New Year Resolutions - Week 22 Achievements & Failures in 2023 #TheLifesWay

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This is going to be the final week of the month of May-23 and so far I have been great in being consistent to post 5 YouTube shorts every day for this month. I got 209 new YouTube subscribers because of this effort with more than 150+ shorts on my channel. Some performed and some didn't but at least they can pick up sometime in future as well. That's the only hope I am living on that someday one of my videos will go viral and I will get the Silver Play Button from YouTube on my wall. 

1. Entertainment - It was the week of the TATA IPL 2023 Finals between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans. It was an entertaining match till the last ball and it was great to see Dhoni lift the cup once more to match Mumbai Indians 5 times being the winner of this tournament. 

I also watched a nice simple movie Kacchey Limbu which is about a gully cricket team being formed and how the team gets to the finals finding their lifepath along the way. Radhika Madan stars in the movie along with Ayush Mehra and Rajat Barmecha. 

Then I was eagerly waiting for the ASUR Season 2 and watched all the episodes on the 1st of June. The ending is again kept for the possibility of another season but this season also tells the story of the antagonist in detail. It's a one-time watch but as seen the first season brought a lot of thrill which I can't say about the second one at all. 

2. USA Dreams - My brother and sister-in-law got their US Passports after spending all their life on different continents. It was really great news and I totally loved that they got what they wanted but after a lot of sacrifice, struggle and effort along with the money spent on the same. 

3. YouTube Shorts - I completed 155+ short videos for this month and crossed 2050 subscribers on my channel. Thanks to YouTube Shorts for taking me past 200+ subscribers in a single month of May 2023. The last time I crossed 200 subscribers was in the month of May 2022 when I did 207 in a single month. This time it was 209 subscribers in a single month. Thanks a lot to everyone who likes my kind of videos and shorts. 

4. Thank You - I started from 1500 onwards and reached 3000 when the counter again reset to zero. I started again and reached 15000 and then again the counter reset to zero. I again started and completed the week at 13000 counts. This to-and-fro mechanism on the counter is not good as I really want to finish the 100000 in a single go. The continuity is really good and you should also adopt this habit of being thankful all the time. 

5. Travel - I have a travel that's on my mind and I have already booked the tickets to Zambia at the end of the month. I really love watching the new spots and then sharing the same on Google Maps and recently I crossed 65 Million photo views on my profile with more than 17000 photos and videos shared for the general public across the world interested in visiting South Africa. 

There are a lot of things I do without any real benefits to me like sharing photos of various locations around the world. I am really grateful to the universe for everything that is being granted to me by the Lord Almighty Shiva. I now am living my own life without any external pressure and I need to think that I don't want all the things or gadgets of the world. I have limited time left on planet earth and I can only take so much as I need to take care of the stuff I own as well. Let's live stress-free, worry-free with the resources we already own and try to make the best use of the same and enjoy them as well. The things I don't enjoy using will be then gifted to my near and dear ones if they want to own them. 

Aum Namah Shivay!

Till next time...Aashish
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New Year Resolutions - Week 06 Achievements & Failures in 2023 #TheLifesWay

Hi Guys, 

The more you write or tell your story the more people are going to read it or follow it. I am also doing the same via these weekly posts where I tell the amount of time spent on web series binge-watching or doing something interesting also. I am feeling more and more in love with my own feelings or rather I am now much closer to my heart as I can see the effects of anything happening around me or the world and can feel the pain and empathy etc. Will I do something about it or just let it pass is a choice that I will keep for myself to decide via the brain cells kicking in at the right time? 

1. Google Maps - Local Guides is a community-based programme run by Google to enhance the experience of Google Maps users. Whenever you go and visit any location, you can write a review about the same on the Google Maps page and post some photos and videos so that the next person searching for the location can have some information before actually visiting the place. I reached the Top Level 10 on the same on 10-Feb-2023 after enrolling in the programme around 6 years back or so. I have not received any gift from Google during the course of my photo sharing across this platform but I am happy that I did it. I am in the Top 1% of Johannesburg Local Guides and 10% globally. Slowly and steadily, I will try to become the Top 1% at global levels as well. 

2. Thank You - I started from the last week's count to reach 42000 where the counter drops back to zero. Then again I take it to reach the 8000 mark by the end of the week. The total count is now 141500. 

