If you had to guess, how many times do you think you held your own self back in 2019? You may have even assigned other people to blame that was not warranted for keeping you from building the business you wanted. I know I was telling myself all kinds of stories about why I could NOT have the type of success I wanted (I wasn’t as good as her, or have her background, or that I was not a HIM, or even that I didn’t come from a family of entrepreneurs) but what really held me back was my own insecurities. It took me years to speak into my camera on my Instagram stories or to be silly on there. I want to stomp on all the time I wasted during those years when growth was fairly easy on Instagram- I wasted a lot of those years being completely caged in by what others might think of me.
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Now, turning the camera towards my face is second nature. Sure- sometimes I am caught off guard by my 7 chins but such is life when you are born with pretty much no neck. My dreams for my business grow by the month and reaching them is going to take me trusting MYSELF and not letting the what-ifs drag me down as they have done in the past.
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In 2019, this thought held me back; “what if they think I am not ready to teach?” which is extremely silly in an industry where people are paid to teach in the infancy of their own photographer careers (gotta admire those balls) and here I sit with about 1,000 sessions and 10 years under my belt. But being respectful of the industry and not rushing is very important to me- I built my own portfolio for over a year for free after all. I am all about a patient process and that has paid off as my business has grown and grown year after year. So 2020 will see me ramping up education and mentoring-woot!
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What is an insecurity you are leaving behind in 2020?
