From the past six years, I’m doing an annual review of my life. December month is usually the time of every year when I tend to slow down a bit and take a pause. It’s the time when I reflect back on the year. What I’ve done, where I’ve been, where I’m at right now and what I’m looking forward to. To promote writing online and to keep myself publicly committed to my new year’s goals, I publish the annual review here.
This is my 7th annual review, you can access all my previous reviews at the end of this post.
This year also I’ll answer three questions, the same as the past 6 years.
What went well this year?
What didn’t go so well this year?
What’s am I working toward?
Hope it will be insightful and interesting for some of you. Lets cut to the chase.
Sharing one of my personal favourite podcast episodes which I did in 2019. – Little did I know, when Aawaari pinged me one day (after I shared a podcast episode I did with Trishita Bhattacharya. This visual artist really loved the episode and was sincerely expressed her emotions about how good the episode was), that this will lead to me recording an episode with Aawaari herself. The day I posted it online, so many good and emotional feedbacks were received. People love her and her work. This is one of my favourite episodes from my podcasts.
Check it out.
My most popular Instagram post recently —
Looking back at 2019 be like! . …Click the photo below to read the entire story.
How To Manage Your Time & Get More Done – In this video, Chris Do of The Futur tells how to get more done in the same time you are awake. How to better manage your time and how to supercharge your day!
Great practical advice. Highly recommend this video!
A highlight song of 2019 –
Billie Eilish – everything i wanted – Sharing this song as it has been one of my highlight songs of 2019. As Billie Eilish blew up as a pop star, this one became the best of her songs which really moved me in 2019.
Quote I’m pondering on lately – (a paradoxical quote to end 2019)
You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.
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He is also a productivity expert and start-up mentor. He works with many start-up incubators to nurture and support start-up companies who are focusing on clean-tech, energy, Internet of Things (or IoT).
There are a lot of small tools and apps you’ll learn in this episode about and can implement to improve your productivity.
My most popular Instagram post recently —
Quinoa Salad, coffee and some Instagram Flatlays . …Click the photo below to read the entire story.
Fragile Forests – Even thought this short film is an ad, but go and see like you didn’t know and you’ll never ever know, that it was filmed entirely on a mobile phone.
Just mind-blowing shots and mesmerising music both by Tim Kellner.
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In this episode I’m talking to Ashish Bedekar who is the Chief Product Officer of Piconets (a company which is working on revolutionising Content Delivery Network system by working acceleration the last mile performance. To simply say he is making the Internet sites you see daily, load on lighting speeds and meanwhile decrease the cost.
He is also a productivity expert and a start-up mentor. He works with many start-up incubators to nurture and support start-up companies who are focusing on clean-tech, energy, Internet of Things (or IoT).
There are a lot of small tools and apps you’ll learn in this episode about and can implement to improve your productivity.
So without further adieu, please enjoy this conversation with Ashish Bedekar.
How Cork Is Harvested To Make Wine Stoppers – A very interesting video showing process of harvesting the cork oak to create a wine stopper. It takes precision, years of practice, and a good axe. Here’s how cork goes from bark to bottle.
A song I loved –
Martbaan by Samar Mehdi – Found this amazing artist via Nimisha Verma and I’m mesmerized by this song. Just how stupendiously beatuiful this song is and many more of his songs.
If you are craving for some original music, check this out.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Uncut Gems – Adam Sandler’s Oscar performance! – This movie review from the New York Post is fantastic. Uncut Gems is Adam Sandler’s new movie with potential Oscar performance. Just see the trailer and judge for your self. I would definitely be going to watch it.
An article I’m pondering on –
A Brief History of Text Messaging – While researching for RCS messaging on Android, I stumbled upon this old thread about Text Messaging and how it started initially. Pretty informative.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
This is your day to shine. It is up to you in how you will like the world to see you.
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Neurodynamic Breathwork – Since I listened to the podcast episode of The Tim Ferriss Show which featured Stanislav Grof (the founder of the Holotropic Breathwork). I have been curious to try out his methodology to reach an alternate state of mind – Holotropic Breathwork.
But trying it out has been a logistical challenge. As it happens in classroom kind of environment for a longer period class in a 12-hour format.
But then through a video from Yoga Journal’s YouTube channel, I discovered Michael who is a certified facilitator of holotropic breathwork who studied directly under Stan Grof. Michael Stone developed a short version of this breathwork, which is called neurodynamic breathwork (NDB). Michael developed this shortened version as a way to make holotropic breathwork more accessible so that participants could also practice this technique on their own.
On this site – NDB can be experienced online, via an online meeting session.
I’ve got enrolled for a couple of sessions and I’m really excited to experience this in the upcoming few weeks.
My most popular Instagram post recently —
Here’s to the crazy ones! . …Click the photo below to read the entire story.
It says how – writing emails, creating great networks and giving more than you are paid for, work out.
This episode of his North Star Podcast with Neil De Grasse Tyson was amazing.
Even Neil appreciate the homework David had done beforehand for the episode. Like actually being able to speak about his autobiography which was published much earlier.
These kinds of things create a very organic connection with your guest.
All in all a great episode.
Music I loved –
Sunday Study – playlist by Thomas Frank – Thomas Frank has slowly become one of the YouTubers I admire, who put so much thought in the intricacies of an idea he’s putting out as a video.
This playlist he made for studying has some really thoughtful song selections to study on, I listened to it and I can totally recommend this.
A good listen.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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A Knowledge Processing System for Marketers, Creators, and Knowledge Workers – This long-form article a great place to look for if you are a content creator or a knowledge worker (that’s a new term I learned from this article) or a marketeer. It gives the idea of how to create a KPM or a Knowledge Processing System.
Because most of the time we are just consuming knowledge in a blink and later forget about it and then eventually lose it. a KPM can help you out in retaining the knowledge after learning and eventually make you be able to use that information in any of your future projects.
Check this out, it’s long-form but really worth reading.
This was my first exposure to Taimur Abdaal and his perspective on life. So far I liked his ideas. Mainly because his ideas are original. Something he’s trying to create right now is re-invent the Excel spreadsheets via a new app development.
Great conversation. Very inspiring to see siblings in this kind of exchange.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
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An archive article from my creative short pieces –
Imprisoned behind the curtain of the waterfall – Sharing one more piece from my creative writing pieces. You’ll need a little bit of imagination while reading this short piece. If and when you do, you’ll see it making sense.
My most popular Instagram post recently —
MasterMind Breakfast! . …Click the photo below to read the entire story.
ilomilo by Billie Eilish – This is kind of groove (lyrics may be too intimate for some folks, so excuse me) with which you would not only want to be work on in the late night as a background sound. But also as the foreground sound and be an a transcendent state.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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