Last year, rather than make a bunch of specific resolutions that  I wasn’t going to keep I decided to make one larger global resolution that would affect lots of different aspects of my life. My resolution was simple:

Try new things

I had a great year full of lots of new things. Some of those included:

• Lots of new food I may normally shy away from including chicken hearts, venison tenderloin and clams
• Running my first marathon
• Growing a full beard
• Speaking at HOW Conference
• Biking to work every day for a full 5 day week
• Playing my first RPG
• Going to a Jane Austen era ball (in costume)
• And lots and lots of other amazing things!

I kept track of each new thing I did in my favorite cloud note keeper Evernote, which made it easy to update from wherever I happened to be at the moment of the new experience.

This year I plan to keep that same goal of trying new things and keeping track of them. I’ve also got another goal:

Create (for free)

All of my design clients just got excited. Sorry - I’m not talking about doing your work for free I’m talking about art, video, animation, music, etc. I’ve got tons of creative projects in my head that I have never started on because there is no income potential. My goal this year is to forget about the money and just create. It should be an interesting experiment and I’m excited to see how it goes.

I will of course be posting any creative endeavors I complete here for you, my undying fans.

As a concluding and somewhat related note, I’m also participating in Project 52 which is a cool challenge created by Anton Peck, based on creating fresh web content on your blog/site weekly. Thus you should see a lot more of my musings here. If you’ve got a blog, or have always wanted to start one, sign up!

Update - 3/3/2010: In case you didn’t notice, my aspirations of a blog post a week didn’t quite happen. LOL. It’s been a busy couple months. Project 52 is an awesome group though with lots of cool bloggers and awesome content. Maybe next year I’ll be one of them…

Cheers and happy new year!