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5 steps I’m taking to learn the guitar
By: Benedek Agota
Tags: Self Improvement, Study, Music, Learning, Guitar

Photo by De an Sun on Unsplash

I’ve recently started to learn the guitar. I would like to share with you how I’m optimizing my learning as a complete beginner.

Subscribing to Yousician

There are tons of videos and apps that will help you learn the guitar but the best app in my experience is Yousician. Yousician’s curriculum has been reasonably challenging and well thought out so far. The app has videos where an instructor explains the various concepts underlying playing the guitar and the different techniques required will also be shown to you. You can learn a whole bunch of songs from Yousician as well and the app gives you feedback on how well you are performing. Sort of like a video game. It’s all really simple and you don’t even have to subscribe to it if you’re okay with some limitations.

Practicing every day

I’ve found that consistency is key in most things. By practicing daily even just a little bit one can turn learning the guitar into a habit which makes overcoming feelings of resistance easier. The daily practice also reaps the benefits of a phenomenon called spaced repetition. Spaced repetition means that if you recall and practice something over a long period of time that thing will be better cemented in your brain. Deliberate practice can also help a lot. Deliberate practice means someone practices the skills most difficult for her.

Interleaving

Interleaving is a method that can help you gain proficiency in a field. Interleaving means that you’re practicing or studying different kinds of things one after the other. In practice, this means that I’m practicing melodies and riffs in the same study session. I hope this will make me able to switch between different skills more easily.

Resting

Sometimes a new thing I’ve just learned is challenging. For example, I’m learning chords now and for a complete beginner like me, switching chords is hard. After a focused session I like to take some time off. This could mean a few hours or this could mean that I’m done playing for the day. The resting time enables the new ideas to bounce around in my subconscious and let my brain form and strengthen new neural connections. After some time off or a goodnight’s rest, I usually perform significantly better. It’s not always the case but my habit of practicing every day protects me from giving up when the going gets tough.

Not caring about music theory

I’m not focusing much on music theory yet. I still have some leftover knowledge from school and I’ve started to learn theory but I’ve given up. Playing the instrument is much more fun plus Yousician also covers theory so when I’ll need it I’ll learn it. I’ve found that when you’re just starting out it’s best to go easy on yourself first to keep yourself from giving up.

I’ve taken most of my strategies from a book called A Mind for Numbers written by Barbara Oakley. I highly recommend this book to everyone who wants to learn how to study anything efficiently.
RHYTHM over RHYTHMS: Poly-metric Patterns
By: Milo Tamez
Tags: Study, Metrics, Music, Africa, Multidimensional

RHYTHM over RHYTHMS: Poly-metric Patterns

In 2005 Dr. David Locke called it simultaneous multidimensionality, as musical cubism, a condition prevalent in many African traditions of performance art in which music is coherent from different aural and kinesthetic perspectives at the same time.

A simpler way of thinking adapting to drum-set practice may be Polymetric Patterns, where you create and develop your overall technique through the interwoven of ostinato patterns, points of rhythmic divergence, meter oppositions and connections within the full structure.

You can build 300+% technical capacity in the same amount of time you normally achieve only a 20% of your natural skill. Why is this? Well, this is simple. YOU ARE ABOUT TO WORKING AS A FULL ORCHESTRA! That is what batería is. And working in this way, the drummer can trigger all of her/his neuromuscular system in a higher energetic and integrated quest of percussive musical making.

I have been studying and researching, practicing and teaching for over 25 years all of this. Founded and developed drumming ensemble music Lab, experimenting with the rhythmic possibilities in every musical context, analyzing the concepts and theoretical principles, and finally creating a powerful approach to my own way of playing. Maximizing the quality quantity of unforeseeable percussive living experience of instrumental skill, historical knowledge, theoretical understanding and creativity.

True invention is very rare to find, thus changing the drumming paradigm within the theoretical studies of drum-set practice and its diversification of applications, opens a profound threshold of ancient, contemporary and futuristic wisdom in the drumming percussive art.
Is a Physics degree even useful?
By: Kenton Kwok
Tags: Physics, Study, University, Personal Development, Science

Is a Physics degree even useful?

My experience in choosing to major in Physics in the twenty-first century Kenton Kwok Sep 5·5 min read

Choosing what (and where) to study is probably the most monumental decision any eighteen-year-old could make. It doesn’t help in Hong Kong, my home town, where “doing what you love” isn’t the motto prescribed to teenagers. From what I have experienced, the traditional view is that studying for intellectual satisfaction is only, at most, a secondary consideration. Goals such as having a job when you graduate, achieving financial security, getting rich and finally climbing the social status ladder often take precedence.

