Strange & Charmed

How to Become a Master of Digital Styling!

Week One of my FREE Photo Challenge & Mini Course, the Strange & Charmed Digital Styling Lightroom, has come to a close and you all are off to such a great start! I wanted to highlight the progress that my students have made this week by featuring some images that I thought were really moving in the right direction. It’s truly a rewarding experience when I check the #CharmedDSLR hashtag and see all the hard work and effort you are putting into the challenge and course, so let’s recap the week and applaud each other on our success!

Day 1: Camera

Although the name of this challenge is Charmed DSLR, I honestly didn’t expect that most people would own or be shooting with a DSLR camera, but I was pleasantly surprised to see how many of you did own one and were so thrilled for the opportunity to learn how to shoot on one! Of course, this challenge and course does not require you to use a DSLR (the name is an ironic acronym) and so I have equally as many students using the best camera they do own and use, which is proudly a smartphone! To me, it really doesn’t matter what camera you use, because a good photo is a good photo no matter which camera you use to capture it. I have seen DSLR photos that were terrible and I have seen iPhone photos that could be hung in a gallery, it’s all about technique and the eye of the photographer!

Day 2: Natural Light

Right out of the gate, I was so pleased to see how ambitious and downright clever (do you see that gorgeous shot out the airplane window??) my students have been with these prompts. As many know, natural light is some of the best light to shoot in, and I really wanted my students to experiment with this light source to really understand the difference that lighting can make in an image. As these shots demonstrate, good lighting can really take an image to a whole new level!

Day 3: Studio Light

To be honest with you, studio light is probably one of the most difficult prompts I put into this challenge and course, and it was probably a little unfair of me to use it so early in the course, but you all took the ball and ran with it! You all got very clever with your light sources indoors, creating light boxes, using reflectors, lamps and even smartphone flashlights to bring additional light to your images. This work and your ingenuity is truly to be applauded!

Day 4: Portrait

Portrait day was a fun day because I got to see behind the camera to the photographers themselves! With the portrait prompt, there were two ways I expected my students to go, either the literal portrait direction or to the portrait orientation by composing a tall and narrow shot. It was interesting to see that so many of you were open to the self portrait and did a great job infusing your personalities into your images which is a skill that is often takes photographers years to accomplish!

Day 5: Landscape

The landscape images from day 5 were equally as impressive as the portraits and you used this prompt to really introduce us to the beauty of your world. From city skylines to desserts, rolling hills and plains, the diversity of these landscapes was an unique as my students themselves! Thankfully, a recent Instagram update made it very simple for my students to upload shots in the landscape orientation without compromising the composition of the image!

Day 6: Color

I had a feeling that color was going to be a fun day and boy, my students did not disappoint! Many of you focused on the beautiful colors of nature, but I also saw some great home studio styled shots as well that were very clever! Overall, the purpose of the color prompt was not necessarily to force you to shoot in raw color, but rather to get a feel for your personal preference when it comes to color. My personal use of color tends to be very minimal in my photography, I use it mostly as an accent, but others prefer shots filled with saturated color and those differences really help us to define our personal photographic style!

Day 7: Black & White

Black and white images really tell a very unique story. When color is removed from an image, all that is left is positive and negative space and I really saw some great shots that demonstrated that concept. For me, seeing images in black and white often evokes a vintage feeling that was shared with some of my students who chose to style some retro items into a shot. Others took the role of street photographer and gave an almost documentary feel to their images. There really is no right or wrong way to shoot in black and white and as these images show, black and white can be a powerful way to evoke emotion!

Thank you so much to those students who participated in week one of the course! You have all shown such great talent, I think more so than even some of you expected and I’ve been thrilled to hear your stories of personal triumph and success as you make your way through the course. If you are not yet signed up for #CharmedDSLR and want to participate, I invite you to head on over to this blog post to sign up because its not too late to join us and I do have things coming up that you won’t want to miss!

xoxo,

Productivity

How to Be Productive when Working from Home!

Working from home is a concept I am all too familiar with. Even before I left my job to go full-time for my own business, I was a home based employee. Working from home has a certain allure that many office goers are often curious about and sometimes envious of, but trust me, working from home is no cake walk! I’m often asked about how I stay productive when I work from home because to be completely honest, working from home can be a total productivity killer. Unlike working in a structured office setting, home based workers are faced with many different obstacles that often cause them to be less productive. This may not translate to all at-home workers, but I know I have experienced challenges working from home and I know others who have as well. The way I see it, there are three main issues that home based workers face.

