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Is Intel getting under estimated ?
By: Sreekumar Pg
Tags: Silicon Valley, Intel, Semiconductors, 5g Technology

Well the short answer is no , Intel is still a market leader and highest gross revenue earner among chip makers.

Intel has the R&D capability and cash flows to bounce back as a formidable player.

In 2019, Intel was the №1 chipmaker by revenue, research firm Gartner said. It regained the top spot after Samsung took the lead in 2017 and 2018.

Intel had 15.7% market share last year, compared with 12.5% for No2 vendor Samsung. Intel’s chip revenue slipped 0.7% year over year to $65.8 billion amid a semiconductor industry downturn. Meanwhile, total worldwide semiconductor revenue fell 11.9% to $418.3 billion in 2019.

Recently the focus of the investors and the industry has shifted to its rivals like Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm.

But all is not lost for Intel ?

Intel is trying to refocus itself from its personal computer business segment to Data centre,5G ,Artificial intelligence and Autonomous vehicles.

It was true that its been late on the mobile front and lost the chip competition to AMD and Qualcomm ,but on AI Intel is gaining a head start.

Intel Chief Executive Bob Swan is working to change the company’s focus to pursuing 30% of the total semiconductor market, rather than maintaining 90% of the market for central processing units, or CPUs.

Swan also has been selling off non-core assets. On Oct. 20, Intel announced a deal to sell its NAND memory unit to South Korea’s SK Hynix for $9 billion.

Gaming

Intel focus on shifting to gaming is aimed at taking NVidia heads on.Check out the link below.

5G

Intel Atom P5900 will start being deployed this year as a key component of 5G base stations.

Intel has the opportunity to be the leader here as Chinese players have been sidelined because of data security concerns.

Data centre

Intel has been a leader in this segment with most of the data centres running on its Xeon chips.

Intel detailed the future of its Xeon Scalable platform at its Data-Centric Innovation Summit.

Autonomous driving

Intel recently aquired MobileEye further augmenting its capabilities in this area.

Overall Intel seems to be rightly focussed on all the future tech and growth drivers ,what needs to be seen is how far it can capitalise and monopolise these markets as it did with the personal computer market.

What intel is facing today is intense competition and not being formidable enough to kill the competition , but having said that intel is still the only company with the cash balance and R & D to invest in emerging tech areas.

Intel should be on watch list !
Why cook — it’s 2020: Our guide to ordering Thanksgiving meals on the Peninsula
By: Elena Kadvany
Tags: Bay Area, California, San Francisco, Foodies, Silicon Valley

We all know this Thanksgiving isn’t going to feel normal. Many of us are staying home and scaling down instead of spending much-needed time with extended family and friends.

Consider taking the glass-half-full approach this year and seizing the opportunity to create the Thanksgiving you’ve always wanted — no pressure to perform for relatives or politely eat your mother-in-law’s mediocre mashed potatoes. If you want to order dim sum and have three kinds of pie for dessert, you can! (Wait, this sounds great.) Or maybe you only have the mental and physical energy to make a few side dishes and you want to outsource the turkey and dessert. Look to your local eateries to help, and support them in turn during a time when pre-pandemic their dining rooms would be full with holiday gatherings.

(If you are attending or hosting a small gathering, here are the CDC’s guidelines for safely doing so.)

Below is a list of Peninsula restaurants and eateries offering takeout meals, as well as some outdoor dining options if you feel safe doing so.
Slashare | Silicon Valley’s Newest Online Shopping Experience
Tags: Startup, San Francisco, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley

Diversity is key to building a cohesive, dynamic group. We believe humans only thrive when they are placed in wildly uncomfortable situations (coronavirus and global pandemia) and tasked with making it out on the other side on top.

When building the Slashare team, we meticulously handpicked members who had previous successes in their respective roles, believing each of us will only do better this go around — especially together.

Alvin has a successful track record of taking eCommerce companies with investment and building thriving startups.

Chenyue Jiang — Slashare Co-founder — Palo Alto, CA

Chenyue Jiang has spent the last ten years covering business and tech news in the US, UK, and China.

Max Barringer — Japanese Tea Garden — Slashare co-founder | Palo Alto, CA

Max has fueled his life for over a decade by building internet communities and executing paid digital advertisements for personal brands and larger retailers! Other key players will be highlighted in the coming posts!

Together, we each use our individual skills to build and complete our huge, ever-rotating puzzle. Slashare has 30 full-time employees and numerous third-party partners.

We are actively looking for talented people to join our team — if you are in the USA and are interested in making your way to Silicon Valley, message me, comment below, get in touch with us somehow.

If you are a social media blogger or content creator, we can get you paid! So get in touch.

Next week, you’ll learn all about the Slashare mission, our first unique product bundles, and the rest of the merchandise we offer.