Therefore, the ‘usefulness’ of a degree is often the subject of discussion. In my view, shunning financial security is not realistic; a good choice of degree is an informed decision, based on what an individual enjoys doing and also external environmental factors. I entered university in 2019 — in somewhat regular times, but my decision would probably have changed if I had to make it during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

The following is my attempt at reasoning through studying physics in the twentieth century.
Who am I and why am I here?
By: Anny Shmakova
Tags: Language, Students, Study, Chinese, English

Who am I and why am I here?

Всем привет! 大家好! Hi, everyone!

My name is Anya, I’m 21 years old and now I’m a fourth-year student at the Linguistics university of Nizhniy Novgorod.

Why am I here (I mean in the LUNN)? Because I have always wanted to study foreign languages, especially Chinese.

3 years at the university flew by so quickly…and now, in a year I’ll acquire the Bachelor’s degree. My main goal for this year is to pass my final exams successfully and get a professional credential. To be honest, I want to graduate from university with honours. It is not very important, but if I have such a chance (and I know I have it), then why should I miss it? Oh, and I want to enjoy writing my graduation work, I hope it’s possible.

I’m not sure about my further education. I really want to study abroad, but the boarders are closed now so unfortunately I can’t do it. If not for the coronavirus, I would apply for a Master’s program in China. For example, “

Chinese Ethnic Language and Literature” in Zhejiang University. There are a lot of advantages in studying in China for me: 1 — it’s a good opportunity to improve the language, to learn more about Chinese culture and to travel around Asia. 2 — China is one of the safest countries in the world. 3 — climate there is more suitable for me (I can’t stand our cold weather). 4 — there are a lot of scholarships, which covers your accommodation, studies, and also you get a sum of money every month. I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for international students.

In Russia there are also some programs I’m interested in. One of them is “Chinese Language and the Methods of teaching it” in LUNN. Unfortunately, the number of state-funded places is small (only 6) and the tuition fee is high. But recently I started thinking that I would like to try teaching Chinese language, so why not at least try it?

Well, my first post is coming to an end and I want to say that I am studying exactly where I wanted to. I do what I want to do. I’m really in my place.

Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for your attention.

Anya 🌸
When God is with us, who can be against us?
By: Yuhwen Foong
Tags: Christianity, Testimony, Founder Stories, Crisis, Startup Life

The past 3 – 5 days I have been working on SushiVid’s plan B due to CoVid-19. It is inevitable that every business, across the globe, would be affected in big and small ways.

For a startup our size, of course, our burn isn’t too much but we are also hand-to-mouth in a lot of ways. Meaning, this months revenue determines next month’s payroll.

As I fuss about the whole Plan B and worse case scenarios, it dawned on me that had we not close multiple folds in December, I would be in a way worse position than I am today.

Many people were complaining Dec was a slow month, but we didn’t feel that. In fact, we were so shocked at our billing!

But you know what, it wasn’t puzzling to God. He knew… and he prepared for us ahead of time so that we would have enough. In fact, the revenue we closed in December, a huge chunk client has already prepaid in advance! That’s how good God is.

I just can’t help but share this story because I really genuinely believe God breathed into my situation and alleviate my worries.

Praise The Lord.

#startuplife #crisis #testimony
How false Sales Champions bleed your time & money
By: Irwin Ki
Tags: Strategy, Innovation, Founder Stories, SaaS, Sales

Create a thesis on who your innovators really are

“We have been talking for 5 months and they have budgeted $20,000/month to hire us!”

I was pumped for him.

Both founders were technical and have been bootstrapping their startup for almost a year.

This contract will allow the founders to keep building and be cashflow positive!

They also focused on the ideal early-stage customer. The potential customer is the innovator’s space (blockchain) that was willing to hire them to take the software they built and turn it into their own customized ERP solution.

I dig deeper.

“Who have you been working with?”

“Jeff.”

“Who else?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean for a project like this there’s going to be other people involved in the decision making. Does Jeff have the power to make a decision and write a check?”

“No. This week Jeff’s setting up a call with the GM Aaron.”

“That’s a good sign. Have you spoken to Aaron before?” I asked.

“This will be our first call.”

I explained, “the good news is Jeff is helping set up a meeting with Aaron.

The bad news is you spent 5 months with Jeff and you only have 1 leg in the account.

You need to test Jeff to see if he is a real champion. You test your champion by having them do something for you.”

Champion (noun): A person who has power / influence and who fights for you when you are not in the room.

It could be getting approvals to set up a trial, presenting their findings to a decision-making committee…

In this case, it was setting up a call with Aaron. The problem was Jeff was the person tasked with finding data gathering…he didn’t have the authority to make a decision.

5 months have been invested in Jeff without ever talking to the GM Aaron.

This means the sale cycle is still early…despite investing 5 months.

