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Can We Transport The Energy?
By: Sylvia Silvers, Aka Sylvia Astuti Gunawan
Tags: Step Back, Challenge, Positive Energy, Postive Mind, Let Go

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

~Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha~

“Emme! Are you sad?” Patrick looked at me when we were walking in the mall that afternoon.

“No, I just have a lot of thoughts in my mind.”

“May I know what was that? Is that your work?”

“Yes…”

“Do you have a deadline for it?”

“Hmmm… not really…”

“Well, then it’s good! You still have three years to finish it. Now let’s just enjoy your time with us in the mall! It’s been so long we didn’t come to the mall. I want to have some ice cream. How about you, Tara?”

“Yes, I want to have two scoops!”

“…Emme, do you want some energy from me?” Patrick raised both his hands and pushed them towards me.

“Yes, please!”

I was laughing, I hugged him, said sorry and thanked him for reminding me to enjoy the present.

“Now I will lift up both of my hands too and I will smile because we are together in the mall and I will spend my money on your ice creams!”

Three of us were laughing and lifted our hands and smiled.

Maybe some people saw us and wondered what were we doing that afternoon, we hope that we could make them smile or even laugh.

I want to have it all, being a great mom, great wife, and a successful entrepreneur.

I must say, even though it’s hard, I see it as a challenge and it made me wake up each day with purpose.

There is no perfect day unless we work hard and enjoy the process.

Sometimes when I got stuck with problems, I discuss them with kids, and funny how their pure minds sometimes solve the problems.

Most of the time, their ideas are pure and naive, but it makes me laugh and I forget about the problem for a while.

“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”

~Germany Kent~

When I feel stuck, I step back and stop for a while.

Two years ago was the biggest challenge in our business.

The person that I trusted left the company because she couldn’t see the future, and lost hope.

Because she lost hope, she transferred her belief to me as well.

I was so depressed and kept thinking to give up.

In that darkest moment, I did my silence meditation and found my answers.

A week after that, we decided to step back and relax.

We left the country and enjoyed a month's holiday, cleared our minds.

When we come back, we were having so much energy and bounced back with new strategies and new goals.

Yes, we can transfer our energy.

That’s why it is very important for me to surround myself with positive minds and let go of the negative ones.

How about you?

What will you do to gain your positive energy?
Quadrille Your Quarantine
Tags: Quadrille, Challenge

Quadrille Your Quarantine

Misplaced hazy spot



An ache



Knotty

Arcane to place a finger on



The one

arises between eyes

& felt as dull throb behind ribs



Try

you may to numb

As hours melt

days

months



Eat, sleep, pray

I’m caged bird of

slow

bane

undoing
Antipodean Quarantine Quadrille
By: Aspen Blue
Tags: Quadrille, Challenge, Isolation, Lockdown, Poetry

Gripped, ripped, tripped

isolated together alone

pacing the radius of a home

become a fortress, a jail

locked in or blocked out

Holding tight to tiny lights

glimmers of hope at hand

a hungry interloper demands

the highest price for

callous, hapless, unbalanced

Insubordination

© Aspen Blue 2020
More Random Silliness in Response to a Challenge
By: Brenda Mahler
Tags: Challenge, Random, Quarantine, Humor, Pictures

SLIGHTLY AMUSING PHOTOS

More Random Silliness in Response to a Challenge

A glimpse of my phone’s photos and text messages

Saying goodbye to 2020 and cheers to 2021, it can’t come fast enough. Photo take from author’s library.

Yep, life in 2020 has been a rollercoaster, metaphorically speaking because, of course, we didn’t go to any amusement parks; they were all closed. In fact we didn’t go hardly anywhere. So some of my favorite memories came in the form of texts and pictures on my phone.

This article is in response to Lisa Bolin’s challenge. I encourage all to read her fun, humorous, random submission.

Random Photos of 2020. A glimpse into my phone’s photo album… | by Lisa Bolin | MuddyUm | Dec, 2020 | Medium

The picture below provides an snapshot of what I’ve been doing in quarantine, maybe too much. It also offers a glimpse of the outcome of having fat thumbs because I guarantee this was an unintentional picture. The score is not high enough to be intentional.

Photo from author’s library

Grandchildren

Due to all the restriction, I rarely visit with my granddaughters in person. The couple times we did meet in person, masks are adorned while I walk around with spray Lysol and a pillowcase. Pillowcase? You ask. When Kinsley really, really needed a hug, she climbed in a pillowcase and we cuddled.

Thanks to my daughter, joy comes from daily text messages

Below are a few of my favorites.

Photo from author’s library

Photo taken by her mother and shared with author.

This picture of Kinsley shows her after being out of bed without her mother’s knowledge. She said she was putting on makeup. Unfortunate that she used a permanent marker.

Photo from author’s library

Photo from author’s library

Kinsley wanted a bite of Mom’s sushi. I guess she didn’t like it.

But it is not always Kinsley who made me laugh

Photo taken from author’s library

Sometimes, my daughter can bring tears to my eyes. She sent this with a caption. “Why didn’t anyone tell me the dishwasher has a filter that I am suppose to clean. You have failed as a mother.”

