Goal Setting on Route ???

Saw a bus on the way to work this morning. One of those new ones with the destination scrolling past in bright neon lights. Really impressive - ready for 2010 I guess. Had a look at where it was going it said,  - ROUTE ???? -



That's it, that is all it said! I was still laughing when I walked into the office.  I remember a joke once of Alice in Wonderland talking to the Rabbit. "I don't know where I am going", she says. "Well", he says, "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably get there!" So many of us just wander "aimlessly' though life hoping by chance to fall into a new adventure, a new direction or that others will come and take us by the hand and lead us there without too much effort on our part.



Maybe my left side is too dominating at times - but honestly - 'if I dream a dream and see the vision' then I come right back to earth and start planning ways, to make the dream reality. That is what we all do right? No dream is unreachable - some may take longer than others to achieve, some visions may not be suitable for now - but down the line in a year or two, why not? I mean you don't have visions about something out of line with what you are busy with. Most of mine will add value to what I am already doing. Ok - some may be new, but they will still enhance those things I have a passion for. We do not have to create an audience or try to find one, 'if we meet needs' they will come in response to that with minimum advertising from our side. I really needed money for projects at my church - which is really poor. "There must be someone who will help - I mean the Internet community is massive". Well it took 3 years but twenty thousand rand later, and stock still streaming in, I met all my dreams and more.


I enjoy doing short, medium and long term planning - that way the challenge is always fresh, and the goals like a carrot keep me moving forward.


Friday I have to give a presentation on how I think we can use some of the Web 2.0 tools in a library environment to stop our library as an information supplier from falling off the bus. (Definitely the one going to ROUTE ???). I can't be there - have a camp to attend, so now I am busy working up a script and then I am going over to Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLwT) here at TUT. They have access to Camtasia - I am going to let them create a short Flash video on my feedback and send the DVD to the meeting. LOL. I can just see it - "and now we have Denyse with feedback for us on Web 2.0 - 'push play Sally' "!! I love technology.



Man and then I still have to help persuade the Librarians to create a blog presence with RSS feeds for the diplomas they cover, with a few other ideas I am dreaming up.

"Beam me up Scotty", I think we are ready to move this library into hyperspace after all.