Welcome 2021, New Year, New Goals
Goodbye 2020. Welcome 2021. Last year brought lots of ups and downs. In my photography and design career 2020 was actually a rewarding year. In my previous blog entry, I discussed how my year had went and the projects I created. I built my website, made quality family time, created my social media pages for my photography, continued with my degree, and even closed the year out with selling my home and purchasing a new one. 2020 was a whirlwind for life and a whirlwind for my photography career.
This year, like every year, we hear about New Year resolutions and unrealistic goals. I don’t want to put myself in that category of how I need to create big time unrealistic goals or resolutions. Instead, I want to improve on my previous achievements while creating realistic goals. Continuing my education is a top priority to get me to the level I want to be with in my photography and design business. I want to be a better photographer and hone my craft. I want to shoot more images and constantly try new things to make myself better. Practice makes perfect is a saying we hear often, but do we ever get to the point of perfection? I certainly know that I don’t want to be perfect. Instead, I always want to get better. I want to remain a student to this amazing artform. There are online courses, books, YouTube videos, etc. that will help anyone get better at taking pictures, design, and printing. Along with paid courses, there is lots of information out there for free, why not take a look?
2021 is the year of the Ox. The year of the Ox denotes the hard work, positivity and honesty that will be manifested in all of us in the coming 12 months, according to astrologers. If there is anything 2020 has taught us, it is that this whole world needs positivity. I want to be more positive in my life and more positive in my work. Positivity can make your overall life and work better. Hard work pays off immensely. Hard work can be aimed at anything from taking care of your family to being better at your job or hobby. Hard work in my eyes is to consistently build on being better. Make realistic goals to be better. Realistic goals for photography can be creating an uncluttered workspace for your computer work such as editing images. Clutter free and organized can make everything streamline. Streamline can make you better and more efficient. In one of my previous posts, I said how I carry a go bag for my cameras and gear. Using one of those can make getting out and taking images much more realistic and efficient. Once again, realistic goals. Easy things to make other things work better. Smarter not harder.
Write down the improvements you want to make as well as your realistic goals. I find that physically writing something down with pen and paper, makes it absorb in my mind better than creating a note on my phone or laptop. I am not saying those digital notes don’t work, I just find for me, writing it down works better. Get yourself organized. Make a plan. I want to make less excuses to not do things or get projects done. Instead, I want to make quality progress in every aspect for this year. Give yourself a reboot in 2021. Build on the mistakes and lessons learned from the previous year. Most of all, have fun doing it. Take small steps and make that progress. Here’s to a happy, healthy, and productive 2021.
