I spent the last two weeks of 2009 on holidays. The first week was quite busy going from family to family, but great company, food and fun was had.  The second week was spent going to the gym, napping and reading.  Oh and most importantly making new goals.  I have always been goal oriented, but 2009 I met my goals very quickly and was just in the “mean time”. I was worried that I would have trouble with my goals because of where I am in with my career I will need to make some decisions on specializing or management or an entire new industry.  I started to think about my goals everyday and every time I was be able to add something else to the list. I found that a lot of my goals were personal rather than career-oriented.  I generally keep a very full schedule, but 2009’s schedule was full of items that did not satisfy my personal life or passions.  This is what I came up with for 2010;

Personal

• Take care of myself
  • Maintain a healthy diet, I like the everything in moderation rule
  • Floss everyday
  • Encourage active living everyday
• Finances
  • Maintain a $0 balance on my credit card
  • Build up emergency fund / cash savings above and beyond RRSPs
  • Be financially responsible to myself
• Cooking
  • Experiment more with my cooking, try new recipes
  • Learn to make soup
  • Learn to make preserves and can
• Photography
  • Continuing working towards my photography certificate from SAIT
  • Pick 1 major project for the year – photo blog – www.angelasimms.com
• Start and use a gratitude journal

Career

• be a better / active listener – no interrupting
• focus on my networking skills – CCNA certification completed by June
• complete technical paper to achieve C.E.T. certification from ASET

I am very excited to be focused and have fun pursuing my passions in 2010.