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10 ways to actually achieve your new years resolution this year

New Years Countdown

Ready for Y2K version .08? First thing’s first: find some lucky devil to plant one on at the stroke of midnight. Then, lose 30 pounds, learn Mandarin, get a promotion, and spend every minute with your family and friends.

A little overwhelming? Unless you’re Superman, I think you might need a plan.

Every January 1st we make resolutions and every mid-February we’re stuffing our face with cake and don’t regret it until May. So, why is it so hard to just achieve our new year’s goals every year? Because we’re human. Yep, that’s right. Human.

So, to combat our fallibility, we need a few easy ways to keep on track of our goal for a happier and healthier year. Here’s the top 10 countdown to keep your new years resolution on track.

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Today I Turn 22!

21 seems like only yesterday.

Today is my 22nd birthday and I want to thank my readers, subscribers, commenters, nay-sayers, lurkers, members, praisers, people who are much more successful than I, people who are much less successful than I, and people who are relatively just as successful as I. For every word and every line helps the community grow, learn, and find their own path.

So, thanks!

And now, 22 things that happened on this day in history:

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Is good design just a formula?

Good Design Formula

Are trends just the lazy way to design? Each new wave of “cool” brings a new wave of cookie-cutter designs. Is the art of design so fickle that originality is shunned for the “do what works” mentality?

It’s understandable that a specific designer has a style or a signature. However, it is bizarre that an entire culture will follow a design trend almost unwittingly. For the case of Web 2.0, we’ve definitely struck a design nerve and a style for this generation of the web. I don’t have to show you the design similarities between websites vastly different in content from each other, as I’m sure you’re inundated with them every minute you spend online.

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