My guest for this episode is Urmi Kothari otherwise known as Coach Urmi. She is the founder of Kinetic Living which is a fitness and wellness boutique in Mumbai. She has a lot of medallions on her jacket. She is IFAA master trainer, Nike Training coach and a certified trainer in STOTT Pilates, Kettlebells and Animal Flow techniques.
An eye-opening annual letter from Bill and Melinda Gates – Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft) and his wife Melinda Gates have devoted their lives from past many years in philanthropy. Mainly working on the very broad impacting issues like reducing the death ratio of kids in developing countries like Africa. Working on diseases like Malaria and HIV. They publish their Annual Letter Every year. I was not aware of these letters until last week I got introduced to it from a YouTube Video. This year’s annual letter talks about 9 surprising facts and situations they found out in the world through their own going philanthropy work. It was eye-opening for me and I’m sure I’ll be putting my mind this year to work out on ideas for the solution of the said problems in the letter. You can read the letter by clicking below image –
A date in 2015 — This short film is a hilarious but a bit disturbing take on the not so far off future. Don’t go on the cover of this video (btw which may look like an ad for a condom). The concept and the AI showed in the video is what our current age scientists are targeting.
A new app I’m excited about –
Vine is coming back! What we know about “Byte” – You remember the Vine app right? Where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. It went viral and many Vine creators also went viral leading to success stories. But then on Oct 27 2016, they discontinued the service. But now the founder of Vine Dom Hofmann is launching this spring, 2019. This may break the current viral app TikTok’s market share.
Here is a detailed video from Sam Sheffer of upcoming service –
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
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Four Types of Stress and How to Recognize Them – We can’t take away the stress from our lives. So it’s better to learn about it and make the most out of that knowledge. So I recently learned there is more than one type of stress. One is Distress and another is Eustress (got to learn about it from The Four hour work week book). But there is a total of 4 types. The above article talks about the definition of all four.
How This Cyclist Hit 184MPH and set the World Record — Denise Mueller-Korenek shattered the previous land-speed record for the fastest human on a bicycle on earth by hitting 184 Miles per hour. Don’t say, Oh C’mon this can’t be done. Look at the process of how this kind of record-setting works it’s fascinating and what she’s done requires daredevil will.
A song I’m listening to while writing —
Time by Hans Zimmer – This is one of my favourite Hans Zimmer songs. This song makes you feel incredibly alive but also terrified at the same time, like you are living in the moment but the time is passing by.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
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What Is The Ideal Bike Cadence For You? – I’m an amateur cyclist and learning tricks of the trade with every new day. I’ve heard about this word “Cadence” a lot both in running and cycling. So this was the time I learned more about it to improve on the performance. This article tells a good deal about the bike cadence and what is the ideal. Here is another article which tells more about the running cadence. Found both of them really helpful.
Daisie by “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams – When I heard Maisie talk about her new project on The Kevin Rose Show recently, it caught my eye and made me learn more about it. Her app Daisie is like a new social media app but for creators. You can tune in to the Kevin Rose podcast linked above and learn more about Daisie from this interesting conversation. A quote by Maisie herself from a press conference for Daisie –
Previous to Daisie, success in the creative industries was wholly dependent on luck and ‘ins’ to the industry. Daisie introduces a new way into the creative world; through connections made organically and the natural development of your skills, propelling individuals to the next level.
A song playing on my running playlist very frequently —
Dancing With A Stranger – I think I’ve been running upbeat on this track by Sam Smith and Normani. It immediately became the kind of song you listen on repeat after the first time you listen to it. Surprisingly I saw the YouTube video tagged below just now, even though it’s been running on my Spotify playlist for a week now.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
“Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.”
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Website Planning in 4 Steps and 20 Minutes – Are you a small business owner, a solopreneur or an artist? If you are thinking about planning a new website for your company, business or yourself, this article might be really helpful. It contains some useful nitty gritty.
My most popular Instagram post recently —
Vintage Car!
