I’ve seen several people I follow on Twitter mention “three words for 2010.”  It sounded like an interesting mental exercise, coming up with three words, and only three words, to define what you want to focus on in the coming year.  Here’s my take on it.

My three words: Reading, Building, Growing.

Reading – I love to read, but I haven’t been doing enough of it in the last couple of years.  I only read about half as many books as I wanted to in 2009.  It’s such an enriching and enjoyable thing to do, and I need to spend more time doing it.

Building – This one has two meanings.  One, I want to build more things with my hands.  I have a list a mile long of things I want to build this year, and I’m eager to get started.  Two, I want to build (nurture?) my relationships with people.  Friends, family, colleagues.  Turn acquaintances into friends.  That sort of thing. (An aside: I’m curious to see how much these two parts of Building will overlap.)

Growing – Growing as a person, becoming a better human.  I expect Reading and Building to feed Growing quite a lot, but it’ll also have areas of intent all its own.