Comic Geeks Unite New Year Plan for 2015 (Part 1)

It’s that time of year again. Time to set goals to accomplish during this new year. For those who don’t know I wanna take a moment to explain that a few years ago I stopped making New Year’s Resolutions because to me resolutions are temporary and most don’t make it past March. I make goals so that I have a to do list that I have a year to get done.

Let’s take a sec to look at last year’s goals:

1) Try to make it to more events. (I want to carry this one over)
2) Do or get heavily involved in a geek event
3) Continue to work on my correspondence like when you guys send me stuff and keeping up with the page
4) Get a decent website up and running
5) Do a cosplay calendar
6) Spread the word about CGU
7) Never miss an opportunity to chat or hang with my geeky brethren
8) Now that I've started a blog, keep up with it.
I didn’t too horrible in keeping up with those goals. I didn’t get the website going, I wasn’t able to finish the cosplay calendar but I did start it, and I’ve been kinda lax about the blog here. One thing I did do last year to help ensure I met these goals was I took on a partner to help me run CGU so that I wasn’t spreading myself too thin.

My partner, Michael Conkright, and I have come up with a slightly different way of setting our goals and game plan for CGU for this year. The set up is called a CPR, which stands for Context, Purpose, and Results. In doing this we have also redefined the mission statement for Comic Geeks Unite. It also means that we are setting goals every 6 months. So this list of goals is what we hope to accomplish from January-June. In June we’ll evaluate what we’ve done and set new goals for June-December. So here goes:

Context (what we are at our core): Inspire geeks through fun

Purpose (our new mission statement): Comic Geeks Unite is to have a place where geeks can socialize, share interests, and express opinions without fear of being ridiculed or criticized.

Results (our goals):

• Whatever we do we break even monetarily
• Create a website
• Get sponsors for ads for the website
• Seek to do 6 educational workshops. (Even if I am unable to do them seek out 6 places to pitch the workshop idea)
• Talk to Chris Perry about being involved in the ANIMAINE convention
• Talk to Justin Labarge about setting up the website
• Attend at least 3 local shows, but if opportunity becomes available attend more
• We’re going to test a pod cast idea by launching 2 videos on YouTube for your feedback

Again keep in mind that this list of goals is only for the first 6 months. In June we’re going to re-evaluate these goals and create new ones. In the meantime if any of you have suggestions or things you would like to see from us here at Comic Geeks Unite let us know. After all we’re here for you, our fellow geeks.