Old friends helped ease the boredom by sharing

Though I had to ask, “WHY are you telling me this.” I suppose this is what they call man humor.

Photo taken from author’s library

My husband responded, “I hope it wasn’t orange.”

Traveling in a self-contained camp trailer

My husband and I were lucky enough to travel a little in our 23 foot trailer. Even during a pandemic, this was possible because we had no contact with other forms of life. Well, except for the three skunks that took up residency under our home on wheels. No, I didn’t get a picture.

Since we didn’t visit any major points of interest, I found myself taking pictures of signs that caught my interest.

Above 3 photos taken from author’s library

Finding humor or making our own

So, no we didn’t attend concerts, fairs, family reunions or any of the traditional pleasures of summer, but we found ways to have fun and laugh.
Ocean Size
By: Rob Janicke
Tags: Challenge, 50 Words, The Bad Influence, Poetry, Sea

50 WORDS

Ocean Size

Photo credit — Author

Your shockingly cold chill,

the wake-up call I snooze through.

Your bed of rock and jagged shells,

your caution I throw to the wind.

Your incessant, pulsating waves,

the ambition I ignore.

Your vastness and strength,

mortality I swim away from.

Your clutching undertow,

the bed we’ll fall asleep in
60 days to become a game developer. Day 57.
By: Mar Mcrae
Tags: Challenge, Unity Game Development, Game Development, Gamedev Noob, Challenges And Growth

Hi there! Here is a recap of Tuesday, Day 57 of my 60 day challenge to become a Unity Game Developer!

This week has been BUSY debugging this game and getting it all polished up for release. Happy to report that MVP is now completed !! So happy :-)

Check it out!

Little hard to see but we have some pretty stellar post processing now! Thanks Ryan!! Wish I could’ve recorded the “juicy” parts but just like always I’m still pretty bad at my own games so here’s wave 1 lol.

As you can see this is being played live online! We decided to test the WebGL build we’d use github pages. This is a great and free way to host your games and the best part is it’s super easy!

Here’s a walkthrough of how I did this:

Since there was already a repository on github, the first thing I did was grab the webgl that was uploaded by my teammate Dylan. If I were to do this from scratch I would need to build the project! You do this by going to File > Build Settings, then choose your platform. In this case, we are building for the web so it would be WebGL. Double check your player setting are how you want them and click build!

If you’re taking the GameDevHQ courses and have used Filebase there are some additional things that you need to do in order for your build to compile correctly.

Typically once the build completes all you would have to do is take the Build and TemplateData folders along with the index.html and place it in the root of your folder, commit and push the changes via git. If you’ve not created a repository on github for your project you can also create a new repo there and just push up the build. This is actually what I ended up doing as our github repo had some things in our gitignore file that was preventing the webgl to load properly. Instead of making any changes to the gitignore I just made a new repo to hold only the build files.

Next we explore the wonderful world of Github pages!

Once everything has been pushed up, go to the settings of your repo.

If you scroll down towards the bottom of the page you’ll see a section called GitHub pages. All you have to do now is choose the branch and folder you want it to pull from, hit save, and that is it!! You’ll see a link for your new live page!

This is a great and free way to let others play your game, host your personal site, or showcase any other webdev projects!

NOTES:

This is only a free service for public repos.

There might be a size limit.

It takes a few minutes to load up so don’t freak out if you click on it right away and get a 404 error.

Other things that happened:

↠Lots of peer coding!

We are working to get everything all polished up and squared away to publish/showcase our game!

Talk to you soon.
CASE STUDY: EMOTNESS. Como estudiante del bootcamp UX/UI en…
By: Clara Campomanes Gómez
Tags: Challenge, Emotions, Wellness, UI

Former Art Director & Graphic Designer. Currently Ironhacking myself. Coming soon: UX/UI Designer.
December Gratitude #2
By: Nika Paradis
Tags: Gratitude, Life, Challenge, Self, Perspective

Dear Gratitude,

All my life, I’ve felt your presence, and, in a way, I’ve always known you, or my version of you.

Until recently, I thought of you as the silver lining in everything, and in every bad situation, I always thought of all the things that were going right to shift my focus on the good. That was my way of coping with all the bad. You were my way of coping with all the bad.

You are the reason I’m still here. I haven’t had an easy life, but, because of you, I’ve managed to survive everything so far, all that life has thrown at me.

I always turned to you.

When my mother abandoned me, I was only a toddler, but I was grateful all the shouting had stopped.

When I was left alone for days at the age of nine, the neighbor who was supposed to check on me saw me dancing by myself and I heard her whisper to her husband, “She’s either crazy or very strong.” I was just grateful for the peace I felt by myself.

When I was eighteen and my best friend told me her life couldn’t get any worse, I listed all the good things she should be grateful for in her life.

When I was drugged and raped at the age of twenty-five, I was grateful I was still alive.

When I became homeless for a few weeks, I was grateful for all the things I still had.

