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New Year’s Resolutions!

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December 30, 2009

Much like the way I do Christmas — that is all at once and nothing at all — is the way I do New Year’s Eve. Last year I made a couple resolutions on the actual ringing in of the New Year. But, in general, during the year, something random I want to accomplish will pop into my head and I’ll write it down on my goal list.

However, I’d like to actually do more resolutions today since I was pretty successful accomplishing what I set out to do in 2009 — be a better wife, check, save 25k more (well we actually saved less than 25k but that goal was keeping our travel plans in mind for the start of 2010, so when we stopped saving in July to travel this year we were right on track with how much we should have had) check, shoot 12 weddings, and MARK. The biggie failure that I had resolved for myself sometime in Feb. was to run a marathon.

So. Numero dos on my list for 2010 is:

Run. A. Marathon.

Particulars: The Chicago Marathon with one of my best friends from high school, YAY!

Numero uno is actually:

Don’t. Die. After this 2009 craziness I definitely don’t take breathing in and breathing out for granted.

And of then we have numero tres on my list for 2010:

Work a set schedule. To put it mildly, I need to learn how not to be bat-shit crazy. Tough. See, the thing is that I have no off button. For the last 4 days, literally, the moment I woke up, I went to the computer, started working, and didn’t stop until I went to bed. I love my work, and I mean LOVE my work. When I’m feeling down my clients and their pictures and my work are what bring me back. Well, Seba does too, but lucky for me, he’s completely included in every sense of the words, “my work.” It’s just hard for me to stop, ever, even though I know that a little down time is probably healthy, even good for my creativity. So my goal is to work no more than 10 hours of a normal day and to take 2 consecutive days off at any given point during the week.

Last, and slightly contradictory to the above, but probably most important after the whole don’t die issue, is:

Grow our photography business. This year I shot 15 weddings and booked 10 more. Next year I would like to shoot a total of 25 weddings. That sounds like a random number but it’s actually the amount of weddings we will need to live comfortably, pay our mortgage (that we don’t have yet, but will as soon as we find an apartment) and pay for Marcelo’s tuition.

I have a lot of very specific ideas that we need to get rolling that should help with exposure which will hopefully lead to more clients, both in Chile, Argentina and in the U.S. They’re all ideas though, that take a lot of work. So my goal is to work on all these marketing goals from start to finish of all of 2010. The incomparable Jasmine Star once said something that really stuck with me (in the DVD that the also incomparable Bobby Earle sent me) with regards to marketing (paraphrased), “Marketing is like lifting a chair. There is no ‘I’m kinda lifting the chair.’ When it comes to marketing, you’re either lifting the chair or you’re NOT lifting the chair.”

I am going to lift the chair. Watch me. My name is actually Kyle Hercules Hepp and I can lift mad chair.

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  1. Wow! Thats so awesome you want to run a marathon! That has been a life goal for me, not just a year goal ha ha! But I keep putting it off until the next year…and the next year…etc…I keep thinking I dont have enough time to train. Maybe I should just be like you and say, Okay…next year Im running a marathon…Good luck!!!

    Comment by Lucie — December 31, 2009 @ 3:54 am

  2. Kyle, Happy New Year 2010~!

    Comment by shue — December 31, 2009 @ 5:03 am

  3. Prospero año nuevo!

    Comment by Adina — December 31, 2009 @ 7:42 am

  4. Kyle, here's to pacing yourself both in your life and in your upcoming marathon! Happy 2010!

    Comment by Ritamae39 — December 31, 2009 @ 11:53 am

  5. The Chicago one is in Sept. or Oct….close enough that your friends and family from Canada could come cheer you on. Just saying :)

    Comment by kyleracine — December 31, 2009 @ 1:14 pm

  6. Happy New Year to you too Shue!

    Comment by kyleracine — December 31, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

  7. Para ti tambien Adina!

    Comment by kyleracine — December 31, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

  8. thank you Mama, happy 2010 to you too!

    Comment by kyleracine — December 31, 2009 @ 1:16 pm

  9. Great list girl!!! And good luck on the marathon!!! I'm considering doing this too in 2010, although I think I'm going to try for a half first…. Barcelona in February, wanna come???

    HAPPY NEW YEAR GIRL!!
    Fned.

    Comment by Fned — January 1, 2010 @ 7:04 am

  10. That sounds very much like a yodaism. “do or don't do, there is no try.”

    A marathon! You crazy egg! You go girl.

    Comment by Decoybetty — January 1, 2010 @ 1:10 pm

  11. I totally forgot about New Year's Resolutions! Whoa. I need to figure this out. I like your goal of running a marathon. I runa bout two miles and I'm wheezing and hacking. Good luck!

    Comment by sara — January 2, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

  12. planning on running the santiago 1/2 marathon again? :)
    Ryan and I are going to do that this year! :D

    Comment by Allison — January 3, 2010 @ 7:55 pm

  13. planning on running the santiago 1/2 marathon again? :)
    Ryan and I are going to do that this year! :D

    Comment by Allison — January 4, 2010 @ 3:55 am

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