2010
Do we welcome it, or does it welcome us? Anyway, I'd like to welcome you to the latest installment the DESIGNINGJOE monthly newsletter. (click here for archives)

Starting...
Everyone resolves to start doing something in the new year – exercising, eating right...
I'll finish this thought later...

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Starting...
...ok, what was I saying? Oh yeah, starting things in the new year. It seems the emphasis is always to start something – start eating better, start exercising, start reading more, start something creative, and so the list goes. These are all good things. Nobody I know of resolves to start the new year off with a desire to eat worse, be rude(r), or beat the dog.
If you think about it, starting something is easy. But what about finishing? How many people say their new year's resolution is to finish something? Who cares if you started Moby Dick? Did you finish it? Did you finish that painting? That morning exercise session? That journal entry? Granted, some things, such as eating better, have no finish-point, but there are steps within that goal that do have a finish-point.
In the Pink Floyd song TIME, Roger Waters eloquently expressed the common fate of good intentions – "Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines."
I do believe I'm finished. For now...

Would love to know what you'll be finishing!