Stepping out…

…of my comfort zone that is!

The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk (Alasdair A. K. White "From Comfort Zone to Performance Management.

That’s what I did recently at the Walk From Obesity.  Normally I would just take pictures behind the scenes.  I guess my nephew said it best when he described me a camera carrying sniper, never knowing when I would jump out from behind a tree and said…”gotcha!”

Well, at the Walk this last week, I decided to step out from behind that tree figuratively.  I put myself out there for different people and groups.  If they wanted a group shot, or a portrait shot, I was there.  Now of course, I did this all free of charge.  I’m not to the point that I want to charge, I don’t feel like I’m that good yet!

But what a feeling it was to make myself available!  To say, “Here I am, follow the skinny bald guy with the camera”.  It was weird, but exhilarating at the same time. 

Just another plus to losing weight!  What else can I say?  If I had not lost weight, I probably would still be behind that tree waiting to pull the trigger and shoot ya! 

Have a great day!