My New Year's Resolutions -- But Will They Last?

T'is the season for good intentions. So here are my attempts at New Year's resolutions:

1. Rev up my marketing by:
   
   
   
   • writing one outside article/guest blog post per month
     
   • sending five marketing e-mails per month to new prospects or people contacting me for the first time
     
   • keeping to a stricter blog schedule: every Wednesday night/Thursday morning
     
   • attending one networking event a month
     
   • adding one new page to my website (in both languages) each quarter
     


2. Better track clients by:
   
   
   
   • purchasing and learning customer-relationship management software (contrary to my earlier post -- more on that later)
     
   • entering potential clients in the software within one day of a new contact (e-mail, phone)
     
   • mailing brochure to such potential clients within 2 days of a new contact
   
   


3. Enhance my knowledge by:
   
   
   
   • learning Trados (now that I have the software)
     
   • improving my Spanish by reading Spanish texts twice a week
     
   • attending one training event/lecture a month on average
     


4. Increase my marketability by:
   
   
   
   • getting ATA certified in German-English
     
   • finding other translators to collaborate with
     
   • getting Trados certified
     
   • learning PowerPoint in detail
     


5. Increase my productivity by:
   
   
   
   • training Dragon Naturally Speaking and actually using it
     
   • learning to use software I own more efficiently (Trados, customer relationship, Dragon, ...)
     

I have started on a few of these already, but it will take quite a bit of time and energy to actually stick to them. Let's see how much of this I have accomplished by, say, June ...

Now I just have to find time to actually translate, too!