Welcome to 2010! Hope everyone had a great holiday season. I just got back to Salt Lake City after visiting family in Alabama. I had a great trip, but now it’s time to get back to work—I have New Years resolutions to meet!
Usually I do not set any ‘New Years resolutions’ for myself, as I think one should set goals all throughout the year, and not just the 1st of January. I feel 2010 will be a very important year for me, though, so why not give it a try? So here they are.
2010 Business Resolutions
1) First and foremost, the SHOT Show (a huge convention of all the companies who have anything to do with the hunting, police, and military markets) is coming to Las Vegas on January 19th. I already have my media pass to get in, now I just have to get ready. I’m going to be busy for the next couple weeks, printing my portfolio, getting my business cards and ‘leave behinds’ together, and calling to set up meetings with various companies. Just reading the list of attending companies is overwhelming, so my first resolution is to be completely prepared by the time I get there, and to make meaningful connections with people within the hunting industry.
2) I want to take at least one picture every other day, minimum. There are times when I get caught up with learning/setting up of the business side of things, that I don’t make time for the creative side, sometimes resulting in a week or more without picking up my camera. I don’t like that. I have created another blog, which will include a category called ‘The Every Other Daily Dose.’ I will launch it in a week or so, when I have it complete. I hope that by having something I must update, it will obligate me to take the photos.
3) On a much broader scope, my goal is to go the entire year financially sustained through photography, whether it is shooting on my own, or assisting others. It will take other, smaller goals to reach this bigger picture, but I will have to define those as I go along.
2010 Personal Resolutions
1) This may be more of a hope than a goal, but I want to travel abroad sometime this year. There is so much of the world I have not seen, and I want the chance to do it while I am young. The last thing I want in life is to end up an old man who says “I wish I would have…” about anything. I want to live my dreams, and not just think about them.
2) And lastly, by summer of this year I want to be back into the shape I was before my accident. For those of you who don’t know, I was hit by a garbage truck while riding my bike in August 2008. I fractured my hip, and now have a titanium rod holding my collarbone together (which was a source of many problems when switching health insurance companies!). Since that time I have had problems with chronic muscle knots and pulled muscles that have prevented me from getting back in shape. However, I think I have finally gotten past those problems, and now it is just a matter of working on my fitness.
Above: The handle bar of the bike I was riding when I got in the accident
Below: A picture of me just after the ambulance dropped me off at the hospital.
That’s it. Not too much to ask, is it? I don’t want to be lumped in with the majority of people who never meet their resolutions, which is why I am announcing them on here. Please keep me honest and on track. While following my blog, if you see that it does not look like I am working towards my goals, remind me of this post!
If you, yourself are one of those people who makes New Years resolutions, but never keeps them, I would highly recommend reading this short article by Donald Miller. It offers an alternative way to look at resolutions that I think has great potential. Good luck!