The lesson here is most new sales reps & founders look at the prospect in 2 dimensions vs 3 dimensions.

There are layers to the org chart.

It’s important to understand who else could be a decision-maker…as guys like Jeff will make you feel like you are making progress.

The sooner you can get Jeff bought in to loop in his boss and team.

The sooner you can figure out where you really at!

If you find this article interesting pls smash that like/share button.

I’m currently helping founders as an Executive Sales Coach & Angel Investor.

Shoot me a note with your sales question and I’ll be happy to help.

Warm Regards, Irwin

Irwin@TechCounsel.org
The simple power in marginal gains
By: Dan Bowyer
Tags: Marginal Gains, Entrepreneurship, Founder Stories, Founders, Startup

This is a dull and ridiculous story but I’m going to share it anyway as it reminded me of the power in marginal gains.

I gave up caffeine 2 months ago but drink decaf most days. I have a semi swanky machine and milk-frother as I used to love a proper coffee at home in the morning. It no longer has the same punch but I’ll dip into the old routine until I totally kick the habit.

To make my tasty beverage I would froth the milk, put the cup under the machine, let the coffee pour in and then mix it with a little whisk thingy. Wash all the utensils and then drink my coffee. Nice.

One day I couldn’t find the whisk so I put the coffee in first, then the milk on top. Pouring the milk in after automatically mixed it all beautifully, and kept the same consistency. No need to use or wash up the whisk. Still deeeelicious and it saved me 45 seconds of shenanigans.

Are you still with me or have I bored you to death?

A truly tedious story right.

But there was the eureka reminder!

It reminded me to just step back on a regular basis and think for a minute — How can I apply marginal gain thinking to everything I do across people, product, process, packaging, pricing… And for me, how can I help founders apply it.

So far I’ve upgraded my daily work routine, what I do when and how I compartmentalise my time, reset all notifications, changed my calendar software, my office chair and added a second monitor to my home office. I’m also coaching a founder to apply the same thinking to his #product development process. Finding the edges, and where those little stop/start gains are hiding that all add up to create serious forward motion.

They’re not revolutionary, just practical things you can build on daily that make you say — hmmm, that’s niiiiice.
Featured Founder: Oren Milstein of StemRad
By: Embarc Collective
Tags: Startup Lessons, Space, Founder Stories, Startup, Founder Advice

Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Oren Milstein, Co-Founder and CEO of StemRad, a developer and manufacturer of personal protective equipment (PPE) for radiation.

What were you doing previously and what inspired you to launch your company?

I was in the last stages of my postdoctoral studies in San Diego. While I was fascinated with the basic science I was involved in, I felt like I had something practical to contribute. Then, in 2011, the tsunami struck Japan and caused devastation of the nuclear reactor complex in Fukushima. That was my call to action.

What pain point is your company solving? What gets you excited to go to work every day?

We are solving one of the most considerable threats on human health in the modern age. Radiation is in proliferation mode, be it for energy, medicine or for military purposes. We have solutions that mitigate that threat, while also enabling surprising outcomes, like human space exploration into deep space, where radiation is also a concern. I’m excited to make a change I can see and feel.

Name the biggest challenge you faced in the process of launching the company. How did you overcome it?

My biggest challenge was my fear. Can I make something nobody else has? Will I be able to raise funds without a business background?

Where do you see your company headed next?

Well, we are already headed to places I couldn’t have imagined only three years ago- we are going to the International Space Station this summer and around the Moon in 2020. Besides that, we are now entering the medical field with an outstanding solution for doctors operating in cath labs. All this while continuing to expand our sales into the first responder/nuclear energy market.

Give us a tactical piece of advice that you’d share with another founder just starting out.

If you think the world needs your solution, never give up. It will be very hard but, as Gandhi said, “first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

Learn more about StemRad on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

See the original post on Embarc Collective’s blog.
Featured Founder: Farrukh Siddiqui of Defynance
By: Embarc Collective
Tags: Fintech, Founder Stories, Loans, Fintech Startups, Startup

Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Farrukh Siddiqui, Founder, President & CEO of Defynance, disruptive student loan refinancing utilizing innovative Income Share Agreements (ISA).

What were you doing previously and what inspired you to launch your company?

My experience spans across insurance, mortgages, and web application development. Over the past 15 plus years, I have focused on socially responsible finance mostly as an entrepreneur. During this time, I weathered the financial crisis with millions of Americans. My personal and business life suffered as a result and I was able to analyze the self-inflicted wounds that caused it as a financial services insider. I resolved that there has to be a better way and have dedicated the rest of my professional career to fostering social impact within financial services.

What pain point is your company solving? What gets you excited to go to work every day?

