Its my birthday.

How about that?

Its a big one guys.

So big in fact, that I'm having trouble getting my head around it.

Four. Zero.

How thats even possible I'm not sure, because I still pretty much feel like an 18 year old most of the time (especially when I think about people I went to highschool with....they can't be turning 40 this year too can they?!?!)

I'm not going to pretend that my feelings about all of this are figured out and that I'm super chill and awesome about this new milestone. They say it's all downhill from here, but honestly I feel like I'm still climbing. Still pushing boulders up hills in excitement for whatever might be at the top.

But let's not get too deep here and instead lets look at some cake.

Since I'm a huge nerd list maker I thought this would be as good a time as any to finally write out a photography/business bucket list. And to be even more cheesy, I'm going to write 40 things on this list. See what I did there? Sooo brilliant I tell ya. How do you guys stand it?

Ok here we go! (in no particular order)

Shoot a double exposure
Shoot a romantic shot in the rain using flash
Shoot a proposal
Shoot on a ferris wheel, ski lift or rowboat
Shoot a wedding in a European country
Shoot a destination wedding in a tropical country
Speak at a local or national photography or business conference
Start a podcast
Write a blog post on a national or large audience blog
Be featured in a national wedding blog
Take a self portrait every day for a month
Shoot a wedding or session in at least 25 different states (four down, 21 to go)
Sell a piece of artwork
Hire an assistant
Grow my mentorship/coaching program
Create resources and community for introverted creatives and photographers
Host a workshop for those same people
Teach a photography class to high school kids or young adults
Shoot a session in NYC
Shoot an awesome light painting or fireworks shot
Have a photo place in the top 3 in a photo contest
Shoot an in-home engagement session
Create a resource library for budding photographer entrepreneurs
Shoot an engagement session with a dog(s)
Host a series of webinars
Be published in a magazine
Grow my email list to 1000+ subscribers
Shoot a wedding on top of a mountain
Shoot a wedding on a beach
Shoot a ridiculously amazing sunset
Publish a blog post that goes viral
Book a wedding through instagram
Have Paul join me in my business when he is done with the Army
Create a 6 figure income with my business so we can give back
Attend a Creative Live session in person (in Seattle)
Shoot a wedding in Seattle and Albuquerque
Shoot a session at the balloon fiesta in Albuquerque
Shoot a surprise wedding
Do one creative personal photography project per year
Continually learn and continually teach (<---I know thats not really something I can cross off, but it's something I want to strive for!)

GUYS. That was hard!! I really started slowing down with the ideas around 25. But it was a great exercise to go through to really consider what's important to me and what I'd love to do with this little business 'o mine going forward! You should consider writing up your own photo or business bucket list if you haven't yet!!

Now...it's time for cake and whatever else Paul has in store for me today! Yippeee!

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