In all my life, I’ve never had a challenge I haven’t attacked or overcome, and it’s always been because of you.

Now, I see you’re so much more than a silver lining…

You are the reason I appreciate all the things, good and bad, that have ever happened to me because they’ve made me who I am.

You are the reason I want to thank every person in my life, not only every person who has done right by me but also every person who has wronged me because they, whether they were a blessing or a lesson, have brought me to where I am.

I don’t know why it has taken me so long to see the real you, but I know I’m grateful.

I’m grateful…

for having submitted my piece for the anthology,

for having been accepted and published,



for having read the book (Dear Gratitude: An Anthology by Chris Palmore) dedicated to you,



for having had the opportunity to see all the perspectives people have of you,



for having understood the different facets of you I couldn’t understand before.

You have been my best friend all my life, and I will always keep you close.

Yours,

N.P.
Day-1
Tags: Монгол, Day, Challenge

Today is the first day of my 30 day challenge. The reasons why I started this challenge about it seemed interesting first then I thought I can improve my english writing skill during this challenge. So it’s quite helpful for me. The third reason is my winter break about to start overmorrow and I already started feeling lazy and bored. I think probably this challenge will make my life more interesting and brighter than now.

May you think what is the challenge I am talking about. This challenge means I ought to write a day event of my life daily but I can also write about any books, movie, people, animal or memories and poems either just if I want.

I am not really glad about my nowadays english skill. I’ve been want to improve it so long time. Today is the day I have to start my journal to get better english.

What I learned during quarantine? :)

This morning I woke up at 10am. I wanted to get up early as 8am but I couldn’t so. I’ve been really bad sleep cycle since quarantine started. I thought within sleep early and wake up early or sleep late and wake up late has no difference. But it has! My acne problems got worse than ever. Even though I’ve been sleep at least 7hours a day, I still feeling so tired and have no intention. Therefore I understood good sleep cycle is so important for my health.

Sorry for my bad English:\ hope it will got better when this challenge has finished.
COMING on 17th December!
By: Sarah Williams
Tags: Challenge, Inspiration, Solo Travel, Hiking, Adventure

Charlotte Fowles — The Executive Adventurer, solo hiking whilst on chemotherapy & crossing the Australian outback in a 4x4 truck!

Charlotte Fowles — also known as The Executive Adventurer — helps corporate leaders who are frustrated, lost or bored to rediscover their purpose, passion and fun without sacrificing their current success. She is an author and public speaker.

Always one to practice what she preaches, she has spent a lot of her life pushing herself way outside her comfort zone in pursuits such as free-diving and scuba diving; marathon running; solo-hiking whilst on chemotherapy; and crossing the Australian outback for months in an ancient 4x4 truck. After enduring over a decade of significant personal trauma, she is an expert in resilience and creating triumph from tragedy and living life in spite of this, and she brings this epic resilience to her coaching. She is passionate about mental wellness and the outdoors and is fascinated by the combinations of these elements that can bring about incredible change.

It is this unapologetic energy and relentless pursuit of her clients’ complete success that gets results. She knows that as long as you’re willing to step outside that comfort zone where you’ve been feeling so restless, the world that you want to create is all yours.
On building habits and overcoming challenges
By: Anoop Chiplunkar
Tags: Success, Overcoming Failure, Challenges, Morning Routines, Habits

What we all want in life is to be Wealthier, Fitter and Happier!

In fact most of the things we do in our lives are geared towards achieving one of these three goals. We work hard, we try to eat healthy & workout or we look for the right partner in order to be wealthy, fit and happy.

But progress towards these goals requires having discipline and building good habits, which is easier said than done.

For instance, I have struggled to have a strong morning routine for a couple of years now. To get up early, to workout, read/write and plan for the rest of my day. Every time I feel like I’ve found the rhythm, I slip up. A warm bed on a cold winter morning sabotages all my momentum! It takes a few days again to realize that I have lagged behind and to give it another go.

When we slip up, we tend to be hard on ourselves. When this happens repeatedly, we find ourselves fall into a pit of despair. Some of us go so deep that it takes a long time to come back, sometimes even years.

I have faced this challenge myself for years and still do!

But this is rarely helpful. You have to make peace with your failings to be able to progress on the path to discipline. You need to acknowledge your weaknesses before you start addressing them.

Every time I notice that I have lagged behind with my morning routine, I sit down and analyze what went wrong. I try to take lessons from my failings so that I can address issues next time around. And before I give it another go, I make peace with my current failure.

Since I incorporated this practice, i see an improvement in my ability in making better habits stick. for example, I have stuck to my morning routine for 20 days in the last month! which is huge improvement personally. This involved eliminating

late night binges

caffeine

scrolling through social media in bed

among other things.

Of course I still fall prey to a lot of temptations like everyone. Instagram, youtube, that new show on netflix are all hard to resist!

But I think life is like that. It would be a lot less interesting if all us were perfect! Life’s more about moving four steps forward and and one step back. And going at it again.

