others, and to share what you’ve got with the world, not to mention building a business around it. But Hope is doing it. And not only that, but you can tell she’s committed to enjoying the journey and helping others to do the same along the way. 💕
Posting two photos back to back because I’m in lerve with these two’s downtown engagement session back in the fall and I’ve got way too many I want to share from their gallery. 😍🌆🧡
I’ve sort of been in hibernation mode the last couple of weeks and in turn, my feed has been a little more quiet too. After finally being done editing the last of my 2019 weddings and being totally caught up for the first time in months, I decided I was going to let myself rest more than usual and not work to get my business ahead in any particular way for a while. I’m still answering emails and taking care of things for clients on the back end, but I decided I was going to force myself to slow waaaay down for now. And let me tell you, it’s been glorious. I love my job, but I’m also incredibly grateful for little breaks where I can realign, refocus, rest, and prepare for how I want to carry my business into the future. I’m starting to see that rest is as important of a part to moving forward as hard work and hustle are. At least for me. So... I’ll be catching up on sharing photos from the past few months and the handful of great sessions I have coming up, but otherwise I’ll be over here just chilling out for a while. I know it’s December and things get crazy and we feel like we have no option but to rush and hustle and get all the things done, but I hope you take the time to rest, too. I hope you listen to your body and mind and spirit, and that you take the time to realign, refocus, rest, and prepare for how you want to move forward into the future too. 💫 Included this picture of Erin’s ring because my gawsh it’s gorgeous and I also miss the color of the leaves these days. 🍂
CUPCAKE APPRECIATION POST Normally I really wouldn’t need to say that much else about it, except that these cupcakes are extra special because they were made with a recipe that belonged to the Bride’s late Mother, so they were one of the many ways that Emily & Steven were able to honor her in their wedding. 💕
Ok guys. It’s my birthday today. I thought about not acknowledging it on here but for someone who really likes their birthday, that just didn’t feel right, so here we are. If you know me, you know that I really love life lessons and advice and words to live by, so I want to hear from you— 🎁For my birthday, will you give me your favorite one liner life advice? It can be funny or serious or whatever you want it to be. What’s something you’ve learned in your time here on this planet? 📷: @staceyhartingphotography
I took Jason & Geisha’s engagement photos at Promenade park back in October, but since I’m still catching up on sharing photos from my fall sessions, I thought I’d bless your feed with their happy faces today. 😊😉 Also, I don’t know about you, but I can practically feel the sunshine reaching out from this photo, and I‘ll take whatever sun I can get on this gloomy Indiana day!
I’m really behind right now on what feels like a lot of things. Photos that need to be edited & returned. Posts that need to be posted. Plans that need to be made. Texts that need to be replied to. Home repairs that we’d like to get done. Laundry that needs to be put away. Hard drives that need to be organized. Marketing plans that need to be made. Toddler clothes that need to be bought (cause he grows out of stuff so freaking fast! 😂) It’s really easy for me to look at that list and just let it paralyze me into doing nothing at all because I’m overwhelmed with where to start or how in the world I’m going to get all the things done in the best way possible. But I’m starting to believe that it’s not perfection I should be aiming for. It’s being BETTER. It’s making improvements, even if they’re small. It’s getting to a place today that’s further along than I was yesterday. If we switch our focus to be on the ways we can be better today than we were yesterday—and try to repeat that everyday— then I truly believe the perfection will take care of itself. Maybe your list looks a little bit different, but I think it’s easy for most of us to get carried away with a lineup of things that would be awesome to tackle. We get starry eyed at the thought of how perfect our life would be if only that list was accomplished. And sometimes, the lists do get accomplished, and it’s an awesome feeling. But a lot of the time, we could not realistically get that list done perfectly all at once without damaging ourselves or those around us in the process. I think a lot of the time, our striving for perfection actually gets in the way of our ability to become BETTER. So instead of always striving for perfection, let’s keep aiming for better—and let the perfection take care of itself.✌🏻💛
I don’t care if it’s snowed already, I have fall session photos to catch up on sharing and gosh dang it I’m sharing them and I’m gonna pretend it still looks like this outside too. 😍🍂🍁
So, if we haven’t met in person, right now you might be thinking “oh, is that the Anna behind @annabarkerphoto?” Well, no. This isn’t me. But I like this photo that I took of @mbay29 for her photography business and I’m sharing it because I wanna talk about something thats really important to me: THERE’S ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US. I’m specifically talking to my fellow creative entrepreneurs with this one. A lot of us have experienced imposter syndrome or scarcity mindset at some point in our lives. Specifically as it relates to starting & building a creative business, it seems to be a really common thing, and I can see why. There are a LOT of people out there, doing a lot of creative things already. It feels like they already have the permission or the qualifications that we DON'T and for us to start doing something similar to what someone else is already doing feels like you’re being a copycat or breaking the law or something. It is good to look at our motives and make sure we’re going after this for the right reasons. But when we know that we’re pursuing this because we have something that’s truly our own to bring to the world, we have to start catching ourselves in the middle of the scarcity mindset and break the stigmas and lies that make it so easy to fall into it—and replace them with truth: We all started at square one and grew at our own pace. We all create things that are a remix of something that’s already been created. We all wondered at one time if we were cut out for this. It’s work sometimes. Hard work. But it’s possible to make this work IF you quit believing that there are already too many people taking pieces from the pie. In fact, I’m starting to believe that the cost of a "piece of the pie” is overcoming the belief that there‘s a limited number of pieces. 🤯 There’s room. Room to collaborate, and celebrate, and support what some would call your “competition”. Room to reach a hand out to someone who’s struggling with something you’ve already figured out. Room to give a credit, or a shoutout, or to post a photo of someone who does what you do in their own unique style & niche. There’s room.✌🏻
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