A New Start for a New Year

I follow a lot of other blogs, I mean, A LOT! Photog blogs, wedding, home design, mom, business, ministry… A LOT! One blog trend that I absolutely love and have wanted to start for some time is posting monthly goals. I am definitely a task-driven kind of person, so I’ve been setting goals since I was about five years-old, but I’ve never had the guts to post them for the whole world to see. Well, today is the day I’m manning up!

I want to make a little bit of an introduction before I get started. First of all, these are not just business goals, but personal, too. Since I work from home and I love what I do, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between work and fun, so I’m just going to include all of them. Secondly, I’ve decided to make three lists of goals, one for the month, one for the season and one for the year.  I’m just trying this out I may abandon this format, but we’ll see. Finally, this is not a strict list. I’m constantly learning to let things go and not be too terribly hard on myself if I don’t meet every goal I set. Well, I think that’s it, so here goes!

January 2011 Goals:

• Finish up my 2010 edits and designs
• Transfer all of my pc files to my new Macbook Pro! I am finally a Mac!
• Attend Genesisters!
• Update my web portfolio
• Reveal my new headshots by Simply Told Photography
• Start a new Journal
• Take more photos of my family
• Start a menu plan

 Winter 2011 Goals:

• Design and Decorate my workspace
• Read Reason for God
• Order new sample albums and books
• Do a shoot with my Brownie Box Six-20
• Purge for our church Yard Sale
• Help organize our churchYard Sale
• Paint the rest of the house
• Revamp my business (big changes, people!)
• Move to Kinston!
• Potty-train McG (yikes!)

 2011 Goals:

• Stop working when Josiah gets home
• Book 50% more weddings and 100% more portrait sessions than 2010
• Take a vaca
• Sell our house!
• Keep my inbox to 0
• Submit weddings and engagement shoots to my fave blogs, including Southern Weddings!
• Be completely organized

That’s a lot of goals! Do you have goals you set for the new year of for each month? Let’s hear them! You can do it! Type them out in the comments or send me a link to your blog. Happy New Year!