Slashare bundles!
Remote is the New Silicon Valley
By: Marvin Liao
Tags: Startup, Founders, Startup Lessons, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley

balajis.com on Twitter: “It’s not Silicon Valley anymore. It’s Technology. Tech is now remote-first. Moving to the Bay Area is no longer necessary. And outages, fires, prices, and dysfunction are driving out the people already there. The place is less appropriate as a metonym for the concept.”

This meme has been going around Silicon Valley for the last 2 to 3 years. But this was crystalized to me in an interesting interview I heard between Balaji Srinivasan & Kyle Tibbitts.

Tech workers already spend 10 hours a day working online so going remote is very natural. Covid only sped up the process. Much of this move was exacerbated by a nutty closed-minded politically correctness (left wing in this case, btw I am also left wing but more centrist), a growing crazy expensive cost structure, rising taxes, local government mismanagement and never ending lockdowns & school closures in Northern California. This rapid decline of quality of life has led to these tech founders and workers moving somewhere else. One only needs to look at the long steady migration of Californians to Oregon, Colorado or Texas in recent years. Heck, a U-Haul costs like 5 times the price leaving California than that of one heading to California.

Think back to the 1600s when the Spanish/Portugese and English went to travel over the sea to explore and found the New World of the Americas accidentally. I think there is a natural pull of discovering the edges of the world. California used to represent the wide open West of the United States used to pull people here to chase their dreams in Hollywood (Entertainment) and Technology (Silicon Valley). Now that California is so saturated physically & mentally, maybe this is why Space and the Oceans hold so much more interest for people now as the next frontier.

Daniel Gross of Pioneer spoke about Frontier People vs. Normal People. Normal people chase Famous Brands. Frontier people are drawn to new things that are relatively unknown. The outsiders are more willing to try new things. Also outsiders are most likely to become outliers. I believe there is something in the psyche of people going to the frontier where anything is possible.

In many ways, as land becomes more scarce in the world, moving to the “Cloud” is natural. I see the talent of Silicon Valley now being widely distributed all across the world, almost like a hub and virtual spoke.

Watch this frontier of remote work as this is where all the interesting stuff will be happening in the next decade. This might be the most overlooked and underestimated impact of the pandemic.
Wanting ‘better’
By: Natasha Sniehirova
Tags: Inspiration, 2021, Better, Life, Resolutions

As we look forward to saying goodbye to 2020 ( finally ), many of us will be making a list of 2021 resolutions, as usual. However, I believe that the list will be dramatically different this time.

New Years resolutions 2019 for 2020 were all about grand events, big promises, and convictions for a year that would be so much ‘better’ than the previous. And by ‘better” we meant more money, more travels, more followers, a fancier job title etc. Don’t get me wrong, I did this too. After all, it’s human to want better than what has been.

But because 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us and has changed our perspective towards life. I think it has also changed our perspective on what we consider ‘better’.

And here is what I will ask for and how exactly my idea of ‘better’ has changed for 2021. I will ask for better health in the world, physically and mentally, better understanding for the battle every single human is going through, often in silence. I will ask for joy in all the small moments that make a life.

So yeah, that’s what I will be doing the next few days. Sending you a hug filled with love, patience and light. Stay safe, healthy and responsible!

We just need to keep it realistic, right?
New Year’s Eve & Transcendental Wishes
By: Shiloh Cyrus
Tags: New Year, Manifestation, Supernatural, Resolutions, Spells

Empower New Years’ Eve Resolutions — Supernaturally

Pardon my English, as I do struggle with the writing of it.

In a manifesting aspect, greatness alludes to the part of God’s inclination and force which is completely autonomous of the material universe, past every single actual law. This is diverged from nature, where a divine being is supposed to be completely present in the actual world and consequently open to animals differently. In strict experience greatness is a condition of being that has conquered the impediments of actual presence and by certain definitions has likewise gotten autonomous of it. This is regularly showed in petition, séance, contemplation, hallucinogens' and paranormal “dreams”.

It is attested in different strict customs’ idea of the perfect, which diverges from the thought of a divine being (or, the Supreme) that exists solely in the actual request (immanentism), or unclear from it (polytheism). Amazing quality can be ascribed to the awesome in its being, yet in addition in its information. Hence, God may rise above both the universe and information (is outside the ability to understand of the human psyche).

In way of thinking, amazing quality is the fundamental ground idea from the word’s strict importance (from Latin), of climbing or going past, yet with fluctuating undertones in its diverse chronicled and social stages. It incorporates methods of reasoning, frameworks, and approaches that portray the principal structures of being, not as a philosophy (hypothesis of being), but rather as the system of rise and approval of information on being. “Supernatural” is a word gotten from the academic, assigning the extra-unmitigated ascribes of creatures.

A transcendental wish is what rises above our own cognizance: that which is objective as opposed to just a wonder of awareness, Subsequently making everything conceivable.

In the otherworldly world, “supernatural” has limitless force and more hugeness than “most noteworthy”. “Highest” is utilized huge number of times by customary individuals in varying backgrounds, though “supernatural” has been utilized in a more confined way. The most elevated Force is higher than all the other things. The supernatural Force is what rises above everything. There isn’t anything above it.

