Last week I attended PPA’s (Professional Photographers of America) annual conference – Imaging USA. Each year the conference is held in a differet city, and I was thrilled that this year it was in my city of Atlanta! How thoughtful of them, right? 🙂 What an amazing and filled to the brim 3 days it was. Time spent hanging out with old friends (good friends who will walk you to your car late at night in scary downtown Atlanta), meeting new ones and learning from some of the best the industry has to offer.

I have a notebook FULL of  wisdom I gathered during the classes I attended. I’ve read over and over them and decided on the five most important things I learned and I would like to share them with you. I mean after all…sharing is caring, right?!  So here goes.

#1  Schedule time to exercise your creativity. Shoot for you.

#2  Stop comparing yourself to others.

#3  Never stop learning

#4  Know your numbers (this should probably be #1) 😉

#5  Have a plan and hustle… just when you think you can’t work any harder… WORK HARDER!

This truly an amazing experience.  I feel renewed and excited and ready to take on 2013 and make it my best year yet! 🙂  I hope you all will join me!