Really rewarding habits are harder to build. But that IS the challenge. Things worth having take efforts and time! So, next time you slip up while trying to make a habit stick, don’t be too hard on yourself. Learn from it and start over! Notice how it makes it easier for you to stay on track.
CHALLENGE SOLVED DOESN’T EQUAL CHALLENGE COMPLETED ✨ DAILY SPARK
By: Liesbeth Bakker
Tags: Challenge, Entrepreneurship, Founders, Inspiration, Startup

Still with Theo from Turbo by DreamWorks

You may have noticed I failed to send out my Daily Spark yesterday. Not because I didn’t write one… no, I actually did. It was that final step of “convert written to typed text then copy then send” I missed out on. You could see it as a trivial “oh, that just happens”, but I fear there may have been more going on…

One of the things that most entrepreneurs have in common is that we love a challenge. And once that challenge is solved, we move on to the next challenge: be it landing a new client, or solving an operational problem, or in this case: writing my daily spark.

I think I lapsed into thinking that “spark written” equaled “spark sent”, hence it disappeared from my “challenges to complete” list. I notice I have that same frame of mind when it comes to designing a new program (my translation of developing a new product) or sharing feedback on exercises with people. The bulk of the effort is with the creative thinking (=challenge) where I never know when the cognizant breakthrough will happen — and hence I forget to allocate time for the practical follow up after.

SPARK OF THE DAY

Challenge “solved” doesn’t equal challenge “completed”… just because it’s no longer a challenge, that doesn’t mean it’s off our plate before we complete on the delivery and execution!

It’s as simple as that!

I wish you a wonderful rest of your day ✨
What Does It Take to Start Before You Feel Ready?
By: Marta Brzosko
Tags: Burnout, Challenge, Psychology, Self, Big Self

Dear Big Selfer,

Last weekend, I realized how often I pass on life’s opportunities just because they feel “too hard.”

My friends were staying over and I had many ideas for what I wanted to do together. A cacao ritual around the fire. Interviewing them for my next book. Playing a complex boardgame that I hadn’t tried before.

Unfortunately, none of that happened. All of those ideas were great opportunities but they demanded some organizing and planning. And in the past few days, organizing and planning somehow felt beyond me.

You can say there’s nothing wrong with that — and I would agree. Sometimes, we just don’t feel at our best. We’re tired. All we want to do is stay in our protective shell and entertain the thought that something’s too difficult for us.

We tell ourselves that we’re not ready and so, we let opportunities pass us by. Now, I don’t know about you — but I’ve certainly missed out on things just because I didn’t realize I could do them without feeling ready.

This is what the past week at Big Self was also about. We published a few in-depth articles describing that place in the mind where you can take on challenges without feeling prepared for them.

And let me break this out to you right away: That place is more ambiguous than some “feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway” self-help gurus would have you think.
The Challenge
By: Susmi Surendran
Tags: Poems On Medium, Poem, Challenge, Growth, Self Love

~ Susmi Surendran

I think I have found that balance,

And Oh, It took me years thirty-three!

I know that I now own that chalice,

Drinks are poured unto as I please.

When love was all about giving,

I emptied all my treasuries of gold!

When in need, was offered no copper,

‘Stead was asked to redefine bold.

My voice box had multiple keys,

It sang to the tunes demanded.

The little bird in it went rogue;

Everyone around was confounded!

I was given the map to success,

I struggled to compete in that maze.

Climbed mountains, fell off ravines,

My existence began self-erase!

I figured the trick is to survive,

To find the ones who set you free;

I think I am now up for this challenge,

And Oh, It took me years thirty-three!
Quarter III 2020 Mental/Physical Challenge: Botched Attempt
By: Dillon Burns
Tags: Challenge, Dreams, The Dillon Burns Method, Discipline, Goals

DO HARD SHIT: EVERY DAY

I have a confession to make: I’M NOT FUCKING PERFECT. No one is.

Having said that, I fucked up and I need to come clean (not that I lied to anyone about this). Quarter III challenge was a body composition challenge and I botched it, big time. I got comfortable, I didn’t put the work in I needed to, and I was really, REALLY upset with myself for being a giant POS.

I’m better than that. I’m harder than that. I know how to overcome and work harder than that. And all these reasons are why I was so upset with myself — because I know I’m better than that effort.

To make up for that, I am undertaking TWO mental/physical challenges in Quarter IV, one of which I’ve already accomplished and another is coming up quick.
Challenges In Having Your Own Business, In Real Life
By: Jasmin Hajro
Tags: Business, Challenges

Are you in business for yourself ?

Are you an entrepreneur ?

Don’t we read books written by other business people ?

That talk from reality , from real life, from experience ?

Don’t we wanna get better at it ?

Don’t we want to learn from others who walk the almost same path ?

Do we want to learn how to persist ?

Do we still enjoy an exciting story….in these times ?

This book has it all and will have you thinking…

this is insane….but it all happened…

For real…Plus you get book Victory

about how the war started and we fled the country as refugess while my father stayed to fight.