We are tackling the $1.5 plus Trillion student loan crisis that is impacting more than 45 Million Americans. Solving a major problem through a solution that is responsible and saleable is what drives me to work hard every day.

Name the biggest challenge you faced in the process of launching the company. How did you overcome it?

Raising capital has always been the biggest challenge because our product is new and untested. I am still overcoming this challenge by building strategic relationships, bootstrapping, and always remaining confident and committed to the mission.

Where do you see your company headed next?

Our next milestone is revenue generation followed by establishing product-market fit and developing repeatable and scalable processes.

Give us a tactical piece of advice that you’d share with another founder just starting out.

Bootstrap for as long as possible! It’ll be difficult and frustrating but it fuels innovation, creativity, and aids in recruiting a core team that believes in the values and mission of the company. As a founder, you really find out who you are and acquire much self-confidence along the way.

Learn more about Defynance on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter

See the original post on Embarc Collective’s blog.
Why the founder of IDEO was right all along
By: Lina Avancini Colucci
Tags: Founder Stories, PhD, Data Science, Career Advice, Startup Life

3 Reasons Why Consulting Has Been Fulfilling

I could have never predicted that I would end up in consulting. To be honest, I still don’t feel like “consulting” or “contract engineering” is the right word for what I do. If anything, Edge Analytics is more of a “Product Design” firm, like IDEO or Frog, except that our products are algorithms and machine learning models. Terminology aside, here are three reasons why I love what I do:

We Ship Products

The models of consulting that I had seen in the past involved consultants swooping in, offering advice and recommendations, and then leaving again. I knew that I did not want that.

I love building things. I like being able to point to something and say, “I made that.” I like to see my ideas through all stages of implementation, to accumulate scar tissue from mistakes (to borrow a phrase from Steve Jobs), and to experience the professional growth that comes from true ownership.

That is exactly what we do at Edge Analytics. We don’t just do staff augmentation. We don’t just come in for two months and then leave again. We partner with companies to ship products. At the end of the day, we are responsible for production-level algorithms used by real customers.

We are on the Professional Growth Fast-Track

At Edge Analytics, we get exposed to a wide variety of problems in a short amount of time. We work on areas ranging from computer vision to natural language processing, from time-series to probabilistic modeling. We work on problems requiring TPU clusters and others requiring low-power microcontrollers and tiny FPGAs. We all build resumes that are dotted with iconic products that we help ship.

Our work is intense. We consistently deliver on extremely high expectations, which is only made possible by my incredible teammates and our effective teamwork. Working at Edge Analytics is ultimately a way to invest in ourselves and grow more than we thought possible.

We Choose What We Work On

We have been lucky to have more inbound work than capacity to take it on. That means we get to choose which clients to work with. We have three criteria when picking new partners:
Hey Ms. Carr
By: Hey Mrs. Solomon
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Founder Stories, Founders, Retail, Style

HMS: The combo makes so much sense when I look at your pieces, but I can’t think of another jeweler-architect! Tell me about your architectural practice.

MC: I have been in the architectural world for more than 15 years now. I did a degree, masters and full qualification to be an architect, 7 years of my life! I quit my full time job at Michaelis Boyd to nurture Chalk last year, however since then I have been working 2 days a week on a private job. Jewellery [ed. note: English spelling], architecture and life is tough to balance. But I have had to tackle my time in this way since the inception of Chalk so I am pretty used to juggling them all.

HMS: How did your interest in jewelry begin?

MC: My passion for jewellery developed when I was studying architecture. I wanted to express myself through my jewels and at that time the pieces I wanted to wear did not exist, so I decided to create them. This is where my Chalk journey began. The hardest part was finding Chalk’s community, it has taken some time to grow this. The most rewarding aspect is seeing my customers wearing and enjoying their pieces!

HMS: What is your goal for Chalk?

MC: My dream is to grow Chalk, I would love to have a small team helping me run the Chalk HQ. It is challenging having to run every single aspect of the business and I now see that I need help.

HMS: I love how your work draws from architectural details! Any buildings or architects in your mind or inspiring you right now?

MC: I do really admire Scarpa.

Earrings from the Scarpa collection.

HMS: What has been your approach to advertising, marketing, building the brand?

MC: I have been building the brand slowly but surely, I do not actually have an advertising or marketing plan (I know it is bad). I have used PR intermittently and if i could I would have this running constantly, but it is just so expensive. So I predominately use instagram and my newsletters to draw in clients.

the history-making Ayah hoop

HMS: How did Trinny come about?

MC: Trinny had worn my Ayah hoops years ago for a photoshoot and liked them so much that I gifted them to her. Years later her team contacted me to participate in an international woman’s event and it is here she learned that I had made [them]. She did a wonderful feature on them, which had an incredible impact on building my community. I gained so many followers and sales alike through Trinny. I am very grateful for this.

