My New Year Resolutions for 2010

Hi there! Another year has come and gone, and 2009 was a great year for me personally. There were plenty of good things that happened in my life during this period, but not such a great year professionally though.  Since we’re getting to that time of year again when everyone starts to think about their New Year plans, I’ve come up with a few ideas for my New Year’s Resolutions. In 2010, I will…

• Make my portfolio page ready.
• Read at least 2 articles or blog-posts related to web/graphic design each day.
• Do more research on typography techniques, learn all about serifs, side-bearings, kerning etc in detail and design my own professional quality font.
• Brush-up my PHP-Mysql skills and develop some simple innovative web application.
• Design my own Wordpress / Drupal theme from scratch and share it free.
• Do more research on Ray-tracing and create my own POV image using POV-ray.
• Learn JQuery and implement it in my projects.
• Do more research on usability and try to implement it practically in my projects.
• Acquire more in-depth practical knowledge in GIMP, and get enough confident to survive in a world without photoshop. Design a new webpage mockup completely using GIMP.
• Design a new theme for my blog breaking all conventional UI design rules, using weird color combinations. And then review the response from the design community.
• Learn more about professional photography. Create a photo-blog for my mobile photos, and update it regularly with a new photo everyday if possible.
• Concentrate more on mobile phone browser friendly web page designing.
• Update this blog regularly with a minimum of 3 posts each month.
• Be more active on all major social networking sites.
• Find time for family, Outing / eat-out with family at least once in a month.
• Make sure to get at least 7 hours of continuous sleep every night.
• Do regular exercising and never skip my breakfast again.

Now that the goal setting part is over, lemme see how it goes…