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Well here it goes – my first set of goals.

They are pretty straightforward, I didn’t want to get to complicated my first time out!

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Professional Goals

1)     Email

          Email has taken over my life. I spend more time checking and deleting and responding and checking and deleting and responding…it has to stop! So

here are the steps I will be taking in the month of July.

          Terminate all email coming from non-business related sites (ie Weather network, horoscopes, stock updates)

          Make files for all email and file daily

          Only email during business hours.

          Use email to be positive and supportive, never negative.

          Reply to email within 12  business hours

          Always be gramatically correct, perfect spelling, no slang etc.

          Determine a schedule in which to check email (ie 9, noon and 3)

          More face to face time – walk and talk to people nearby!

2)       Get Organized

          My office is not professional. There I said it. As much as I joke about it, I know that the state of my office impedes me from being as effective as I can be. It is a reflection of me – and if I want to be taken seriousely and professionally, I need to get out from the paper and files and crap. My office can be fun and funky and welcoming, and professional too.  So how am I going to do it?

          Go through each and every paper on my desk, sort it, file it or destroy it.

          Put all my contact information on my computer and in my Blackberry.

          Start utilizing the baskets etc. to organize my work

          At the end of the day, to a to do list, and reminder of what the next day’s commitments are and leave it on my desk.

          Clean out my little filing cabinet under my desk (dump the entire thing and start from scratch)

          Stop letting my office be the dumping grounds/storage room for other people’s stuff (just say no).

          Get a blue box for under my desk.

         Go through all my pens, pencils and markers (I know, crazy, but I spend alot of time looking for my favourite ones, or one’s that work).

          Clean out my overhead cabinets – again take everything out and start from scratch.

          Clean out the red Association history files.

Personal Goals

1)         Get Moving

            I am as fit as a slug. I need to move more and eat less.  How am I going to do it?

            Go to Curves at least twice a week  (I joined  last October, and don’t even want to think about how much each visit has cost me So before my   

             contract expires I have to get back into it. Four weeks in July, eight visits.

            Stop eating chips  and french fries for the entire month.

            Take Pele for a walk once a day.

            Park near James in the far parking lot.

2)        Read

           One of my areas of weakness is that my retention of what I read is not sticking, so I need to read more and think about what I have read, and talk to others about it.  So read on for how I am going to do it.

          Give up my PSP session everynight before bed.

           Read one newspaper a day.

          Read my textbook for Strategic Management and make notes.

          Read.

          Schedule time at work to read work related things.

          Go through all my books at home and set up a library in the basement. Books that I have read give to others to read. Ask others for recommendations.

          Read a manual on something I have no interest in (ie how to fix a computer) and try to understand it. Get an expert to quizz me on what I have   learned.