النص الكامل لحلقة 176: Redefining Success: Beyond Business to Personal Fulfillment

WEBVTT 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:02.789 Hello and thank you so much for joining me today. 00:00:02.789 --> 00:00:08.865 My name is Katherine Guidry and this is going to be a little bit of a different episode than what I normally do. 00:00:08.865 --> 00:00:11.128 I am a full-time wedding photographer. 00:00:11.128 --> 00:00:42.293 I've been in the industry over 15 years, I'm based in the New Orleans area, and a lot of what I talk about is business, but lately I've been thinking a lot about life and how wedding photography and business interweaves with my personal self and the growth that I am trying to achieve, because I've been thinking a lot about this idea of success and what success means, and success in my eyes is not just a monetary thing or a goal thing. 00:00:42.293 --> 00:00:49.466 It's also very much interweaved with my personal happiness, and so that's what I'm going to be sharing about in this episode. 00:00:49.466 --> 00:00:50.810 Thank you so much for joining me. 00:00:50.810 --> 00:01:08.453 If you are interested in more tactical, business or photography oriented content, I want to also let you know that in the description there are links to our free guides, our free classes, and we also have an amazing membership community and courses If you're ready to take your business to the next level. 00:01:15.060 --> 00:01:21.034 Today, I'm going to be talking about this idea of choosing your life and living with intention. 00:01:21.034 --> 00:01:47.135 I have a very recent episode that I've been talking through this idea of like why we moved after spending a lot of time over six years, actually, to be exact renovating our house, and that's because we're really on a mission to live intentionally and to just seek joy in life and make success what we want it to be. 00:01:47.135 --> 00:01:59.489 So, when I'm talking about choosing your life, I really want to hone in on this idea that it's not just going along with societal expectations or the path that you've chosen. 00:01:59.489 --> 00:02:22.586 For example, I actually went to school for architecture for almost seven years and in about my fourth year third, fourth year I realized that I actually didn't like it at all and I did want to pursue that for a career, and so when I finished my master's in 2010, I pretty much immediately started my business in wedding photography and I've been doing it since. 00:02:22.586 --> 00:02:37.743 And so, even though at that time, it felt like I'm on this path and this is the path I'm destined for and already started, and like I don't want to change the course, that's just going along with what's expected and I want to share that. 00:02:37.743 --> 00:02:38.986 You don't have to do that. 00:02:38.986 --> 00:02:40.992 You can change your course, you can pivot. 00:02:41.641 --> 00:02:58.302 I recently did a podcast episode with my friend Felter of Felter Unfiltered, and she and I talked about this exact topic of like pivoting and doing something outside of your degree set, and so if that's something you want to listen to, I would advise you to go and check out that episode as well. 00:02:58.302 --> 00:03:13.122 So, in order to really live with that intention, I think it starts with defining your values, your goals and your priorities, so that you can then choose the direction you want to go in. 00:03:13.122 --> 00:03:35.930 It's like figuring out your expenses before you know how much money you need to make, and so that journey that we were on recently, where we were trying to figure out to move or not, for example, I talked in that episode about how I had to clearly define my values, and so once that's done, then you can be like okay, what are our next steps to get closer to that? 00:03:35.930 --> 00:03:49.688 So I'm going to talk today about five key ways and five things that will help you live out more intentionally in line with your values, your goals and your priorities. 00:03:49.688 --> 00:03:53.626 So the first thing is that you're going to want to live authentically. 00:03:53.626 --> 00:04:09.736 What I mean is that you're going to want to spend time figuring out what it is that you innately want or need in your life to get that much closer to where you want to go, to stay exactly where we were. 00:04:09.736 --> 00:04:35.190 Especially after all the things that we went through, I realized that, like my true, authentic self wanted so badly to be near my family and even some of my old friends that I missed so much, even though we're sad to leave some of our friends that we were living near before. 00:04:35.812 --> 00:04:48.932 But I think going inside when you're making a really big decision and figuring out like what is it that authentically feels right for you that's maybe not always expected that other people would expect of you. 00:04:48.932 --> 00:05:00.649 The second thing that you're gonna wanna do is take responsibility for your life choices, and this sounds like really harsh, like almost like a parenting, something like a parent would say. 00:05:00.649 --> 00:05:12.095 But it really just means that you're acknowledging that you're choosing your path in life and you are responsible for the outcome. 00:05:12.095 --> 00:05:25.377 So when you're doing that, it's like an acceptance of where you are and also the fact that, like you've made choices to get there and you can then choose to change that direction. 00:05:25.377 --> 00:05:42.495 I feel like if you're constantly pushing your current situations outside factors or external factors and blaming other people for where you are, then you're never going to get where you want to go, because it again is leaving that to those outside factors. 00:05:42.495 --> 00:05:51.800 So you have to almost like take responsibility for where you are first, before you can feel that empowerment to say this is where I want to go next. 00:05:52.161 --> 00:06:01.209 The next element, number three is going to be setting boundaries, so figuring out what works for