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Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell is a Microsoft SQL Server consultant, speaker, and trainer, and is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. He has been working with SQL Server for over 7 years, working primarily in business intelligence, ETL/SSIS, reporting, and database development. You can find his complete profile at TimMitchell.net.

Goals for 2009

I don’t do resolutions - they’re cliché, overdone, and rarely stick.  However, I’m a believer in setting goals and periodic progress points, and making goals public is proven to increase the chance of success.  I blogged a couple of months back that I was committed to sharpen my skills and increase my participation in the SQL Server community, and so far I’m doing fairly well at sticking with it.

There were a couple of items I didn’t address in my previous set of goals, so here goes:

-- Average twenty forum posts each week.  I’ve skimped on forum participation recently and need to get back in the groove here.
-- Have lunch or drinks with 12 new people.  By “new people”, I mean folks that I have either met this year, or people who I was already acquainted with but had not yet dined with.
-- Earn the MCITP certification in SQL Server Business Intelligence.

As an update, I’ve already booked one of the three speaking engagements on my November list – I’ll be presenting at SQL Saturday in Tampa in a couple of weeks.  I’m a little late on my article for SQL Server Central, but I’m ahead of schedule for my JumpstartTV videos – I’ve already submitted four of them.  I’ll continue to present progress updates.

Comments

Posted by Dugi on 11 January 2009

Enough engagement Tim for you, so I wanted to ask you will you in PASS EU in Germany! 22-24 April 2009!

Posted by Steve Jones on 12 January 2009

Post these on your wall, or set a monthly reminder in Outlook and see how you do.

Let us know how things go and I've be interested to hear how the progress is going, especially with #2.

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