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Project Joy | For Photographers

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SELF CARE FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

Breaking the Burnout Cycle

Oh, beautiful photographer, I feel the pain. This time of the year can be so intense. The last-minute family photo requests, the random mini-session requests, the demands for things to be expedited, demands for discounts, client wondering why she looks different in a photo than she does in the mirror, the entire extended family shows up for what you thought was a small family session… It can feel overwhelming. All the demands, all the volume of work, all the outside pressures. You’re working late, getting up before you’ve had enough rest, having trouble getting in time to exercise, or see friends or family (guilt!), and you end up eating crap food and then watching a movie too late at night, just to try to unwind.

What if you could release that burden of overwhelm, stop feeling the constant pressure and anxiety, kick-to-the-curb the constant fatigue and crappy, guilty energy?

What if, instead, you could reconnect to your original love to your work? What if you could decide exactly what you will and will not tolerate in your business? What if you do less of what you hate about this work and choose to do more of what you love? What if you could shoot exactly the way you wanted to? What if you could package and price your photos in an entirely different way?

What if you could feel better? What if you could feel empowered to choose exactly what your life and work looks like? What if you could find greater power and potency through simplification?

What if you could Live, Create & Work On-Purpose?

Introducing Project Joy for Photographers, a solution that is entirely about helping you reclaim your life, passion and to enjoy on-purpose living and creating.

Including visualizations/meditations, simple exercises, short – practical – rituals. Bite-sized bits to help you find room to breathe, regain your footing, reconnect with your unique gifts, passions and loves. Designed to give you your time, sanity and life back, feel better and re-inspired, excited to go forward, living and working with intention.

A practical and powerful self-care series to help those feeling burnout, overwhelm, and feeling like the only way out is to walk away from this business and craft you used to love.

Project Joy for Photographers Buy Now

Project Joy for Photographers will take you through a beautiful, empowering transformative experience that looks like this:

+ Release the stress and overwhelm | We ain’t got time for that.

+ Stop should-ing on yourself | You know better than they do.

+ Reconnect with Y❤️U | Because you’re ahhh-mazing.

+ Crafting your dream life & biz | What happens when you let a creative person define their life?…

+ Giving yourself permission | …to do less of what you don’t love so you can do more of what you DO love + Infuse JOY.

+ Live, Create and work On Purpose ❤️

What do I get? 

You will receive a downloadable toolkit that is designed to flow in a series that helps you release the crud, come to center, focus on the awesome and then grow the awesome. The toolkit can also be used in parts and pieces as you find yourself needing some additional TLC and re-centering and re-inspiring again in the future. This is a lifelong process, and can be tough to navigate it alone, so you can always come back to this again and again.

This toolkit includes:

+  a series of simple guided meditations and visualizations that will take your through that transformative process

+ PDFs with journaling prompts to help deepen the work you’re doing and help you make faster, more lasting shifts

+ bonus exercises to support this and to incorporate into your regular self-care. Including affirmations, simple yoga poses that will bring you back to center, tips & tricks that I’ve used with clients to help them feel better

We’re keeping it fun and simple, and powerful, so it’s easy for you to say YES and buy this today and start incorporating it into your day.

I’d like to invite you to be a part of the limited Pre-Sale and be one of the first to receive Project Joy for Photographers. Expected delivery date is Friday, December 8th, just in time to get you through the holidays and set you up for an amazing new year.

It is so amazing to see what happens when we choose to unplug, step away from the editing, the blogging, all the things and reconnect to our inner world and reconnect to our joy.

It takes less time than you might think to achieve this transformation, but it does require a choice to take intentional action.

We can choose to numb and get lost in the never-ending cycle of busyness and burnout or we can choose to take our life back, own our life, take responsibility for it all, and own our creativity, our work and our experiences.

We need to step out of the wheel of overwhelm and choose to be On Purpose. For our health, our sanity, and for the longevity of our business. Let’s find a way to keep our number one business asset (ourselves) in top condition and ready for anything, ready for action.

Please join us and start feeling better asap.

PRE-PURCHASE PROJECT JOY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS TODAY FOR $49 (SAVE $130 OFF THE REGULAR PRICE UNTIL NOV 30)

Estimated Delivery Date: Friday, Dec 8


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Curing Comparison | 4 Steps to Let Go and Get Back On Track

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It can be stealthy, subtle and sneaky.

It can infect your thinking…

without you ever having any idea that it is there.

Comparison. Comparing who you are, and what you have, what you do and what you’ve done against what you see others being, doing and having done.

How do you compare against your neighbor, your coworker, your best friend?

Whether consciously or not, I’ll bet a LOT of money that you’ve taken a look at yourself and rated yourself relative to where somebody else is.

So, is this a terrible, cursed thing to be doing?

Yes, and no.

Let’s start with the no. Why is comparison NOT the root of all evil?

