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According to the brain, when we GET ADVICE we experience pain…ouch!

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We live in a crazy dopamine flooded world. Dopamine, by the way, is the chemical that creates the powerful feeling of euphoria when you take  a hit of heroin or when you check your facebook page.

Same chemical in the brain. Different drug.

It lights up your brain. It feelz good!

Brain scientists also have found that another part of the brain lights up and experiences pain when someone is GETTING advice.

Conversely, the brain lights up when experiencing pleasure when someone is GIVING advice.

Similar to the heroin or flakebook induced dopamine rush. Weird…ain’t it.

So basically, we experience a high when we GIVE ADVICE but when we GET ADVICE we experience pain, according to the brain.

Stupid brain.

This sucks for most of us.

Why? It means getting advice hurts. And most of us don’t like getting advice.
But you don’t have to be “most of us.”

But it doesn’t have to hurt. If we simply change the way we look at it.

And if we know in our hearts that when we decide to take the advice of others, and not just any other, we will truly expand.

I can’t imagine how anyone can get ahead without taking the advice from others who have succeeded.

I say others who have succeeded, because it doesn’t count if you’re taking or giving advice from some fantasy, past life wannabees, dreams or academic fluff…or worse yet, like what most do, offer advice based on opinions…yuck!

Only those who have felt the sting of failure and got back up, day after day and continue to do so to this day can truly be qualified as worthy to give advice.

I personally can’t stand the pain of learning. BUT, I focus on the big picture. And the PAIN of loss if
I don’t achieve my goals. I focus on the goals. The pleasure that will give me.

It helps me make it through the pain.

Think about it.

Yours in photography and success,
Robert Provencher

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Every day you are beat up

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Every day you are beat up. Beat up by the crappy images you, and your clients aren’t thrilled about.

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe your images are exceptional, and it’s YOU.
The way you see yourself and success.

I get it. More than anyone. You long to conquer mountains, yet every day you are beaten by shitty little anthills.

All these little problems… they should be so easily solved. Yet they go on defeating you, day after day, until at last you conclude that you are not a capable photographer.

If you are this easily defeated, maybe, just maybe, you wonder, you do not have what it takes to win the bigger struggles: to become your best self, to create a business empire, to create works of art that will outlast you.

Hell, you can’t even remedy a crappy shoot. Might as well fuck off and go check out Flakebook or watch Netflix.

But you’re looking at the problem entirely wrong. You may feel your life is at risk of imploding from outside pressures and problems.

Pick the project that makes your hands shake. Pick the irrational path… the one you’ve been “saving yourself for”… the one of which you’ve thought “if only I had the ballz.”

And then, simply begin. Surrender, finally to the irrational quest.

And know this…..it is the ACTION that ushers the essentials.

It is the JOURNEY that creates the way. The door to the dragon’s lair. Walk in, and stir the dragon.

Tomorrow night, Thursday, April 13th, 9:00PM EST I’ll be running our monthly marketing mastermind webinar.

If you’re a member, just login and find the webinar link here.

As usual, the replay will be posted within 24hours.

Not a member? This could be the best twenty bucks you’re invested…ever.

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Yours in photography and success,
Robert Provencher

Fast, easy, and well done food photography…

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They wanted mission impossible…all their menu items photographed. Shoot it in an hour, and shoot it for cheap.

Now, these folks had the funds, they had a high quality, very respected restaurant. All they needed was convincing and a plan.

This my friend is part of the sales process. Come up with a strategy, pitch it, and get em to sign on the line.

Light it, shoot it, workflow and deliver.

Running a profitable photography studio involves these tactics moreso than the actual lighting, shooting and ultimate creation of the images. But lighting is important too!

Chatting with the owners, back and forth, we created a strategy. I pitched ideas, concepts, looking to feel them out and see where they were at. Most folks don’t even know where they are at. It appears it’s part of our job, as photographers, to not only deliver the goods, but also get into their heads and own them.

One of the first things I mentioned was if they were in a big city, with a legit food photographer, food designers, assistants etc etc the bill would be around twenty grand. Or so. Mas o menos, as they say in Costa Rica.

But never mind that. I can shoot it, shoot it fast, create images almost as good, and I did.

In the mastermind lighting presentation, tonight, March 30th, 9:00PM EST, I will going through the details and all the nuances I used to shoot the entire menu selection for one of Tamarindo’s finest restaurants.

That, plus other exciting lighting scenarios on the beaches and in the farms of Costa Rica where I spent the last ten weeks. It’s all about lighting and the challenges faced by all photographers.

That, and more.

The lighting mastermind presentation I run with the noBsphotosuccess members is designed to dig into the many facets of lighting, and running a photography studio that shoots families, children, seniors, commercial, publicity, scenics, on and on.

We’re not only business folk. We’re “painters”, using light as our paint.

Members, join me tonight. Login and register in the forum.

Not a member? Join us and access hundreds and hundreds of high quality presentations like this and much, much more.

Yours in photography and in success,

Robert Provencher

You become more of who you are meant to become…

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I’ve read  a few books about the wealthy. And about prosperity.

It’s always been an area of pain, frustration and limitation with me.

I did not grow up with much. And I heard the typical stuff you likely heard as well.

Things like “money doesn’t grow on trees”… or…”hard earned money”…..

Over the years I changed my beliefs. Wasn’t easy, but I did it.

I still struggle mind you, but it’s not nearly as hard or limiting as it once was.

If you asked me in a nutshell what I learned, here it is:

*Focus on earning, not saving. Saving, yes…but earning too!
*Leverage creates wealth, not hard work
*Money is earned from thought, innovation, leadership… not hard labor
*Never worry about running out of money, instead, think about how to innovate and make more
(by the way, that’s a big one)
*Don’t see money with emotions, but with logic
*Realize you are in control of your wealth, not luck or fate
*Don’t wait for some external force, politician or whatever to ‘rescue’ you
*Take action. Nothing, nothing, nothing beats taking action
*Don’t stress about money. Get peace from it
*Money is just a tool, an energy. What we do with it is up to us. If we’re a jerk, it may make
us more of a jerk. Likewise, you can do great and wonderful things with it and become more of who you are.
*Avoid debt like the plague. (especially credit card debt)
*Be patient. Be disciplined. But have goals and believe in them. Too often our goals are impulses
from vapious mal-contents, or we become like whiney little babies who want it all now. Delay gratification.

Money is an idea. Frozen energy. It has no direction, moral compass or discretion.

We give that to it, for better or worse. It goes where money already is and is attracted to activity and thoughts that magnetize it.

It all starts with you.

Money is a responsibility. Therefore, we must be responsible.
No guilt, no shame, no distorted sense of morality.

When you create wealth, your wealth and get cool with it, you get in touch with your own destiny in many ways.

When you grow, and welcome prosperity into your being, you actually become a better person. You become more of who you are meant to become. If you let it.

It’s never just about the money. Money isn’t everything. If you think that, then you are thinking small.

If you pursue money out of desperation, it will run away from you.

If you create money just for the money, you will not be successful.

But you must be guilt free and open to it in order to succeed both financially and as an individual.

Get rid of the crap and get focused on what you want.
I owe, I owe…what a crappy reason to go to work. Yuch….

It’s important to be cool with money and prosperity.

Be challenged too! That’s where growth and opportunity lie.

I created an amazing PDF form and a presentation on wealth creation strategies for photographers.

Pure magic. Check it out….

Members HERE

Not a member? A goldmine awaits you….HERE

Yours in photography and success,
Robert Provencher