New Year Resolutions - Week 30 Achievements & Failures #TheLifesWay

Hi Friends,

Week 30 was a week where I completed a lot of stuff which have been pending on me from submitting the documents to the school for Grade 8 to various other things too. Mom and Dad too left for the United States and I also visited the Radhey Shyam Temple in Marlboro after a long gap of time. 

Week 30 - Sat 23 Jul 2022 - Fri 29 Jul 2022

1. Walking - I completed the 20 kilometres for the week which took the total kilometres to 592 by the end of 29th July 2022. This has been the longest I have ever achieved in a single year. Consistency is the key guys to achieving feats that you don't think you can earlier. 

2. Entertainment - I received the Disney+ annual membership plan from the Disney Africa team. I immediately login and created some profiles for the family. I am loving the new content which I was not watching earlier. I immediately started watching the first season of Da Vinci's Demons and finished it in a single sitting despite it running at 1x speed. My son is loving the Spiderman content which includes some new shorts, all movies and other cartoons on the platform. Thanks, Disney Africa! I only find that there should be a playback speed which needs to be added so that the content can be played at a faster speed of 1.25, 1.5,1.75 and 2. 

3. Books/Audiobooks - I completed The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! by M. J. DeMarco which took me a lot of time as this is one of the best ones if you want to change your money and growth mindset. You can check it on Audible by Amazon. I started listening to another interesting one called The Mind of a Consultant by Sandeep K. Krishnan which is also available on Audible here. It definitely reminded me of all the MBA days when I used to live those principles sincerely to imbibe them in myself. Over the years, I have gained experience but the edge was getting blunt instead of keeping it sharp. I got the feeling that all these books on Kindle and audiobooks from Audible are taking me to the best of my ability. 

4. Thank You - I moved the counter to zero and took it towards 30500 by the end of the week. I took a break from this activity in the previous weeks and still need to find my love for doing the same. I am not feeling complete as if I am looking for something and not happy much despite doing everything I want to do in my life. Feeling content should be the main priority in our life. 

5. YouTube Monetisation - This week I broke my own records of the highest one-day revenue from USD 1.76 to 1.89 to 2.45 to 3.28 dollars on 28-Jul-22. This has been my highest so far even today for a single-day revenue. I didn't do any promotions and any other push, I think this may be because of the good CPM etc on some of the videos. 

Getting YouTube monetised and making the best out of it is my goal these days. I have been focused on trying out various kinds of content to get my first viral video. Once a viral video happens then there will be a good path for the future content and revenue stream too. You can now support me on the Patreon account also - https://www.patreon.com/TheLifesWay Thanks!!!

Week 29

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New Year Resolutions - Week 29 Achievements & Failures #TheLifesWay

Hi Friends,

Week 29 went into checking the amount earned every day each morning on the YouTube studio app and the week didn't have the first week's highest amount of USD 1.76 in a single day. The maximum amount that I earned was USD1.42 and the lowest being USD 0.56 only. Other than that it was my 42nd birthday at the end of the week on Friday - 22 July. I wish to have a belief in myself that I can achieve that and can build some income stream from the YouTube channel using my readers/followers' help and support. 

Week 29 - Sat 16 Jul 2022 - Fri 22 Jul 2022

1. Daily Walking - This week I could only do 9 kilometres as daily going to the office and coming back from around 30 kilometres did take some time to travel and reduced the amount of free time available for walking as well the energy to do so also. I am sure I will pick the idea of completing the 20+ kilometres after a week of rest or so for sure. 

2. Books/Audiobooks - I became a member of the City of Johannesburg Library and got myself registered via an online link I found on the board in front of the Sandton Library. The link is here in case you also want to get registered. This way you will be able to access the audiobooks and ebooks available in the library for the loan term of 15 days. Apply online - https://cojelearning.org.za I have found the ebooks and audiobooks collection to be enough for me to read in the next few years easily without buying anything myself. Thanks, Joburg Library. I kept on reading Lashkar by Mukul Deva as I delved more into the storyline and also came to know about its second part to take the story further. Meanwhile, The Millionaire Fastlane audiobook is still going on and is one of the best books to change your money mindset or at least to give it some powerful ideas after Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money which is a must-keep and read too. 

3. YouTube Income - I earned around USD 12 in total so far in the last 10 days of being monetized. It's not a big amount but I am grateful for whatever it is. It's better than the free press releases I get from hundreds of brands without getting anything in return. At least here I know that my time and efforts are directly proportional to the income generation though the content topic drives that part. 

