22 Days To www.TheLifesWay.com 5th Birthday Celebrations #5YearsofTheLifesWay #27Dec2017 #Tenacious

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#Tenacious

Blogging is not an easy task as it always needs time and resource to fulfill the ongoing requirements of the niche segment you work in. Even if you are posting Press releases then also it takes at least some time to match the look and feel of your blog. I always need photos in all my posts so it takes a lot of time to post the same even. Also, if the same press release is on all other blogs too then you are not differentiating and also it's a favor to the brand and to maintain the relationship you have to do the same. 

Tenacity is a virtue which needs a lot of effort to carry on without getting demotivated. I really have evolved from the time when I was devoting my 100% on The Life's Way but as it has happened a lot of PR companies have benefitted without my personal benefits. So it's getting back to basics and only post what you want to do and write about. It might bring you fewer followers and readers but if your content is authentic then the brands will come after you sooner or later. Also, the second best part will be the less expectation you will have from the brand or the PR company as you do only what you are paid for. I don't want to fall into the trap of getting more pageviews by wasting my time on the brands which don't value me. I have sent them multiple requests so many times but not got any response so now onwards I will only do what I want to do for those brands and that won't be free at all. 

It needs certain thought daily and gives unfulfilled expectations if you are not able to do it. I get irritated by myself if I am unable to complete the tasks I set myself for. It gets reflected in my daily life and what for? for some free looking PR companies and for stuff which I never wanted in the first place or some invite where I have to buy the cold drinks myself. There have been instances that I only could drink water or bought coca-cola by giving my own personal money after spending on petrol and parking too without any goodies bag too at the end. This is such a waste of time if you think that I could have invested that time playing some games with my daughter or teaching her mathematics. I will totally avoid such events from now onwards and that's the first resolution to take in 2018!

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23 Days To www.TheLifesWay.com 5th Birthday Celebrations #5YearsofTheLifesWay #27Dec2017 #Unique

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#Unique

Blogging is an art and once you are addicted to the same, you are totally under its control. You have to keep thinking about creating something unique and different from what you have read in the market. When you are unique in your art, then the world respects you else you are just one of the run on the mill kind and the world forgets you. I don't say that I am unique but I am searching for that niche and trying to reach there. Once I have reached there then I will say that I have arrived. 

5 Years of The Life's Way has given me so many things and invites that I could have never got in my life otherwise. The year 2013 when I was in India till October end, I got a trip to Mumbai to meet all the Bollywood stars at Blackberry Men Sharp Nights and my daughter went to see M.A.D Rob on Pogo TV when I won the HP Print Art contest for one of her creations. It was a dream come true for her. I bought my first tablet from USA - Google Nexus 7 and somehow I received an Apple iPad cover and that day I thought now cover has come and iPad is not far away too. Within a month of receiving cover from Hitachi, I got the Apple iPad Mini from Hyundai Motors. I won an HP sleekbook in one of the contests, received iPod Shuffle in another contest and also got Kingdom of Dreams Platinum Passes for 8 persons. It was a dream come true too as my parents and we watched both the shows live on stage for free. It was an awesome year if I consider the influx of gifts and goodies in a single year till date.

Keisha and Aashish Rai at The Big Hole in Kimberley

2014 I was completely in South Africa and the first contest I won here was Incredible Connection Selfie contest and received some LED light and Chinese headphones. The best thing I won was the #MissionSamsung Community Challenge and got the NX300 Camera as my prize. I also went on my first Capetown trip with Samsung for Note 4 launch event. I also won another ZAR 2500 Sandton City Gift Voucher in a Selfie contest by then Nokia. I won a lot of stuff or received from many brands as goodies bag which I truly treasured. I even won the Beacon Chocolate contest to get myself ZAR600 cash prize which I invested back in buying more chocolate. I also bought my first DSLR from Nikon D7000 after a long long journey. It was awesome to enhance my photography with this beast I loved to pet.

Overall, The Life's Way has been providing for me whatever I have desired in my life. It could come from the blog or any other social media channel but the inflow has always been there. I consider myself unique in that way as I can create a pipeline wherever I want, whenever I want, in any country I want. I have to again create a pipeline for my 5th Birthday anniversary of my love, my life and my passion - The Life's Way.

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24 Days To www.TheLifesWay.com 5th Birthday Celebrations #5YearsofTheLifesWay #27Dec2017 #Luck

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#Luck

We have learned and heard that Luck favors the brave but is it true? Do you believe in the same or you have a different opinion on the same? I always thought the other one to be luckier than me. Never I respected my luck as I never thought about being grateful for everything I had in my childhood. I always focussed on what I don't have and others have it. That's a bad position to stay in all your life but with time as your mind grows and you become aware of your surroundings, you seem to realize that all fingers are not made same. You have your own struggles in life, ups and downs are all part of life and you have to start living with the same. You always have to be grateful for what you have and what you are going to get.

This feeling of the other being Lucky more than yourself doesn't go easily and always hits us again and again. It hits me daily when I see the facebook wall or the Instagram feed as I find the people working with the brands I want to work with and gets invited to all the events. They get all the gadgets to keep and also gets flown to foreign countries for the gadgets launches. Is this my perception that they are lucky or is it that they produce great content? Are they more passionate than me or what's their winning attitude that keeps them on the top? I ask this question to myself again and again but always leave at that they are more luckier as they are passionately creating the right content and well connected. 