Isolation: Working from home often times means working alone and this issue often caused me a lot of grief even when I did work for a Fortune 50 company and technically had co-workers. When I worked in an office I often felt like my co-workers were a major distraction to me because they would pop in and out of my office all the time, but when I transitioned to working from home I realized that those interruptions actually forced me to take a break from my work every so often. You see, when you work from home you don’t have the same pressures and excuses to get work done that you do when you work in an office. There is no “Oh, I really need to finish up this report quickly before my co-worker stops by to chat about our project.” Although many of us dilly dally when we work in an office, we also have some institutional pressures that actually help us get our work done!

Lack of Accountability: Depending on the type of work you do and whether you work from a home for a company or for yourself, you may feel a lack of accountability looming over your head to keep you productive. This is something I felt as a home based employee and something I struggle with now that I work for myself. When your supervisors or co-workers aren’t watching, you feel like you can slow down your pace, engage in more distracting behavior (like turning on the TV or doing the laundry) that can waste much of your time when you should be working.

Distractions: As much as a formal office setting has its own unique set of distractions, nothing is more distracting that working from home. Seriously, your bed in never more than a few steps away from you at all times which is a very tempting trap I often fall into! Working from home gives you a lot of freedom, many of us think that if we work from home we can get all our work done and clean the house and make dinner as well, but in my experience that isn’t the case. Unless you are highly disciplined it’s going to be hard for you to get your full 8 hours of work in and then a bunch of extra personal items as well. Other than the time you get back from your commute, you really don’t get anymore hours in a day when you are a home based worker!

So, what can we do about this very common issues that at home workers face? I have a few tips that I use to keep myself productive and I suggest you put these into practice for your own home/work balance!

Create a defined office space: It’s very important as a home based worker to have a defined office space. Your bed cannot be your office! Get a desk and a chair, set yourself up an area of your bedroom or home to be your office. I am lucky enough to have a dedicated room in my apartment that I use as my office space and I feel drastically more productive when I work from it. Make sure to add personality and decor to your office or workspace as well by adding inspirational artwork to your walls, keeping a supply of stationery and office supplies on hand and of course, having all the necessary office gadgets you need to get your work done like a printer, fax machine etc. Now, although you may have a defined office space, I also find it helpful from time to time to get yourself out of your space and work from another location. Take your laptop and some paperwork and head over to a local cafe or library to get some work done at a remote location. I have a very close friend who actually books a private room at her local library to work from about once a week just to shake things up and to give herself a distraction free space to work from!

Engage in a morning routine: For a long time I woke up, got out of bed and went straight to work in my office. Since I didn’t have to get ready to go into the office, I thought there was no reason for me to establish a morning routine, but I find that having a morning routine and getting dressed and ready in the morning is a major boost to my productivity. Although no one sees me when I work from home except my dog and husband, I find that I actually get more done on the days where I actually wake up, put on a cute but comfortable outfit and do my hair and makeup just a bit! The ritual of getting ready establishes a sense of accountability for me that really helps me to stay focused and productive during the day.

Connect with other at home workers: To combat the isolation that comes from being an at home worker, I highly recommend connecting with other at home workers to create a support system. These workers could be other home based employees as your company, or friends and family members that also work from home. I think it’s a great practice to have an instant messaging application open on your computer and connected with these individuals so that throughout the day you have people to talk to. You can even schedule lunch dates to meet up with a friend during your lunch hour or have a Skype date during lunch time with another virtual co-worker!

Set a consistent work schedule: Another issue I have is that since I work from home, I end up working at all hours of the day and night. Usually I do this when I haven’t felt particularly productive all day and feel like I need to make up for my laziness by working well into the night to complete a project or tasks, but it is a terrible practice that I highly suggest avoiding. To combat this, I think it’s important to set a work schedule for yourself. Set your start time, breaks, lunch and end time for the day and try to stick to it. It will be hard at first, but if you can set yourself alarms to remind you to start and stop working that may help you build the habit.

Define an end of day routine: Like your morning routine when you get up to go to work, I realized that as an at home worker part of the puzzle I was missing was also an end of day routine. When I worked in an office I had this end of day routine where I would stop working on my projects, organize any in-progress information for the next day, clean up my workspace, and then shut down my computer before I left. As an at home worker, I think it’s very important to establish an end of day routine like this that works for your own situation. It will help you prepare your mind to shut off from work for the day, and leave your space ready for you to pick up and get back at it again in the morning!