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’tis the season
By: Neeva'S Classes For Languages, Performing Arts
Tags: Language Translation, Language Learning, Holiday Season, Goals, Resolutions

Hey reader,

The holiday season is upon us and we are swarmed with so many things to do! Be it lighting the Christmas tree, preparing presents for our near and dear ones or baking some delicious Christmas cookies can keep us really tied!

So among this hullabaloo, how do we make time for the language we started learning in 2020 and not lose touch? Let this article guide you to stick to your language goals and motivate you to achieve them among all the holiday making!

Tip Number 1

The language learning extension for Netflix available on MAC/iOS and Windows helps you stream anything on Netflix and display captions in the Language of your choice! It also helps you learn the meanings of new words and provides you with synonyms and ways to use the words in a sentence!

Use this tool to do a Christmas Movie run at home, in the language you are pursuing and have fun learning with a little bit of Christmas cheer!

To know more about how to download the extension, read our article here.

Tip Number 2

Listen to your favorite Christmas songs in the language of your choice! This helps to inculcate the spirit of Christmas as well as learn new words and stick to your language goals! Here are some of our favorite foreign language playlists to get you started!

French Christmas Songs Playlist

German Christmas Songs Playlist

Spanish Christmas Songs Playlist

Korean Christmas Songs Playlist

English Christmas Songs Playlist

Tip Number 3

Read up on the Christmas Traditions of the country where the language you are studying comes from! For instance if you’re studying Korean, look up the way Christmas is celebrated in Korea! Are there any traditions that are specific to Korea? Here is a super YouTube Playlist we made for you to get you started!

Christmas Playlist on YouTube

Tip Number 4

Experiment in the kitchen with cuisine from the country you are learning the language from! For instance, if you are learning German, then look for German Recipes of your choice and get-set-cooking! You can cook anything from the traditional German recipes for cookies, truffles, stollen, and lebkuchen/gingerbread to making some German Drinks which are sold in the markets — at your residence!

Tip Number 5

Preparing a schedule always helps! Get a 2021 planner and open to the calendar section and divide the calendar into 4 sections:

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

Thereafter, plan your days and timings and allot how much time you want to give to the language on a daily basis! This way you have everything tracked and you can also be kept accountable!

If you’re not a book person, try an app instead!

One application that we love for setting tasks and reminders is Notion!

We hope you have a Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year 2021! Let us know in the comments if this guide helped you in anyway!

By,

Neeva Phatarphekar

Neeva’s Classes (@nclpa) • Instagram photos and videos
EOY (End Of Year)
Tags: 2020, Covid 19, 2021, Resolutions, End Of Year

Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash

As soon as it’ December, we already began to pack things up to welcome the new year. Like every past year there resolutions made in the beginning, which we were not able to achieve, so many goals which are still on the waiting list and will be shifted on to the to do list of new year. With new expectations and aspirations to do what we have not been able to do, new year symbolizes a new us as every new beginning.

Since 2020 has been a year unlike it’ predecessors due to to the pandemic, COVID-19. The surge of virus in the first half of this year was a huge challenge, as it was not only spreading at an accelerating speed but also the number of deaths caused was strikingly enormous. The governments of several countries including South Korea did a great job in taking extensive measures to stop the spread of virus and succeeded in controlling it earlier than other developed countries.

Media and social platforms have been substantial in this perspective to make people aware of the situation. People have been quite nimble in reacting toward the pandemic and following the instructions. Then there are people who still do not believe that it is a real thing! On the top is a class who only like to deliver sermons about not be cautious enough although they are quite social. In the whole what we went through globally this year was an anticipated threat, scientifically known. There are high hopes for the treatment and regarding the vaccine.

Under the shadow of the gigantic problem everything else also went on but with lesser zeal and in accordance with the ongoing pandemic. It was a year with challenges and introduces a new side of life. As pollution dropped and the seismic noise dropped though a little due to less commotion worldwide giving a clear sky in morning and more stars in night.

In the beginning it looked like the world has stopped for a while nothing is ever going back to normal and it will take a while but we have adopted the new style. Albeit things will not be same in near future and internet plus e-services including education will be big due to their importance in times like these.

Photo by Andreas Dress on Unsplash

With this end there are new beginnings ahead, the difference is only of a digit: 2021, The plans and commitments will stay the same. It will be a time to feel the winter breeze and snow falling and the decorated buildings, festivity to feel and enjoy as another leaf falls off the tree, let’ make it matter even if we broke the promises make some new and be optimistic.
Dirty Laundry
By: Alexandra Ruiz
Tags: Resolutions, New Year, Motivation

If there is one house “chore” I hate doing, its laundry. During the week, as you put your clothes in the bin, you can easily forget about them. The first few days, its just a t-shirt, some workout clothes, and some underwear. But, as the days go by, the pile starts getting bigger.

