Archives for February 2012

So, my second installment in The Photo Life is now up. Be sure to check it out. Power to the People – Put Your Clients First. In that vein, here’s a continuation on the theme, and how we can move ourselves forward:

 

I bought some antler-hook coat hangers on Etsy the other day. They were cutely packaged with a nice hand-written note. And you could tell the message was personal. And, yet, I was unmoved. Nice of them to do, mind you, but meh. I tossed the note aside into the sea of papers that never seems to subside around the office.

The King is dead, the world is new, and we are free at last. Free at … Read more...

Forget about 10,000 hours. If that number isn’t familiar, read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. The short of it is you need 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert. The long of it is in Gladwell’s book. The truth of it is it wouldn’t matter if you needed 1,000 or 100,000 hours, because most people aren’t gonna get there. And the problem isn’t the amount of time, and it isn’t the ability. It’s that most people aren’t willing to do the boring stuff.

Finding Yourself is Hard
We hear it all day long. Find your voice, be the brand, know who you are, and get good at it. Be a specialist. Sure. All true. But there’s being a specialist because … Read more...

It’s easy to hate Valentine’s Day. There nothing like forced romance to undermine the very notion of it. Couple that with the flower stand that jacked up the prices, a 1-hour stop at Godiva, and dinner with the worst menu any restaurant will serve all year, and you have the perfect recipe for misery.

But if that’s one take on Valentine’s day, then here’s another. How about the ones that mattered? Not for the obligation, but for the simple excitement of showing another person that they meant something? Maybe it was big and bold. Mabye it was small and subtle. Maybe it was a younger version of yourself that got all gussied up in the bad clothes with the bad … Read more...