Comparison can be healthy. We see our friend making a positive change for their health – choosing better foods, incorporating exercise into their day. And we see that things are changing for them – they’re feeling better, stronger and its having ripple effects in other parts of her life. She inspires us to reflect upon our own choices and we make some changes that will help us also improve our health.

Cool – that’s great. Comparison leading to inspiration and positive change.

That’s one example. We can likely name a few other examples where comparison has led to inspiration – seeing someone else achieve something despite the odds can give us “permission” to achieve for ourselves.

Then let’s talk about why comparison might truly be the worst thing that could happen to you.

  • Limits your beliefs of what you can achieve. You see that someone else has what you want and you see all the reasons they’re different from you and you’re able to make a ‘reasonable’ excuse for why you can’t have the same for you.
  • Gives a home for negative self talk. Perhaps it’s cultural, but we have a tendency to talk down about ourselves to ourselves. We’ll be critical of ourselves in ways we’d never be to our friends. And when we then compare ourselves against another person and how perfect and amazing they are, it is easy to draw contrasts to our lives and fuel that negative self talk.
  •  Allows us to rationalize why we can’t do something – “well, I don’t have what she has, so I can’t achieve similar””My idea isn’t as profound as that””I won’t have the impact he does””I’m not as strong of a speaker/writer/thinker/expert…”
  • Stalls us out – Procrastination and paralyzation (I just need to learn one more thing, need to do one more re-write, need to do a little more research, need to wait for the weather to improve, need to wait for the kids to be older)

    The other thing about the negative side of comparison, is that we often don’t realize we’re doing it. It’s insidious and quiet, yet starts that stream of negative words into our brain and can affect and infect all we do and think – leaving us feeling limited, less than, not good enough, not ready.

         Pssst… you don’t really think you can leave that perfectly good steady job, that pays you perfectly good money that allows you to pay all those bills to go chase a child’s dream of being a travel writer, do you?? That’s ridiculous, only an irresponsible idiot would do that….

    You recognize this voice, don’t you? It sounds very rational, it keeps us “safe” and makes us feel like if we doing anything outside the norm, we are risking our lives. Sometimes this voice wins, but sometimes we know that, however ‘rational’ that voice might sound, we have a calling that we cannot ignore, so we have to move forward and make change in spite of that voice.

    So… how to break past it. How to shake off that voice and the negative feelings that can come with comparison?

    Luckily, the ways to get past that negative voice of comparison are simple. They do require some focus and action taking, but if you’re ready to step into your bigger vision, you’re ready for focus and action.

    The 4 Steps to Curing Comparison

    1. Get present
    2. Develop your vision
    3. ‘Turn up’ the vision
    4. Make it a non-negotiable YES

      The beauty of this is how good it feels. Even if you aren’t feeling a strong call to make a big life change, but want to shake that habit of comparison, you can do it and get more centered and operate from a place that is more positive and true to you. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

      1. Get present.Basically, this is about finding yourself in a calm, peaceful state – free of regret and anxiety. You may typically be in this place, or know how to get there. If you need help, here’s a simple meditation to get you into a place of calm presence, ready for clear thinking.
        1. Develop your vision.What is your dream? Your passion? Your calling? Grab papers, markers, pens, and draw it out, write it out. (If you need to get your juices flowing, maybe you need to get out for a walk or a run, take a shower, whatever works for you.) What does it look like? When will it happen? What needs to happen in preparation? Can you do less than you think in preparation? What actions can you take immediately? And then, what does it FEEL like? What does it feel like to think about this reality for you? Write down how it will feel and how it will change your life once you’ve made this happen. (If you don’t already have a strong, big vision that’s tugging at you, start small. Is there a new hobby you’d like to try? Some place you’d like to visit?)
          1. Turn up the vision.

          You’ve written down how it will feel and how it will change your life to make these changes… Write and/or think some more about what your life will be like when this happens. Get into juicy details… What kind of people will you hang around with? What will your home look and feel like? What will you be doing? What will you be doing with your free time? What foods will you be eating?… Things like that. How does that feel? Write down any more feelings that come to mind and take some time to read each one and let it soak into your body. Where is it in your body? Feel it and then turn it up so that feeling radiates into every cell and even beyond. After you’ve done that for the individual feelings, do it for the vision as a whole and really turn it up, so it’s radiating from you.

          1. Turn it into a non-negotiable YES.You’ve done great work here. Now, take action. You know what your vision is, take action today. I’m not going to tell you what to do, because you already know. What I can do to support you is to tell you that you now have permission, you now have the assignment, you can choose to make this real for you, today.

            Ok go.

            With love,
            Katy

Katy Moses offers Entrepreneur Energy Coaching sessions via Skype to help you gain clarity around your life and business, identify blocks, behaviours and beliefs that are limiting your momentum and to help you release and heal so that you can move forward, with calm, clarity, strength, alignment, joy and inspired action. Do you have your sessions booked?  Visit KatyMoses.com for more info on sessions and to book a clarity call.

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