Photo Book Obstacle: Overcome Negative Thinking

When you’re organizing your photos or making a photo book, do you ever have a small voice in your head playing negative thoughts? Something like: You’re never going to be able to go through all of these photos? Or you’re never going to finish this project? Or this is hopeless?

This is your mindset around printing your photos in a photo book. I want to spend time today addressing and adjusting your current mindset to make sure it’s helping you achieve your goals.

Now, maybe you are familiar with mindset…but if you’re not, here’s a story to illustrate. It’s been several years since we’ve gone through potty training in our house. However, we still go through times where we have to consistently work with our kids to be……well…..regular.

Recently, we were going through a dry spell 😉 and after several days of my daughter telling me she couldn’t go, I told her that she needs to change what she’s saying and to say “I can” instead of “I can’t”. I reinforced that she needed the confidence to believe in words “I can”. Sure enough the next day, she was able to go!

She was so excited to realize that changing her attitude could help her accomplish something. Simply by approaching the situation with a different mindset led to her success.

It’s this exact shift in thinking that you need if you keep talking yourself out of making a photo book.

Start paying attention to what you think about your ability to print your photos in a photo book.

Do you tell yourself that you have too many photos to ever get organized to print them?

Do you make excuses about why can’t finish a photo book project?

Do you immediately tell yourself you don’t have the time it will take?

Once you notice the thoughts you have, I want you to shift the language to be positive; to reinforce that you can make a photo book. Finally, I want you to have the confidence in the words. This voice should stay with you throughout the entire process. You can do this!

As I’m sure you already know, it’s not enough to simply say you can do something. You have to have the action to back it up.

If you need help with the action or implementation, I developed a workshop, In One Hundred Pages, to help. This workshop covers what you need to easily and simply start -and finish- a photo book.