The big, exciting news around Creative HQ is my new project with a super big chamber of commerce. It's a deal that will get me advertising and exposure in exchange for designing a way cool, very visible, printed thingy. If this doesn't put me on the map, I'm not sure what can. It's adding an additional $5000+ to my marketing plan in 2007. Yay me!
Remember a few months (ok, four, no, five, whatever) ago, I talked about starting a "mastermind" group through a women's group I'm in? Well, I started it with another gal, and since have landed myself on the board of directors of this group. It's turning out great, but it's also a case of being on the inside and seeing all the work it takes to run something, plus all the disfunction that needs to be cleaned up. You all know what a "fixer" I am. My new goal is to get this group to start some kind of strategic planning so we can clearly state who we want to be when we group up. 'Cus right now, no one knows. Or if they do, they're not sharing it with the rest of us.
Realizing that I'm a goal oriented person, it's difficult to keep going on something when I have no goal. I haven't been in the pool since the tri, and I'm starting to feel the flabby flab ol' me creep back onto my bones. So I looked into the winter hours at the public pool and will resume my twice a week swims this week. It's just so haaard when it's cold and yucky out. (insert waaaaa here) My BF Megan has lost a gazillion pounds since her divorce, the best thing to happen to her, btw. She bikes and runs every day, no matter the weather. This of course makes me feel even more lazy. But she still can't swim, so I've got something on her skinny ass.
I started looking into a second sprint triathlon to do next year, in addition to the Denver Tri For the Cure (TFTC) in August. There are four that seem interesting: April 14 in Durango, April 28 in Las Vegas, two on May 12 in Tempe and St. George, Utah. The Durango tri is an indoor swim, which a year ago would have appealed to my swim team mentality, but since the TFTC, I'm partial to open water just for the sake of roominess. I mean, a lap lane can get pretty crowded, even though we'd swim in circles.
I'm not going lie, April in Las Vegas sounds like a good, sweaty time. It's also an all chick tri. But it's a wee bit too close to the in-laws, whom hubby has not talked to since August. That's right. Hubby had a
"fight" with his mom the day before my tri and they haven't spoken since. Not for my lack of encouragement. The last thing I'd want is for something to happen to her and he would regret not patching things up. But it's his problem, and he's got to figure it out.
I went to a goal setting/networking breakfast put on by my alma mater last week and it was super helpful. Instead of being all, writing down your goals, blah, blah, you can do it, blah, blah, blah, we got to write down our accomplishments for 2006. You try it. Spend 5 minutes writing down all you've accomplished in 2006. Read them outloud. Give yourself a pat on the back. Then write down some disappointments for 2006. These can be anything. Read them outloud. It helps if you read them to another person, but your dog, cat, house plant, light bulb, will do. Then write down what you learned from both the good and the bad. From this you can set some guidelines for 2007. The facilitator suggested doing this at every staff meeting, but since it's just me and the hounds, I'll try it quarterly at our executive meetings. Or in my new mastermind group.
I'll share my achievements and disappointments for 2006 in my next post. Which could be this week. Or not. You're not the boss of me.
