101 in 1001

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while – like a long while!!  We are setting up 101 Goals with a time frame of 1001 days!  We’ve read and heard that you are more likely to accomplish your goals if you write them down – brilliant!  I’m all about big ideas and lack in the follow through – there, I said it!  I confess that I’m not good at follow through!  This will help me with follow through….you are going to help me be accountable and successful in reaching these goals!

It may not be a complete list now – but it will be!  We are giving ourselves some wiggle room – because we know that in the next 1001 days – our goals and direction may change!   And maaaaaaaybe we’ve already completed a few – but I wanted to give myself a boost to this goals list – knowing that we can and will accomplish them!!  It’s like writing a to do list – and the first item is: 1. Write a to do list

1. Create a list of 101 Goals
2. Create packaging for clients
3. Teach 2 Beginner Photography Workshops per year
4. Connect with local vendors – provide postcards for their business
5. Submit weddings to magazines
6. Submit weddings to blogs
7. Create an Evantide Manual
8. Create information packets for our clients
9. Have our family photos taken at least once per year
10. Write down our client communication plan
11. Buy a house
12. Sail on Bellingham Bay
13. Develop referral gifts
14. Open Evantide own office space Completed 6/11
15. Travel someplace warm during the winter
16. Design and order updated albums – wedding and portrait
17. Pay off our debt
18. Go on a hike during our ‘busy’ time
19. Update our pricing
20. Create Business Goals
21. Attend a business or photography workshop, or two
22. Read 10 business books
23. Create a promo video
24. Hang photos in our own bedroom
25. Blog every day for one month
26. Enter photos into print competitions
27. Develop a business exit plan
28. Market Evantide in Bellingham and Seattle
29. Organize our office space
30. Throw a photography party
31. Become a local leader for photogs
32. Book 20 weddings in 2011
33. Book 50 non wedding photography sessions in 2011
34. Send Anniversary cards to past clients
35. Sponsor a child in Ghana
36. Refine workflow
37. Update Website
38. Update Blog Design
39. Implement Surveys to gather client feedback
40. Post on a photo forum 1/week for 3 months
41. Meal plan for 8 weeks straight
42. Work out 3 times per week for 3 months
43. Order veggies from Dandelion
44. Create our personal budget
45. Follow Dave Ramsey’s financial plan
46. Host engagement premieres
47. Host wedding premieres
48. Create a booklet for clients of information
49. Second shoot twice for other photographers (other than Aaron!)
50. For Meg – edit a shoot start to finish
51. Comment on any blog that I look at – no secret looking
52. Host Monday night meals for friends
53. Take a cooking class
54. Get Sounders Season Tickets
55. Have a 0.700 Batting average of attending church!
56. Go on two dates per month and not talk about business
57. Donate to a local charity/auction
58. Donate to a local charity/auction
59. Donate to a local charity/auction
60. Make Grant a big brother
61. Have dinner with our 8 closest neighbors
62. Potty train Grant
63. Take a weekend off between July and September
64. Meg – receive 10 massages
65. Aaron – go golfing 30 times – at least!
66. Be a guest at a wedding
67. 500 functional followers on twitter
68. Utilize Evantide fb page for clients/photographers
69. Have the blog become a resource for colleagues and clients
70. Update wedding wardrobe
71. Aaron – weigh 40 lbs less than today
72. Meg – weigh 20 lbs less than today
73. Have a collection featured in a local business and/or gallery
74. Get published in a wedding magazine
75. Get published on a wedding blog
76. Get published in a non wedding magazine
77. Take a non photography business class
78. Project 365 on The Full Nelson blog
79. Attend PartnerCon

If any of you have goals for me to reach – please send me an email – meg.nelson@evantidephotography.com

My ears are open