Year 2023 in Rearview: Thrills, Spills, and Life Skills

by dbanuggets, posted in Azure

Hello Dear readers!

This will be the last post for this year – writing this a few hours before the end of the year! I will keep this short and not boring.

Would like to thank you all for staying with me along my learning Journey. You are the main reason why I still continue to write these posts. Thank you and Thank you!!

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As I look back at the year 2023, the main thing I can say is, that it was super fast. I still remember the day I wrote my 2022 year-end review. Time flies so fast and we get older quick.

I would like to reflect on this year as per my professional growth and personal growth.

Professional

  1. Community Speaking and Other Engagements
  2. Personal
    • I was interested in learning philosophy for a very long time. I had started educating myself on Stoic philosophy starting with Marcus Aurelius Meditations. Started listening to Rober Greene Audio books on Audible starting with The 48 Laws of Power. Recently fell in love with J. Krishnamurthy’s philosophy, this is my all-time favorite I can say because I am finding answers to some complex questions about life and I truly believe Krishnamurthy has answers to my questions. Really enjoying his hour-long lectures.

I am looking forward to continuing to publish more blog posts, community work including speaking engagements, and Mentoring in the year 2024.

To all you wonderful people who read all the above lines and reached this section of this post – These are a couple of the things I learned about life this year. Would like to share some of them here.

  • Live this life as much as you can – cause you don’t have any other lives to jump into. No matter how much you feel this life sucks, you are traveling on your own road (your life). Stop looking at the other roads cause you don’t know where they turn and how far the other roads lead. Those roads have their own bumps, speed breakers, and dead ends. Focusing on our road is the only way.
  • If you are trying to solve any particular issue in your life, try to examine it and do research on the issue. Fear disappears once you understand what the issue is. You can find books, and videos talking about the issue in detail. As you do the research, you will find you are not the only one having the same issue – which in itself solves half of your worries. Along the way, you might find a community of people trying to solve the same problem or achieve the same life goal.
  • Do not bother about what others think of you. Don’t take other people’s negativity towards you personally. They do not know you, your dreams, your ambitions, and the work you do while they are not watching you. Have empathy towards them. They may be going through a lot in their lives and have many insecurities in their lives.
  • No matter how big of a problem you are facing, many people may be going through the same exact problem at the same time as you. We are the human species that lived on earth for 200,000 years. Problems do repeat themselves but as we are more focused on our own lives, we feel we are the only ones facing the issue.
  • See your problems from a broader picture – most of the time, you will end up realizing you are giving greater attention than it needs.
  • At the end of our lives, none of these problems matters.

Thank you all for reading!

Happy New Year 2024!

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