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Dec
31
Making New Year Resolutions Stick
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With 2008 rolling in at midnight, a number of people are talking about resolutions for the new year. Some are sharing their own resolutions. Some are offering the advice to make very few resolutions because no one ever keeps them anyway, or they’re suggesting that resolutions by ignored all together.
I actually gave up on resolutions a couple of years ago because I was getting frustrated at not meeting them. Somehow, in the discussion that took place in my head, the resolutions were replaced with goals. It was no longer a case of, “I resolve to (some unfeasible feat).” It became, “This year, I’d like to (task), and this is how I’m going to do it.”
My goals for the new year became a to-do list, and I found myself more capable of doing what I wanted (except for when the program I was using to keep track of my to-do lists was no longer available to me because I migrated to a different OS before I discovered the joy that is Todoist).
So…don’t make resolutions for 2008. Really think about where you’d like to be a year from now, and then set those goals, break them into smaller steps, and make them part of your to-do list (or a similar motivation tool). See how far you get!
Happy New Year’s!
Dec
30
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
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author: Jim Butcher
name: Rebecca
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 2007/12/30
shelves: borrowed, fantasy
review:
I haven’t been a fan of faeries since I started reading Irish mythology, so I guess it comes as no surprise that I wasn’t terribly enthused about a book that centered around a war between the Faerie Courts.
I did love Dresden’s battle cry as he was headed into that war, though.
Dec
30
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4)
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author: Jim Butcher
name: Rebecca
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 12/30/07
shelves: borrowed, fantasy
review:
I haven’t been a fan of faeries since I started reading Irish mythology, so I guess it comes as no surprise that I wasn’t terribly enthused about a book that centered around a war between the Faerie Courts.
I did love Dresden’s battle cry as he was headed into that war, though.
Dec
25
author: Frances Wall
name: Rebecca
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 2007/12/25
shelves: manga
review:
I can now see why the anime went where it did after these two seasons.
I also adore Kaiba even more now (if that’s even possible). Too bad Takahashi-sensei couldn’t bring certain other characters to that level of “well thought out”.
Dec
25
author: Frances Wall
name: Rebecca
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 12/25/07
shelves: manga
review:
I can now see why the anime went where it did after these two seasons.
I also adore Kaiba even more now (if that’s even possible). Too bad Takahashi-sensei couldn’t bring certain other characters to that level of “well thought out”.
Dec
23
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
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author: Jim Butcher
name: Rebecca
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 2007/12/23
shelves: borrowed, fantasy
review:
This one wasn’t my cup of tea. It felt like it repeated itself ad nauseum in places, and that got tiresome quickly. Explanations also didn’t feel completed at any point in the story.
Dec
23
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)
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author: Jim Butcher
name: Rebecca
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 12/23/07
shelves: borrowed, fantasy
review:
This one wasn’t my cup of tea. It felt like it repeated itself ad nauseum in places, and that got tiresome quickly. Explanations also didn’t feel completed at any point in the story.
Dec
23
Taking a break
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With it being the ever-fun, ever-crazy holiday season, I’ve decided to reduce a small bit of the demands on my time by putting this little cluster of websites on hiatus through the holidays.
Please go forth and have a wonderful holiday, regardless of what you celebrate. Take time to be with the people you care about and to reach out to those you can’t be with.
Happy holidays! See you in January!
Dec
21
The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation
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author: Matthew E. May
name: Rebecca
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 2007/12/21
shelves: borrowed, business, creativity
review:
I’m a pretty strong problem solver and creative thinker in my own right, and I came away with a number of good ideas from this book. I especially liked comparing the lifecycle of an idea to the Scientific Method. I’ve known from my own work that there’s a definite process to ideas, but I really hadn’t thought about how that process worked.
I think anybody would benefit from reading this book.
Dec
21
The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation
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author: Matthew E. May
name: Rebecca
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 12/21/07
shelves: borrowed, business, creativity
review:
I’m a pretty strong problem solver and creative thinker in my own right, and I came away with a number of good ideas from this book. I especially liked comparing the lifecycle of an idea to the Scientific Method. I’ve known from my own work that there’s a definite process to ideas, but I really hadn’t thought about how that process worked.
I think anybody would benefit from reading this book.
