Hello World. I'm Back to Thinking.
That's not to say I stopped thinking. That would just be sad. I suddenly stopped sharing "doses" of my thoughts here and instead shared only 140 character or less snippets here.
But on to the good news: I'm back! [Cue: Backstreet Boy's Everybody (Backstreet's Back)].
Lots has changed since I was here last. For starters, I'm full-time employed now! After a long year of applying for internships and jobs, networking, living the college life, graduating, moving home, missing the college life, interning, interviewing, buying an adult wardrobe, visiting college friends, getting a full time job with a real cubicle, and going on my first business trip, 2010 is over. Phew.
So onwards and upwards, here's what you can expect of me both personally and professionally in 2011 (in no particular order):
Online/Digital:
- Redesign on my digital profiles including, but not limited to: this blog, my Flavors.Me (do I need an About.Me too?), Linked In, resume etc.
- Write frequently.
- I want to post at least 3-4x a month here. I plan to feature more start-up interviews and a few series.
- I'm going to strive to guest blog more often. I'm even creating a dream list of outlets and folks I'd like to write for.
- Continue freelance consulting.
- Use social media for social good to give back to a community or a cause.
- Contribute more often to discussions in communities I'm already a part of like Carol Phillip's Millennial Marketing Super Consumer Community, Sarah Evans Sevans Network, #pr20chat and #u30pro.
- Co-host a Twitter chat. I have no idea what about though.
Offline:
- Attend more digital, PR, social media and gen y conferences. Be invited to speak at one. *Crossing my fingers I attend SxSw.
- Be more charitable.
- Live a healthier lifestyle (I know, this one is uber cliche, but it's a true goal): sleep more, eat better, drink more water and less coffee and actually use my gym membership.
- Like the girl scout motto I leanred when I was eight, make new friends, but keep the old. Even though I tweet, Facebook, Gchat, text and email everyday, I'm not great at keeping in touch, but I'm working on it.
- Travel. With limited vacation days, I still plan to get out of my routine 4x this year to visit friends/family.
I'm sure there are a ton of other goals I have floating around my head, but this is what I've got for now. And with that, I leave you with Leonardo da Vinci's popular quote:
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
