
Earlier this year I was challenged by my P31 sisters to write down my goals for the next 1001 days. I wanted to be realistic in what I wrote because if you know me, I like to mark things off. It gives me a sense of accomplishment. However, I have learned through the years that while things might seem impossible and out of my reach, there is nothing that God can not do.
Psalms 20:4 May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed (NIV)
Goals are only dreams and wishes unless you write them down and take action. The first step is done and I already feel some kind of achievement. Writing and sharing my goals here not only allows me share my ambitions but it also makes me accountable. I am excited to see how many goals I can mark off by 2014!
My 101 in 1001 day:
Starting Date – January 5, 2012
Ending Date – October 3, 2014
- Find a charity and give a profit from my business
- Go on another mission’s trip
- Photograph more of Eugene in an editorial style
- Build a website (4-29-20012)
- Start a blog (4-30-2012)
- Memorize Psalms 119
- Randomly choose a family at a restaurant and pay for their meal
- Write thank you notes twice a month for a year to people who have made a deference in my life
- Shoot a wedding outside the United States
- Organize a style shoot
- Have a date with my husband once a month for a year and hopefully there after
- Have a date with my son once a month for a year and hopefully there after
- Have a date with my daughter once a month for a year and hopefully there after
- Buy a lap top
- Use my business to serve the community
- Have at least one guest writer a year on my blog
- Have my work published
- Visit more wineries……yes, I love wine!
- Visit San Francisco
- Learn to play the guitar and maybe take some singing lessons (Don’t laugh)
- Take my kids to Disneyland again
- Do some style shoots in Mexico
- Attend a workshop with Jose Villa in Mexico
- Do a photo shoot of my beautiful grandma
- Visit the place where I was born and read Psalms 139!
- This might be out of my reach financially but I have learned that nothing is impossible for God so here it is….I would like to visit Yucatan again and make peace with my heart!
- Read a business book at least once a month
- Run a 5k and then a 13k…not sure I can do a marathon.
- Take a hot air balloon with the love of my life
- Go rock climbing
- Do a trash the dress shoot
- Go back to Showit Unite!
- Hike more trails in Oregon. Such a beautiful place!
- Visit Deception pass…so majestic!
- Do a photo shoot of someone in the military…love the military!
- Do a photo shoot of someone who fought in a war and tell their story
- Master off camera flash.
- Take a plane ride with Matt Hoecker!
- Go water rafting
- Take a cross country trip
- See Metallica in concert with Curt Gillis, Shirley Madathil, and Rick Lathrop (who would have thought!)
- Go horseback riding on a beach
- Dance in the rain
- Blessed a group of ladies and make them feel BEAUTIFUL for a day
- Take the On Camera Workshop with Zack and Jody. Love those two!
- Shoot a Notebook Theme styled shoot with a couple that is madly in love
- Have someone do an editorial shoot of me
- Get caught up with all my editing. I am so behind!
- Take some dance classes with my man!
- Find new places to shoot
- Have lunch with my WPPI roomies from 2012
- Bake more cookies
- Go back to having family nights
- Serve our community as a family
- Shoot a wedding or a photo shoot at Lewis and Clark University, Oregon
- Watch a Broadway Show
- Photograph a military homecoming
- Attend a Mike Colon workshop
- Attend WPPI at least one more time in the next three years
- Transfer all my Hydrangeas to the right place in my garden
- Finish my garden and my deck
- Have a spa day with my daughter
- Go back to eating clean
- Send each of my siblings a birthday card and let them know how much I love them.
- Feed the homeless
- Give clean socks to the homeless
- Take more pictures as a family
- Learn to make sushi
- Have more people over for dinner. This should be a little easier now that Curt is working back in Eugene
- Give Curt more back massages
- Clean my garage and keep it clean
- Expand my lens collection, top of the list 70-200 2.8
- Take a CS5 or CS6 photoshop class
- Go camping at least once a year
- Have my kid’s friends over for dinner on a regular basis
- Go to the Peony Festival in Oregon
- Plant a vegetable garden
- Paint the inside of my house
- Write more hand written love letters to the three most important people in my life
- Go to more concert with my family
- Read my bible by a waterfall
- See more waterfalls in Oregon…yes I love waterfalls!
- Swim in a warm beach
- Take yoga classes
- Cook one recipe from every cookbook I have (I have about 60 and counting)
- Get caught up with my kids school scrapbook
- Mentor a teenager
- Visit Curt’s family in Massachusetts
- Eat fresh lobster in Massachusetts
- Visit a military friend from my old squadron….MAWD
- Visit Yosemite Park or Yellowstone
- Make a promo video for my business
- Go kayaking
- Go night sailing with the Eblings, the Harris, and my hubby on a full moon.
- Spend a day shooting with my dear friend Ranelle. We have been talking about this for years!
- Go hiking with my brother Joey
- Do a mission’s trip to Mexico with my kids
- Go to a professional football game. And if I had my choice it would be the 49’s and the Patriots.
- Organize and clean my computer
- Have someone design my logo
- Spend more time cuddling with my husband
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come on down to san francisco and check that one off your list! 🙂
I can help out on a few of those! and that 5k phsssss! cmon sis step it up a notch. lets make some plans for this summer. bring your camera, you don’t want to miss what I’m about to show you on those trails!
I can make #68 happen. Homemade sushi night!
I’d love you help you with #18!