Lately I've been reading Secrets of the Young & Successful - How to Get Everything You Want Without Waiting a Lifetime. It's been fairly inspirational and motivating. It doesn't have much new information (all the books tell you to set goals, network, learn outside of school, etc.), but I mainly read motivational books to get motivated. Most people know that you should set goals, but few actually do. Good motivational books make me start setting (and carrying out) goals. My new weblog helps with two of my goals. First it gets me writing more, which is something that I want to do. Also it helps me stay in touch with people (assuming that other people will read it). I know that I'm bad about staying in touch with people, whether they be old friends or family. I want to get better at it. I'm hoping this will help. Not the actual weblog per se; this isn't keeping in touch. This is just posting my life on the web. But hopefully as I'm writing, I will find things that I want to tell people, and then the next part of my goal is that I will actually tell them, by email or phone or whatever. And perhaps people who are reading my posts will find something interesting in my thoughts and ideas that they want to discuss with me, and then they will tell me, by email or phone or whatever.