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A Hoverboard by Lexus – Yes! The company which makes luxury cars! Lexus! They made a hoverboard (real hoverboard!) for one of their commercials. It’s just awesome! but this video also tells the science behind it. (spoiler – it’s a Sam Sheffer video from 2015 when he was working at The Verge!)
An interesting new series and episode on YouTube —
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How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You – We all are caught up in our phones all the time, let it be business or social media. We spend a very good part of our day looking down at our phone screen. This article especially gives a strategy for iPhone users how to be hyper-productive by knowingly reducing distraction and notification clutter. However, most of it can be used by Android users as well. I’m trying this strategy out on my phone as well.
A new technology advancement I’m fascinated about —
Wireless charging over the Air – Energous showcased it’s over the air wireless charging capability in CES 2015, however it didn’t go mainstream because of technical difficulties of that time. But now in the latest CES 2019, they went to the next level and wireless charging over the air looks more promising now. Look at the video below to learn more about it. I can’t stop thinking about all the possibilities of this technology. Future is already here.
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
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Vivaldi – This is also a chromium-based browser. The platform on which Google Chrome and many other browsers are built upon. However, this is much more customizable than Chrome. Vivaldi gives you more control over your history along with many other useful features like grouping similar tabs or taking note in the browser window side by side. Especially the themes are amazing. I’m using a dark theme which brings my work in center stage and almost puts the browser away from being a distraction.
Vivaldi is available for all three major desktop platforms – Windows / Mac / Linux, just go here and download.
most popular Instagram post recently —
Chameleon!
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I know the power of journaling or writing down the thoughts on paper. It brings out so many unexpected ideas. Directly or sometimes even indirectly. It makes you align to your goal. Most importantly it makes you aware of your own self and your thoughts. Cause your thoughts are what will make or break you. Good Article by James Clear.
A podcast I’m loving —
The Waking Up Podcast – Here is the podcast I’ve been listening in Awe. Sam Harris is one of the smartest persons I know about who is alive in our times and you should listen to what he has to say. Sometimes it feels like just listening to him speak makes you hypnotized. I’m serious. Here is the first episode of his podcast –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCy-nF0vHbk
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
“To understand and be understood, those are among life’s greatest gifts,
and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.”
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First of all, wishing you a very very happy new year! 2019 is here already. The past year went past so fast that it feels surreal to me.
This is the first Saturday-Pentacle for this year. I hope you all are doing awesome.
I finally was able to publish my new year resolutions post. That’s the first point in today’s edition. Give it a read.
I’m sure you guys might have made some resolutions last year, did you meet your goals? Have you created any new resolutions for 2019 yet? Please comment on this post or reply me directly to let me know.
Finally, I was able to list down my new year resolutions for 2019 and put up a report on the last year’s resolutions. Click the photo or link above to read the post.
My most popular Instagram post recently —
Dab of water!
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The Clean Up – This is a dark humour short film. Two office cleaners seek to hide the dirty truth behind a businessman’s death while finding an avenue to air their grievances with society at large.
A song I loved —
cold/mess by Prateek Kuhad – This song is so beautiful that it touches inside. However this music video! It breaks your heart, yet your heart smiles! (the last line is copied from a comment from this video).
Quote I’m pondering on lately –
“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.”
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From the past five years, I’m doing an annual review of my life. It’s the time when every year I take a pause and reflect back on my successes and failures in the past year. I publish it here in this Blog which keeps me publicly accountable for the goals for the coming year. Here is it for this year –
This is my sixth annual review, you can access my previous reviews for 2017, 2016, 2015 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), 2014 and 2013. This year also I’ll answer three questions, the same as the past 5 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.
Making new year resolutions has now become a habit, which I want to keep on cultivating because it helps me move in the right direction throughout the year. I tend to go back each month to this resolution list and see my progress. It is an interesting and forward-moving process.
2018 is over and a new year (2019) is here. For this year’s new year resolutions list, I’m again putting in a few fresh resolutions and keeping a few from the last year.
For me, the resolution list includes a few good habits I want to encourage, some new things I want to explore and last but not the least a few things from last year which I really wanted to accomplish but couldn’t somehow.