Aashish Rai in Kimberley, Northern Cape

Luck is no one's prerogative but it's all about the attitude that you have in your life. I used to win so many twitter contests daily but no one knows how many I participate in without winning. The more you play the more are your chances of winning. So the same logic can be applied to Luck meaning the more you go out and work with creating great content, more and more brands will come back to you. I consider myself Lucky that I thought of starting #TheLifesWay 5 years back and this platform has been able to provide me with a sense of achievement. I have created some great content and worked on several campaigns for a lot of brands and I have always given my 100% to the same.  The Life's Way continues to provide me to stay in the top of my game in the Social Media World of Influence. 

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Breathe: An Inspiring #LoveStory Of Hope and Determination @BreatheMov @SterEnt #5YearsofTheLifesWay

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What would you do if your husband’s life suddenly changed irrevocably and he is about to give up hope? You take over and give him the strength to go on by loving him unconditionally, just like Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy) did in this inspiring true story that is coming to life on the big screen in January 2018.

BREATHE is actor, Andy Serkis’s (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Rise, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) directorial debut and he worked very closely with scriptwriter, William Nicholson (Gladiator, Les Misérables, First Knight) to tell this story of his best friend and producer, Johnathan Cavendish’s (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Elizabeth: The Golden Age) parents with the sensitivity and empathy that it deserved.

Adventurous and charismatic, Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) has his whole life ahead of him when he is paralyzed by polio whilst in Africa at the age of twenty-eight. Against all advice, Robin’s wife Diana brings him home from the hospital where her devotion and witty determination transcends his disability. Together they refuse to be imprisoned by his suffering; dazzling others with their humor, courage, and lust for life. They also use their own story to inspire other people who are going through similar circumstances. Clever technology makes it possible for Robin to ‘get out of bed’ and experience new adventures and enables him to become an advocate for disabled people across the world.

The movie, which is set in the 1950’s, not only boasts a beautiful set and costume design, but also a star-studded cast. Andrew Garfield, who plays Robin, is famous for his roles in The Social Network, Never Let Me Go, The Amazing Spider-Man and Silence. Claire Foy, who is praised for her accurate portrayal of Diana Cavendish, starred in Season of the Witch and Going Postal.

“The most important thing to get was their love for each other. I didn’t want to over-sentimentalize her, and she definitely doesn’t want to be seen as a saint, or an angel, or incredible sort of nurse. It was actually just true love,” says Foy about getting into character for this part.

Hugh Bonneville, who has already been nominated for BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe awards for his role in Downtown Abbey, and Tom Hollander (Mission Impossible, About Time, Pirates of the Caribbean) can also be seen in the movie.

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and was also screened at the Opening Night Gala at the BFI London Film Festival. It has already been nominated for an Archie Award for Best First Feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival and Best Makeup and Hair Design and Sound at the Independent British Film Awards. During the Heartland Film Festival, it won the Truly Moving Picture Award.

BREATHE is a heart-warming and highly emotional celebration of bravery and human possibility, a love story about living every breath as though it’s your last. It will appeal to audiences of all ages, but especially if you enjoyed The Theory of Everything, Lion, The Imitation Game, and Brooklyn.

This inspirational movie is distributed by Ster-Kinekor Entertainment and will be released in South African cinemas on 19 January 2018.

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BreatheFilmUK/
Twitter: @BreatheMov
Instagram: @breathemov
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YnYrLfjxA

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25 Days To www.TheLifesWay.com 5th Birthday Celebrations #5YearsofTheLifesWay #27Dec2017 #Technology

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#Technology 

I have always been attached to technology and it was my luck or dream that I went into completing Electronics Engineering. I was always in love with the camera and when I got a camera phone gifted by my brother, I took unlimited photos till the memory was full. During those times, VGA camera was the highest and then later Nokia had some 1.3MP camera installed. Later, I got Nokia N8 which had the 3.2MP camera and it was awesome to take photos using the same. At that time, the main camera I was using had only 5 MP sensor. Camera in future phones crossed 40MP in Nokia 1020 and it was amazing to use the same phone for a review period. I went to the launch event of the same in India and it was simply awesome. 

I loved my HTC phones always and I bought one after Google's Nexus One made by HTC died due to the broken power button. It was a common issue on that phone which I only came to know after mines got broken. I had to spend a lot of money to buy HTC One M7 but I fell in love with the same immediately. I had a choice at that time to buy Samsung Galaxy Note 2 as it was cheaper and was coming with exchange offer in India which would have saved me enough money to buy another mid-range smartphone. But when I used my Bose Earphones on HTC One M7 on a demo unit at the retail store, the audio impact was the difference between Samsung and HTC device. I went and bought HTC One M7 and after coming here to South Africa took a lot of pictures here.

HTC's PR Company gifted me HTC One M8 (old review unit) way back in 2015 and I am still using the same but now it's time to upgrade once again. In my 5th year of The Life's Way, I would buy if not sponsored the smartphone soon. I use my smartphone to take photos, post them on Instagram, I tweet a lot and also sometimes I write a whole blog post on the smartphone using Swype keyboard. I still remember I have written some chapters when I collaborated with another bloggers to write a novel using the flow method used in Swype keyboard app.

I have bought a lot of technology in my life but never learned to recycle the same. It was still with me but now as I am nearing the second half of my life, I am giving it all away to the poor and needy in India. My mom has already distributed all the 13 old Nokia phones models I had. I am reducing my lifestyle to follow minimalism and use only one device at a time for the purpose I want it to. I want to reduce all the electronics clutter I have in the new year and that's a resolution for 2018.

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