Last year I kind of let my photography slide. I made a commitment to myself to do a better job of getting out in the field for pictures. I got energized when an advertising agency contacted me on behalf of one of their clients. They want to use one of my photos for the lobby of a regional bank in the Seattle area. They plan to enlarge it to 4.5 ft by 8 ft. How awesome is that!?
Right after that friends started asking about Holiday Cards. I explained about my website www.dustyroadsphiotos.zenfolio.com so maybe next year I’ll finally have some orders from there. I started updating my vendor links and found that the most popular links, for single cards, was discontinued. Plus the birthday cards have been changed to party invitations only. I can still make my handcrafted ones but I’m trying to get as much through the website as possible. I guess I’ll need to reach out to my vendors over the summer.
So with that out of the way, how many if you have fallen off the wagon already? Old habits are hard to change.
Aside from the photography resolution above, the only resolution I made was work related. Oh don’t get me wrong, I’d love to lose 10-even 20 lbs but if I do I do, I’m not going to concentrate on it.
The “resolution” I made was a promise to myself to keep a positive attitude at work. After all complaining is just a bad habit, right?
Yes, there are a lot of changes going on around me right now and no I don’t like a lot of them. They make me very nervous. But I’m not the boss. As long as I keep that in mind I should be fine right?
So back to work after the holiday and my boss stops by my desk. “How’s it going” she asks. “How do you like your new responsibilities.”
Immediately I found myself telling her how much I hated the new job and why. So much for not complaining! I started to laugh and told her that the only resolution I’d made was no more complaining and the first time she asks me about the new changes I hit her with a long list of why I don’t like it.
Luckily she has a sense of humor.
I guess I’ll just keep plugging along. Maybe I’ll get used to the changes. I certainly hope so or it will be a long 10 years to retirement.
One thing you can always count on is that there will be change, for better or worse, and you will have to learn to deal with it. I can accept my fate and apply myself cheerfully or I can be miserable and make everyone around me miserable too. Not the way I want to be.
So I guess I’d better suck it up and get back on the resolution bandwagon. My theme song for 2017…Let it Go, Let it Go (the changes never bothered me anyway)