4. 42nd Birthday -  I suggested to my wife not to buy any clothes or anything else and the same was followed. I already have a lot of clothes and shoes that I am unable to use also on a daily basis. Only now I am able to use them as I started going to the office. I only got the dad memorabilia from my son that he bought from the Cardies shop. We went to try the food at the Modern Tailors restaurant in Rosebank. The vegetarian menu is very limited there and the taste is not authentic Indian, it's more a South African restaurant with some Indian menu items. I am not so sure about the non-vegetarian items as the restaurant was quite full but I won't go there again for vegetarian dinner or lunch. The snacks are fine but not all are nice. 

5. Thank You - I started the counter again and took it to around 6000 by the end of this week. Other than that the week was only running to the office and coming back and nothing major happened other than the YouTube income started pouring in. Thank You to Lord Bajrang Bali Ji. 

Thanks, Universe for taking me to the 42nd birthday this week and now I am working towards the next few years and hope them to be more productive years. I hope that I will be able to work towards something I always wanted to do and can focus on the necessary steps in the coming days. 

Week 28 

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New Year Resolutions - Week 27 Achievements & Failures #TheLifesWay

Hi Friends, 

Week 27 marks the start of the second half of the year 2022 and let's continue the steam engine rolling as I have achieved a lot or not only time will tell when I look back and connect the dots. I am eager to venture into my new version as I was able to complete what I set out for. The next few weeks will be to find a job which pays the right amount of value in return for my efforts which I am not getting in my current one for sure.

Week 27 - Sat 02 Jul 2022 - Fri 08 Jul 2022

1. Thank You - I did some random Thank You's this time but the count kept coming to zero again and again. Overall I did around 5000 for sure so let's stick to that number. I have not started the Money affirmations but totally going to complete the I Love Money (2nd edition) book in a few days. 

2. Office - All 5 days of the week, I went to the office starting from 9am onwards till at least 6pm every day. My 5GB data got finished on Tuesday itself and I had to work on the old laptop given by the client. With adversity, I always know to find my way if I have the intent to move forward. I used something else to create the same report as my office version was on 32bit whereas to insert the CSV etc, the device kept throwing the error to get it converted to 64bit. I still have not taken the same to the IT department for changing the Office version installed on my laptop but got another way to do the same task. Microsoft always has multiple ways to do the same thing. The only thing is that it's just directly opening the CSV and making it into the format on my pivoted worksheets. I love playing with MS excel and because of the same I am earning my income for the last 15 years or so. 

3. Walking - I easily completed my 20 kilometres for the week as I was walking to my office every day and counted those too into my daily walking. This is a cheat but considering the efforts, it's in the office to do a lot of other tasks, I was sure I won't be able to do the evening walks after coming back. I achieved a total of around 23 kilometres this week. 

4. Books/Audiobooks - I completed Building the Second Brain by Tiago Forte and started listening to The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! by M. J. DeMarco which is a must-read from what I have heard so far. It's a book to follow religiously. I was only able to cover around the first 3 hours out of the total of 12 hours of this audiobook. I love Money is the book I am also reading on the Kindle Paperwhite 7th edition I am using. 

5. Goodies - I received the Nokia Goodies bag along with the new Nokia G50 for review. It's a nice gift bag with apron and Bamboo Cooking Utensils set for the kitchen to cook up the storm. Thanks to HMD Global for the same. 

I was reviewing the Huawei P50 Smartphone this week and this is the unboxing video of the same. I totally loved the device and Huawei is coming back strongly but I am not sure why they are not venturing into the 5G smartphones? 

6. Entertainment - Overall, it was a hectic week as I didn't see any movies or web series during this week. Entertainment took a back seat when you have other things to take care of. But I won 4 tickets to the Numetro competition with Expresso Show to see Thor: Love and Thunder movie in Clearwater Mall. The movie is totally different from what MARVEL movies are made of. This time they took the comedy just like any other kids' movie from Disney and installed the same in the Avengers series of movies. This one is specifically built for kids for sure as the storytelling is totally like reading a kid's storybook. But as I love popcorn so I can go anywhere to watch any movie and it was my first time on Scene Extreme which is a wide big screen in NuMetro along with Dolby Atmos sound system and the best 3D experience on their leather seats. I felt the seats are a little bit small as compared to the NuMetro at Hyde Park where I love going a lot. Overall, it was fun with the family. 

Thank You everyone for taking my blog across 3.7 Million page views in the last 9.5 years of existence. The speed has slowed as I have deleted all the old posts which were not relevant today but not a problem as I can now take some new direction with my blog www.thelifesway.com. Also, my Youtube Channel crossed 500,000 views and it's the best feeling as I have taken around 400+ videos to achieve the same. Most of my videos have views of less than 100 but slowly and steadily I am moving towards the 4000 Watch Hours resistance point also to take my channel towards monetization. 

Week 26

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