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MOST IMPORTANT LESSON I LEARNED IN PHOTOGRAPHY FROM DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER PAUL TAGGART. Don`t wait for extraordinary things like a holiday to happen in order to take out your camera and take pictures. Start where you are today.
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Feel more to see more
HOW FEELING MORE HELPS YOU SEE MORE. Do you wonder how to slow down time? Or how to get more out of the moments that just keep coming at you and running straight past you?
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“the Why”
ON FINDING THE WHY. Time is always different. A holiday now will be different than a holiday in five years. A day at work now will be different from a day at work in ten years. It may be entirely different next week.
Business and Emotion
How emotional storytelling helps your business. Did you know that clients who feel emotionally connected with a brand spend on average twice as much annually with that brand as highly satisfied customers!
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Herzstärkend
INTERVIEW WITH THE GIRLS OF “HERZSTÄRKEND”: “Everyone threw in ideas, and all of a sudden there was so much manpower! Within half a year, „herzstärkend“ basically exploded!”
Picture your Highlights
Give it a try and make a “pictures of summer” album. The major surprise will come later: Looking back after let`s say a few months and going through your highlight pictures, it will hit you: How blessed you are! How many good moments you captured that otherwise would have passed unnoticed.
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Downtime
APPOINTMENTS FOR OUR DOWNTIME are just as important as those for our Should-Do`s. If not even more important. After all, no one will regret having not hoovered often enough when dying, but it`s more likely that we regret not having taken enough time for our own fun.
Should-Do`s
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE “SHOULD DO`S”. Do you have a lot of „Should Do´s” in your head? I have, and I need to get rid of them…
Vision
When making decisions or planning, ask: Does this serve my purpose? This way we can move forward according to our values.
Dress like you want to be
Fake it til you make it. This principle can be helpful with a lot of situations. Some people even claim it can make you rich.
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Networking
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF OUR NETWORK. Having a strong network, we can make use of the brain, ideas and wisdom of many, not just our own.
Courage and Massive Action
WHY WE NEED TO TAKE MASSIVE ACTION NOW. Conor McDonnell started out as a teenager wanting to get into concerts for free. After his first chance to photograph a concert, he wanted to do more.
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Creative work
HOW TO GET CREATIVE WORK DONE. One of the biggest traps for creatives is postponing: Either because of “waiting for inspiration” or because of perfectionism, saying “I`m not good enough yet, conditions are not ideal at the moment,…”
Dream big
HOW A CRAZY GOAL CAN ADD FUN TO YOUR WORK. Would you like to release a crazy amount of joy and fun in your work? I might just have the secret for you.
Feelgood Photography
Special feeling for special photographs. When feeling emotional, have your camera with you. In my experience, I tend to see more when I feel good.
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Lockdown Photography
HOW HARD TIMES CAN HELP YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY. Do you recall the last days before your personal Corona lockdown? I remember them like it was yesterday and the pictures that I`ve taken.
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New Year
As we start the new year, it`s a good time to go through all our photos of this year. Of course, to reflect on the past twelve months.
Life is now
This life, I want to avoid saying “I can do that later” to something that I fancy doing.
Copycat Creativity Technique
How to boost your creativity with the copycat technique.
Copying, as “bad” as it might sound, is actually a very good technique to get creative.
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The Stories we tell about ourselves
Be successful by smart storytelling. How do we define success? And are we giving it our own definition, or do we let others define it for us?
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How to learn from mistakes
Isn`t it that our own mistakes are our best teachers? Yet, I`m still afraid to make mistakes.
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Creativity
Creativity needs some prayers and letting go. It needs fresh air and downtime. Chats with friends, some laughing out loud and being childish.
Criticism: Five thoughts
How to deal with criticism. Five thoughts after a rather harsh experience with criticism.
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How to win time
How making appointments for your task is freeing up time. Time Manager Dave Crenshaw is calling this “positive procrastination”.
Work for joy
When nothing has to but everything can become. Is your work giving you more energy back than it takes?
The Secrets of Happiness
It’s good to loosen up at times. To do stuff with no ambition.
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Time and progress
How to validate your progress. “…But if your goal is the time itself, just the time, then it becomes much simpler and more achievable…”
How to be creative
How habits help with our creativity. “Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you`re inspired or not.” (Octavia E.Butler in “Bloodchild and Other Stories”).
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In the Mirror
…We can blur a bit, we can hide a bit, yet we still have evidence of ourselves in that very moment.