Carol Ross writing in Forbes explains Four Phases necessary to Bounce Back From Burnout…
Phase 3 is about rewiring your brain, so new neural pathways are formed to replace old habits of thinking. This step is critical, because thoughts lead to emotions, which lead to behavior.
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Changing your thought pattern to more positive, constructive thoughts is like upgrading your “operating system.” And just like a computer, when you do that, everything runs more smoothly.
Furthermore, Ross gives five How-To helpers for Phase 3. Number four:
4. Choose your beliefs and then test them in the world daily. In the video, Celebrate What’s Right With the World, a photographer for National Geographic gives examples of how his beliefs influenced what he was able to see, and thus capture in photos. He calls this: “Believing is seeing.”
That more than anything else, is the best articulation of the nagging feeling of why I need to return to photoblogging properly on a daily basis.