- Make reservations to have a romantic evening with your sweetie. Check the Planbook, man, and keep your priorities straight!
- File for office if your deadline is in February – you should have checked on this in January; if you didn’t, go look it up real quick! Remember, it’s usually better to wait.
- Start forming your ‘inner circle.’ These are people who are close to you and believe in you. These are not necessarily people who are big-time politicos in your area or high dollar fundraisers. If those groups overlap, great, but don’t mistake the party chair who’s pushing you to run for city council for your political BFF. He may want you to think he is, but he isn’t.
- Draw up a rough outline of your campaign plan. Now would be a good time to get the Campaign Planbook if you want a fill-in-the-blank easy, simple, straight-forward campaign planning solution.
- Breathe. It’s still flipping cold outside. There are no worthwhile public events on the horizon for months (unless the Knights of Columbus throw an awesome St. Patty’s day party like the one in my hometown). So don’t stress about being “the Candidate” just yet.
