Goals 2011/2012

Getting back to the roots of this blog, I'm setting up hopefully-doable goals for the next nine months.Year 30 did not start out smoothly and while I'm over the initial drop kick, my feelings about where I should put my energies (or you know, goals) is shifting. So this list may look different in not too long. But a girl needs to start somewhere.


Financial:
1. Save $4,000. I currently have $2,000 which is a big deal for me. That means $225 a month needs to go into savings. If I just stay the hell out of book stores, crafts stores and second hand clothing stores I will probably be fine. Good lord.

Work:
2. Establish clear job description (TBD) and become more work focused at work.
3. Establish some sort of work/life balance b/c right now I'm sucking at it.

Video/Film:
4. Finish rough draft of feature length script. It can be the crappiest script ever but it needs to be no less than 90 pages.

Finish editing shorts: (You'll notice a theme. Music kills me.)
5. Love Story: Needs closing credit animation (optional and maybe I should skip) and music.
6. Name Game: Needs music.
7. Plein Air: Needs tighter edit and music.


Graphic Design/Art: 
8. Work through an Illustrator book
9. Work through a Photoshop book.
10. Establish an arbitrary poster project (at least 5 pieces based on a theme) using what I learned from the books.
11. Insert vague visual goal here. Just a reminder to keep playing and trying to find a path I want to go down. (It's weird to have a desire to do something but not really have a clear goal of WHAT.)
12. Do one installation-like project. This summer: The Card Game.
    (Steps to take: design stencil in Illustrator, cut stencil, get material and being the massive amount of spray painting. Play cards.)

Personal/Life Outlook:
13. I generally don't put these in here but I need to keep it some place so I know to revisit it. I am a whole different person in terms of social anxiety. About two years ago I started working on this hard and I can say proudly that I freak out and get super negative a lot less about social activities today than I did just a year ago. (I actually say YES to things now. Ask my friends and family how much I said yes to things just a few years ago.) But I need to start using some of what I learned about my triggers and mental time line to approach social projects like dinner parties or parties. Things that take some planning. Wedding season has helped a lot with this but if I could get better at this component it would benefit both my creative endeavors and my job. Mostly I just need to remember that things take longer than one expects and to focus on the fact that at some point I wanted to do the event.