you are not being yourself you see years and years ago i was obsessed with following what was the cool thing on instagram my editing style tried to reflect what was cool on instagram i was trying to do like nature photos in georgia because at the time nature photos were really popular and i was constantly doing what i thought was going to give me attention rather than doing what actually felt natural and organic to me and what this does is it just creates a bunch of resistance in your life you basically feel like you're pushing a rock up a hill essentially you know you're you're always trying to do this thing that's not actually congruent with the person you are or the life that you're actually living and one of the easiest ways to avoid trends is just do what feels natural to you and remember that you have a unique voice what you do who you are as a person is gonna be the thing that gets you the recognition that you're so desperately looking for by trying to follow trends and things like that everyone has a unique voice everyone has a unique story and the faster you can find that and tap into it and share it with people the faster you're going to see results that you're looking for and that actually leads us into the next thing i want to talk about which is not caring what other people think you know some really good advice i got a while back was if people love you people are also going to hate you and that's a much better position to be in to have some people who really care about you and some people who dislike you than just having a bunch of people who are indifferent about you having a following of people who are just lukewarm to what you're doing is not what you want and the way you get people who love you and really care about the things that you're making and the things that you're doing is by being your unique self people can feel it when you watch a youtube video and someone's just being who they are it's like electric and when someone is creating photography that you know is unique to them it's the people who stand out there's a lot of creators i've followed for years and years and years and the reason i'm still engaged with them and the reason i still care about the things that they're making is because they're the only ones who can do it it's the only place i see that particular thing or get that particular level of inspiration and you can do the exact same thing once you stop caring what other people think about you and just be you and also accept that sometimes you gotta have some haters as my man gucci mane would say but before we continue on with the rest of this list i briefly want to thank the sponsor on today's video squarespace they have been a huge part of my photography business for the last few years squarespace is what i used to build my website URL_TOKEN which is where i launched my book this year stops along the way if you haven't checked that out yet you can check it out it's linked in the description down below that book was a huge success and also helped me gain some passive income as a photographer i also have my merch brand URL_TOKEN that is built on squarespace and if you're someone who has been skeptical about a website squarespace is the easiest way to integrate it into your photography business their templates are so easy to update and you can
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN but before we continue on with the rest of this list i briefly want to thank the sponsor on today's video squarespace they have been a huge part of my photography business for the last few years squarespace is what i used to build my website URL_TOKEN which is where i launched my book this year stops along the way if you haven't checked that out yet you can check it out it's linked in the description down below that book was a huge success and also helped me gain some passive income as a photographer i also have my merch brand URL_TOKEN that is built on squarespace and if you're someone who has been skeptical about a website squarespace is the easiest way to integrate it into your photography business their templates are so easy to update and you can END_SPONSOR_TOKEN