5 Tips to Help Reignite Your Confidence As a Photographer
I’ll be the first to admit that my confidence has wavered many times since starting my business.
I’ve experienced months of slow bookings, seasons where I wasn’t happy with my editing style, struggles with comparison to others in the industry, moments when I felt stuck or stagnant, client challenges, and burnout from constantly thinking about my business.
I’ve come to expect that my confidence will ebb and flow as I expand past my comfort zone. And I’ve learned how to rebuild my self-belief when doubt creeps in.
Is your inner critic getting too loud or are you starting to second-guess yourself and your gifts? Keep reading!
5 Tips to Help Reignite Your Confidence As a Photographer
1) Reconnect with Your Why: When you turn your love for photography into a business, it’s easy to lose sight of the heart of why you started.
Why did you fall in love with photography in the first place? Were you interested in telling stories? Capturing beauty? Documenting the everyday? Reconnect with that feeling by engaging in point number 2...
2) Initiate a Passion Project: Set time aside to shoot for yourself. Create your own concept and mood board, then go out and experiment! Don’t overthink it. Enjoy the ultimate creative freedom of not being connected to clients, contracts and expectations.
3) Lean on Your Community: Surround yourself with fellow creatives who uplift and inspire you. Find other creative business owners that you can meet up with in real life or online so you can share your struggles and celebrate your wins. Find a mentor you can lean on and learn from. Remember you’re not alone.
4) Take a break from social media: I’ve talked to a lot of fellow creatives who go through seasons where social media takes a toll on their confidence + mental health. Social media is a wonderful tool, but it’s also easy to get caught up in people’s highlight reels and comparing our work to others. Delete the app from your phone for a while and focus on your own work.
5) Read Your Testimonials: Negativity bias means we’ll pay more attention to negative info rather than positive info. So if you’re feeling low, your brain might be looping a few unhelpful stories about how you’re crap. So go re-read your reviews + testimonials from your beautiful clients telling you how wonderful you are and how much they love you!
