create a 5 year plan

2012 accomplishments:
-Met and fell in love with an amazing man.
-spent lots of quality time with my family
-Grew through the grieving process and supported my family through a difficult transition.
-stood up for my own needs in the face of family members demands.
-got published and paid for my first article. learned lessons for the next gauntlet.
-made lots of contacts in the writing process and at napbirt.
-co-ran a regional clinic in toronto.
-made great christmas presents for my family.
-stayed afloat despite financial strain.
-got my final drivers liscence!
-learned to be a disciplined runner
-learned to throw axes and shoot arrows.
-weaned myself off anxiety meds. :)
-gained a lot of confidence at work, am on my way to being a senior tech. :)

2013:

-make fresh juice every weekend that I’m home.
-stick to my new budget stretegy
-prepare for a 5k race in the fall
-save an extra 500.00 for tfsa by january in ‘float’
-save 500.00 for christmas in ‘float’
-publish interviews with apprentices/master craftsmen.
-Start research for a possible book.
-make a point of going out with friends once a week.
-prepare a napbirt clinic on soldering/brazing/metalurgy for the 2014 convention, possibly demo it at a 2013 regional clinic.
-grow and preserve from a container garden.
-keep growing my love for self and for my partner into a greater sense of lovingkindness.
-wear a size L by my 30th birthday and a size M by my 31st
-go somewhere seriously cool by yourself.
-make a gameplan re: canadian apprenticeship requirements and form a committee to help establish standards by 2015.
-resolve that its ok not to take on engraving as a side business. Its a great skill but fades without the passion to make it work.
-keep on top of that budget it is going to set you free!

2014:
-Marry that man!?
-submit a book proposal to publishing houses/agents.
-Fit into mary’s leather jacket
-Relax and enjoy napbirt trip and kelowna wedding trip with minimal stress. see who you can but don’t be a crazy chicken.
-Decide about kids.
-prepare for a 10k race in the fall
-Take Christian for an adventure just the two of us, to celebrate his 21st

2014 (31 y.o.):
-stop paying rent even if it is just to co-own with mom.
-Find a way of keeping up with the ladies, they are wonderful and important people in your life no matter where everyone is living!
-love what you’re doing and if you don’t, rethink it.

2015 (32 y.o.):
-knuckle down on your life, enjoy what you have built.
-There is always taking care
-Start a fun and wacky tradition among friends and family.
-Write that book about learning. do it. get it published. you won’t regret it.
-Keep looking for new trouble

2016 (33 y.o.):
-Personal debts Paid off… go it alone if you can afford it.
-Publish something about my work, take credit for the weird and wonderful work you have done.
-spread the love, volunteer to make the lives of others in your community more full of love and opportunity. Become a mentor.

2011:
-Pay down loans AND have a life (this is questionable.. life was better in van because it was manageable, right now, its troublesome and i don’t have energy to have a life.)
-Love my job(s) (yes)
-Get skinny and fit! (or hit the heaviest you’ve ever been!?)
-Keep learning: chasing and repousse, engraving from jason dumars (love the learning, not the doing, what is next? Also did NAPBIRT strings 1… awesome!)
-Write for Technicom/MAGazine/Metalsmith (yes technicom&yes metalsmith)
-Lay groundwork for Napbirt Zone 8 (not sure if i’ll go but confident i’d bring it home if i did)
-Practice being a hostess, host 3 dinner parties (hmm…. see below)
-Go to OZ for 2 learn to surf/visit mom/gary/meet techs! (moved back to onterrible instead)
-Build trumpet embouchure (no)
-Harvest and preserve, be deliciously frugal! (gave my plot to a friend on leaving the w.coast.)
-Be open to relationships, be vigilant about your happiness and worth!! no, really! (which equated to just not dating at all… i guess that’s ok too.)
-sing
-be supportive of my parents and empathetic to their struggles in the coming potentially difficult period but don’t get run down by them (moved to be closer to them while they need me most. glad i did, its tiring being there for a day at a time, can’t imagine what it must be like for dad.)
- visit the Divesta’s/armstrongs done and done! Two cute babies that i get to aunt for!

2012 (29 y.o.):
-Bloom where i’m planted, right now i can make my life work, i just need to make some hard choices. June.
-Pay off all credit card debt by September 2012.
-Become Napbirt District 8 REP/Go to Normal
-drive across canada
-host monthly sunday brunches
-sell something on etsy, just for the taste of it.
-Work extra hard and save money from a second job for an escape plan (new car/life abroad/trip/cabin in the mountains)
-Evolve your own craft process by teaching a course or becoming involved in a community project
Paddle -Haida Gwaii the Grand River with dad
-write a canadian technician ezine
-bring the neices/neph down one weekend at a time to enjoy city life on a dime.before june.

