{Be Successful} A Challenge for the New Year
At the end of 2011 I decided to make photography a bigger part of my life in 2012. I was still busy as a ‘Navy wife’ and wasn’t at the point of pursuing photography full time yet, but I knew I was ready to take a step in that direction. So I made the goal to take a picture every day of 2012…what many people know as a 365 photo challenge.
Several Delight girls recently mentioned wanting to do the same in 2014 and since it’s more fun to do life together, we decided to make it an official ‘Delight 365 Photo Challenge’ :)
I’m kicking it off here in the Be Successful section of the blog because the approach to this challenge is the same as any goal you want to accomplish:
1. Identify the goal (365 Different Images by Dec 31, 2014)
2. Come up with a plan (Take an image per day)
3. Do it!
These steps seem overly simple, but they’re really the foundation for accomplishing any goal you want to achieve! The key is to break up a big goal into smaller, more manageable pieces. (and to work on those smaller pieces consistently!) If we made the goal of 365 pictures by December 31, chances are a lot of us would wait until Dec 1 (or later…come on now, we ARE creative personalities!) and realize we had only taken a few here and there throughout the year…Then we’d rush and be stressed to finish the rest. (Sound familiar to anyone???)
At the end of each month I will be posting some featured images from the challenge along with the next month’s calendar. Feel free to simply take a new picture each day and use the hashtag (on FB and/or Instagram) #Delight365 OR challenge yourself to take a picture that represents the word of the day and use both the #Delight365 AND #Delight(whatever the word is)…for example, January 1 is NEW…so #DelightNEW and #Delight365. Make sense? :)
This is for EVERYONE!!! Delight girls, Delight supporters, photographers, musicians, monkeys with a camera phone, etc. Can’t wait to cheer you on and see how the year unfolds. I love looking back on my 2012 365. It became a photo journal and it takes me back to the memories of the year! (and accomplished the goal of making photography a bigger part of my life!)
Enjoy these last few days of 2013 and I’ll see you in 2014!!! The best is still yet to come!
<3, Erin
Oh, I am so stoked for this. 2014, bring it on! ;)
I would love to do this! I really need to make it a habit to use my camera every day. I tried a 365 a couple of years ago, but I didn’t make it. Hopefully doing this challenge with others will help. :)
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This challenge makes me happyyyy!!!! :D Can’t wait to look back at the end of the year and see all of the pictures! I had just recently been thinking how I wanted to do more with photography! This is so awesome! :)