If you let it get too big, you start to realize that you don’t have any clean clothes to wear. Or you want to wear that cute t-shirt but then you remember its in the dirty pile. You groan because it means you have to face the obstacle: doing laundry.

We all have dirty laundry we try to put off for later. We pile it away in the back of the closet, and sometimes we just try to hide our empty drawers by buying new clothes. Living a new lifestyle. Without facing the pile that keeps growing in the back of the closet.

Sometimes I don’t clean out my inner “dirty laundry.” The struggles I’ve gone through the week, the fear that has grown and grown. I leave it hanging in the back of my mind, hoping that the new week, new month, or even new year will cover up the pile of clothes I have yet to face.

Do you have “dirty laundry” you refuse to face? It’s never too late to take some time to dig through it, throw out what you don’t need, but also find that nice t-shirt you forgot about, clean it up, and hang it right back in your closet.

Starting on a clean slate means cleaning up the messiness that’s on top of it.
New Resolu… Theme! And organization
By: Kristin Stephens-Martinez
Tags: Resolutions, Organization, The Theme System

As the year draws to a close, it’s that time of year to start thinking about new year resolutions. So I thought I’d write a quick post on what I’m currently contemplating about what I plan to do in hopes that it’ll help others by raising awareness of an example of how to think of this.

[This article is also posted on my personal blog so it is freely accessible.]

First, I just discovered The Theme System through a recent CGP Grey video. He created it with Myke Hurley, and they discuss it on their podcast Cortex, which I also just started listening to. My new year resolutions have been really stagnant the past few years, where I recycle them and mostly succeed at them. And yes, I know most research says people fail at new year resolutions, but I’m on the opposite side in the sense I pick ones that I know I can achieve. However, I’ve been reusing them the last few years out of fear if I don’t make them my resolutions, I won’t do them, and I want those things in my life.

The Theme System, in short, is not making resolutions but instead picking an overall idea on how to approach a set period of time. And it doesn’t have to be a year either. CGP Grey made an excellent video explaining it and the rationale behind it.

So this year, I think I’ll try this system out for a semester. As a professor, the academic calendar seems like a nice thing to lean on in this case. This also means letting go of my recycled new year resolutions and see what sticks. Maybe I don’t need that as a crutch to keep those things in my life. I’m currently debating between two themes for the semester and will probably write a blog post about them soon or at the end of the semester.

Second, if you are considering getting organized as one of your resolutions, I thought I’d share a bunch of blog posts that I have found useful this past year.

Here’s an example of a calendar system from Cult of Pedagogy. I do something kind of similar where I block out time on my calendar for different activities. This helps me be honest about how much time I actually have in a given week. I also track my time (maybe I’ll write a blog post on this someday) to learn how long things take me, so my calendar predictions are reasonable. Though I usually do under predict despite my data.

Amy Ko’s Bits and Behavior blog has a bunch of posts that I have found invaluable.

And there’s also my blog post on how I track my to-do list and my teaching staff’s to-do list.
IT IS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN
By: Tyler Zimmerman
Tags: Resolutions, New Year, Weight Loss, Goals

With that being said, let me offer you some advice. I do not speak from the standpoint of an expert. I speak from a product of self execution. I usually begin things the day or two after I think of them. I usually do not wait until an arbitrary date. I think that when you have a good idea that you need to begin. If you wait and plan then you run the risk of paralysis by analysis. I have suffered there too. I woke up one morning and decided to quit drinking, if I had waited till the afternoon to make that decision I would have failed. I had to make that decision on the spot and decide right then and there that it was what I was going to do. Becuase of that decision I ended up losing 100# over the next five years. The moral of that short story is that one good behavior can start slow and turn itself in to two good behaviors.

So when you are thinking about your 2021 goals and figuring out all the things you need to do to get ready, try to think of only one small thing.

For an example: I would like to lose some of the weight that I put back on this year. I do not fault the coronavirus or the stresses of the year. I blame me, I am the one at fault for my shortcomings. However I want to lose about 30lbs. I won’t think of that 30lbs ever again. I know that tomorrow I have to exercise, as long as I exercise than I did what I needed to do to become a little better. The next day I will exercise again, and as I make these small steps I will become more aware of the other things that improve weight loss. Diet. Diet is a huge portion of the weight loss living and we all know that we need to eat better. Well if I exercise for a week straight, in my subconcious I know better than to stuff my face full of unhealthy foods. I just worked hard for a week straight so why would I throw all that hard work out the window.
40 Questions to Ask Ourselves Before 2021.
Tags: Articles, Mindfulness, Success, 2021, Resolutions

At 40, I finally understand that being blessed is so much better than being lucky. However, my human nature will always need reminders.

Thus, I came up with these 40 questions that I ask myself every now and then in order to assess my level of success and whether I am there or at least on the right path.
Hello World
By: Benjamin Wen
Tags: Resolutions

This short post is a resolution. I really hope I can write regularly in English.
Steps to protect the future of the ecosystem
By: Greens' Mama
Tags: Documentary, Sustainability, 2021, Resolutions, Diet

STEP 2 — More Sustainable & Long-lasting Home Products

As discussed also in the last post, reducing the amount of plastic consumption would benefit the environment. Are you wondering How?