HMS: What Chalk pieces are in your personal rotation right now?

MC: I wear my smaller pieces [these and these] to and from the studio. To the few dinners I have been to, I’ve worn these Derin earrings — my all time faves!
Day 144 — Getting Close!. Today I spent a few hours continuing to…
By: Bob Weishar
Tags: Startup Lessons, Founder Stories

Preparing for the Final Boss

Today I spent a few hours continuing to organize our newly-diagnosed curriculum. Just like everything I do, my approach is to break everything into bite-sized pieces.

For these learning activities, I’m choosing to break them out by time since diagnosis, since it has such an impact on people’s mental state and ability to take in information. Here’s the breakdown so far:

Week 1 : Survival Skills

: Survival Skills Week 2–4: Intermediate Skills

Intermediate Skills Month 1+: Everything Else

Here’s what the modules include so far.

Week 1: Survival Skills

The survival skills sequencing and lessons are in a solid state. I feel really good about the content contained in here, including the sequencing of activities to build on knowledge and get people from 0 to 1 in a systematic way.

Weeks 2–4: Beginner Skills

Once users get through one of the toughest week of their lives, unfortunately the learning has really just begun. By week 2, they have a little experience under their belts but now it’s time to add additional challenges to level-up their skills.

In these weeks, we’ll include things such as:

Identifying trends in blood glucose

Goal-Setting

Managing activity

Getting support

Problem-Solving Practice

Coping & Mental Health

Month 1+: Intermediate -> Advanced Skills

I’ve lived with type 1 diabetes for 15 years and I’m still learning, so it’s just not feasible to ask people to do everything right away. For now, I’ve created a tab for all the learning activities that should occur after the first month. They include things like:

CGMs

Insulin Pumps

Advanced Problem-Solving

Addressing Mental Health Challenges

Etc.

For now, we’ll put these to the side so we can focus on the Month 1, high-priority activities.
Being a visionary doesn’t always help
By: Vlad Andrei
Tags: Product, Product Owner, UX, Management, Vision

Why is that? Well, let’s start with a quote from Steve Jobs:

I was basically fired from Apple when I was 30 and was invited to come back 12 years later so that was difficult when it happened but maybe the best thing that could ever happen to me. […] you just move on, life goes on and you learn from it.

As you may know, Steve Jobs is maybe one of the world’s most famous visionary of the century. But this did not help him from being fired, even though he invented Apple, together with Steve Wozniak and others.

But why is that? Why do great visionary’s sometimes become random persons from an organization ?

You have the vision, but you don’t have the right technology.

Yes ! This might happen when you are in a field where even if you have the best ideas, things might not be ready to be developed because of the legacy left behind.

You have the vision, but you don’t have the right people near you.

How many times you were the innovator, but you became the follower just because the stakeholders didn’t agree with you? You thought inside that “this is the right thing to do,right now”, but you were let down by others. Speak. Be the voice of change !

You have the vision, but you don’t have the right tools to develop it.

Tools are just tools. If you have the right people near you, things can be done. Fast. As fast as you are motivated to do it as a team.

You have the vision, but others don’t share the same mentality.

True, this is a very difficult situation to deal with, and I think that you sometimes feel like you are trapped inside a box, spreading your ideas, but nobody is listening. Not because you ideas are not great, but because the mentality of others isn’t about embracing somebody else’s idea, but to refuse everything that isn’t said by them.

So here you are. Four reasons why people, especially those dealing with developing great products, might feel like their place isn’t there.

This is why great visionary’s, as I said in the beginning, become ordinary executors of tasks. Because first they try to change the product in a better way, but then they get stuck into the paradigm of ordinary people.

But you are the change, and with perseverance, anybody can achieve whatever they want. If you want to be the change, then be the change.
Don’t place a bet on a crisis exit date, instead set your own vision for when the lockdown will be over.
By: Cyril Moulin Fournier
Tags: People, Change Management, Resistance, Crisis Management, Vision

Don’t place a bet on a crisis exit date, instead set your own vision for when the lockdown will be over.

That day when I thought I was still able to control the environment I was struggling with. Cyril Moulin Fournier Apr 23, 2020·3 min read

Seven years ago, while we were, my family and I still resisting being in captivity in the far north of Nigeria abducted by Boko Haram, one day we decided to play a game: place a bet on our release date.

We took the only two pens we had with us and started to think about a possible end date. Each of us had our own perspective and any kind of argument to confirm our answer, and after minutes of deep reflection, we all chose a date.

I can tell you that we all got it wrong…

Since the beginning of the quarantine we experience, we were told by authorities that “this state of alert” would last 15 days. And I’m sure some may have thought:

“Come on, 15 days is not that much, honestly I can manage it, yes we can”

I heard…

But a week ago this deadline was pushed back….and this may not be the last time, we simply don’t know, it doesn’t depend on us.

