It really helps to have your goals written down, and I believe holds you more accountable and reminds you of your hopes and dreams. I highly recommend it!
- Volunteer at an animal shelter - completed 2-23-10 (and continuing regularly!)
- Create a logo and brand for my website - completed 2-1-10
- Book 50 dog shoots - 33 pet photo shoots booked in 2010. More to come in 2011!
- Photograph another wedding - completed 4-8-10
- Give my maid of honor speech at Lisa’s wedding - completed 9-18-10
- Attend a photography workshop
- Update my blog to display categories and to be more integrated with website - completed 1-28-10
- Blog daily for a month - completed 4-9-10!! (harder than it sounds!)
- Go back to the Bahamas - Scheduled for Jan 24-28, 2011
- Have professional photos taken of me and Remington and also at KC PAWS with shelter dogs all around me for a mini-campaign to Adopt, not shop.
- Learn to swim
- Throw Remmy a birthday party - completed 1-8-10
- Visit Colorado
- Buy another camera lens -Bought a fabulous wide angle lens 7-2010
- Bring Remmy to the lake and teach him to swim
- Update business cards - completed 2-1-10
- Finish basement/media room
- Find land to purchase for building our next home
- Have more playdates with Remmy and friends - ongoing and completed 2-14-10
- Give more thought to having a child someday
- Be more assertive - ongoing and doing better!
- Play a real round of golf
- Make a new friend -ongoing and completed 2-25-10
- Achieve the ability to master a tack sharp photo - still practicing!
- Buy some new props for photo shoots
- Read a book
- Bake cookies - completed and ongoing for hubby
- Enlarge my favorite Remington photos and frame them
- Give Remington more photo shoots - definitely ongoing, completed his last one 12-24-10
- Be a vendor to showcase my photography - completed 5-16-10 at the Pooches on the Parkway event.
- Take a road trip and find interesting areas to photograph
- Enter photos to dog photo contests - completed 2-18-10
- Travel to Europe
- Gain more recognition in newspapers & websites - completed 2-19-10
- Order more marketing supplies - completed 2-8-10
- Order thank you personalized cards to send to past clients
- Donate old clothing to the needy - I have everything bagged up now and ready to go!
- Go to the spa
- Learn to make sushi
- Buy an upgraded version of Lightroom & learn new features
- Play in the snow - completed 2-13-10
- Keep Remington in style - ongoing and completed 1-8-10
- Spend more time with family
- Pray more- ongoing
- Remember to be thankful for my blessings - every day
- Tell someone how much they mean to me
- Become a member of a photography association - Completed - Member of the Pet Photographers of America Association
- Continue to take part in the annual Lupus Walks
- Find new locations for dog photo shoots
- Visit local dog businesses to market - completed 4-6-10
- Have neighbors over for a BBQ
- Watch a sunset
- Become a member of the ASPCA and sponsor an animal
- Go to a pumpkin patch
- Meet Melissa Jill and Dixie Dog
- Remember to use the elliptical
- Tone down on the chocolate - realized this might be impossible...
- Upgrade blog to use larger photos - completed 2-5-10
- Donate gift certificates for photo shoots to a good cause - completed 1-15-10 (dog park silent auction)
- Visit dog parks more - ongoing with my dog photo shoots on weekends!
- Attend church more frequently - Found a new church very close to our house and want to attend more frequently.
- Have a deck night with close friends - scheduled for 5-15-10
- Have lunch with hubby
- Visit Dan’s Grandma in Charleston again - Visiting December 31, 2010 weekend
- Get a massage
- Attempt to be less OCD - attempted... not going to happen!
- Reconnect with September Morn, a past mentor - completed 1-7-10
- Call my grandparents more often
- Go to Las Vegas for the first time - planning to book this trip in May 2011 for my 30th Birthday!
- Find more photographer's blogs for inspiration - completed 1-29-10
- Be excited to turn 30 - booking a trip to Vegas for this big landmark!
- Help my dad find a new job after being laid off - Dad did find a new job after 7 months of searching.
- Reach 500 fans on my Facebook page - Wohooo! Completed 2-1-10 and over 2,500 as of 12-28-10!
- Help a deserving family during the holiday - Completed 12-20-10. Chose KC PAWS rescue to buy items on their wish list and presented the owner Sandi with a special Spa basket for herself.
- Take a self defense class
- Have a margarita with Erin P.
- Continue to celebrate dating anniversaries with Dan - celebrated our 7th "dating anniversary" this year!
- Network and meet new people - ongoing every day!
- Redesign splash page on my website - completed 2-1-10
- Bake a turkey
- Find new Facebook groups to join and market more - ongoing and completed 2-1-10
- Return to the Overland Park Botanical Gardens with my Mom
- Enlighten myself on the whole “Twilight” obsession
- Learn to fish
- Go back to the New Theatre Restaurant
- See an Opera
- Pay off my student loan - Completed - 2010!
- Learn how Logan hunts and learn the proper way to handle a gun - Learned how to handle a gun, but have not actually seen "hunting" in action.
- Run through the fountains near Crown Center
- Increase my verbal communication skills
- Collect more shells in the Caribbean - hoping to find more in the Bahamas in January! My favorite place.
- Complete a new scrapbook
- Upgrade my point and shoot camera
- Have a professional manicure and pedicure - completed 9-17-10
- Try yoga again
- Submit my website to blog directories - completed 4-8-10
- Surprise Dan with a delivery to his office
- Have an overnight date night with Hubby
- Go to a winery we have not been to before - Completed 7-29-10 for our 4th wedding annversary at a new winery built right by our house
- Mail a Christmas letter with my cards
- Document which goals I have completed, along the way, on this list -ongoing and completed so far!
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