ah, yes, another month has gone by...

As I mentioned in the family blog, I've scheduled in blogging time once school has started. Remember my post about lists, etc? Well, of course I have a "fall schedule"! I have to do it to keep things straight!!

We've managed to make it to church twice in a row the last 2 weeks! yay! This last Sunday Pastor Dave's sermon was on meditation - about how if you meditate 2x daily (AM & PM) then slowly it will be a habit and it will help calm your mind. Man, do I need that sometimes! I am going to try it to help with anger and just keeping my mind focused. Then today I read in my Real Simple magazine (one of my favorites to read) there was an article on getting away from multi-tasking. I do that all the time! On the phone and editing, or checking e-mail or whatever. In it the writer mentions meditation as well, although he went somewhere to do it in a group. Not exactly the kind I'm interested in. I'm so happy we've been able to get back to church. I missed it and I know I need to go, not just for myself but for the girls. We'll have to miss this week because we'll be out of town, but after that we'll be home more often and getting back in the habit will be much more easier!

I've been reading some books on branding and marketing, which have really helped me more in my thought process for the business. I'm working on learning who my target market is, why I do what I do, and what my passion is in the photography realm. In the past I'd just accept whatever job came my way. But I know that I really need to do the jobs I'm passionate about, because that's when I will do my very best job. One of the books has a workbook and has questions to answer. One was who are your favorite clients and are there any that you need to refer to someone else. For the most part I've liked all my clients, which is a blessing. A few that really didn't "get" my style and who weren't my favorites haven't re-hired me for anything else, so I don't feel I have any clients to "let go". So yay for me!