This is something pretty normal in total uncertainty, the environment changes regularly, almost every day forcing each of the actors involved, WHO, governments and each of us to make assumptions, which in my opinion can lead to generating wrong expectations for most people.

I can foresee them already proclaiming that in 15 days everything will be over, maybe…

And what will happen if tomorrow a new factor that we were not aware until now would burst in, and upset the whole planning.

There are so many variables that it’s almost impossible to control all of them.

And any scenario can happen… so instead of risking getting frustrated or crazy for trying to control everything, specially the crisis length…

Let me propose to you an alternative solution that will give you much more empowerment facing the unknown, simply because

This solution depends only on one person:

Yourself, noonelse

Imagine …

Imagine the day when the lockdown will be over. Envision yourself in that precise moment:

What will you do? How will you feel? How will this day look like? What will be different in the way you look at what surrounds you? What did you learn during this crisis, something new, something you think may be useful for you from now on?

I’m passionate about sports, especially running. Regularly, I run 10k with a really good friend, spending one hour of my precious time with another person outdoors, getting motivated.

It is an important moment that was part of my weekly routine before the lockdown started in my country: Spain.

The day I can go out, I will run to the beach and I will look at the waves, I think I will even stretch out on the sand and listen to the mesmerising sound of each lapping wave. Small things matter so much!!

Now it’s your turn, what is your vision, share it with me.

Thanks a lot dear all. Keep safe and stay home!!

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My vision
By: David Hu
Tags: Life, World, Vision

I’m doing what I most love. I’m helping people become the highest version of themselves, through coaching, taking them on psychedelic journeys, plant medicines, early morning workouts, cold water dips, breathwork, bodywork, intermittent fasting, yoga, martial arts, Qi Gong, dance, meditation, creative writing, art, and authentic relating.

Through it I’m feeling satisfied, happy, fulfilled, and connected. We share a common purpose to bring healing, sustainability, and wellness to our world. We take this back to our regular lives.

I am making 6 to 7 figures doing what I most love. This money lets me expand operations, explore and learn different things, and give to people, orgs, and causes that I truly believe in.

Through this, people are becoming tremendously happier, healthier, more aligned to their purpose, and go back to their world feeling refreshed, renewed, and with skills and habits to maintain their new baseline. Raising people’s happiness set points / hedonic adaptation levels.

Overall the world is waking up to what could be. To living with purpose and coming together to follow their highest calling. To learning about global challenges and then addressing them. To believing that real change is possible and becoming the agents of that change. To stepping up to the challenge and bringing others with them. To saying “no” to the status quo and creating a new, sustainable, equitable future where every human being has access to clean food, water, shelter, sanitation, education, healthcare, and economic empowerment to create their own lives and pursue their dreams.

And we are doing this in community. With people we love and care about. We practice open relating and are sexually free and expressed. We explore consensual, non-monogamous sexual energy exchange and lovemaking while maintaining our own sovereignty and rights, our own independent lives.

We live in beautiful eco-resorts with great access to nature, living off the land thru permaculture and eating healthy yet nutritious vegan or mostly vegan foods. We travel for half the year to different countries to teach and lead retreats, and also to learn, explore and integrate into existing communities there and learn about the locals and their customs, ways of life, food, beliefs, and so forth. We are constantly learning new things and improving our skills while teaching at the same time — an exchange everywhere we go.
Life Update: My Biggest Aha Moment Yet!
By: Alisa Manjarrez
Tags: Transitions, Entrepreneur, Career Change, Women In Business, Vision

Last November, I had an aha moment that changed my life.

I had been fighting against feelings of restlessness and boredom as VP of Marketing Operations at a global software company. I was resistant to making a big change and working elsewhere. I felt like I had really grown up there over the last four years; I faced some major challenges but I also had some big wins. It would be hard to leave (plus the income wasn’t too bad, either).

I thought about my coaching practice (I’m going on eight years as a coach, now!). I love coaching in addition to my “main thing,” where I can deeply focus on only a few key special people at a time. Coaching will forever be a passion of mine, but for me, not my full-time career. Plus, I was never into becoming a trendy millennial coach for the sake of being the cool entrepreneur, waving fake freedom and fun into everyone’s faces, anyway. (Let’s face it: if you know me, you I know how to have fun doing anything, anywhere, no matter where I work.)

But what would be my next move???

(White Point Beach, where I like to think)

As I went through past passions and successes with my (amazing) coach, we identified patterns and themes that combined my coaching, business strategy and marketing skills.