2013 (30 y.o.):
-Be a size Medium (8) by my 30th BDAY
-Choose a city, find a home, set up shop!!!
-have a safe place from which to take wonderful risks!
look at taking on a new challenge -by starting own business or taking over an existing shop apprenticeship in europe or on a farm!?
-Make a commitment to a partner or child and stand behind it, if it hasn’t already come up.
-Find a way of keeping up with the ladies, they are wonderful and important people in your life no matter where everyone is living!

2014 (31 y.o.):
-makeover, makeover…. makeover! its time to dress like you own the place.
-Make something ridiculous just for fun, an ice castle, a mandala of marigolds, a sorting hat for muggles.
-Take Christian for an adventure just the two of us, to celebrate his 21st
-surprise yourself by becoming a leader in the community.
-go somewhere seriously cool by yourself!
-invest in future plans retirement/land/zombie protection

2015 (32 y.o.):
-knuckle down on your life, enjoy what you have built.
-There is always taking care
-Start a fun and wacky tradition among friends and family.
-Write that book about learning. do it. get it published. you won’t regret it.
-Keep looking for new trouble

2016 (33 y.o.):
-Personal debts Paid off… go it alone if you can afford it.
-Publish something about my work, take credit for the weird and wonderful work you have done.
-spread the love, volunteer to make the lives of others in your community more full of love and opportunity. Become a mentor.
-Spend money on what makes you truly happy.

2010 (27 y.o.):
-prepare stay put for another year, build a home (still here, although i have left my venables street home, going to start fresh in a healthier home here on 53 w 12th)
-build a reputation as a good new technician by practicing patience, care and open mindedness. =>Bumps in the road, troubles in paradise, but its a process, you cant learn to be the butcher with 30 years of experience, until you are the butcher…. and before you’re the butcher, you’re an apprentice.
-Take refuge in the Buddha, the Sanga and the Dharma =>went to counselling for the first time this year, and have really found it beneficial. I am on my way to being a well adjusted adult, one day
-Visit with Family and Friends whenever possible =>yay! went to toronto this november for 2 weeks that felt like the blink of an eye. i will endeavour to go out again next year.
-2010: Make my health and fitness a priority =>started taking vitamins and calcium/d, taking care of all of me, have been to the gym and swam to feel better
-Find a way to pay loans down by age 30 =>800.00/month is pretty darn swell
-2010: garden! grow things! assist in the proliferation of life! take care! =>gardened my face off this summer, had a great time, and a little harvest too…. got a garden plot for this coming year, hooray!
-2010 play all the brass instruments competently to be a better technician (i can tell the diff between an Eb and Bb tuba, am starting to learn to hear tuning issues by playtesting… still not a pro.)
-Keep and open mind to relationships with people who you’re confident about, be vigilant about your happiness and worth. =>I had a great experience with Corey this year, he was really good for me, and then turned out to be a really good eye opening experience about pushing timeframes. I would like to be in a relationship that is NOT long distance

2011 (28 y.o.):
-Pay down loans AND have a life
-Love my job(s)
-Get skinny and fit!
-Keep learning: chasing and repousse, engraving from jason dumars
-Write for Technicom/MAGazine/Metalsmith
-Lay groundwork for Napbirt Zone 8
-Practice being a hostess, host 3 dinner parties
-Go to OZ for 2 learn to surf/visit mom/gary/meet techs!
-Build trumpet embouchure
-Harvest and preserve, be deliciously frugal!
-Be open to relationships, be vigilant about your happiness and worth!! no, really!
-sing
-be supportive to my parents and empathetic to their struggles in the coming potentially difficult period but don’t get run down by them

2012 (29 y.o.):
-Become Napbirt District 8 REP/Go to Normal
=AND visit the Divesta’s/armstrongs/drive across canada
-Evolve your own craft process by teaching a course or becoming involved in a community project
-look at taking on a new challenge by starting own business or taking over an existing shop
-Paddle Haida Gwaii with dad
-write a canadian technician ezine

2013 (30 y.o.):
-have a safe place from which to take wonderful risks!
-Choose a city, find a home, set up shop!!!
-Make a commitment to a partner or child and stand behind it, if it hasn’t already come up.
-Find a way of keeping up with the ladies, they are wonderful and important people in your life no matter where everyone is living!

2014 (31 y.o.):
-Take Christian for an adventure just the two of us, to celebrate his 21st
-knuckle down on your life, enjoy what you have built.
-surprise yourself by becoming a leader in the community.
-love yourself baby, you’re amazing!
-invest in future plans retirement/land/zombie protection

2008 (25y.o.):
-Study and Excell in BIRT program => Yes, I learned my ass off, but i have yet to learn how to be a gracious student, more learning to come.
-Enjoy the city. Loved the city, still in love with it frankly, love benaroya hall where i volnteered, loved the hills and the plants i walked through on my way to school each day, i loved the mountains, i loved the clubs, neumos and soup and salad and beer at The Virginia Inn on a crisp solitary evening. I even loved the busride.
-Make 2 good friends here in seattle => Anna and Michael
-Practice Udvareta => not so much with that… although i have become the (metaphorical) jasmine and finally gotten beyond my last relationship, and well… it took longer than i expected, since i think it only just happened last night. a year later.
-Observe Budget => Hapilly spent all the money i had, but i did work as much as was possible so that helped me scrape by
-Research Places I’d like to work => Read Richard Florida’s ‘Who’s your city’ Found out that i’d like to live in lots of places, in fact that i WANT to live in lots of places, or more acurately lots of environments, i want to move through the world and understand it. I want to be inspired by as many people and places I can in this life. I am living and loving Vancouver BC right now and i need to stay here for a few years at minimum to get my career started.
-1 or more Calls for Entry for arts career. => wrote two articles for the Metal Arts Guild Magazine which i feel was a good transitional move for my arts career.