Well, it is not new that plastic is one of the major problems that damages the ecosystem.

In fact, every day, 8 Millions pieces of plastic enter in the ocean.

79% of plastic that we produce goes to the ocean and landfill and just the 9% is actually recycled.

If this allarms you even a bit, there are plenty of solutions that you can adopt daily when it comes to save the planet.

For instance, the excessive consumption of single plastic items such as food packaging and home products from shower products to kitchen products can pollute enormously the environment that surrounds you.

The alternatives are already easily accessible and definitely are already near you maybe you don’t know where to buy them…Greens’ Mama is here to inspire you!

Let’s talk about the products that you can possibly change in your bathrooms which can be more sustainable. Toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and shower gel bottles are just few examples of what you can find online but in recycled materials and with a sustainable design.

Next time that you are on the Web while making a buying decision check out for instance brands such as UpCircle and Lush which give you optimal substitutes to plastic containers. This brands offer a variety of products made with natural ingredients and their packaging is mainly plastic free. Not bad as a first approach to a zero waste lifestyle!

Of course, these are just an example of the major brands in the market who offers those products but there thousands more that can satisfy your needs at best withouth wasting plastic in your daily activities.

Even for the kitchen there are long-lasting products.

In the 31 Best Products for a Sustainable Kitchen guide offered by the Strategist, dozens of products are included to make your kitchen more green for the planet. Don’t forget to check it out.
The Struggle
By: James Ringe
Tags: Resolutions, Self Improvement, Struggle Of Life

The Struggle

An Original Poem by JMR

Go to battle

Every day

Not for Truth, or Justice

or the American Way

Find Yourself

Any How

Any Way

It's a Struggle

Well you been

Knocked Down;

Shot Down,

Brought Down

Shut Down,

Run Down

You Been Denied.

Realized

You were never going down.

A fighter

Been Shattered

Worn Out;

Thrown Out,

And Battered

Been Hurt.....

Left for Dead,

No Bread

Lost all you Owned

Precious Metals, Memories

Even lost your Home

Lost your Sanctity

All that Mattered

Synapse; Relapse,

Splattered.

Ghosts?

Got the Scars.

Cause Experience Shows the Most

Besides

Scars are how we keep Score

Feed the Devil

On your Shoulder

with Sin

Evil will Reign

Demon Anger will Win

I say

Fuck the shoulder-

Take him on the chin

Lift his tail up

And invte yourself in ..

Insatiable Appetite for

Destruction

Deduction. Reduction

Tempestual

Storm on the Horizon

Depression sets in

Let in Set in

How Does lower than low

Ever get in?

You gonna let it win? Ir get

Fed Up

Fucked Up

Excuse me while I Interrupt

Had shit turned around

Instead of down being down

down was up

Maybe you

Just Did Too Much

Upitty-upitty upitty-up

Need to start anew

And satisfy your confusion

And such

Next you are-

Crossing Over

Transcend differences

Extend Transcendence

Make a difference

With your Life

Blend the wrong with the wrong

And the the Right with the Fight

Tie up the Losers

Lose all the Users

Use up the Ties

Dont give Up...

Improve

You don't have to be the best of the best

Just be always getting better and

You'll be better than the rest

Cut back your Limits

Boozing and the

Black Eyes

Choosing

Down Sized

Shrunken beats Drunken

Cut off your Bad Ties

They gotta go

Stop Perpatrating

Petty Lies

No Blowing Smoke

It clouds your Eyes

And your Judgement

Get educated

Or make your money

Dropping fries

Go to church

Get Baptized-

In the name of the Father,

The Son, the Holy Spirit, and the One

Fix It.

Are you

in it.

To win it?

Ashamed as you are told

Those things you did

Day in Day out

Before you got

Slow and Old

Loosing Sight of what mattered

When you strayed

You went Panning for Gold

Treasure Hunter

Lesson Learned

In the Air

Too many Balls to Juggle

All the way around now .

You know the Struggle

Go to sleep at night knowing

That work got done

Tomorrow's a new day

may be the one

To end the Struggle

If not

The Fights On Again

Fight your Battles

Until they're Won

Finished!

Done!
My One-Word Theme For 2021
By: Braden Marstaller
Tags: Themes, New Year, Thoughts, Resolutions

Every year I choose a one-word theme to guide my year.

2018 was “Risk” 2019 was “Open-mindedness” (I love a good hyphen) 2020 was “Acceptance”

Choosing a one-word theme can help create an overarching structure for the year ahead, keep you accountable for how you want to show up, and provide a sense of direction in times of uncertainty.

My One-word theme for 2021 is: ENTHUSIASM

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Although I’m generally a pretty animated and enthusiastic person, this goes deeper than that. Author and role model of mine, Gretchen Rubin says that “enthusiasm is a form of social courage”. It’s this outward enthusiasm for seeing other people, meeting someone new, and receiving good news, that I want to really hone in on this year.

