Last week I had the pleasure to listen in to Jesh De Rox talk to Dane on www.askdane.com, you should check it out, the live recording at Imaging USA . One thing he asked was, what brings you Joy? And he then said do more and more and more of that and it made so much sense. Then I made a list of things that made me joyous and thought hum I need to do more of this and I will be in better mood and perhaps more productive but more importantly I will be HAPPY because isn’t that what it is about, sometimes we think it is about success and making money, great things too but what if you get there to the top and you are not happy? Isn’t better to be happy along the way instead of thinking you will one day be happy. I am reading the book the “The 4-hour work week” and just gotten to the part where the author talks about Elimination and said some of the same ideas, I will quote it here:
80/20 rule which I think is a great exercise-

1) Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness
2) Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Then he went to say that he found out that only 5 customers were bringing him over 90% of the income and he was spending all this time calling all these are people that were just taking energy from him ( could so related to that especially in beginning of my photography business) and making him unhappy so he says

I then identified the common characteristics of my top-five customers and secured three or similarly profiled buyers in the following week. REMEMBER MORE CUSTOMERS IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY MORE INCOME. More customers is not the goal and often translates into 90% more housekeeping and a paltry 1-3% increase in income.

He also said instead of having this huge to do list, take a piece of paper that you can fit in your pocket and write 1 or 2 urgent things or things that if you did just those things, you would be satisfied and then go on your day to do other things like fun cool stuff so this sparked my interest. I work up Saturday having 2 important things to do for my Sunday Christening shooting event and then decided I would take the boys to the Liberty Science Center. We had driven by it on our way to the city many times and Lucas was especially interested. When I saw the T.Rex Sue Exhibit was launching that day, it was a green light. I got dressed up and pickup up my sister Ana and we headed to a fun filled afternoon of discoveries, dinosaurs, learning and even creepy creatures. I so loved the Center and we even watched a 3D Dinosaur documentary. It was such a relaxing time even with little Joshua acting up a bit and the day made me smile and made me happy. It was also a pretty much computer free day. As I was driving back home, my husband said he was cooking dinner for some friends to come over, perfect or what? I do plan to eliminate more things that cause me stress and suck up my energy, eliminate and automate so you could live the good life. Here is a glimpse of mine. Be sure to watch the SLIDESHOW*** to see more pixs.

Fuse News ( p.s if I like you enough, I will let you call me fuse, some very close friends of mine from high-school call me that and I like it.

• We are touching up the blog, testing out some things so some changes now and more in near future and I hope my website will be launched next month.
• I also was invited to lead a Fast Track Brasil group which I am so excited and nervous about since it will be an international group of photographers in Brazil or Brazilian Photographers to get insight on our local Fast Track Groups here. It is a test out phase before Dane goes to Brazil in April. If you are Brazilian, I ask that you join us, more info coming soon.
• I was contacted to be interviewed by a local paper today and I can not wait to see final print
• Q & A by the Fuse- I will be interviewing some fun guests in wedding industry, this includes, photographers, vendors, planners, so if you want to be interviewed just contact me under contact me form up on the blog.
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