What is New Year's resolution? According to Wikipedia, "a New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, such as opening doors for people beginning from New Year's Day^."

While everyone around you is thinking about what their resolutions will be, it's impossible to forget that another year has come and gone. But self-improvement don’t always have an arsenal of bad habits to give up, and forcing it doesn’t seem like the best way to enjoy the coming year. Below are my new year resolution as a designer:

1. Update resume & portfolio to meet industry standards
2. Take some times to inspire
3. Go against the grain & don’t follow design trends
4. Simplify your life & simplify your design.
5. Redesign something just for fun
6. Learn the basics of copywriting, advertising and marketing
7. Try out some sort of new online social media.
8. Take an extra class about design
9. Save for that dream computer I’ve always wanted
10. Try a color scheme I have never even imagined
11. Embrace Failure & don’t be afraid to make mistakes
12. Save more money!!!!