Enthusiasm parlays into the excitement I have not only for my own successes, but for other’s. I want to express how elated I am when someone gets that promotion, buys the house, or has a birthday. I spent so much of 2020 waiting for such a devastating year to end, when in reality, I could express enthusiasm for the smell of candles, the time I spent with family, or the new recipes I learned in the process.

There’s always something to show enthusiasm towards, whether personally, or on behalf of someone else. Living true to one of my 12 personal commandments, “wear their shoes”.
Resolution vs Wish
Tags: Resolutions, Birthday, Wishes

“Stepping into the new year of the the life with a commitment is greater than hoping for magic to happen.”

It’s exactly one and half month back from today I received a comment saying, “Today you will make resolution not wish.” There comes this origin whether a resolution or a wish. Suddenly a thought flashed! Was that a thought or a question? I considered it as a question, although I hate question marks but these question marks are the ones which makes our life beautiful and meaningful. I feel so, do you?

Generally people make wish on their birthday and take resolution on new year, and it was same with me every year. This time it was different. Ancestors said “A single word or sentence can change whole world.” I’m not sure about whole world, but the comment change my mind. And they say, if a person changes his/her mind then his/her whole world will be changed. I agree with all these bold letters. That day I changed my mind from making wish to resolution and it changed my life, lifestyle and way of thinking.

Resolution is a heavy word with great meaning. It’s necessary for one to take such extraordinary step in life, more than making a resolution following it is “the great task.”

The sudden thought flashed! was, isn’t birthday a new year in each and every one’s life? this question marks inspired me from making a resolution that is taking an extraordinary step in life instead of making a wish and hoping for better or waiting for magic to happen. Making a firm decision on the first day of new year of my life was most important than the new year of calendar.
Start With a Dream
By: Patricia Rosa
Tags: Optimism, Productivity, Dreams, Goals, Resolutions

Sure, this year was hard, and we’ll be glad to see it go. Next year will be better, but haven’t we said that before? We don’t have to wait until next year to do better. We can start right now.

Start with a dream; it all begins here. What does that dream look like? Brainstorm ideas and write them down. If you don’t write it down, it’s still just a dream.

But don’t stop there, you have to work the plan. Ask yourself why this is important. If you can’t answer that, you’ll lack direction. How bad do you want it? Are you willing to sacrifice and put in the work?

What’s your next step? And the one after that?

If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? Start with a dream and let it take you there.
My Goals for 2021
By: Alexander Burlingame
Tags: Personal Growth, Personal Development, Okr, Goals, Resolutions

As I argued earlier, I think that goals are for everyone. After all, goals simply bridge the gap between who we are today and who we’d like to become in the future. By definition, goals state the things we want.

With this in mind, the goals I set each year follow a particular format. I start with a high level objective about the person I want to become, and then break out each objective into small and measurable steps (borrowed from Objectives and key results (OKR) framework).

Here are my goals for 2021.

1. Become a late stage beginner at piano

- Memorize the notes

- Play 3 different songs (that are not in C Major) without noticeable mistakes

- Perform “recital” with friends

2. Become conversationally adept in the NBA

- Subscribe to 2 podcasts

- Watch 5 games

- Participate in fantasy league

3. Become decent at data science

- Complete MIT Python

- Set up new personal automation

- Automatically deliver a quote from personal database to personal email daily

4. Become more thoughtful

- Schedule 4 off-sites

- Reach 100 newsletter subscribers

- Reread 5 books

- Read 10,000 pages (including magazines)

- Read a presidential biography

- Read a classic that exceeds 500 pages (Les Mis)

- Start LOTR

5. Become a pain-free runner

- Book MRI appointment

- Meet with one other ortho

- Upgrade health insurance

What are your goals for the new year?
Goals
By: Alexander Burlingame
Tags: Growth Mindset, Personal Growth, Resolutions, Goals, Personal Development

For me, the term “New Year’s Resolutions” has a lot of baggage. It connotes unrealistic diet/workout plans and abstaining from things I enjoy.

And yet: I think that goals are for everyone. I’d wager that if goal-setting hasn’t worked out for you in the past, you weren’t the problem; your goals were the problem.

How do we, then, set better goals? Here are 5 guidelines that have helped me:

Start where you are, not where you’d like to be Set goals that excite you instead of goals you’d like to be excited about Avoid any goal that requires a weekly commitment (e.g. Instead of “Run twice a week” try, “Run a 5k at a ten-minute pace”) Once you draft a goal, lower the bar by 20% and use that as the goal Set fewer goals than you think you can achieve

If you’d like some examples, you can see all of my goals for 2021 here.

Let me know what goals you set for the new year!
The Good Egg: Early Start To Resolutions
By: The Good Egg
Tags: Self Improvement, Habits, Routine, Morning Routines, Resolutions

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Happy beginning of the week, Good Eggs! This week we’re giving some quick tips on how to incorporate new habits when thinking of our upcoming New Year’s Resolutions.

