Again...I have been a slacker...well not really a slacker in other areas of my life, but blogging. I have been quite busy in the last few months and I think most of it was that I was more mentally busy than physically busy (if that makes any sense at all).
There have been a few changes in my life and though like anyone faced with changes, I feel nervous, excited, overwhelmed, terrified, unsure, happy and so on. I will no longer be
teaching...instead I am going to follow in the footsteps of my father...and his family and be an entrepreneur. I thought for a long time that I wasn't cut out to have my own business or do
all that good stuff...but the more life goes on and the older I get, I realize that I have to follow my passion and my heart and start my own photography business. So that is exactly what I am going to do come January 2010...its a new year...a BIG year and I can only hope and pray that I will be blessed in my new adventures.
I am scared...and want to run away from this crazy idea sometimes, but I have decided that I should start listening to those around me who believe in me and who have been pushing me to do my photography for a long time. If no one has ever told me I suck at photography...and instead tells me I am very talented...I should be fine right?! (hopefully!! hehe)
So hopefully these next few months I will be able to get on my feet. I know it will be a scary and tough process as it is new and different and just starting, but I am confident that I am really supposed to do this...and God has told me recently "OK Rachel...you have put this off long enough...time to really use your gifts!" so I better listen right?! RIGHT!!!
My sister in-law Missy sent me a marvelous quote when I was worrying about this whole idea of starting my own business...and I am using this as my encouragement and motivation...
Marianne Williamson quote:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unco
nsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
so come 2010...a new and updated version of Rachel will be coming soon...RAQUELLE
PHOTOGRAPHY...the new me!