If you want to know more visit www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jasminhajro
My top 5 games from The Web Monetization Challenge 2020
By: Andrzej Mazur
Tags: Top 5, Gamedev, Games, Challenge, Web Monetization

I was invited to be a judge in The Web Monetization Challenge 2020 organized by Björn Ritzl from the Defold Foundation as part of their Grant, and since the concept of having your own top 5 games ended up quite well for the experts in js13kGames 2020, I decided to do that myself too.

The challenge was running for a month between November 1st and December 1st 2020, and it was held the same month GitHub’s Game Off from Lee Reilly took place, so many entries actually got submitted to both jams. It was quite challenging, since this jam’s theme was Secrets, and the other’s Moonshot, but double the challenge meant double the fun.

Out of 38 entries, we were given a shortlisted 15 games to judge based on three criteria: Fun, Theme, and Web Monetization. After voting for all the submissions, I decided to pick my personal top favourites. It seems we had some solid diversity in the judging panel, since two out of five of those ended up outside top 10 eventually (my 2nd pick was 13th) - check the official results to see how it went.

Below are the games I really enjoyed playing - I did put the focus on the fun aspect when selecting those. I’ll go from my personal winner, a runner-up, and three honorable mentions in no particular order:

Relic Splatter

Relic Splatter is definitely my favourite with cool idea, nice graphics, smooth gameplay, and a whole lot of juiciness. I really liked splashing colorful stuff all over the place, and the idea of using a gun as a jetpack as well. Paying Coil members get help finding the relics.

No Way Back

No Way Back is a tank shooting game with a top-down view, and you have to repair your vehicle while moving forward - literally, since at the beginning you can’t even go in reverse. After repairing and gearing up, you can return to the start and find what was waiting there for you since the very beginning. Extra life and tank speed for Web Monetized users.

Moonshot: The Great Espionage

Moonshot: The Great Espionage have a cool vibe, nice pixel art style, and intriguing story, with the monetized bonus being a passive income. This game won the whole competition.

Silent Ruins

Silent Ruins is an idle clicker that looks nice and offers increased earnings as an extra bonus. You can dig and collect artefacts up until a point where you can trade them for a permanent upgrade which resets the game.

Secrets of Atlantis

Secrets of Atlantis is an old school arcade experience with colorful visuals and a catching tune, where monetized users are able to access the third, extra level.

Overall I really ejnoyed playing and judging the games - it’s so great to see more jams (after js13kGames 2019 and 2020) incorporating Web Monetization. Since Itch.io now supports it, you can expect Gamedev.js Jam 2021 to join the monetized fun as well.
“JavaScriptmas” challenges with Scrimba
By: Rafał Bogacz
Tags: Challenge, JavaScript, Scrimba, Programming, Javascriptmas

8. Rolling Dice

This challenge is quite different because it involving also HTML and CSS.

DESCRIPTION: In this challenge a casino has asked you to make an online dice that works just like it would in real life. Using the pre-made dice face that represents ‘one’, make the faces for ‘two’, ‘three’, ‘four’, ‘five’ and ‘six’. Now when the users clicks the dice on the screen the dice is expected to show one of the faces randomly. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS: 1. pick out the neccesary elements from the HTML

2. Create other 5 dice faces in CSS

3. use eventlisteners on the appropriate div

4. Display dice faces randomly on click STRETCH GOALS: - Can you show the number you rolled as a integer along-side the dice face?

- Can you improve the overall design?

My explanation

You have plenty of solutions for this. I will be focused on why I decided to do it in this way.

CSS:

For dice, I decided to use the grid layout. Each dot is in a 3x3 grid and has its own coordinates described in classes: dot-a , dot-b … dot-i To center the dots inside fields I used align-self: center and justify-self: center

HTML:

For the proper displaying starting face I added class dot-e to the existing dot.

I also added two div blocks with information about how to reroll and the placeholder for information about the number of drawn dots.

JS:

DICE_FACE_CONFIG represent information about which dots need to be displayed. In index 0 we have information about one-dot-face, in index 4 about five-dots-face, etc.

Our main function is diceRoll inside it we will:

* drew the number from 1 to 6,

* get dice-face config from DICE_FACE_CONFIG based on drawn number

* clear the previous dice-face by removing all dice child nodes from DOM

* set new face based on config by adding dots with proper “dot-char” classes

* set information about drawn dots number
#2 Alpriate to Vila Franca de Xira (dirt roads, boardwalks, roads, wetlands)
By: Sarah Williams
Tags: Walking, Challenge, Motivation, Travel, Adventure

September 13th — Alpriate to Vila Franca de Xira

☀️It is 33 degrees outside and I love it! The heat and the sun makes me so happy!!! Had a very chilled start to the day, the hostel provided breakfast (bread rolls, cheese, yogurt) so I also made lunch! Which is always a good way to save some cash! I left the hostel around 10am. It was then straight back to the coast and following the water all the way, seeing more graffiti artwork, statues, and amazing bridges.

👉 The yellow and blue arrows then led me across a bridge and out into the countryside, just open blue skies with a few planes passing overhead.