According to Ali Pattillo, author of “How To Break Bad Habits In Three Steps, According To Science,” there are 3 easy things you can do to incorporate healthy habits in your life. They are listed below:

1. Ease Up — if your new goal is too challenging, you simply won’t do it. Make it easy for yourself.

2. Make It Enjoyable — find a way to make this habit more enjoyable. If you really can’t stand doing it, you won’t do it. Find ways to make it fun, so that doing it doesn’t become a chore.

3. Repeat On A Regular Basis- pick days and times that are doable in your schedule. Surround the new habit with previously created habits. For example, maybe you do the habit after you brush your teeth and before you start working. This will help you to remember to do the habit and it makes the habit automatic.

Keep these in mind when thinking of your New Year’s Resolutions. You can even write out a plan on how you will execute this new habit. Enjoy!

-The Good Egg 🐣
How I’m Dealing with Online Learning Overload
By: Bianca Zagan
Tags: Learning, Online Learning, Resolutions, December, Frustration

How I’m Dealing with Online Learning Overload

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Learning has always been a pleasure. I have audiobooks in the queue, 2 or 3 Kindle books lined up, some online course started and interrupted by motherhood duties.

Me watching my online learning resources feels like joining a party with a huge buffet with the most exquisite tapas imaginable. As I walk around and enjoy them, I find even more mouthwatering courses, to the point I’m feeling rather overwhelmed, and find it hard to connect with the joy of discovery.

The spark of finding free amazing content became buried in ‘Meh’.

So here’s my Mid-December resolution:
Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Work
By: Gary Ryan Blair
Tags: New Year, Personal Growth, Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Resolutions

New year, new you…or at least that’s what we say every 365 days. Come January, a fresh calendar is the opportunity to reshape old habits and take on some new challenges.

However, as you work towards turning your resolutions into reality…be mindful that the most challenging part of ACHIEVING a goal or resolution is …

Overcoming Resistance.

Resistance prevents writers from writing, painters from painting, runners from running, and coaches from coaching.

I know of no enemy, competition or opposition force more insidious or vicious than resistance.

That’s why it’s in the private interest of each individual and corporation to protect against resistance…

For the simple reason that the costs and consequences of resistance are difficult for any of us to ignore.

Resistance will always…

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…work to undermine you and crush your belief in yourself.

…call for and demands your resignation letter.

…ruthlessly attempt to extract a pound of flesh.

…goad and prod you into quitting.

But success always hangs in the balance.

The fact is resistance is unworthy of your companionship…

It’s an unwanted visitor that must be dealt with.

Resistance is unique in that it immediately engages the fight-or-flight mechanism…

And you never know how you are going to react until you are confronted with it.

Resistance is never a reason for quitting, hesitating or second guessing yourself.

It’s only an excuse for those unwilling to face their doubts, insecurities, and mental boogie man.

Which means…if you’re ever going to achieve your New Year Resolutions, and make this the best year of your life…

You must decide that what you want is BIGGER and far more important than the resistance which prevents you from achieving it.

Remember, resistance is a choice…so is action, persistence and focus.

Therefore, you must choose to put resistance behind you — to stare it in the eye…

To walk straight through it and advance toward your goals with confidence, conviction, and certainty.

I know you can…the real question is will you!

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Year-End Checklist, The Way to Redemption!
By: Lulwah Alduhami
Tags: New Year, Newsletter, Entrepreneurship, Business, Resolutions

Having a proper closure of the year sets the new year to a fresh start.

Here’s the checklist of what we think is important to ask when conducting your year-end activities. Gather your team over a friendly discussion to reflect with bullet-points answering the following:

As a team and individuals, what are we proud of? What are our notable achievements, and how did we achieve them? “Special times call for special measures, AKA Covid19” What are the different measures we took this year, and how did they work out for us? What are the lessons learned this year? And how can we translate them into growth? Let’s revise our values and culture, where can we see them in the teams, leaders, and founders’ day-to-day life at the company? What should be updated in our culture and values? What should we do differently next year?

As the discussion goes on, areas of improvement will be revealed, whether in regards to the procedures or culture. Take it as an opportunity to put some actionable points.

And…

Of course,

Take some time to celebrate together;

You did not only survive 2020,

you grew.
Tiny Resolutions that Can Lead to Big Changes in 2021
By: Kyrie Gray
Tags: Lifestyle, Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Resolutions, Self

Get Up Earlier by Working with Your Internal Clock

Instead of, “I’m going to wake up at 5 every morning!”

Say, “I’m going to ban technology from the bedroom and set a reminder to turn off the light at 9:30.”

Getting up early is harder than you’d think, particularly if you are someone who doesn’t habitually rise with or before the sun. The key isn’t telling yourself you’ll wake up at a certain time. You have to reset your internal clock. That means controlling when you go to sleep, something most of us struggle with thanks to technology.