2009 (26 y.o.):
-Graduate in top 10% of class =>‘yo yo yo!’ My instructors told me that they would support my potential job of opening a brand new shop on my own, they trusted me to go it alone, and to do a good job.
-Find a job in an exciting new place.=> Vancouver, pretty cool, Possibly the best job in the country for an entry level tech because the company is nationwide what looks better than that on a resume! I am fantastically lucky on this one.
-Apply to instrument builders as well as repair-ers => looking into builders etc. for the future ie: Rath Trombones.
-Practice Udhvareta/date platonically => hmm…
-Observe Budget => livin on the cheap and saving 50% of what i make counts!
-Keep up with friends and famliy (letters/phone)
-1 or more Calls for entry for arts career
-Settle for at least a year (two!)
-Plan Loan repayment
-Live as frugally as possible (yes!)

REVISED 5 year:

2010 (27 y.o.):
-prepare stay put for another year, build a home
-build a reputation as a good new technician by practicing patience, care and open mindedness.
-Take refuge in the Buddha, the Sanga and the Dharma
-Visit with Family and Friends whenever possible
-2010: Make my health and fitness a priority
-Find a way to pay loans down by age 30
-2010: garden! grow things! assist in the proliferation of life! take care!
-2010 play all the brass instruments competently to be a better technician
-Keep and open mind to relationships with people who you’re confident about, be vigilant about your happiness and worth.

2011 (28 y.o.):
-Find Home and plan to move there.
-Pay down loans AND have a life
-Love my job
-Keep learning (Grad School?)
-NAPBIRT RENO 2011
-Open RRSP/401k
-Make a difference in my community
-Succeed in winning an award of recognition, a solo show at a gallery/exhibition or an international artists residency
-Be acclaimed acknowledged or written about by a professional publication.

Portfolio of formal work including examples of
-installation,
-Community project/workshop/interactive seminar
-prototypical industrial design objects,
kinetic work,
-sketches for future development,
-3 good examples of sculptural millinery
-small functional works including bells and/or horns,
-an etsy site and/or ITG add for custom designed and sculpted trumpet wkeys/ finger rings or thumbrests

2012 (29 y.o.):
-live somewhere
-Be on the edge of paying down debts to embark on new career options
-Evolve your own craft process by teaching a course or becoming involved in a community project
-look at taking on a new challenge by starting own business or taking over an existing shop

2013 (30 y.o.):
-Be established in your community and field, have a safe place from which to take wonderful risks!
-Make a commitment to a partner or child and stand behind it, if it hasn’t already come up.
-Find a way of keeping up with the ladies, they are wonderful and important people in your life no matter where everyone is living!

This is where i would like to be in the next few years:

2008 (25y.o.):
-Study and Excell in BIRT program
-Enjoy the city
-Make 2 good friends here in seattle
-Practice Udvareta
-Observe Budget
-Research Places I’d like to work
-1 or more Calls for Entry for arts career

2009 (26 y.o.):
-Graduate in top 10% of class
-Find a job in an exciting new place
-Apply to instrument builders as well as repair
-Practice Udhvareta/date platonically
-Observe Budget
-Keep up with friends and famliy (letters/phone)
-1 or more Calls for entry for arts career

2010 (27 y.o.):
-Plan Loan repayment
-Live as frugally as possible
-Settle for at least a year
-Have a pet
-Be open to relationships
-Plan a trip with mom for her retirement
-Visit family
-Open RRSP/401k
-2 or more CFE’s
-Apply to artists residency

2011 (28 y.o.):
-Find Home and move there
-Pay down loans AND have a life
-Love my job
-Begin thinking about a family
-Be in a relationship with someone who loves me too

2012 (29 y.o.):
-Be debt free
-have a solo show
-Make a commitment to my partner
-Adopt a child if affordable

all i want to think about RIght now, is going to school, and focusing on that…
But when i start school i know i’m going to need something to look forward to other than bills and potential jobs..

So i’m going to figure out how to make a five year plan, i’m going to determine goals not expectations for myself and have that in my back pocket so i don’t start drifting off into the land of ‘should i’...
as in:
Should i apply for an artists residency?
Should i apply for grad school?
Should i be dating again?
Should i travel?

I’d rather have some limits on the options so as to get to a point where i can comfortably do those things and commit to them in a positive way without sacrificing my career.