I’ve been wanting to post about this for sometime now, but it was hard coming up with 101 goals that I wanted to accomplish. Some are for the business, some are personal, some are just silly and some are just for fun. This is just a list of goals that I hope to accomplish, yet I don’t want to beat myself over the head if I don’t accomplish them all. I know that as time passes my goals may change because life often changes and makes you evolve, but for the time being these are the goals I hope to accomplish.
Start date: September 1, 2009
End date: May 29, 2012
1. Make a brochure that I can give to vendors.
2. Make a sample book for each venue I work with.
3. Go on a cruise.
4. Take horseback riding lessons.
5. Take more dance classes.
6. Book a destination beach wedding.
7. Get published in a magazine.
8. Buy a house.
9. Learn how to cook new dishes.
10. Send out customer service surveys to clients.
11. Visit Europe again.
12. Transfer our home videos to DVD.
13. Find a new method to have album designs ready in 3 weeks after wedding.
14. Spend more quality time with my cousins.
15. Go back to the gym and make it consistent.
16. Go on a picnic.
17. See a play/musical.
18. Take a dreamweaver class.
19. Go camping.
20. Take photos of my immediate famly.
21. Second shoot for a photographer I admire.
22. Go skiing.
23. Buy a new car.
24. Volunteer my time with a new organization.
25. Shoot a wedding at the Corinthian.
26. Go on a safari with Pepe.
27. Buy a piece of real estate (other then a house).
28. Write a piece for newspaper/magazine.
29. Blog everyday for a month.
30. Update website with new material.
31. Get in touch with old friends.
32. Learn how to play an instrument.
33. Plan a girls night out.
34. Learn how to shoot and edit video and incorporate into the blog.
35. Take a french class.
36. Take a tour through Tuscany.
37. Meet up with the girls at least once a month.
38. Take a road trip to a new city.
39. Have friends over for a home cooked meal.
40. Go on a vacation with just my mom.
41. Rollerblade!
42. Take Colt to the dog park.
43. Learn how to ballroom dance.
44. Finish my high school scrapbook.
45. Update my wardrobe.
46. Make a donation to a charity.
47. Organize my office.
48. Print out personal photos and make albums.
49. Take a baking class.
50. Take a cake decorating class.
51. Redecorate my room.
52. Read one business book per month for 3 months.
53. Clean out my closet and donate clothes.
54. Go on a personal safari.
55. Enter photos into a print competition.
56. Go to the movies by myself.
57. Get to know one new vendor per month.
58. Rebrand my business.
59. Get more involved in my church.
60. Attend a workshop that will better my business.
61. Have some casual family photos taken.
62. Make a video promo for the business.
63. Visit California and attend a party of 5 with [b].
64. Shoot a night session with off camera flash.
65. Get my business on the first page of google.
66. Get a custom website/blog.
67. Find Colt a mate.
68. Set up a boutique on a main street.
69. Shoot a wedding pro bono for a well deserved couple.
70. Organize an open house for the studio.
71. Have a girls day with my mom.
72. Spend some time in my dad’s home town and shoot it while I’m there.
73. Baby sit for a friend.
74. Order promotional items for the business.
75. Branch out business to have an office in Monterrey.
76. Visit family in Chicago.
77. Help Pepe organize his movie database in excel.
78. Start a diary about the wedding planning.
79. Network with other Houston photographers once a month.
80. Update potential client brochure.
81. Upgrade to a imac for the office.
82. Start offering proof books in collections.
83. Start sending out anniversary cards to past clients.
84. Photograph Pepe’s snakes professionally.
85. Create monthly newsletters.
86. Take in a high school intern.
87. Donate blood.
88. Shoot a wedding in another continent.
89. Book 25 weddings in one year.
90. Set up Pepe’s website.
91. Visit my brother when he is away at the university.
92. Organize client files electronically.
93. Visit Greece.
94. Design our proposal album.
95. Read a book for fun.
96. Get new office furniture.
97. Do a photo collage on the wall.
98. Plan the wedding of our dreams with out stressing.
99. Make a schedule and stick with it.
100. Expand JTG Studio into a new market.
101. Challenge myself to try new things.