They say you learn something new every day. I’m going to see if I can try to choose the something new I learn every day, at least for the month of May 2011.

Each spring, I feel the urge to start on a new type of project, to try to be the best I can be at that thing, and get an accomplishment under my belt. Sometimes it works out well, and sometimes it has inadvertent consequences (like the time I decided to listen to all of the music on my iPod until it was completed without musical interruptions). Perhaps it’s just my type A personality shining through, or perhaps it’s simply my desire to put together ambitious lists or projects and try to get through them while busy with life and everything else.

So this month of May, I’m planning on learning something new, starting with how to work my new iPhone. I had been putting off getting a new phone, but yesterday I made the plunge and picked up an iPhone. I’ve usually been pretty good about keeping up with and learning technology, but for whatever reasons, I had been waiting on upgrading my Cingular flip phone, which by it’s very definition shows you how dated it is. So I got a couple of apps for the types of stuff I normally use the web for, and I’m pretty confident that I don’t look like an amateur at this point. Still, no Angry Birds just yet.

I think the key to succeeding at learning something new every day, is to pick things that interest me, as well as things I’ve been avoiding learning for lack of a forced instruction. I figured I’d blog about it, so that way I and others can look back at the types of things I’ve learned, and figure out how we all can improve the lives we live.