Over-Thinking / Under-Doing

Classic over-thinking / under-doing is one of my tragic flaws. I’m very good at thinking things through to all possible end scenarios, which, like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, usually stop at dead ends. I then return to the Point of Choosing, choose a slightly different option, and follow that to the logical (to me) conclusion. Again and again, until the idea slowly dies a painful death in my head and never actually comes to fruition. 

I started so many blog posts over the last two months; great ideas of helping readers around the Richmond area with tips on the holidays, photographing kids, what to do over two weeks of break with kids who are overstimulated on all things sugar and excitement. 

And not a single one of them got published. Because I only wrote them in my head. And also I was dealing with the same scenarios of overstimulated children. 

So here we are in January, another Tuesday gone, another “whelp, maybe next week” as I come to the conclusion that maybe trying to write blog posts on Mondays is a bad idea. 

Maybe you’ve had the idea that you want family photos from someone like me, at home, without the hassle of a “regular” family session. But then your mind gets churning, and you start worrying about all the ways it could go wrong. What if the photographer judges our home? What if the kids don’t behave the way I want them to? What if my partner hates it? I can’t think of anything fun to do with my family that’s worth photographing at home, what if it’s a waste of time? 

And on and on the tornado rages in your head, until finally it peters out and you’re left with the shadowy remains of what was an excellent idea, and you continue on without having done it. 

I want better for both of us this year. I want to finish a blog post (a feat that will happen in the near future, since you’re seeing this). I want to not worry so much about it being perfect. I want you to feel the relief of completing a much-wanted project like family photos, while your kids are still young. I want your kids to see themselves in printed photos and know just how much they are loved. I want you all to look at photos that remind you of just how sweet your life is. 

I want us both to stop waiting for it to happen on its own, and to take 5 minutes to take the first step. My first step is writing these words. Yours is to fill out a contact form (not a contract), to start a conversation with me. 

Let’s take a step together. Click here to start that conversation.