I hope these tips gave you some inspiration and ideas for how you can be more productive when working from home. Being a home based worker isn’t always as easy and care free as you might think so if you are an office based worker that is considering transitioning to home based, I highly suggest giving this some thought before making the leap and establishing good habits from day one that will make your transition easier! Of course, let me know if any of these tips helped you or if you have any more tips to share with the community!

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Photography

Get Shooting with #CharmedDSLR

It’s September 1st and my #CharmedDSLR Photo Challenge begins today! If you are not in the loop and have no clue what I am talking about, head on over to this blog post and read all about it and get yourself signed up asap for my FREE photography mini course! I’m so excited to be hosting this challenge for you all and helping you along the way to up level your photography skills for your blog, business or social media platforms! Here is the challenge graphic once again in case you haven’t yet posted it to your Instagram account! Just right click the image to save it to your camera roll or computer and then upload it to IG with the hashtag #CharmedDSLR!

Happy Snapping Friends!

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Filofax

Get Your Free September Printable Planner Dashboard!

Hey friends! How was your August? Mine was epically productive, which was a great primer for me to jump into autumn with some new energy and fresh plans! One of the best ways that I find helps me to have a great month is to organize my plans for the month before it begins and layout everything I want to do, goals I have laid out, books I want to read and important dates I want to remember for the month. That’s why I created my monthly dashboard printables that I share with you all!

Since September is now upon us, head on over to my shop to download your FREE September Printable Planner Dashboard available in both A5 + Personal Sizes! Once you have your dashboard printed out and in your planner, I want to see how you are using it to plan your key plans for the month so make sure to tag me in your photos on Instagram @MissTrenchcoat and use the hashtag #CharmedGTD so that others in the community can find your pictures and get inspiration from you as well!

I hope you have a wonderful month ahead!

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P.S. You’re joining in on my #CharmedDSLR Photo Challenge & Mini Course for the month of September, right?

Business

How to Use Synchronicity to Empower Your Brand!

Yesterday I got a message from a friend telling me to check out a recent scope from Lewis Howes. It was called “The #1 Thing That Separates You Online from Your Competitors,” and it was all about how the best brands online have the best photography, a topic I had just posted about with the launch of my #CharmedDSLR Photography Challenge and Mini Course. As soon as she told me, I joked “I’m a trailblazer!” Then I proceeded to insinuate that perhaps Lewis Howes was one of my blog readers. Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t (hi Lewis, if you’re reading this!) but this was certainly not the first time that I had covered a topic on my blog or in a YouTube video and then began to notice other creators discussing the same topic. It’s synchronicity and it’s a concept that I believe every creator needs to be fully aware of and comfortable with as they learn to navigate the online space.

If you have never heard of this concept before, synchronicity is that sometimes eerie occurrence when things happen simultaneously, and although they may appear to be related, they really have no connection. Personally, I find that this happens to me all the time, I’m sure it has happened to you, or will happen to you, and I think it’s something you need to be mentally prepared for. Too often, I see online creators tear themselves apart with grief or anger over an innocent instance of synchronicity. You write a blog post on a topic and then another blogger you are familiar with covers the same topic. You make a YouTube video about a subject and another YouTuber you follow makes the same video at nearly the same time. Is this coincidence or are they copying you might ask yourself? More times than not, I find that this is a simple case of synchronicity and I’ll explain to you in very simple terms why I believe this happens and why you should use synchronicity to empower your brand instead of allow it to destroy you.

In my opinion, synchronicity happens because ideas are cyclical. Like fashion trends they rotate through the seasons and during certain periods of time, it’s natural that more than one person would have the same idea or concept. This is especially true if people have the same interests to begin with. Take the planner community for instance. I find that ideas rotate through the planner community constantly. A few years ago when I made my first planner video, I showed a Martha Stewart disc bound planner that I had purchased. At that time, I didn’t notice very many people using this notebook, and as time progressed I naturally began to rotate into new styles of planners. Now, a few years later, I am right back where I started using a disc bound planner yet again. Why? Because the planner world is small and there are only so many directions you can go before you end up right back where you started. Now, I see people talking about disc bound planners pretty often and its all part of that same cycle! Do I think people are copying me? Absolutely not! I would like to think that I have influenced people in the community, but I certainly can’t claim credit over their choice of planner because planners are a small world. And I think the same thing happens in other communities online as well. In the beauty community I will notice that a certain brand or product is getting a lot of attention from beauty bloggers or within the business community I will notice that everyone is launching a course on branding. Ideas come and go and there is bound to be overlap!

