One of my goals for 2010 is to read more.  Since receiving my masters, I can count the number of books I have read for pleasure on two hands.  This year I want to get back in the reading habit…partially as a way to break some of the other bad habits I’ve developed.

I am off to a good start so far.  It’s the midway point of January, and I have already completed three books.  My goal is to read 24 – or two per month.  I plan to post every book I read on the list below.
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As I began writing my first REAL New Years goals in about a decade, I came across a number of cool creative ideas for 2010.  Smashing Magazine was promoting their “Design Something Every Day!” challenge.  A couple friends decided to attempt Project365 photo-a-day on Flickr.  Plus there were my own personal goals to do more writing and web design in the new year.

Rather than focus on one of these challenges, I figured why not combine a bit of them all?  Therein lies my challenge for the new year.
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