A Memoir - This Month Last Year - July 2019 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #PhotoYatra

Hi Friends,

July 2020 marks the 40 years of my existence on the Planet Earth and what a time to celebrate the same with the family within the structure of not able to go anywhere, not able to invite someone, not able to get any gifts or so and everything you are doing is for yourself. I also took time to clean out all the old stuff from my own collections along with taking out more than 600 posts from my blog for all those brands who are not part of my life now or have given me no benefits in the past too. The process is still not complete and will continue in August and September till it's as fresh as Spring Clean. 

I could not do any of the blog posts during July 2020 as I got into a new project for Australia from South Africa and the time difference is too much. The coordination between the various team in three separate continents is taking up all the time I have. I kept thinking about all the posts I should do and can do but the energy levels kept me to cover the sleep I need to take to be fully awake for the job. Another aspect was that I am not earning any money from all this extra-curricular activity so the priority got reduced automatically though I am passionate about all the social media aspect and sharing my knowledge and skills. 

After taking out all the posts, ironically in the month of July 2019, only 1 post remains to belong to Prima Toys launch event which I really enjoyed. They always have a kind of annual event in the month of July as Christmas in Summers but this time they changed the name and invited us for a lavish lunch. 

@PrimaToys Launches #Fortnite #BattleRoyale Figurine Collection #PrimaToys #BringingTheFUN - https://www.thelifesway.com/2019/07/primatoys-launches-fortnite.html I am not a Fortnite fan but I really loved the toys with all the details and the ability to replicate the video game in real life with these small figurines. Last I heard they became really popular amongst all the people who collect this kind of stuff. 

I kept thinking about whether to write this post or shall cancel the series altogether but then I thought that this is something which helps me connect the dots and also I shall start a new series to take you through all the recent courses, books and audiobooks I read and found valuable during the month. Soon I will start sharing about all those online courses I keep attending either on Youtube, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, Coursera and SkillShare from time to time. 

Cheers!!!

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A Memoir - This Month Last Year - July 2018 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #BirthdayBoy

Hi Friends, 

July will remain always my favorite month as I was born in this month and every year I look forward to making it my best month of the year. This year I did spend a lot of money on the things I always wanted in my life and my family too showered me with gifts of their choice which I totally loved. I did win a contest with Aquelle but the prize is still to arrive so I am not sure what they will send me. 

1. A Memoir - This Month Last Year - July 2017 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #1550Post - http://www.thelifesway.com/2018/07/a-memoir-this-month-last-year-july-2017.html - Last year when I posted this blog post for July 2017 it was my 1550th post and this year this one will be 1765th post on my blog. I think the next year it will be very less movement as I will move more towards video blogging as compared to the pen and paper. 

2. Product Review - @HuaweiZA P20 #SeeMooore #HuaweiP20 #ArtificialIntelligence - http://www.thelifesway.com/2018/07/product-review-huaweiza-p20-seemooore.html - Last year I was using this review unit by Huawei and totally loved taking it around the city. The portrait photographs looked too cool just from the smartphone and posted thousands of them on the social media networks. Now I am using Huawei P20 Pro which is also an awesome smartphone and my wife wants to use it now. 

3. Product Review - @SamsungMobileSA Galaxy S9 #DoWhatYouCant #GalaxyS9 @SamsungSA - http://www.thelifesway.com/2018/07/product-review-samsungmobilesa-galaxy.html - Last year I received this awesome smartphone from Samsung for 2 weeks review and I took the same to Badplaas Forever Resorts and totally loved the same. The photos on this device are totally out of this world that's why I think they call them GALAXY smartphones! 

4. Product Review - @NokiaMobile Nokia 6.1 #AndroidOne #NokiaMobileZA #Nokia61 @HMDGlobal - http://www.thelifesway.com/2018/07/product-review-nokiamobile-nokia-61.html - Nokia relaunched themselves in South Africa and I got to review one of their smartphones and the other one they sent, was left in the mailroom till the end of review period as they never called me and Nokia PR company never told me that they sent it. Totally missed the opportunity to use the Nokia 7 plus because of this miscommunications. 

I did several other product reviews last July and this July in 2019, I took a break from all social media channels and focussed on enjoying my life. 

5. A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Jun 2017 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay - http://www.thelifesway.com/2018/07/a-memoir-this-month-last-year-jun-2017.html - I totally love writing for this series of blog posts and share what happened that month of the year. I might be late to do so in many months but I try to be consistent and now onwards I will try to stick to a schedule. More and More I analyze these posts, I feel sad that I did so many posts for all these brands for free and they are not calling me to their events too. Some of them have never sent any goodies, press drops at all and when asked for the same, they totally stop all communications. This world of PR and blogging is such a mean world and you need to have a thick skin to carry on going in this one! 

Many thanks for all your love and blessing in my birthday month for all the wishes on facebook, WhatsApp and other channels of communications. Many thanks to my family and friends for all their great gifts and thoughts about my celebrations. One of my close friends told me that, I will be double Naughty at 40 because I am already Naughty! I am sure I will surpass his expectations! 

Cheers!!!

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