Now, personally, I love synchronicity and I think you should learn to love it as well. To me its validating to know that the topic I am currently passionate about is getting notoriety via other figures online. While some people might think of these other figures as competition, I take a more reasonable approach! The way I look at it, the more people that are talking about a certain topic, the better! More people talking about it means that more viewers are noticing the topic and searching for the topic because there is a buzz in the air. Now, this is my opportunity as a creator to really step my game up and make sure that when people are searching for this buzz worthy topic, they find me and that I put my best foot forward to get their attention so they engaged with my content, join my community and hopefully purchase one of my products! Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what someone else is doing, the only thing I have control over is how I manage my brand. That is how I am going to stand out and overcome any perceived competition.

What you really need to watch out for when it comes to synchronicity is that concept of competition and getting into a victim mentality. I have watched as other creators have torn themselves apart with anger and grief because they took a simple instance of synchronicity out of context and accused someone of copying them. This is such a dangerous mental state to be in. I can understand how frustrating it can be when you believe someone is copying your content, I have definitely been there, but it’s so important that you keep a calm head and a clear mind and really see the innocence in a situation of synchronicity. Not understanding synchronicity and allowing that victim mentality to overtake your mind will only cause you mental destruction and will put a serious block on your ability to create in the future.

So, I hope this has helped you to understand the concept of synchronicity a little better and that this helps you avoid any unnecessary anguish if you find yourself a party to content sync up! Let me know down below if you have ever found yourself in a situation like this and how you handled it. Did you take the synchronicity as a sign from the universe that you were on the right path, or did you have a negative experience that you had to learn from? I’d love to know your thoughts!

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Photography

How to take Better Photos for Your Blog and Business!

When it comes to growing my brand and business online, there is no doubt in my mind that the single external factor that has helped me attract a community, share my story and promote my products and services, is my photography. I get dozens of comments, emails and requests each week regarding my photography.

Questions like…

Which camera and lens do you use?

What software do you recommend for photo editing?

Do you use any specific apps on your iPhone to enhance your pictures?

What techniques do you use to get great shots?

What advice do you have for someone who wants to improve their photography skills?

If you have visited my blog or Instagram account before, you may have wondered one or more of those questions yourself! Great photography is really at the cornerstone of my business because when it comes to interacting with people online, few things convey a message and a brand the way a great photograph does! As a blogger, I write at least a dozen blog posts a month, and each of those posts require my own unique stock photography! Why my own unique stock photography? Well, because no stock photo from a stock photo website is ever going to convey my brand better than images that I have taken myself. Stock photography definitely has it’s time and place, but for me, I never want to rely on stock images because I want images on my site that you can’t find anywhere else! How many times have you ever been to a website or perusing Pinterest and seen the same exact image being used by more than one blog or site? No, the sites probably aren’t related. Those images came from a stock photography website where people can purchase images, and to me, seeing an image on multiple sites or blogs, really dilutes the brand experience for me!

So, to combat this, I have made myself a master of digital photography styling! I’m not a professionally trained photographer by any means, but I did spend a good amount of time in college studying photography and for the past several years, I have been relying on my own original photography for my blog, shop and social media accounts!

If you are a blogger who really wants your posts to stand out online or if you are a business owner who needs to learn just enough of the art and skill of photography to take beautiful photos to promote your products or services, I have a super fun and FREE resource for you!

I have put together a very special Photography Challenge and Mini Course called…

#CharmedDSLR! DSLR as in Digital Styling Lightroom!

#CharmedDSLR is kicking off on September 1^st, 2015 as a 30 day Instagram photo challenge where you can put photographic concepts into practice to improve your skills! To help you along and make this more of a learning experience, I have also intentionally broken down the major concepts of photography that you will be learning into a 4 week course and created an exclusive course book with additional information and guidance! I’m also going to be hosting a FREE webinar towards the end of the month to wrap up our mini course and give you even more information on how I approach my photography, but invites are only going out to those who sign up below!

So, if you would like to participate in the #CharmedDSLR Photo Challenge and Mini Course, sign up below to get your FREE course book and information on the wrap up webinar at the end of the month!

I’m so excited to get started helping you improve your photography skills and serve you daily doses of photography inspiration, so please make sure to share this post in your social media accounts so we can help as much of the community as possible! Make sure to repost the graphic above to your Instagram account and use the hashtag #CharmedDSLR so I can see who is participating and of course “like” your photos!

