Holy man, I can not believe it is already April. I have already had the pleasure of shooting two wedding this year (blog posts are coming, I promise). Wedding season officially starts May 3rd and then doesn’t end till November – it’d unbelievably how quickly “slow” season went by. I thought now would be a great time to update you all on my goal list that I shared with the world on my birthday. If you follow me on instagram you will know that there have been a lot of changes coming and well by the looks of my blog you can see this is one of them! I have been feverishly working to transfer my posts over from my old blog onto my shiny new blog (okay – maybe not shiny but definitely new!) Let me know what you think of the new look and if there is anything wonky going on!

(Little preview of my desk, my lovely print is from The Yellow Bungalow Shop )

Personal Goals:

• Take time to do other things I love (not “work” related) I am leaning towards knitting, anyone have any other hobby suggestions?
• Workout five times a week –  Half complete, I have been able to workout 3-4 times a week. I think that’s a win (& I can officially do about 10 chin ups – hopefully that will help me carry my camera all day 😉
• Work/Life balance.
• Create personal photo albums.
• Travel to Australia to see my dear friends who will be living there.
• Sleep more. 
• Clear out the clutter. Cleared out my make up drawer and all my paper work so far!
  
• Shoot more photos in my personal life.
• Cut my spending.
• Keep saving.
• Learn to not be so hard on myself. 
• Do a DIY project once a month – my pinterest board is over flowing. I have been baking a lot, so I think that counts. P.S I found the BEST Cinnamon bun recipe! Not the best for my gluten intolerance but they are definitely worth the stomach ache. haha
• Drink more water. Work in progress.
  
• Run another half marathon. –  I want to finish a full marathon before I’m 25, 2 years to train up!
• NEW: Read more books. Any one have any must read book suggestions!
• NEW: Organize my closet.

Most of these are slow work in progress “projects” and I can say I have been working hard to make most of these happen!

Business Goals:

• Finish my new website.
• Hand out more business cards. I am AWFUL at this. I have had about 500 for the last 3 years. I maybe hand out 1 every six months
• NEW: Design & Print new business cards. Realizing my old untouched business cards don’t suit my brand anymore.
  
• Photograph a proposal. Do you know anyone planning on proposing soon?? Wouldn’t be exciting to secretly catch it on camera??
• Update blog twice three times a week. Now that I have my fancy new blog hopefully I will be able to stay on top of this one!
• Keep expenses updated.. and I am almost caught up from last year, only one business to go!
• Shoot one destination wedding. Anyone know anyone leaving the country!?!? I would loveee to be involved!!
• Continue to learn. I have been ready a lot of photography books, listening to interviews and watching tutorials
  
• Either do a workshop or mentorship. I have signed up to do a workshop in May with two amazing photographers! Soo excited!
• Experiment more while shooting, don’t be afraid to fail occasionally
• Book 14 weddings in 2014  I have 21 booked, yah for completing goals!
• Book 23 weddings for 2015 –  I am sitting at 6 already 🙂
• Shoot more film. The above photos are all personal film shots
• Organize one styled shoot, like this one
• Get two weddings published.  Hannah & Isaac’s picnic engagement featured here & Lainie & Jared’s wedding featured here & here
• Set times to check emails. It is not necessary to check emails every 20 minutes.
• Find more hidden photo shoot locations in Edmonton
• NEW: Design & Print new sample albums

Do you have your goals posted somewhere? Does it help you stay focused and achieve them? I would LOVE to hear about what you want to achieve over the next 9 months.