According to studies, blue light from our screens prevents us from producing a chemical that tells us it’s time to sleep. That’s why you find it difficult to drift off while doom scrolling, despite knowing you’re sleepy. This year create a no-technology in the bedroom time and try to stick with it. Going to bed earlier will cause you to wake up at the time you desire since our bodies are naturally programmed to wake up in 7–8 hours. Not only will you be more rested, but you’ll get more done throughout the day when you’ve had a full night’s sleep, rather than trying to force yourself out of bed after only 5–6 hours.
Running and Reading: New Year Resolution Recap
By: Rendy H
Tags: Resolutions, Reading, Running, New Year Resolution

Back in early 2020 I made a pledge, new year resolution to finish a book a week and run 3,000 km this year. Turns out I able to “overachieve” a bit. Based on stats on Goodreads reading challenge & Strava this year I’ve finished 78 from 52 target books & 3,100 from 3,000 km target respectively. Key things I learned are:

1. The task that may seems daunting at first can be manageable if we break it into micro goals and make a structured plan. As the saying goes, we overestimate the sort term & underestimate the long term. That said, running 8K a day and reading a book a week sound more doable than running 3,000K a year and reading 52 books a year.

2. Motivation comes and go. It may give you the spark but in order to maintain, it takes drive, discipline & consistency. Motivation gets you to the starting point, determination gets you to the finish line.

3. There is power in repetitions. Repetitions become routine, routine becomes habit, and habit becomes identity. When something has become your identity, it becomes a part of you.

In hindsight, with all of the tragedies and hardships happened in 2020, being able to get trough the year intact is a win itself. May we all be blessed in the coming year.
December Motivation #3
By: Nika Paradis
Tags: Lifestyle, Change, Habits, Resolutions, Self

Many people make new-year resolutions, but very few follow through. They decide to keep a diary, but their last entry never makes it to February. They decide to exercise more, but they don’t go to the gym past the second week in January. They decide to live life to the fullest, but that fades away within a short time.

The key is to not make big or quick changes. The changes need to be small and gradual. So make one resolution and let it be twelve small changes you make in your daily life, one per month. You have to allow yourself to get used to them, you have to let them become habits.

Be smart about the changes you decide to make. Choose specific changes that are relevant to your goals and make sure they are attainable. Add one small habit every month and get rid of one small habit that doesn’t benefit you every month.

Be specific and practical about the changes, and schedule them into your day. To motivate yourself, schedule something you love to do right after you complete the task that is to become your new habit.

Also, to make room for these new habits, you will need to eliminate a few bad ones. Get rid of something you regularly do that doesn’t help you achieve your goal.

This is completely feasible, and the changes are gradual, so you will keep working on your “self” throughout the year. By the end of the year you will have added twelve positive habits and eliminated twelve negative ones. You will have changed your lifestyle for the better.

You don’t have to wait until the new year to start making these changes. You can mentally prepare yourself starting now. The book that helped me realize I needed to make small changes to my life was Atomic Habits by James Clear, which is available in most libraries, including digital ones.
Why Dec 1st is better than Jan 1st for New Year’s resolutions
By: Carol Mcnierney
Tags: New Year, Weight Loss, Vision, Health, Resolutions

I decided this year things would be different. Instead of waiting until January 1st to start my New Year’s resolutions to get healthier and have more energy, I decided to get a jump start on the season by starting on Dec 1st. There are many reasons for this decision.

First, I know I must make lifestyle changes in order to achieve the goals I have for my life. When you understand change must happen in order to achieve your life’s vision, then the best way to make this happen is to get started right away while there is momentum.

“Nothing happens until something moves” -Albert Einstein

Second, in previous years I would wait until the new year to tackle difficult resolutions and use the month of December to indulge my every whim knowing that January 1st was right around the corner. The problem with that mindset was that I would feel additional shame and frustration on January 1st because I had let things get so out of control in December.

Third, the things that I knew that were not good for me like sugar, gluten and alcohol were consumed in larger quantities than normal because I treated the month of December like a freebie. So, on January 1st I had an even bigger nut to crack than if I had just started on December 1st.

So, this year it’s going to be different. I am making changes today because I know I must make these changes in order to succeed. I can visually see how happy I will be on January 1st when I will have a month’s head start on the new year. How exciting to know the changes I make now will propel me forward in a new and better way! 2020 has been a difficult year for so many reasons and I want 2021 to be a breakout year for health and fitness. Having a vision of a brighter tomorrow is so important.

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem

So, what are the 3 most important things I can do for my health in 2021? I plan to hit the pause button on sugar, gluten and alcohol until I achieve the weight I want to be in order to feel my best. I also want to have the energy to accomplish the things most important to me in life.

Why these 3? After keeping a journal for the past couple of months I see these 3 things are my biggest triggers and have created the most harm to my body. I know better, but I have not done better. This is the hardest thing to admit. But now that I am focused on it and plan to take action, I know the universe will conspire to help me.