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Education

#INSPIRATIONMBA: The Secret to Happiness

Welcome to my latest installment of #InspirationMBA, a monthly post on the blog where I will take a single piece of highly valuable content from around the web and break it down into something of a lesson plan, outlining why I think the content is important and what you will learn from it. I know you don’t have all the time in the world to learn all the ins and outs of business and productivity, so I want to make it easier for you to learn by identifying the best content that you can act upon immediately. So many people just don’t have the time or the money to spend on additional education, but I hope that this series helps you to open your mind and continue your own education through self study guided by me! Enjoy!

Lesson #3: Tony Robbins on the Secret to Finding Happiness

For my third lesson in the #INSPIRATIONMBA series, I wanted to share with you a motivational speech by one of the worlds single greatest life coaches, Tony Robbins. Whether or not you believe in life coaching or not, this man and the concepts he outlines during this presentation are serious food for thought. One of the big reasons I started this series was to help people get over the hurdles they believe are present in their lives, hurdles that to be completely honest, are usually self-made! Tony is world renowned for his ability to help even the most powerful and influential people on the planet make breakthroughs with their lives, performance and business, and if you do enjoy this video and want to learn more, I would highly suggest picking up his book Awaken the Giant Within. For now, however, I want you to sit down with this video, a notebook and a pen and really spend the next 30 minutes in this video thinking about what Tony is teaching and how it applies to you and your life, and hopefully, you too can start taking down those hurdles and barriers you have in place to fulfilling your own happiness!

What you will learn

• The one thing people need to feel happy.

Hint: It’s a journey you are on in this very series.

• The one archetype of a stereotypical life that still exists in our world.

Hint: It’s all about being special and unique.

• The formula you can use to figure out an area of your life that you’re happy with.

Hint: You must take a moment and think about it.

• The formula you can use to figure out an area of your life that you aren’t happy with.

Hint: It’s a comparison game!

• The situation where unhappiness turns into pain.

Hint: It’s a control issue.

• The one choice you can make to ensure your future unhappiness.

Hint: Playing the blame game.

• The important choices you have to make in the direction of your current and future happiness.

Hint: There are two options.

• The two things you need to do in order to have a meaningful life.

Hint: They both start with G.

I sincerely hope you enjoyed this 3rd installment of my #INSPIRATIONMBA series. Now that you are done the video, I hope you have some good notes to help you begin living a happier life through strategies that will help your reality merge with the blueprint life story you have in your mind! If you enjoyed this post, please share it on social media, put it on Facebook, tweet out the link or take a screen shot and post it to your IG- anything to help me get the word out and help to make this series a success. You know I truly believe in the message behind this series and I want to see it help as many people as possible, but I can’t do it alone, I need your help to get the word out! Thanks so much for spending time today on your #InspirationMBA and of course, if there is anything I can help you with, let me know!

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Productivity

Recap of My Productivity & Planning Master Class Webinar!

This past weekend I had the most amazing opportunity to teach my very first Productivity and Planning Master Class Webinar! It was two hours packed with theory, strategy and my personal tips to being more productive and the key role your planner plays in keeping you productive and organized. Here’s what I covered in the webinar:

Why Productivity is important to me and how I approach it.
The important relationship between Productivity and Planning.
What Productivity is and what it is NOT.
The things you need in order to be Productive.
How to find Focus.
Learning how to prioritize and my strategy for handling conflicting priorities.
How to define and track your productivity objectives.
Digital and Analog planning tools, their pro’s & con’s and how to choose between them.
What to use your planner for.
Choosing your planner style
Choosing your planner size and why the size planner you carry matters.
The different options of calendar styles.
Different trackers to use to organize your tasks and items.
Pretty planning.
My personal productivity strategies.
Specific productivity strategies to consider .
How to avoid burnout and overwhelm.
To-Do list strategies to help you get more done and see your progress.

And then, of course, after my two hours of teaching, there was an hour long Q&A that went into even more specific topics that were brought up by the audience. Here are a few of my favorite questions from the Q&A session:

How to organize your planner as a college student?
How I evaluate my processes to ensure I am as productive and efficient as possible?
How to keep up with a planner and productivity if you have trouble sticking to your plans?
How to stay productive when working with a team?
How to be productive if you are constantly interrupted at work?

Those were just a handful of the many great questions and topics we covered in the Q&A in addition to all the content I covered above! Overall, the event really seemed to go over well and the attendees on the live call were so wonderful and thoughtful in their questions and insights that it truly made the event a joy to host!

