101 Goals In 1001 Days | Vision For The Future

“If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?” – George Burns

“It would be more resourceful to make a decision on where you want to go and miss the mark than to fail to decide right from the start.” – Dane Sanders

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up some place else.” – Yogi Berra

“To reach a port, we must sail – Sail, not tie an anchor – Sail, not drift.” – Franklin Roosevelt

“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” – Seneca

Vision For The Future

With the close of 2011 and new beginnings for 2012, I cannot help but focus on dreams, goals, and accomplishments! I can honestly say that many of my personal AND business goals for this past year were not met. But many of them far exceeded anything I could imagine. Dreams that I did not even realize I had came true! I do not deserve the opportunities that have been presented to me as a photographer. But I am too smart not to take those opportunities and be grateful!

It is these opportunities and accomplishments that were a surprise to me that made me think… Think BIG and allow myself to dream! But dream for what? So after being invited by, and encouraged by Karen Stott to join her on her 101 Goals In 1001 Days adventure, I am allowing myself to have vision for my future… both personal and professional. So here it is… a bucket list of sorts.

101 Goals In 1001 Days

1. Visit the Sistine Chapel

2. Tour Europe for 30 Days

3. Attend one of Rebecca’s body building competitions

4. Go on a cruise

5. Go with Jessica and Michael to Kenya on a mission trip

6. Teach Peyton to read

7. Go to a Cardinals game – and not hate it

8. Buy a new house

9. Graduate Tyler from high school via home school

10. Hire a housekeeper

11. Complete the P90X program

12. Shoot a real Cedarwood wedding

13. Complete my promo video

14. Take a Napa Wine Valley vacation

15. Decorate all common areas in my home with modern vintage style

16. Bi-weekly date night with my hubby – THAT HE PLANS – ahem ahem

17. Spend a weekend in Louisville with Rebecca being nothing but SILLY

18. Read the Bible from front to back

19. Vacation in Sydney, Australia

20. Visit the Grand Canyon

21. Photograph a dust storm in Arizona

22. Outsource my Accounting

23. Eat sushi and like it

24. Learn to speak Italian

25. Get over my fear and go cliff diving

26. Photograph The Great Wall of China

27. Get my gun carry permit

28. Fly a kite

29. Make a delicious homemade cheesecake

30. Get over my dairy food phobia

31. Plant a garden

32. Make a quilt

33. Shoot a 50′s inspired wedding

34. Tell my husband and my children that I love them every single day

35. Make more time for my family

36. Set and stick to office hours

37. Spend Christmas in New York

38. Get published again

39. Start Christmas shopping in January

40. Read at least one book every month that will help strengthen my business

41. Do at least one weekly random act of kindness for a stranger

42. Focus on nothing but the positive

43. Learn to say “no” without feeling guilty

44. Locate and visit Mrs. Jurlee Sanders – a very important lady from my childhood

45. Visit my family in Louisiana at least twice a year

46. Build and support an amazing network of photographers in Rutherford County

47. Attend one of Dane Sanders’ Fast Track Leaders conferences.

48. Donate blood

49. Finish writing my book

50. Spend a week at a 5 star spa retreat

51. Go to a Renaissance Festival and actually eat a fried oreo (shivers)

52. Give up drinking Dr. Pepper

53. Forgive myself for my ugly mistakes

54. Write a hand written letter to each one of my children to let them know how special they are

55. Swim with dolphins

56. Go snorkeling

57. Have our own family photos taken at least once a year

58. Forgive others

59. Get Rutherford County involved in a huge Help Portrait event

60. Buy Super Bowl tickets for Scott

61. See the Radio City Christmas Spectacular

62. Go on a waterfall adventure in Hawaii

63. Find something fun, cheesy, and crazy to do with Scott – like dance lessons – ball room dance lessons! YES!

64. Be more strategic when it comes to making business decisions

65. FINALLY complete a 365 project

66. Set a trend for pajama jeans! LOL

67. Hire an assistant

68. Learn how to make fried chicken

69. Replace every single light bulb in my house with economical light bulbs

70. Become more of a Suzie Homemaker

71. Never run out of clean towels or socks

72. Begin a ministry for teens who have survived a tragedy

73. Get my office more organized

74. Do something amazing to give back to my community

75. See and photograph the Northern Lights

76. Take a helicopter ride with my husband

77. Be asked to speak at a large photography conference

78. Go on a picnic with my husband next to a waterfall, and fall asleep next to him on a blanket

79. Take my children to Disneyworld

80. Cut out all red meat and pork. Eat chicken and fish only

81. Get all of my branded welcome kit materials printed and put together

82. Shoot a destination wedding in another country

83. Get my gymnast figure back

84. Participate in a flash mob dancing to I’m Sexy And I Know It

85. Perfect my workflow

86. Run a 1/2 marathon

87. Visit at least five new Tennessee waterfalls I’ve never seen before

88. Begin a year long daily devotional with my children

89. Launch my workshops – FEARLESSLY

90. Write random notes onto sticky notes and leave them all over my childrens’ bedroom wall.

91. Share my testimony in public – without fear

92. Pray hard every single day

93. Reconnect with my cousins Kathy and Kay Lynn

94. Dare to dream EVERY DAY!

95. Live by example for my daughters

96. Keep my mobile site updated

97. Take a road trip with my best friends – in a convertible so I can stand up and fly in the wind like a crazy person.

98. Spend more time helping new photographers

99. Make ammends

100. Love others and allow them to love me

101. Trust in God’s plan 100%

Happy New Year my lovelies! Instead of resolutions, I have laid the path for the future. Because unless you know where you are going, you will never know when you get there!

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