🛣 There was some motorway walking, but it wasn’t for long and it wasn’t too bad! It was nice to reach the town where I’m staying tonight and my first albergue — Albergue de Peregrinos de Alpriate, Largo de Alpriarte (€10 euro) which is super clean and nice, it has 10 bed and is run by volunteers who are doing a fab job!

I also got my first stamp! Progress is being made! Im now stretching out in the sun and just enjoying life!

🎥 I am vlogging the trip and will be sharing the vlogs on YouTube. Make sure you subscribe to the tough girl YouTube channel so you don’t miss out!

🥾 My hike is being sponsored by @ciceronepress

#challengewithcicerone #caminodeportuguese #boncamino

Watch the vlog now!!!
Primeiros desafios como conversational writer
By: Wavy Global
Tags: Conversational Writing, Newness, Challenge

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Dear Diary,
Tags: Relationships, Dear Diary, Love, Love Letters, Experience

It’s been a while since I spoke to you.

And I have a good reason for that — you see, I chose to Love.

Yes, the 4 letter word that I was always scared of? yes, the very same.

I’m surprised too! Remember how I used to love using the word “hate” in all my opinions, and ideas, and whatever else I used to write in you? Or was I writing to you? Never mind, you’re a book — that too, the one that I write (Hahahaha). So naturally, you wouldn’t know.

…Or would you?

Yes, this four-letter word still scares the life out of me — you know that I am a vulnerable broken person. I think most people are. Some of us are just brave enough to admit to ourselves. But Love — ah! That’s something I am yet to comprehend, let alone articulate.

I think, I think and I think. I still remember Kala telling us that Love should make us feel — never think. But this person, the one I am in Love with, makes me think so much..?? It’s so frustrating?? Yet so attractive?? God, what is up with my emotions these days..? (this is a good cue for you to imagine my eyes rolling if at all you do)

Love makes me sick — sick in the heart, sick in the brain, sick in the body also — my heart feels like it can give the ECG machine a heart attack and it scares me that I can feel so much for this one person.

And you might be wondering who this person is — this one who’s made me so sick in Love. It’s the same one with the beautiful eyes that I was telling you about. Yes, it’s the same person! The one I had gushed about when I first spoke to them, the one who didn’t give me butterflies (which was an odd feeling like I’d said) and it’s the same one who made me feel like they are Home.

Suddenly all the love songs make sense and I hate that I feel so much.

Do I though..?
Holiday- in milliseconds or a lifetime?
By: Mallika Bhatia
Tags: Love, Happiness, Experience, Holidays, Family

One evening after a very busy day with two children to take care of and no help from anywhere. When I had cooked and cleaned and fed the kids, I decided to have a cup of coffee. My husband was travelling and that meant that I had no time alone to even catch up on my breath, let alone have tea or coffee.

That first sip of coffee felt like a holiday. (February 2019)

When we finally reached home after not being able to return even after several months, the house had a stale smell, the one typical to a house locked for about four months. We aired the house for several hours.

That first gush of air inside the house smelt like a holiday. (May 2020)

Photo by Caroline Attwood on Unsplash

A week full of work, kids, classes to drive to, playdates to plan and coordinate, Christmas gifts to arrange, a book to finish, my own language homework to complete, when I was too exhausted to cook. My husband took over the kitchen. I was truly glad for that. I decided to help him finish the meal by putting the rice to cook.

That first bite of my husband’s chicken curry tastes like a holiday. (Nov 2020)

As I sat thirsty on my sofa, tucked in a warm blanket editing my book. I asked my daughter if she would like to bring me a glass of water, just because I was lazy. She went into the kitchen with excitement and came back several minutes later with a tall glass of water with a straw and a lemon slice.

The first look at that glass of water felt like a holiday. (December 2020)
“I didn’t do this part”
By: Jeffrey E. Uvero
Tags: Devstory, Development, Programming, Experience

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

These past few days I realized that I am becoming matured as a developer. It’s very often to notice it, but one situation gives me the assurance that this statement is true.

My colleagues ask me a question about the system that I handled years ago. Well actually I will still handle it eventually, but the part his working out is the one that I created way back then. He asked me why that line exist, but I really don’t remember that line of code and said to him that I’m not the one who wrote that line. I can’t suggest to my colleague to remove that part cause I know there’s a reason why he wrote it. Still, I am eager to know who wrote it and why he wrote that part so I tried to look for it at Git and surprisingly it was me! I am the one who wrote this line of code two years ago. I can’t really recognize that part, but on the other side of this situation, I realized that now I know I have improved my coding skills and I can even criticize my own self. The bad part is just I still don’t know why I wrote this.

I think this blog is the continuation of this blog (https://medium.com/@jeffreyuvero/revisiting-old-stuff-with-new-perspective-9a4a6e385787) but with a different situation. When you revisit your work sometimes you can’t recognize it because your perfective is different from before. I am talking about coding but it also applies to other stuffs.

So the big question is did I solve this problem? I actually don’t know yet the only idea I have is to put a comment every time I change or edit codes but is it proper? Well, I really don’t know, but once I figure it out, I will post it.