My first job out of college was doing vision-casting sessions with church leaders. These sessions led to building facilities costing millions of dollars. I helped to organize teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to make it happen. Then, I worked for a friend who had a foodie website (TasteFresno) and we turned it into a thriving on and offline community. And over the next decade, the projects and visions I produced only got bigger. I was more than a marketer, more than a coach; I was also a thought partner, a vision producer.

“That’s it! I’m a Vision Producer!”

As I drove home from LA on Highway 99 to Fresno for Thanksgiving, I felt a tug in my heart saying, “This is it. This is your next move. Not for later. For now. The future is now.”

Driving down the dark roads, past the endless rows of agriculture, I was inspired and exhilarated. “Yes! The future is now!”

Two weeks later, I got the shocking news that I was being laid off from my corporate job and my last day would be December 31. “What!? Um…wait…I didn’t mean *now* now!”

After reviewing various job opportunities, experiencing tears, numbness, and mixed emotions, I took a couple of weeks of much needed, uninterrupted rest. I started accepting my newly defined identity as a Vision Producer. Now, I’m owning it, and I’m envisioning myself partnering with people from the dreaming stage to full execution on bigger than life projects.

It’s been almost three (busy) weeks of being on my own as an entrepreneur. I have no paying Vision Production clients yet, but I have a world of opportunity ahead of me. I’m dreaming big, just like my future clients. This is it, guys. The future is now.
This Fathers’ day… perhaps I should have just listened then
By: Gautam Kandlikar
Tags: Lessons, Fathers Day, Entrepreneurship, Vision

Around this time five years ago, I was having a conversation with my father about Product. My basic position then was “I wanted to work on a cool product” and that most of the things I had seen hitherto were decidedly not cool. Who ever wanted to work on products written in 1970s programming languages? Or on products that couldn’t even do basic things its competitors could?

Me with my dad, Minnesota, May 2014.

My father, in his wise ways, encouraged me to forget about the product. “Think about sales, think about the vision, about how they are talking with customers” was his mantra. Of course, back then I was convinced dad didn’t get it. Little did I realize then that he was not trying to dissuade me from working on something cool, but that he was (ostensibly) trying to talk me out of my notion of what “product” was. What a dolt I was. Or perhaps I still am?

In all my business school essays I wrote about how I wanted to build products without having the foggiest idea of why or what I even meant by it. I listened to countless hours of “product leaders” talk about why product management is the best thing since sliced bread. But nothing seemed to stick. Even when I accepted the summer internship on product, I had the foggiest idea of what I was getting into.

My father’s interview with an Indian TV show about his company.

This video is probably the only extant video of my dad sharing his vision for e-learning. I watched it today for the first time in a few years. I was shocked to see how much I learned from it. There’s a clear vision for the future (a workforce that is continuously learning), a very thoughtful articulation of where the market is, where it ought to go, and how e-learning is the right approach to achieving that vision. His discussion of technology walked the viewer through just the right amount of detail about the evolution of the web until 2000, and how those technologies enabled service delivery. i.e. in words a caveman could understand.

These last couple of weeks have, as I have recently noted, helped me contextualize what product is all about. While the language in which the code is written, the features of the product, and the UI that the user sees are important, there is a process that precedes it, which is just as big, if not bigger. It is powerful to think of the product as a medium through which a visionary accomplishes his/her mission. I should aspire to understand the antecedents — the mission, the vision, the strategy that inform the product.

This fathers day, I wish I could have shared this revelation with him. He would probably have chided me for taking long enough. At least we would have been on the same page about what product was.
Treatments for Retinal Detachments
By: Hargrave Eye Center
Tags: Health, Eyes, Medical, Medicine, Vision

HargraveEyeCenter.org

People who have suffered a retinal tear find themselves at an increased risk of developing a retinal detachment. A detached retina happens when the retina pulls away from its supportive tissue and it’s considered a medical emergency that requires prompt treatment to avoid permanent vision loss. The following are the three non-invasive procedures that can help to repair the tear and seal the retina to the back of the eye.

Laser Photocoagulation

This is the most common procedure to repair a detached retina. During the photocoagulation procedure , a surgeon will numb the patient’s eye with anesthetic drops. Then, with the use of a special laser, the eye surgeon will emit a beam of light that travels through the eye and burns the surrounding area of the detachment or retinal tear to create a scar.

The scar tissue will help enable the tear to seal, or helps a detached part of the retina to reattach to the underlying tissue. When treating retinal tears, the procedure will prevent any fluid from accessing the underneath of the retina, where it can cause detachment.

Once the procedure is complete, the surgeon may administer a steroid to the area to prevent any potential inflammation.

Cryotherapy

Cryotherapy creates a scar in the affected area using cold or freezing therapy. Once an anesthetic has been injected around the eye, a freezing probe is placed over the tear or the area of retinal detachment by the surgeon.

