Setting goals
or targets isn’t something most creative types like to do, there however really
isn’t any better time to do this, than the start of New Year, so this is what I
am recommending everyone reading this Blog article does.
But for
those either familiar or new to my blog let me give you some background as to
why I am really encouraging you all to do this whilst ensure these goals are very
much in line with your creative direction and current resources and will be
reviewed accordingly throughout the year.
For several
years now I have shared my private projects lists on this blog and suggested
everyone puts together there own list, my particular theory of sharing what a
lot of people may prefer to be kept under wraps, is that by taking this into
the public domain I am putting more pressure on myself to actually meet the
objectives I set. You however don’t have to do this yourselves of course unless
you think you need to do this.
This public
announcement of my plans certainly usually works well for me, and for quite a
few years I could round up the year by saying that I had finished most of my
projects and those that weren’t finished were either not in the end viable, or
more often still work in progress. That is until 2011 when I announced that due
to the commitments of opening up a new studio and having a major exhibition my
planned personal projects had simply rolled over into 2012. So one would therefore expect that were we are
now at the end of 2012, I would say that most of these projects were now complete
and I was back on track with new work details given, but the sad fact however
is that they aren’t complete not a single one of them !
So I have
to ask myself the question why this is, and the answer to be honest comes to me
fairly easily, I have actually completed quite a lot of personal project work
but absolutely none of it featured in my rolled over plan. So this is what
happens when you don’t set goals that are anywhere near the direction you are
heading, so I think one big lesson for me here is that sometimes goals need to
be appraised and changed and it isn’t
good enough to simply roll them over, that was a big mistake on my part.
All planned
personal projects had been outdoor projects from a time when I hadn’t a studio,
but what happened when I built up the studio business and resources was to
revisit or in some case explore a new other personal work that I had previously
wanted to do, but never actually detail so these things basically evolved
rather than being planned. Therefore what I now need to do is to set my goals
according to were I currently am and look to review these during the year. Once
I have set these I will share them with all on here which I hope will be
helpful to everyone, but I really want to encourage you to do,if you don’t
already is give your personal project work some time in the planning, set out
now what you want to achieve over 2013 that way it is much more likely to be achieved.
Do it NOW ...!!!!