monthly goal check-in

 

The time has come for the monthly goal check-in, and I'm pleased to report that I accomplished a tiny smidge of what I intended to, which is better than nothing at all.

Here's what I wanted to accomplish:

1. Re-photograph all leftover 2008 inventory.

2. Find myself a good small business accountant.

3. List at least 50 items in terrain.

4. Rebrand leader of men - new business card and shop banner.

5. Blog at least 3 times weekly here.

6. Revamp blog sidebars.

7. Bribe girl at work into modelling some items for me.

8. Participate/attend at least 3 Vancouver area craft events to network, network, network.

Now that I've stopped dying of laughter, this is what I actually got done:

1. HALF-ACCOMPLISHED. I got about half of 2008 leftover inventory re-photographed. Unfortunately I've been working some long hours again and daylight is in short supply.

2. ACCOMPLISHED! This was the most important goal, and I am extremely happy that I found a very good and very affordable small business accountant.

3. HA HA HA HA! What was I thinking? I got 12 items listed. I was doing quite well at the beginning of the month but got drowned at my day job in the latter half.

4. SORT OF PARTIALLY HALF-FINISHED. I have some sketches for some new branding but haven't decided on anything yet.

5. CLOSE ENOUGH TO ACCOMPLISHED THAT I'M GOING TO CALL IT ACCOMPLISHED. I posted 8 times in 3 weeks. Which is an 800% improvement from the previous 3 weeks.

6. HALF-HEARTED STAB AT IT. I prettied up the links to design blogs but that's about it.

7. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED IF #3 HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.

8. I GAVE IT A GOOD SHOT BUT THE REST OF THE WORLD WOULD NOT CO-OPERATE.  I had signed up to volunteer at the Swap-O-Rama-Rama several weeks in advance, only to be told a week before the event that they no longer needed my help. Oh well. But I did make it to the Got Craft show last weekend to schmooze it up a bit.

Since so few of these things actually got done, I'm going to retain this list for my May goals. Work is getting ridiculously busy again (recession? what recession?) and I have another exam coming up at the beginning of June, so I don't think there's anything more I could realisticly expect to complete.

Comments

[Liz]

Yeah, I did pretty much same - keeping what was left of my April list and making it my May one, because it all still needs to get done, and if I put "fun" stuff on the list, I'll just do that first... : )