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Q&A | The Costs of a Traveling Photographer
Q: I’m currently dealing with a very pregnant client who was given a gift certificate for a maternity session for Christmas. (She’s due in February, that’s how pregnant she is.) She wants the session to be done in her city (2.5 hours away from me) and wants to do it this weekend. I happen to…
Read MoreHow To Live Your Passion: Stop Thinking ‘Familiar’ Means ‘Easy’
There was probably a time in human history when venturing into the unfamiliar was a bad idea. If you foraged for food in a forest, then yes, trying a new red berry that no one else ate was probably a recipe for disaster. We’re a little past foraging for berries now. And yet – people…
Read MoreHow To Live Your Passion: It’s All About Brushing Your Teeth
I remember the moment with icy clarity. I was sitting in a Women in Science luncheon at a Very Fancy Hotel during a Very Important Science Conference. A panel of professional scientists was discussing work-life balance, and one woman cracked a joke that ended my career in research psychology: She said, “I think about data…
Read MoreHow To Live Your Passion: Stop Confusing Hobbies with Passions
I admit I once grew tired of people telling me: “live your passion.” Of all the vague, dime-store psychology directives, that is possibly the least useful. What does it mean to ‘live your passion’? What is a passion? What would it look like to ‘live’ one? Cut the fluff. I need concrete steps, not poster-speak.…
Read More2 Surefire Ways To Blow Your New Year’s Resolutions
‘Tis the season for resolution-making – and resolution-breaking. Many resolutions fail out of the starting gate, despite earnest desires for change. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are 2 sure ways your resolutions will fail – and how to beat them. 1) Not Planning for Failure. Tell me if this sounds familiar: …
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