Goals for the weekend
I decided to not worry about my art and busines goals in January after the last visit to Kansas but I’ve been noticing lately the calendar says February so I think it’s time to get motivated.
In addition this weekend is the first weekend since January 6 that I don’t have my kids with me (normally they are with their dad every other week). So I have plans to get a lot accomplished during my much too short break from the day job.
My goals for the weekend:
- I will spend 15 hours in my studio to bring this weeks total up to my weekly goal of 20 hours.
- I will finish my art taxes for 2006 (along with my personal taxes). I’m about 1/2 done entering my expenses for 2006.
- I will set up spreadsheets for the 2007 art business and get all my expenses to date entered.
- I will create a budget for 2007 for my art business.
- I will finish my goal spreadsheet. I need to break down the larger goals (in case you missed the post my extensive art business goals for 2007) into smaller tasks and figure out deadline.
- I will research and identify 4 possible venues for future solo shows and prepare and send off proposals to the venues. My goals is 2 per month but I didn’t do any in January.
- I will select maillist software for my upcoming studio newsletter and start setting it up.
All pretty specific goals - except that last one: "start setting it up" - that’s pretty vague and I know it. I suppose that means I’m not really committing to do much more than figure out which software to use. But it is the first step and without I’m not going to get very far.
I’m also happy to report that turning off comments on my old posts has solved my spam problem. Prior to this my blog was getting hit with hundreds of spam comments a week. Last week akismet only had to stop 1 spam comment.
Now if I could just figure out how to get my mail spam filter to work better - seems to me email spam that can sneak past the filters has increased quite a bit recently.
Last but not least - Happy Birthday Mom!
Posted by Lisa in: Goals
Sheila said,
February 9, 2007 @ 10:29 pm
You’re obviously not planning to sleep this weekend, right? ;->
Thanks, by the way, for the link explaining the blog spam. No sooner did I read it than I was hit by 70 almost identical comments hyping Mozilla on a single post. I’d only gotten a few here and there on older posts prior to this. Your alert kept me from panicking.
Alison Z said,
February 10, 2007 @ 9:13 pm
Hi Lisa,
I was just surfing the net, checking out art quilts sites. Your work is very beautiful. Lucky for me, I’ll be able o see your work when it travels to Pittsburgh. How do you keep up with woking in the studio and all of the shows you are in?
Alison
Lisa Call said,
February 11, 2007 @ 10:34 am
Shelia - glad the spam info helped. And bummer they found your blog - it is most annoying!
Alison - Thanks Alison. I haven’t yet figure out a really good method for tracking all of business stuff I am doing. I am working on my goal spreadsheet (read about it in the goals posting I linked to above) which is helpful for tracking what I need to do but not all of the different places I want to show my work. One of the things on my todo list is figure out a way to keep track of all this better. Once I figure something out I’ll blog about it.
edy martin said,
February 11, 2007 @ 11:51 am
Thanks–the door to the sewing room is now open.
Mom
cynthia said,
February 12, 2007 @ 11:43 am
I admire how concrete you are about your goals. Something I need to work on. Glad to hear that you’re getting some quality time in the studio.
Helen South said,
February 16, 2007 @ 3:03 am
Hi Lisa, I wonder if your spam mail blocks About.com mail? I love your quilts and did a blog entry on my website about them.
I’m trying to be more concrete with my goals too. I want to blog more regularly and create more lessons, but its pretty hard juggling work and kids. And maybe try to squeeze some of my own creative work in there too.
Lisa Call said,
February 22, 2007 @ 8:37 am
A bit of a late response but Mom - good job getting that door open!
Helen - thanks much for the link - I responded on your very generous post - thank you.