Goals

I just thought of a new goal for myself: Read 5 books by the end of the year (2010).

In this information age, I feel like most of my time is spent on the internet. And I'm not sure what percentage of that time went to gmail and facebook and how much went to something that's actually productive.

I know I spend a good amount of time looking things up on the internet. But what do I look up? And are those things useful? According to Google web history, in the month of August, so far, I've made 789 queries.

The top 3 queries are:

1. dslr
2. canon d10
3. megan fox

Top sites:

1. en.wikipedia.org
2. answers.yahoo.com
3. wiki.answers.com

Apparently, I tend to search for answers to a lot of questions I have. But how useful are these answers? Is all learning useful? I can't really think of a reason why it wouldn't be useful. The reason I have questions is usually because:

• I don't understand something
• I want to find out more about something
• I want to verify something

So in that sense, finding the answer is useful, and helpful to me. Despite that, I feel like I'm lacking in the book-reading department. Since high school, I've honestly only read a handful of books. And I'm not saying the lack of the act of reading itself is a problem, but that I just feel like I'm missing out on so many awesome things by not reading.

Thus, this is my goal: 5 books by 12/31/2010. I don't think it's ambitious since I've started on a few. I guess we'll see how this goes!