Merry Christmas and happy coding
Tune in to 107.8
By: Siddhi More
Tags: Pandemic Diaries, Internships, Friends, Pandemic, Experience

Conversations now are nothing but connecting over zoom calls. The year 2020 has been quite something in terms of socializing. Not only has it made socializing in a pandemic possible, but has also helped one to expand their avenues.

Besides reconnecting with a friend online and enjoying the lags, several others have taken up internships, probably to kill time. Such is the life of college students where surviving is secondary and work experience stays primary. But keeping all the ridicules aside, internships have given the much-needed experience to most.

Recently, a friend of mine spoke about her first internship experience being awful yet fruitful in some ways. We can all agree that internships do get on your nerves, yet they lead you to the most unexpected path in life.

For the major part, that is why I vividly remember my first internship.

My friend, Isha and I interned together at a radio station within our vicinity. The internship was specifically located in Mumbai University, which was the land of the intellectuals according to us. Thus, freshly out of school, we were excited and set out to search for the definition of ‘internship’ ourselves.

Recently, when we got together to have a discussion on our first internship, we couldn’t help but describe it as a journey rather than an experience. It opened an entirely different world for us and led us to unimaginable destinations.

Surely, she was the rational one out of the two of us. She wanted to make sure that the internship expanded her knowledge and brought in the necessary experience. Meanwhile, I wanted to figure out why our internship didn’t have coffee machines like the ones shown on television.

While we may not have found a coffee machine, we did manage to widen our horizons in our ways, and that is how we define ‘internship’.

To add to it, we made friends, surprisingly. It came as a surprise to us because initially working with a few 20s something crowds and calling them colleagues seemed quite odd. But gradually we started becoming good friends. Good friends who would end up in any one of the three canteens at the university.

Planning to order new items from the menu was something we always did but ended up ordering the same dish almost every day. Maggi, cold coffee, and perpetual gossip became a part of our agenda. Just like the fixed menu, we got hooked to their presence and it became our sole purpose of going to work every day.

The two months at MUST Radio 107.8 brought out the unexpected. We were fortunate enough to experience several other instances that shaped our minds and sparked interest within us to go beyond the conventional.

To give you a bit of background, MUST Radio was a community radio based on promoting literacy and youth empowerment. Naturally, we worked on subject scripts and recordings hoping to hear them being aired someday. Together we ideated several out of the box plans to effectively convey our message to potential listeners.

Each day brought something new and meaningful to our experience. Small things that led to imbibing bigger lessons for life.
IX #037 — The Experience Newsletter
Tags: Rituals, Design, Experience, Feasts, Holidays

A weekly grackle-eyed scry into the best news, scholarship, case studies and more from the ever-evolving world of experience.

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Help your pals at Grackle put out the dumpster fire of 2020 and make way for a better year ahead with Fuck Off 2020: A DIY New Year’s Ritual.

I. Bringing people together through immersive gameplay is at the core of a new tech-focused attraction.

II. Valentino opens incredible art and fashion experience in Shanghai.

III. Seismique, a trippy immersive experience, is opening in an old big-box store in west Houston.

IV. An anthropological look at the long evolution of comfort food.

V. Tune into forests from around the world and escape, relax & help preserve.

VI. Lessons about mentoring from “COVID-proof” speed dating.

VII. A look at medieval feasts, through 11 recipes.

VIII. A pre-COVID article about the human hatred of being alone in a room with nothing to do.

IX. Want to help us put out the dumpster fire of 2020 while renewing cosmic and social order this holiday? Check out Fuck Off 2020: A DIY New Year’s ritual.

Grackle is an experience design studio and consultancy specializing in designing immersive experiences that meld people with products, places, brands, and each other. Get in touch
Ode to Night
By: Edwin Bai
Tags: Creative Writing, Experience, Dreamy

The pristine boulders dot the sunlit grove, every alabaster visage telling a different tale; as impossibly smooth stones whine of terrible gales raging across unchartered shores, roughly hewn outcrops croak of blistering cold peaks perched amongst stars. The fables of old speak of winged fairies and eldritch creatures that oft tend to these woods — yet not a twig has ever been broken, nor a leaf ever set adrift. Travelers from afar know to skirt these woods; after all, these omens of danger would stand out to any voyager, perhaps even those on their first journey.

The sun burns silently, its snores lost to the eavesdropping void between us. As it dies for the billionth time, its waning light frames the greatwoods and boulders of the grove. Like dancers under a fading spotlight, the pastel undergrowth pirouettes away the last moments of today, a thousand unfamiliar ferns and flowers flaunting colors unbeknownst to the world.

Nothing ever visits these woods, yet here I sit, cross-legged, atop a moss patch and under a sapling, in blissful ignorance, alone to bear witness to that ethereal midnight sky. Leaving my body behind, I let my mind wander: so high, so far, so strange! I drift up, my consciousness an origami plane caught amidst a gentle breeze. The winds exhale; I disappear through the arboreal skylight adorned with coruscant stars.