Thank you to all who signed up for my first event and for all your support and encouragement in my endeavors. You are truly all wonderful people and I hope I can rise to the occasion to serve you to the best of my ability!

Did you miss out on my first Productivity & Planning Master Class Webinar? I have received emails and messages from many of you asking if and when I will be hosting another event or making the reply available for purchase on my shop. At this point, I haven’t decided how I want to proceed with this, however, I have gone ahead and added an interest list to the info page for the webinar so if you want to be the first to know how you can get access to this awesome webinar, sign up for my interest list and if I see that there is enough interest, I may open up the replay or even schedule a second webinar event!

Thanks again to all those who signed up for the first event, and of course, get your name on that interest list if you missed the sign ups and want to attend in the future!

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Productivity

Productivity Playlist: The Best Guided Meditation!

I decided to do a little something different today for my Productivity Playlist! Last week I learned about this hysterical new video that was making it’s way through YouTube. It’s a guided meditation for people who perhaps don’t normally find guided meditations to be useful! Seriously, if you have not listened to this video yet, you absolutely have to stop what you’re doing right now, put on headphones and spend a few minutes listening.

I happen to be a big fan of guided meditation. I’ve shared numerous resources on the topic of meditation and using music to help you boost your productivity and brain power, check some of those resources out here if you missed them! I do believe that these sorts of resources can be pretty helpful for you if you use them regularly. For example, whenever I start getting a headache while I’m working, I take a short break, pop on my eye mask and listen to some easy listening tunes or use one of my many meditation and brainwave boosting apps!

Just a warning this guided meditation isn’t safe for work or children, but I still hope you find some clarity from it or at least get a good chuckle!

Let me know how you enjoyed this video and if you’d like me to share more meditation resources in the future!

xoxo,

organization

Office Oasis {August 2015}

Last month in this series I gave you all the original concept I had for my new home office! Now that we have moved and we are in the space, I have been piecing together my office bit by bit and I wanted to share with you all the new direction I’m going in with my office decor. Although not much has really changed stylistically with the new pieces I’ve chosen, now that I am in the new place I have a better sense of the types of furniture would work best in the room. I do already have my desk and credenza, and this weekend I’m heading back over to IKEA to check out options for pendant lighting and simple shelving. Here’s where I’m at so far with my office concept!

1. Spacious Credenza: I knew I was going to need a lot of storage in my office and when I found this lovely credenza from IKEA, I knew it was meant for me! It was a complicated piece of furniture to put together (thanks dad for the help!) but now that it’s in place, I love it and it really does give me most of the storage I need for my office plus additional counter space for photography and displaying my favorite office knick knacks!

2. Tufted Swivel Office Chair: I am still on the hunt for the perfect office chair! I really love the idea of a tufted swivel office chair, but this gorgeous choice from PB Teen may not be my winner. Unfortunately, the back support isn’t exactly what I’d like it to be, so I may have to find one elsewhere or go back to my original concept of a more traditional and modern looking office chair!

3. Flowery Pendant Lamp: Unforuntaly, the office in my new apartment doesn’t have a built in light in the ceiling so I am going to use a pendant light to brighten up my space! I love this lotus inspired Knappa light from IKEA. It’s been a favorite of mine for years and I’m actually very excited that I finally have a need for one in my life!

4. High Gloss X Leg Desk: The last desk I was eyeing was a similar style as this Pangea modern office desk that I eventually settled on. Once I saw the high gloss finish and the chrome legs, I knew I found the desk for me and I’m currently loving and using this beauty!

5. Metal Frame Shelves: Like I said, I need a little bit more storage for my new office, so I am on the hunt for some simple metal frame shelves to store just a few other bits and pieces from my office!. I think this IKEA option may be the right style for the right price!

Well, what you do think of how my new office space is coming together? I can’t wait to show you the final result once I have the room in order and can film a room tour! Let me know in the comments what your favorite piece of office furniture is, because I would love to know your thoughts on how to style my room!

Day 1: Camera

Day 2: Natural Light

Day 3: Studio Light

Day 4: Portrait

Day 5: Landscape

Day 6: Color

Day 7: Black & White

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So, what can we do about this very common issues that at home workers face? I have a few tips that I use to keep myself productive and I suggest you put these into practice for your own home/work balance!

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#CharmedDSLR! DSLR as in Digital Styling Lightroom!

Get the #CharmedDSLR 30 Day Mini Course from the Digital Resource Library!

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Lesson #3: Tony Robbins on the Secret to Finding Happiness

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