Fear can be one of the most crippling influences on your business success. If you’re a one-person service business entrepreneur, it’s definitely time you told fear to GTF.

Fear: chuck it in the f**k-it bucket

All of my personal branding sessions take place at specially selected locations, and I use natural light as much as humanly possible. I don’t offer studio shoots – they’re okay for straight headshots, but for full personal branding sessions, we need your location to do some of the work! Here’s how we decide on the perfect places to go.

6 ways to find the perfect location for your next brand photoshoot

When the world seems to be in flames out there at the moment, concentrate hard on what YOU can control. Do you have a post-covid exit strategy? You know, for exiting lockdown and all these restrictions and getting yourself properly back out there? If not, you need to start thinking about this sooner rather than later, and take the opportunity of the current slowdown to lay groundwork for coming back stronger than ever. There’s every chance that if you don’t, your competitors are.

Shit-show to shit-hot: your post-covid exit strategy

MY happy journal MAGICAL  GIFT  GUIDEPHOTOGRAPHY  BY  DONNA  GREEN Download your own copy now! A Christmas message from Kirsty Bell at My Happy JournalHello and welcome!Come away in. It’s so nice to see you. Have a seat, perhaps over there, yes there, the cosy comfy chair with the extra plump cushions and Christmas blanket. The

My Happy Journal’s Magical Gift Guide

Headshots allow you to put your best face forward — literally. Whether you’ve already got a headshot or business photography session booked or you’re thinking about having one done, these suggestions will help you get the best looking images possible.

6 ways to prepare for your headshots and business portraits

Hello all you fabulous Christmas fairies!From Kirsty Bell of My Happy Journal Thank you so, so much for responding to my post – we were blown away by how many of you would like to be involved!I am unbelievably excited about the opportunity to include your phenomenal products in our brand photography images and that

A special message from My Happy Journal

The camera doesn’t lie … Or does it?You’ve heard the old saying that the camera doesn’t lie. (Well THAT’s a lie.)You’ve been told that rough, candid, unposed shots show “the real you”. (Another lie. Which version of the real you?)That if you look ugly in pictures, you must be ugly in real life. (Er, no.

How selfies on your website destroy your brand

You may be waiting impatiently for the day you can write the resignation email, but in the meantime, here’s some advice for getting through the days while you’re working two jobs: working your arse off at night on the stuff that REALLY matters to you: your own business.

Working two jobs

7 things I’ve learned this year – good, and not so good! How did YOUR year go? What did you learn from it, and what’s the best and worst things that happened?

7 things I’ve learned this year

Bagpiper photos in Edinburgh were something a bit different … Meet Glyn Morris of www.scottishbagpipers.com, Scotland’s premier piper. And read on to find out about the interesting and completely unforeseen “issues” which occurred during this photo shoot!

Bagpiper photos