2. Explore joint venture/collaborative work through one-on-ones
with organizations and individuals yielding one joint project
by June 2013 that expands my relationships in Southern
Maryland.
Identify women business Explore women’s business
Meet with new CoC Ex.Dr. owners who share or want groups within an hour of
to explore my facilitating a to explore outside-the-box my office. Attend 2 – 3
focus group with County approaches to business meetings a month, steadily,
non-profits and who are interested in through June to get to
collaborative work. know the group energies.
Obstacle Obstacle Obstacle
overcoming my “artist” Time frame requires building the tendency toward
persona to be taken on relationships that are “speed” interviewing and
seriously as a already in place. This may lack of authentic
mentor/facilitator for currently be too small a relationship building in
business leaders and pool. many of these types of
organizations meetings
Measure :
. Create Pinterest board for
the ideal collaborator by Feb
Measure:
Measure 28 . Create a list of
CoC convenes a focus group . One-on-ones with 5 characteristics I want to see
of County non-profits by potential candidates to build in the ideal group by Feb. 28
June 30, and hires me as relationships and explore . Find one group based on
facilitator. collaborative possibilities by the listed characteristics
June 30 by June 30.
3. Me and my celebration crew here
will light a candle and be joyfully
grateful for the abundance of
possibilities which have opened up
to me by fulfilling my strategies.
Then I’ll take my husband out to
dinner!
4. . Identify workable
organizational Who gave me
. Create newsletter system for contacts testimonials and/or
for email outreach May 1 referrals and how did
Mar 30 they come in?
. Organize business
. Create system for cards, past and
newsletter/blog/FB present clients, . Create calendaring Where did the last 3 Who attended two or
that makes sense potential JV/ system Mar 30 years of workshop and more different offerings
Aug 30 collaborators July 30
. Research retreat participants and how did they come
secretarial intern come in? in?
from CSM Jul 31
. Find or create a
face-to-face master
mind group for How did the last
Strategy Compare info to
accountability Jul 31 Compare to
3 years of one- Research and I.C. assumptions
assumptions in
on-one clients Comparison and adjust as
Ideal Client
Create a system come in? necessary
(to be completed
for regular
by April 30)
evaluation and
adjustments on Strategy
the planning Measure:
process May 1 Create Measure: • Research done by
systems . ALL dates on this Obstacle:
March 30
process outline • Comparisons,
by August 30 calendared by 3/30 Past records may not
overlaps, other
. Deadlines in this adequately track all of
insights by April 15
Obstacle: section met as the information I need
• Ideal Client work done
noted for this
by April 30
My own resistance to
repetitive detail work
By September 1, 2013, create a system to better track my clients and
potential clients and identify creative ways to stay in touch and
develop a long-term relationship with them built on fun, mutual
respect, sharing, and community.
5. There are a lot of mini-goals here .
Rather than wait for the full
accomplishment of Goal #2, I will
choose small lovelies - $20 to go to the
thrift shop; a planned free day to do
whatever I wish; coffee with a friend; a
day in the garden – as a way to
congratulate and encourage myself
along the way.
THEN – at the full accomplishment, I
hereby grant me a new outfit including
shoes and a purse (preferably hand
made). This is something I very very
rarely grand myself, but this is a huge
goal for me given my preferences.
6. Spend 2013 practicing and recording what it is like to run a business
in an intuitive, relational, non-linear, and qualitative fashion.
Continue established daily practices Keep a Daily Journal
[Keep a separate journal for this purpose ONLY. Do not get lazy and start mixing it up with other
. Gratitude at the beginning and end of the day notes and records]
. M-F morning meeting for sharing and meditation
. At least 40 – 60 minutes of exercise, 5 days a week This can be an extension of the daily notes I currently take with my morning group.
Use the journal to specifically note serendipitous events, books that show up,
Obstacles: None. These have been steady practices since last unplanned people dropping in, events and possibilities happening just because as
October. I consider them foundational to my life [and thus to my opposed to plotting and planning, etc.
business since I am my business].
Obstacles: I get lazy and don’t keep these notes separate, making it difficult to see a
Measure: Do or don’t do. There is no try. Yoda pattern. I get lazy and fail to journal *every* day and miss something important in the
pattern.
Measure: See Yoda.
Decide if Goal 3 Negates Goals 1 and 2
Explore the questions:
. Are linear and non-linear exclusive or is there a path where
they can be complementary?
. Is there a way to compare something that is plotted against
something that just happens (other than chaos theory)?
. What does a transition into intuitive, etc., look like in the world Obstacle: How do you not-plan a plan to measure or story the unknown, especially
as it is – is it about imperfection in both spaces? Or is it without any examples or an adequate language.
something else that hasn’t yet been named?
Measure: On December 31, 2013, I feel (subjectively, not objectively) as if I have
Research and see if anyone else is trying this. begun to answer these questions, and I have in hand a stab at storying the process
with the language I have available or have developed.
7. If I make any headway at all
on Goal 3, especially on
deciding whether or not it
negates Goals 1 and 2, it will
be its own reward.
The Celebration will be
moving into 2014 with
wonder and resolve and
gratitude.
8.
9. Big
Hairy
Audacious
Goal
BH Move from the 20th century
industrialized paradigm of business that is
logical, orderly and numerical to a 21st
Century business paradigm that is intuitive,
based in quanta-type relationships, non-
linear, and qualitative.
A Create a language for this business
model that is based in story and that is
accessible and foundational.
G Cause a paradigm shift that honors and
accepts the practice of alternative ways of
knowing and being in the business world.
10.
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