I surrender to those spirited winds, rising and falling to the ebb and flow of the stars’ scintillating wrath. My body lay miles beneath me, inanimate, yet I can almost feel the stars’ heat from up here; I imagine pinpricks of heat tickling my arms, as if sparks were blown from a campfire in its dying throes.

More stars wink into existence, each a fiery snow globe brimming with irate beauty, each a distant realm shrouded by deathly brilliance. A star winked out, and I mourned the death of a familiar stranger. Like ships passing in the night, we were carried by different winds to different horizons, yet there was a moment in which we sailed together.

In my voyages, I passed innumerable wonders.

A million deaths died deaths seen, a million years snuck past unheard. I’ve wandered for millennia but still, I sat, despite time, cross-legged atop patches of lichen. My hair has turned to moss and my body to stone, the hollows of my eye turned skyward in suspended reverence. The saplings around me have grown massive, conceding scant rays of effervescent sunshine to cast their vivid warmth into lifeless sockets.

­­ The pristine boulders dot the sunlit grove, ever alabaster visage turned to me, eager to hear my story.
Entertaining and educational.
By: Patrick Mcneillie
Tags: Budget, Cloud Computing, Experience

Entertaining and educational.

I was most impressed with the frankness of your re-telling, owning the mistakes and walking the reader through your stages of grief.

Well done. I’m Looking forward to additional articles, maybe with less drama for your start-up’s sake.
Pak’s Totkay to get a Growth mindset
By: Samreen Ameen
Tags: Experience, Tıp

From the term totkay , I remembered Zubaida appa’s totkay for almost every problem related to health. From the title, what is the growth mindset, and why it is so important?

A growth mindset is this kind of mindset which motivates you on challenges, always ready to learn something new, take failure as an opportunity to springboard for growth and for stretching your existing abilities.

According to me, a growth mind is a necessary element of everyday leadership, it is a core of a good MVP member, and people having a growth mindset never depressed themself due to any problem or issue rather than try to feather out a solution creatively and smartly.

After definition significance, now introducing the process to make you a person having a growth mindset, by practicing these below referred ‘AMAL TOTKAY’.

SELF TALK

Self-Talk

Thoughts lead to action. It is a good exercise of doing self-talk but make your self-talk to be positive, it makes you a good person and improves your health by decreasing your stress level

Get out of your zone:

There is nothing achieved on having in your comfort zone. The exploration of life is like getting marks of sacrifices, efforts and failure on your body and nothing comes easily.

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is one stepped outside your comfort zone”.

Create new habit:

To have healthy lifestyle is like transforming your new knowledge by creating new habits. Creating good habits is like polishing yourself to make a nice person.

Ask people help:

While working in a team, it is good to give constructive feedback for the betterment of work. Taking constructive feedback is sometimes quite difficult but smart people always take as a help to improve their skills.

Fake it till make it:

So it is my favorite tip, it preparation us to behave as if we’re in a position well before we master it. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, act like you already are one. This practice, done well, must include visualization and knowing where you ultimately want to wind up. If you know what you seek , by describing the outcome and visualizing what you’re planning for, you’re much more likely to get it.

About the implementation of these tips, so I already do self-talk too much, also took constructive criticism to improve myself and I am trying my best to come out of my comfort zone, and joining amal academy is the first step of it. As I declared earlier that ‘fake it till make it’ is my favorite and from today I start doing practice with this tip and I am enjoying it. About the ‘creating new habit’, it is quite different for a lazy person like me but I will be trying to practice this tip. Growth mindset is a result of the implementation of these tips and I am now on a path of having the ability of growth mindset.
2020 is hard to digest. It’s the time of year for reviews and…
By: Jessica Richards
Tags: Retrospectives, 2020, Experience, Wtf, Personal Growth

Every change is an opportunity, I tried to believe. As we locked down, isolated and shutdown, I dreamed about living and working abroad by the sea. Perhaps this was the universe rearranging to create a new life. Or perhaps the regrettable Brexit vote would deliver on its long drawn-out tragedy and end our freedom of moment.

Even though I didn’t live abroad, it felt like I lived in a different country to my loved ones. I missed them, without the benefit of that sea view.

Soon most travel was restricted and the new life turned out to be leggings, Zoom, Netflix, podcasts, parcels and takeaways. Activity became walks round the car park outside my flat, looking at squirrels and taking photos of flowers. None of this was bad compared to the real hardship all around. Maybe it was #mindfulness or #self-care or something. It just lacked variety. And meaning.

People used to say ‘I’d love a quiet evening in’. Many of us got a lot of them this year. A slow down could have been relaxing. As long as you didn’t watch the news. Or think about loss.
ENJOY!
By: Suryansh Bhadoria
Tags: Age, Experience, Motivational, Life

ENJOY!

Life is like an ice cream

Eat it before it melts

But while doing this, we usually we get so busy in our ice cream, that we forget our flavours.

The point is, the ice cream has to melt

Might as well try new flavours.
Mossy Stone
By: Rishabh Choudhari
Tags: Poem, Ancient, Past, Experience, Stone

Mossy Stone

A mossy stone,

Ancient,

What worlds you must have seen.