Project 3: Photography Blog

The next project that I choose to work on was a photography blog. I crave being able to use photography as an income source but am so frightened of even having others see my work. Weird right? I think it is because I feel like there are so many great photographers out there including my Mom and a friend both of whom I somehow would have to live up to.

The thing is I don't have to live up to them. I need to be myself and find my focus and creativity in photography and get my work seen. If it does not turn into a way to make money that is okay. At the very least some people with see it and I will know I am trying.

So I have started a photography blog and posting regular posts. I still get nervous and sit in wait until someone "likes" my post or decides to follow me but it is nice to see the images out there.

You can check it out at Emilia Brasier Photography.

Here is one of my favorite photographs:

Project 2: A Blog About Life With Kids

My next big project that I had been putting off for at least a year was to create a blog about my life with my kids that could also be a resource to other parents and caregivers. I wanted it to be something that as a parent I would find useful and something that will keep a record of some of the things that I do with my kids and how I think of them. I really wanted to include so much into this blog and was being held up by this silly little thing: the title.

Well after hearing that radio show I decided to just sit down and do it. I thought about a lot of different titles but none were very clever or they were but did not fit the topics I would be writing about in the blog. I finally just went with Blogging with Children: Photos, Food, Child Development, Reviews and More.

Very ho hum, but a success because it was done. If I had waited for the perfect title I would be waiting still. I started adding in posts and pages and felt such a flood of relief to have it started. I also felt a huge amount of anxiety sharing it the first time and second time. 

So the title is not perfect but it is okay and it is getting the job done. 

A little something to leave you with, a quote from Suze Orman of all people, "Fear hates more than anything else to be defeated." 

How are you working to defeat your fear this year?