New Year Resolutions - Week 46 Achievements & Failures #TheLifesWay

Hi Guys,

Week 46 - Sat 12 Nov 2022 - Fri 18 Nov 2022

Week 46 is just 6 weeks left from the end of 2022 in which I have to plan for the December holidays as well as some other things in life that need to be completed. 

1. Daily Walking - I did around 21km to reach 870 kilometres but the target is still 130 kilometres far and I am sure this month I will break all my walking targets with renewed energy towards the completion of my goal. I told you earlier as well that with the right intention, any goal is achievable. 

2. Entertainment - I focused on a lot of entertainment as I watched Sooraj Barjatya's Uunchai movie that stars Amitabh Bachchan, Danny Denzongpa, Boman Irani and Anupam Kher along with Neena Gupta, Sarika and Parineeti Chopra. I really loved their journey to the base camp of Everest which is also my dream journey one day in future. If you have still not watched the movie do watch it as it's now available on the Zee5 Streaming platform. The music of the movie is great and the friendship story has a very emotional touch with the right kind of comedy and drama. The first half is really great. I also started watching Mukhbir - The Story of a Spy and totally loved it too. The same is also available on the Zee5 streaming platform for your viewing pleasure. It's an action thriller about an Indian spy in Pakistan to gather crucial intelligence and saves his country from the attacks during the wars between India and Pakistan. 

3. YouTube Videos - I continued to post a lot of videos during this period as well and did some 14 long-form and short videos. The one thing I bought was this Lamy Ink in Turquoise colour that is very much closer to my heart - 

I also did some videos for the Pilot Pens and Pencils - 

Let me know if you love stationery products like myself! 

4. Product Reviews - I completed the review for the Denon Earphones and you can check them here. It's really nice and you can spend ZAR 2.7K to buy them from Homemation online and retail stores. They went back to the company after the review period but the ANC and other features are really nice on this one. 

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I am definitely enjoying this service myself as now every morning, I can finish the summary of a book and then can make an informed decision if I have to read the full book at any point in future or if the summary is enough to learn from the book. This subscription definitely helps to build your second brain if you have heard about this concept from Tiago Forte. 

This year I have invested in a lot of learning platforms and in 2023 for sure I will schedule myself to get the most benefit out of all of them and will share with you guys too! 

Cheers!!!

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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

Cheers!!!

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New Year Resolutions - Week 26 Achievements & Failures #TheLifesWay

Hi Friends, 

This is the middle of the Year 2022 being Week 26 and after this week we will be working towards the next half of the year and it's also the closure of the second Quarter of 2022. I am so grateful to the BuJo Method which I have changed as per how much I can consume it and also daily tracking using the apps like Goodreads, Youtube Studio, and Manoj Arora's ELITE program. Being financially wise and free is the best you can be which Manoj Sir has been guiding and mentoring me since the start of last year. 

Week 26 - Sat 25 Jun 2022 - Fri 01 Jul 2022

1. 15 Years in a single organisation - The first day of the week marked the completion of 15 Years in the company I joined after my MBA in Finance. Thanks to the organisation for providing food and shelter throughout my life. It's time to make some hard decisions as I see that overall in the last 15 years, I have not earned even USD 200k where the people who go and work in the United States get in a single year. So I could have worked some 5 years at such a high salary and could enjoy the time to travel and pursue my interests for the rest of 10 years. I got some ZAR 2000 worth of vouchers to mark the completion of 15 Years which is something less if you think about it. Thanks to the company though with whatever they think our value is. Time to move on!!! Thanks for the monthly salary too as it came in this week. 

2. Amazing Thailand at Hostex 2022 and Goodies from Denmark - I just went on to see Hostex 2022 as a general public and participated in one of the contests at the Amazing Thailand contest on the first day of the show. I won a 2 days stay at the Zambia - Victoria Falls Resort. Thanks to the team! I also received a goodies bag from Dell Technologies and it came all the way via DHL from Denmark which you can watch here -

3. Walking - This being the 26th week - the target was to achieve 520+ kilometres and I just stopped myself thereafter constantly working on this goal from 14th June onwards. I covered around 32 kilometres this week to cover the 2 weeks I didn't cover any distance when my brother was here. Thanks to the Huawei Watch GT 2e to be my measuring partner during all these 520 kilometres so far. Never ever has this watch hanged during all my such walks and always tracked without any deviations. Thanks, Huawei South Africa!

4. Audiobooks - I completed the Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Dil Se Audiobook being a fanboy on full speed and as I was doing daily walks so it helped to complete the same fastest also. I started Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte which is a really nice read. It helps you sort out all the stuff which you have read over the years but never tracked or kept organised. I have a second brain in some of my old diaries which I need to digitize now in the next 26 weeks on a daily basis. 

5. Entertainment - I watched Avrodh The Siege Within Season 2, Anek movie and Forensic Movie during this whole week. This is the most I could have watched in a single week. Avrodh second season is really good as it keeps you on the edge of your seats. The web series traces the route of money to track down the terrorists. Anek is the movie of Ayushman Khurrana focussed on the trails of the North East and has nothing new to offer. There is no story in the first place and there is no end. They could have developed something to create a storyline that could leave some kind of feeling to make it feel like part of the country but it's a totally boring movie and it took me so much time and energy to finish the same. They are still talking about the lines like Chinki etc which is like 20 years old thing. Forensic is a nice movie starring Vikrant Massey, Radhika Apte and Prachi Desai. It's really a thriller which will keep you on the edge of your seats as a serial criminal is on the loose and they take help from a forensic scientist to nab the same. 

Other than that nothing major happened in Week 26, and most importantly we started going to the office on a full-day session. It brought so many memories as we now need to plan lunch and everything in between. Things are getting hectic and I am taking it slow too as I delve myself into the office going pattern but soon I will be ready. Cheers!!!

Week 25

Cheers!!!

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