I have promised to look at my goals for 2009 and share them with you.  You can see my assessment of last year’s goals on Assessing My Goals for 2008.  As expected, many of my assessments of how I did go right into what I want to do this year. You will note that several categories of what I have been doing have been dropped.

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Local Art Networking

• Continue on the board of Fostering the Arts to build the creative economy
• Artists of Franklin County – focus on supporting new leadership
• AWE Project (Artists Window Exhibit) for Spring and once or twice more.  We are expanding the artist and store base, and I am focusing on sharing responsibility and empowering others to step up.
• Maintain the art sales I have locally and be open to new ones
• Much of my focus this year will be in streamlining this time

Online Sales

• Expanding my offerings in the (many) various stores where I offer my work.  Continuing to offer more images on added merchandise.
• Maintaining these shops
• Continuing to tweak my presentation
• Consolidate rather than continue to expand (mostly)
• Increase sales

Networking

• Continue my leadership roles in the art networking I do
• Continue to empower people to take over more responsibility
• Continue to develop as an artist
• Figure out how to leverage all the networking I have done – and the building of trust and knowing me – into more sales

Licensing

• Assess whether I want to pursue licensing and decide whether offering my paintings on merchandise fulfills my purpose of having my art widely available
• Seriously assess whether my work would be licensable by companies

Graphic Design & Web Design Clients

• Continue with clients as they come along

Rework My Website and Blog

• Rework the blog to make the sidebar shorter and put the info onto pages instead
• Add galleries of new work to my website (particularly bubblescapes as has been requested)
• Continue to add technology – in moderation

Create Lots of Art

• Continue to play and create
• Get back into the studio to work with traditional mediums
• Stay in my creative channel
• Go to another level

Health, Harmony & Well-Being

• Move my life forward
• Gently continue to move my life into total harmony
• Live with joy, excitement and love
• Simplify and clarify
• Learn to make decisions more efficiently

Thank you for being in this journey with me in my life as an artist.  It helps me stay focused to know that I am sharing this path with others … both artists and fans.  I would love to hear your thoughts … both about my life and yours … and the world.  Thank you for coming by!

~ Diane Clancy

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