The What – stacyZiegler Boulder Photographer

Last week I came and talked about patience.  One of the items I really had not thought about until yesterday were this – My Priorities.  I was running around trying to do everything that I was/have been getting swamped.  You see yesterday it was if a big fist called “Priority” sucker punched me in the stomach. Everything that happened to me yesterday, from phone conversations, to a huge conversation with my mentor, to what chapter I picked up in my book and read, to stinking Facebook posts from random others…led to one thing…priorities.

So here is a bit of a background of stacyZiegler – my ENTIRE day job consists of me making WHAT lists for clients and then prioritizing them according to their needs.  I basically have systems and I just say WHAT needs to happen.  There is no amount of why or how in this analysis just what.  I relate it back to my clients with the term Christmas or Birthday list.  Not my favorite analogy but they get it.  I hold meetings and figure out what they need.  Be it a web interface for a report, or the entire personal computer shopping interface, to database design for a large financial company.  They all have one thing in common I help them analyze and develop WHAT lists.  What they need to accomplish their goals.  Now here is the clincher…the nugget if you will.  Yesterday, I realized I have NEVER EVER done this in my own life.  What the heck right?  I am able to look in my clients’ eyes and tell them what they have to do to accomplish their goals, but I have never looked at myself and ask if I am imploding. Why?  I really have to think about it.  Call it the pleasing others syndrome, but whatever it is I remember this going all the way back to High School.  I remember asking my dad, the high school counselor, to take photography class my dad replied, “No, it takes 2 periods out of your day and you need all your time for college prep.”  When I wanted to take Jewelry or Photography in College I got, “No you need to just do computers and business; that is where you will get a job.  The others can be hobbies” I never thought to say, “This is a PRIORITY for me because it is WHAT I Want” Never.  I listened to others. I mean I got A’s in school and business so they must have been right. What if I did not get A’s in the other things? Would the world end? Would I not get the job at a top firm? Would I not be the best? Would they not be proud? I did everything for them.  I guess you could say I thought my parents were my clients. I thought they were my clients…but they were not … I was my client.  I dropped the ball on myself.  At 34 years of age I am looking at what are MY priorities and what are MY WANTS.  I can not think of the How.  How will come later during design.  Right now I am in my own little “requirements analysis” phase of my life.  I am on the path of WHAT – What for myself, what for my life, what for my family, what for our future…

This is getting exciting.

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