3. Entertainment - I watched the most illogical movie The Menu this week. There was nothing to enjoy in this movie. Totally time waste or negligible. I started watching FARZI Season 1 which I loved watching but didn't expect that it will reach the most viewed series on Amazon Prime. Since Kabir Singh, Shahid Kapoor has a dejected way to stand and the same is also showcased here and in other movies also. I don't like the use of the same again and again and I am definitely biased. I have to check his earlier movies if he has the same hand style in Jab We Met, Ishq Vishq or Dil Bole Hadiappa etc. 

4. The Life's Way - First Car Review - I was grateful to Suzuki Motors South Africa for sending their Vitara Brezza for the upcoming Valentine's Day and my 15th Marriage Anniversary as well. I took the same around the city and totally loved the pleasure of having a second car in a household. My wife can take my car to the office instead of doing an Uber or Bolt. I can then drop the kids to school and they also loved this dual-coloured car. The average that the car gave is around 15-16 km per litre of petrol and the mini-SUV body felt comfortable for long rides as well. We went to Hartbeespoort with the whole family in this nice car while enjoying the rain along with our marriage anniversary. I went gaga over the same as you will see in my Instagram posts. Thanks, Suzuki. 

5. Launch Event - I went to the CHOC event that was held at Sandton Sun Towers and Sky Deck. I loved the joy they are bringing on the faces of children suffering from Cancer and other diseases. It's an uphill climb all the time with these diseases but your support can help the organisation to reach more and more children and help their families as well. 

I also received the Cooler Master Goodies in a contest I won on Instagram. This is a massive package as you will see in the video underneath. I went to their Sandton Experience centre to pick up my goodies and it was lovely to see all the products on display there. You should definitely visit the same to experience the gaming products and setup. 

I think this is a lot of stuff to do in a single week and I feel grateful that I could do it. The clarity of thoughts and getting in touch with your own emotions is the best thing I learned from doing the Yoga starting 1-Feb-23. I am feeling stretched as this is the only exercise I have done in years to the upper body and many parts which were lying dormant. I have only done 1000km walking last year but that was it. This year walking is taking a backstage as I venture into the Yoga exercises. 

Till next time...Aashish Thanks you Cheers!!!

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#TheLifesWay on @GoogleMaps #MyYearInReview 2020 @GoogleAfrica #LocalGuides #LetsGuide

Hi Friends, 

We all are so heavily invested in Google's ecosystem that sometimes we also start contributing towards the same knowingly and unknowingly to appreciate the benefits everyone derives from the various platforms they run. I too started my journey as a Local Guides which is a voluntary program for contributing to Google Maps around the world and I am representing Johannesburg, South Africa from the start. 

If I see where I was in 2019 to the place where I am now on Google Maps Local Guides journey it's absolutely amazing. This year I started contributing to the Local Guide Community platform too and reached several milestones there too. I reached Level 9 Contributor level this year from last year's Level 8. Overall I made 5793 contributions as a whole on the platform and successfully contributed for 27 weeks in a row. That's an awesome achievement by someone who is not regular on any platforms whatsoever. 

I got more than 3 Million views on the photos published this year but overall in 2020, I have crossed 26 Million photo views which were just over 1.4 Million in 2019. That's around 25 Million photo views in a single year on all the 10550 photos uploaded since I have joined the program. 

I also got 5813 views on the reviews published this year with an overall tally crossing 186000 views in 2020 for reviewing 204 establishments around the city and country. I wanted to take the same to 500 reviews but felt lazy and was focussing more on the Youtube channel also. 

The biggest feeling is to stay in the Top 1% contributor in Johannesburg, South Africa month after month for the whole year and I am looking forward to reaching the Top Level 10 contributor by 2022 and be part of the Connect Live Program in 2021 if luck favours me and Google sees my contribution in South Africa. 

I am a big fan of the Google Android Ecosystem and started my smartphone journey with Google G1 and then Nexus One smartphone but now I really want to use the latest Pixel 5 device as my day to day smartphone. I will continue to contribute to Google Maps and create more lists, write more posts on Connect Local Guides platforms, review more establishments and restaurants towards reaching a place where I shall feel satisfied with myself. Thanks to Google for making us part of them and giving us a platform where we are contributing to our city and country and building a local community too. 

This I am doing from a feeling of love and respect point of view for the Google ecosystem and I am sure, you will also want to become part of this amazing program called Local Guides! So don't forget to login into Google Maps and start contributing from wherever you are in this world! #LetsGuide #LocalGuides

@TheLifesWay contributions as of 15th December 2020

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