The two years I attended my photography conference in Las Vegas, I literally could not shut my brain off in order to sleep.  Ideas of what I had learned flew through my brain, whizzing here and there, bouncing all over the place.  I was jittery.  I was like a live current.  The morning couldn’t come fast enough so that I could get the ball rolling with coming up with a plan for some of them.  Thoughts about improving my website.  Thoughts about marketing ideas.  Thoughts about how to better serve my clients.  Thoughts about how to better improve my photography on a whole.  Honestly though, I get a little ahead of myself sometimes and come up with all these grandios ideas–only a few of which I actually implement.

And for some reason, lately, I’ve been having the same problem.  At home, with no conference feeding my head ideas.  Just my own head, excited about what’s to come.  What I can change, how I can grow.  Idea driven insomnia.  Annoying, but hilarious at the same time.  I must be in the right place if I’m so excited about my job.  Doing the right thing with myself.  Growing is always my goal–so I hope I will always be motivated and ambitious enough to do so.

Also, lately though it’s slow season and I don’t have a lot of scheduled sessions the next few months, I’ve still been working a few hours a day.  I sort of apologized to James about it thinking that he was annoyed about it.  But he told me that he would be worried if I wasn’t putting effort into it, even though it’s not busy season.  He said, there are so many areas of running a business that you need to be taking this time now to find ways to grow, and to work on things that you don’t normally have time to do them once spring arrives and outdoor sessions and weddings start again.  Boy, am I thankful for him and his support of this adventure.

We make a great team.  It’s too bad I don’t get insurance benefits, or dental, or paid vacation OR a pension plan, or I’d probably make him quit his job and partner up with me 🙂

Now. . . onto getting some of those ideas into action . . . first up . . . branding improvements!  Always so fun (and so hard!) to implement.