I’m normally not one for making New Year Resolutions simply because I know I wouldn’t be able to follow through with them. By posting them here, it’s my hope that I can use this post as a prolonged ‘To-Do’ list for the new year and be a gentle reminder that I always have something I could be working on. Between now and Dec. 31st, I’m going to be adding things to this post as they come to me. I know some of these resolutions will require the help of other people, so I’ll need to step out of my comfort zone a bit and be more willing to ask for help from my peers. Hopefully, by the end of 2010 I will have made some headway on this pesky things and be a better person for it.

2010 New Year’s Resolutions

• Find a mentor to help round out my underdeveloped design skills
• Design and Build a website
• Present on UX at a conference again
• Write more on this blog
• Organize a charity donation for Childhood Leukemia in honor of my cousin Lily
• Create an online outlet to write short stories
• Take my wife on a great vacation
• Attend interactions, IA Summit, and IDEA
• Try to teach my son something valuable (Going to be a challenge since he will be an infant/toddler)
• Solidify the UX Community in St. Louis (If interested in helping please let me know)
• Speak on UX at a local college or university
• Write more for Johnny Holland
• Learn from my numerous failures in 2009
• Cut the number of Twitter friends that I haven’t met down
• Learn how to be a better amateur photographer with my Nikon D40