You can’t start at chapter 10.

She just asked me to eat breakfast. That was step one.

For years, I have been avoiding breakfast. ‘Fasting’ and trying to eat as little as possible.  Restricting my calories. And drinking coffees I barely even really like to fill the gap. I thought all of that was ‘healthy’. I couldn’t understand why I found it so hard to lose weight.

This year, I decided to change things. I hired a dietician.

I thought that it would be hell. I thought I’d be told to eat chicken breast and spinach for breakfast, kale smoothies and protein shakes for lunch.

But she has never expected perfection.

She didn’t give me a strict meal plan or ask me to overhaul my entire life. She asked me to start with one tiny habit at a time. One small shift layered on top of the next.

First, start eating breakfast.

Next, add some seeds to improve that meal.

Set an alarm to remember a mid-morning snack (from my new Healthy Snack Drawer).

It was about building momentum.
It was about forming habits I could actually stick to.

She didn’t care whether I was eating perfectly. She cared whether I was eating consistently.

Once I had structure, I felt so much less overwhelmed. And it is working. Because it’s sustainable.

This exact lesson applies to business.

Most photographers I speak to are stuck in a kind of perfection paralysis. They want every post to be amazing. They want to launch when everything’s ready. They feel like they need to do 15 things at once or it’s not worth doing at all.

But business growth isn’t about perfection. It’s about posting something. Emailing your list once. Showing up imperfectly but regularly.

You don’t have to nail it.
You just have to start.

Because done is better than perfect.
And habits will carry you further than any one-off burst of energy ever could.

So if building your business feels like a mountain you can’t climb, stop looking at the summit.
Look at the first step.

And if you want someone to guide you through it, step by step? That’s exactly what The Big Picture is for. We start at chapter one and build from there. Come and join us, it’s only $490…