Goals for 2013 and the rest of my life.

Being two weeks in on the start of the year I've realized some things; starting the year off with a bang with an old friend and starting this blog is the best start to a year I've ever had.

I feel completely different. Like last year happened about 20 years ago.

I've been running through some things that I would continually like to change in my life. (So this is kind of more of a list to myself).

1. Plan and then let go. Let my work just happen and let happy accidents come out instead of hiding them. They are far more beautiful than stiff, icky work. 
2. Do the work that allows chances and progress to happen. If I do everything I can do to succeed, progress is bound to happen.
3. Take more photos, instead of just the photos I need just for assignments. I typically only take "the perfect shots" when I go somewhere. But looking back, I really like some of my location scouting images that were total 'BS' images. Again, that idea of letting go. 
4. Allow others to help without feeling guilty. They are there because they want to be, not because they feel like I'm making them be there. They love me and want to be around me. 
5. Take your Negative Nancy self and shove it. If you want to rain on my parade, please go find Eeyore and hide. 
6.  Eat less Cheese and Pop (soda for those outside of the Midwest). Sooo I'm kinda lactose intolerant. It really messes up my energy/ health/ other stuff we're not going to talk about lol! Pop and Cheese make me feel heavy and not my best.  But MmmmMMMmmmm do I love me some Faygo!
7. Encourage collaboration amongst people of equal talents. 
8. Appreciate those that have passion and want to thrive from it, whatever their passion is. 
9. Let me be who I really am, and fully understand my past to better understand my future. Just in the past two weeks I feel like a different person. I've self examined so much its unbelievable. Who I am, why I am this way, and what made me get to this point. It's awesome the difference it can make when you're honest with yourself. 
10. Allow myself to use Lightroom on my own images just to share (STOP BEING SO OCD ABOUT EDITING EVERYTHING!) Images can be loved without the 'perfectness'... I guarantee I will struggle with this until the day I die.
11. Try to stay away from the computer and cell phone and have more 'Family' time with the Hubby and Pup. This probably should have been first, huh? 
12. Eat more Fruit and Veggies. 
13. GO TO DISNEY WORLD! :)
14. Find investors/ people that believe in my work enough to invest in me financially.

I always have to be difficult. My goals are more of lifestyle changes instead of something easy like eat less ice cream and go to the gym . Maybe next year! 

 Outside our old house in "The College Ghetto" in Ypsilanti, MI. 

Prettiest sky I ever saw there. Summer 2012 

Scarlett J