When an area is frozen, scar tissue forms. This scar tissue will help the underlying tissues reattach to the retina, or will seal the retinal tear. As with laser photocoagulation, after the procedure is complete, the surgeon may administer a steroid to the area to prevent any potential inflammation.

Pneumatic Retinopexy

This procedure involves injecting a bubble of gas or air into the vitreous cavity of the eye. When the bubble is in the correct position, it pushes the part of the retina with the tear back against the wall of the eye to stop fluid from flowing behind the retina. The bubble will be reabsorbed over time but patients may need to keep their head in a specific position for days to keep the bubble in the correct position.

Retinal Detachment Surgery

In some cases, photocoagulation and/or cryotherapy aren’t enough to repair a detached retina. Surgical correction can be used to treat the detachment on an outpatient basis. The most common surgical treatment is scleral buckle which attaches a tiny silicone band to the outside of the sclera after photocoagulation to help the retina settle against the back of the eye.
Ensuring Road-worthy Eyesight
By: Hazen Mirts
Tags: Hazen Mirts, Healthcare, Enrollment First, Eyesight, Vision

When operating a motor vehicle, eyesight is one of the most critical functions. There are many things to pay attention to when driving, and ensuring that you have good vision when on the road is essential. Below we will talk about risk factors that can cause damage to our eyes and how to protect ourselves from these factors. The following information has been featured in an article on Arrive Alive .

Every day, our eyes are exposed to UV rays. UVA and UVB radiation rays are invisible to the eye but cause extreme damage over time after long-term exposure. The rays can cause your eyes to age early and become extremely sensitive to light in all forms. When driving, this can be an issue because many different lights are involved with driving, especially at night. In addition, UV exposure can affect the surface and internal structures of the eye: the lens and retina and permanently damage both. When your retina is too damaged by extreme or long-term exposure to UV rays or bright lights, it can lead to permanent loss of vision as well.

When driving in sunny weather, there is also a risk of being exposed to glare from the sun even if you think you are protected by being inside the car. Many dangerous conditions are caused by the sun glaring off the dashboard, the windscreen, the bonnet, and the road surface itself. However, glare can also be caused by lights reflecting off of surfaces and into your car in the nighttime. Bluelight is a common glare to be exposed to at night, caused by snow or water reflections, and can increase the risk of blindness and retina damage.

Fortunately, there are many different ways to help protect your eyes from possible risk factors during the daytime or the night. For example, wearing polarized sunglasses will protect you from UVA and UVB rays and keep you shielded from the sun’s glare. However, researchers note that wearing sunglasses is not practical for nighttime driving. Instead, drivers are encouraged to add an anti-reflective coating to glasses they wear, make sure their headlights and windshield are properly cleaned, and remove dust particles from inside and outside the car.
Vision 2027-Ideal Version of Myself
By: Aditya Eddy
Tags: Digital, Future Of Work, Ideal Version, Startup, Vision

In the era of the digital world, startups are evolving vigorously and among them, one name is Aditya Rajotia. He is of the top successful personalities in digital marketing and turns into a unicorn in 6 years, he is a youth icon in the digital era and has marked his signature in the digital world. He provides online services and owns an XYZ agency to train and motivate the youth of the future world.

He has a group of 201 individuals, Mostly clients from Asian and European nations, and works distantly with no actual headquarters in that capacity, he says one can telecommute or work distantly, simply need to trust in ourselves and comprehend the genuine force of the internet, then, at that point there will be no requirement for corporate workplaces, going for work.

Gazing at the world, Ideal me-Just begin more milestone to achieve

Aditya is from Delhi-NCR, who remotely accesses all his work, he hardly meets his team once/twice a year physically, he gives a new definition of work by not going to the workplace, balancing the life of work and home with the help of the internet, turning into an expert and useful as in genuine corporate life. It’s not freelancing anymore, it’s a 2.0 version of freelancing.

He quotes ‘’this is the future of work and will all be our boss’’. All you need is the internet and your determination to master your skills, don’t run for a better life blindly ’’just be your boss’’, and one day the world will follow you.

He owns a luxury house and Farmhouse in Delhi-NCR and Bangalore itself, he travels 7 months in a year abroad working remotely, and in the remaining months he loves to spend time with family in his luxury home and farmhouse with remote access to work, he also has a good collection of luxury cars.

Ideal Home

He has a positive approach towards life and never recede to opposing forces. He meditates and does body exercise daily without fail, as physical and mental health are requisite of happiness. Good health is something we can not buy, he added don’t bargain with the norm in your life, just hang tight for the ideal opportunity.

The impact of his lifestyle motivated youths to start their career in the digital era and want to become their own boss.

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