Five Year Plan: 20% done
Part Two – What’s next?

So, as listed yesterday, the first year of that five year plan is completed. There’s still some work to be done on finishing off the foundations of it all, but everything is so far pretty much on track, which is a fairly impressive achievement in itself. (well, for me, anyway)

The problem with the next year of the plan (such as it is) is that a lot of it is either

1. Hard to explain
2. Related to business plans, which I (for obvious reasons) don’t want to bang on about here before I’ve got them started
3. Dependent upon other occurrences, or on (to some degree) a bit of luck/chance
4. All of the above

This means that the list is almost certainly going to be rather less exhaustive than last year’s one- and God knows, that one was no masterpiece of detail. So this is more an ‘overview’ than a list, and to some degree I also find that rather harder to keep track of and fulfil, due to the nature of the beast. I’ve got more detailed lists of plans and ideas carried around in an ‘off-line’ format- OK, OK, it’s all in my Filofax, which should probably be renamed “my Book of Lists and Notes”. (MBOLAN, or ‘T-rex’ for short))

So anyway, the basic ‘shell’ list is going to be something like this:

1. Photography
   • Take more photos
   • Put the good ones in the portfolio site
   • Work on a couple of projects/themes
   • Possibly do a redesign of the portfolio site to fit in more with ‘brand ‘image’
   • Submit portfolio site and photos to various interested parties
   • Possibly make more use of Flickr, although that one’s a bit of a “don’t know”
   • Pull more attention to the portfolio site
2. Business
   • Redesign/redevelop business website with a CMS etc.
   • Look at sorting out a proper business bank account
   • Keep generating new work
   • Continue with current work and clients
   • Get new contract – the one with the current place will definitely expire in ’08, due to tax/IR35 reasons
   • Work on developing new sites and business ideas
   • Minimise outgoings, increase incoming money
3. Writing
   • Realistically? Get one solid idea written and done, if only for the head-space
   • Optimistically? Get two solid ideas written and done.
4. House stuff
   • House alterations
     • Bathroom
     • Kitchen extension/upgrade
   • Garden alterations/work
     • Veg patch
     • Front garden/driveway
     • Main lawn etc.
     • Borders, beds, blah blah

And that’ll do for now. Like I said, it’s fairly “open”, but that’s still a fair old list from the look of it. I’m going to be a busy boy…