Monthly Archives: August, 2010
ON VISION AND BUSINESS.
Q: Describe your photographic style in five words. A: I wish I knew that. Reading that answer from a newly-signed-on dominatrixee brought tears to my eyes. And so, my thoughts on vision and business, in no particular order. Finding and knowing your vision takes time. It’s a lifelong process and a brilliant journey. Unfortunately, you [...]
DOMINATRIXING RELEASE DATE!
I felt like I’d hit a brick wall and I needed help. Not little help, but big, major MAJOR hardcore strategizing and implementing help. Burn my website to the ground and start over, phoenix-style, help. I went looking for someone to help lead me, push me, and listen to what I wasn’t saying out there [...]
A BRIEF FORAY INTO KNOWING YOURSELF.
Last week on Brand Camp, I asked you to choose a financial goal — a real, live number, not a cutout of a beach house in the Bahamas. Goals help you to decide where you’re going, but they also reveal your hidden beliefs about money. Think with me, for just a second, in the name [...]
AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS AND THE METRICS OF EASE
I was absolutely terrified to pick up the phone and dial the number. I took Hermione for a walk and listened to my iPod. I made fresh coffee. I took deep breaths. As a result of dominatrixing, I’ve told photographers their work is underpriced, overpriced, off-kilter, and/or inconsistent. I’ve told a business owner that her [...]
THE POWER OF DECENCY
I bought a car yesterday. It was an emergency purchase required by my old car dying a painful death. So, I wanted to buy a USED (anyone who’s been in 7 car accidents before the age of 30 does not buy new) car. Specifically, an automatic Volkswagen Beetle with a moonroof with under 80,000 miles [...]
SPECIFIC GOALS.
I’m just gonna hit you with it, today: Only specific goals count. When you join Weight Watchers, you have to make a goal weight. Not ‘when the skinny jeans fit’ or ‘when I don’t feel gross’ or ‘when my waist is the circumference of a small citrus fruit,’ but an actual number that means you’ve [...]
LESSONS FROM EUROPE: MAKE A DATE.
While I was wandering around Europe, I started thinking about how I was going to be inspired at home, where there are no cobblestone streets and thousand-year-old monuments nearby. Home is ordinary. I know it well. But home is where I live for, you know, the vast majority of the year, so I’ve got to [...]
LESSONS FROM EUROPE: BE INVITING.
Having just gotten back from Europe, I’ve seen approximately 7.6 million cafes in the past few weeks. As I wandered from cafe to cafe — dinner and dessert and beer require separate cafes, sometimes — I began to notice patterns. Let’s call them axioms, ’cause that makes me sound smarter. Axiom #1: Busy cafes just [...]
GUEST AUTHOR: RACHEL BALLARD
Still in Paris, shopping for the perfect scarf…this time it’s Rachel Ballard who’s writing for the Brand Camp blog! She shares her love of photography and of Polaroids in this post. If you dig her work and her words, you should sign up for the Bloom e-course she conducts with much love and even more [...]
GUEST AUTHOR: EMILEE FUSS
I’m in Paris, soaking up croissants and strolling along the banks of the Seine. You shouldn’t be jealous, though, ’cause you get to hear from the phenomenal Emilee Fuss while I’m away! Enjoy her words of wisdom, and the eye candy she’s so generously included with the post. – There is so much to learn [...]
