One Small Change – Can Change Everything | Halifax Photographer

I love to write. Not as much as I love to take photos, but sometimes I do want people to know what I am thinking when I am taking a photograph. I keep a personal blog so that you aren’t all constantly overwhelmed with my random thoughts and the thousands of pictures I share of my children. But these thoughts hit me pretty hard today. I have been making small videos to submit to an online contest to go to a workshop with one of my photographic inspirations, so how nice that the video submissions are supposed to be about what inspires me today. So it’s been a great opportunity for me to think about that, and today I was inspired about how one small change can change everything. One degree, one shift, one small change can change everything else. Today we had a tonne of freezing rain. It’s beautiful, and dangerous and so interesting to me. One small change in the temperature and we wouldn’t have any of those things, just a bunch of rain. If you get off course in a boat or plane by just one degree, over time it can change your destination completely. Isn’t life like that sometimes? One small focus change and you can be off in the wrong direction, you can be so far off course by the time you notice that you don’t even know where the original change of course occurred. This thought process overwhelms and inspires me because it can go both ways. Have a goal you’re working towards? Move one degree in that direction. Start with one small change. Realize you’re off course? Want icy beauty instead of rain? Just look for that one small degree of change that will take you there. I am working on lots of those small changes in life right now, and I expect that they will in time bring huge results! It doesn’t have to be much; putting myself out there on my “public” blog, shooting more for me, taking time for myself (and not feeling guilty for it) & being creative in new ways. I have a great life, seriously I don’t need to keep a gratefulness journal or post a thing a day, I am constantly overwhelmed by how much God takes care of us and how blessed we are, but it doesn’t mean that this is the best it can get. I can become greater as a photographer, wife, mamma, friend and person. Some parts of me may have gotten off track, changed by a degree or two as my life changed direction into mamma-hood, but I am so glad to be getting back to feeling like myself, doing things I love while enjoying the family that I love. What about you? Is there a degree of change you want to make in your life? A direction you want to be going? A goal you were headed towards and you got off track? One small change – it can change everything.