2011: Professional Goals

I’ve decided to separate my personal and professional goals because I’m not really sure what direction my professional goals ever take me.  If you had told me 2 years ago that I’d be writing, blogging, tweeting and developing a social media presence in between play time, potty training and museum trips, I’d never believed it.

But here I am, the Community Engagement Manager for Best Tools for Schools, owner of this blog, Editor/Owner of my new A Little Bit of FoodSense blog, fundraiser/event creator (remember Shopping and Sweets?!) all while children sleep or play.

So what’s next? On one hand, I’m really not sure and that’s kind of exciting.  But I’m a planner, so I need to have some goals.  Here they are:

1-Continue to enthusiastically work with Best Tools for Schools.  The coolest thing about that job? Candace and Laurie.  Seriously.  People make businesses don’t they? And yes, I plan on doing some good work but hanging with them is pretty cool.

2-Launch A Little Bit of FoodSense. It’s pretty well ready.  I have 7 awesome contributors and I’m looking forward to having a space all about good food with tried and tested recipes – that all of us can make at home. 

3-Launch Sense and Community.  This site will be a bit of a catch all for Social Media/my consulting stuff and links to my other sites.  I needed an umbrella of sorts.  Hope to have it set up soon!

4-Attend more tweet ups.  I want to meet more people in real life, because those personal connections are so meaningful.  I am hoping to get out to more now that the kids are older and things are settled here a bit!

5-Set time aside for blogging/working and make efficient use of time.  I typically get a chance to write when the kids are sleeping, sometimes when they are playing quietly.  But it’s not consistant.  And all it takes is for a sick child or a change in plans and the ‘writing’ time gets pushed back.  I don’t want to work late into the night (being social is one thing, but my mind needs to rest!) and when the kids sleep it’s the only solo time DH and I get.  So I need to set a certain number of hours aside and that’s it.  What doesn’t get done, doesn’t get done 😉

6-Respond promptly to emails.  Hey guess what? This was on my plan last year too! Sometimes I respond right away, but I find now with the iPhone/iPad that I don’t always do it immediately, then it’s read and later when I get a chance to respond it’s 20 emails at the bottom and I forget. 

7-Being better organized overall.  Efficiency is my word for  2011.

What are your professional goals?!