After months of working on a strategic plan for the library, today we came together with our goals and action plans to put all the pieces into the same document. What hard work it was translating how each person thought into the same language! There are four overall goals and within each there are several projects to move us closer to becoming the library we wish to be.
Some people listed their projects as steps of an action plan while others took each project and listed every little detail from beginning to end. Some goals were dependent on the completion of other projects before they could be determined. Some action plans sounded more like wish lists, others were uncertain of the order.
We whittled away at things until we got a clear picture of the projects for year 1 of our plan, and they were in a logical and reasonable order. The fog began to lift. It was as if we focused the binoculars to clear up the fuzziness of the picture. We felt good after the hour and a half worth of work was completed.
It occurred to me that even a few weeks ago, I would not have had the focus to think about projects as much as five years out. I was still in the careful mode of taking each day on its own merits and handling things only when they became necessary.
How good it feels to not only be able to think about work far ahead, but to know that there is every expectation that I will be around to be involved in carrying it out! Hallelujah. A milestone to celebrate for sure.
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