As a photographer just freshly starting her own business…I follow SEVERAL photographer’s blogs. Every morning I log on and see what new and exciting things my fellow photogs have posted and every day I am inspired. I think about all the amazing things I have ahead of me and I get so excited. One of the things I have seen a lot is “To-Do lists”. A list of goals to be done in a certain amount of time. I thought it was the perfect time for me to set goals for myself. Big or small…just a list of things I want to accomplish. And I’ll be sure to share my accomplished tasks as time goes on. So here it goes…my ‘To-Dos’ for the next 365 days. 30 things to be accomplished by June 16th, 2011. So here I go…
1. Create a Blog and website in one.
2. Own a Shootsac and an awesome cover
3. Purchase a new lens for my Camera
4. Read 5 business related photo books
5. Go to 3 photography related workshops or seminars
6. Photograph 10 things (not people) on my own time
7. Go on vacation (has to be somewhere very warm and tropical)
8. Join an online photography community
9. Finish and print my welcome packet
10. Plant an herb garden
11. Get photos of myself taken (it’s an odd thing to be a photographer and get photographed…I’m not a fan)
12. Set up my own office space (this one might take a bit longer…but I need to put it on here anyways)
13. Book and out of state photo session
14. Get a cellphone with internet
15. Create holiday cards for 5 clients
16. Get 500 friends/fans/likes whatever they call them on facebook
17. Organize my apartment
18. Design new business cards
19. Take promo materials to 10 or more retail spots
20. Meet 5 new design clients
21. Go one month without eating fast food
22. Create sample products to show my clients
23. Go cake tasting for my brother’s wedding
24. Design rehearsal dinner and shower invites for my brother’s wedding
25. Go to Ikea and leave with no buyer’s remorse
26. Comment on photographer’s blogs I love every day for a month
27. Get 300 comments on my blog
28. Get a video done of myself shooting a session
29. Take Gary skydiving
30. Become a photographer full time.
So that is what I’ve come up with. I have full confidence that I can make all these things happen…I can’t wait to mark these off one by one!!! I’ll be sure to keep you updated!! Until then….
Lauren Wakefield Design 