016 Planning Ahead & Saving The Oceans
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Hope you're having an amazing weekend! Here's your weekly Amazing Things & Ideas Newsletter. Find one original idea from my side followed by the List.
This week let's look at the importance of planning ahead.
"A goal without a plan is just a wish.", said Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Those words make a lot of sense because simply having a goal doesn't do much for itself. It really doesn't even give you a specific "direction" or north star guiding all your actions. It just influences them to a little extent. A real goal has a definite plan. And a plan breeds actions according to it. To a large degree, almost everyone has goals. For example every Olympian has a goal to win a medal. But that doesn't lead to everyone taking part winning one, does it? The athlete with the best plan executed on to achieve that goal wins.
It's easy to have goals. But a bit of a challenge to achieve them. Having a goal and letting life run on wheels of inertia isn't a really good idea. Having a plan for a goal—short term (weekly, monthly, half yearly) and long term (yearly, 5-yearly, decade-ly)—is what I think- a real goal.
So break the normal, continuous, sloth chain running unconsciously, going nowhere. And plan ahead. And stay true to your plan. Always.
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Quote of the week:
"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." ― Gerard WayBook I'm reading this week:
The Everyday Hero Manifesto by Robin Sharma
EHM was definitely one of the most creatively practical books I've read in a long time. It's filled with learning models and mastery techniques. A "part playbook" for the reader, it offers great insights on the lives of maestros and change makers and allows in a simple manner to help plan and execute on the hidden and/or buried dreams of a human being. Furthermore, it just felt good to flip through the pages of this book.Get Bill Gates' climate book for free (if you're a student):
This week Bill Gates is offering his (relatively) new book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster as a free PDF to all students across the world.
"One of the main reasons I wrote it is that young people are showing so much passion for dealing with climate change. So I’m making a free download of it available for any college or university student, anywhere in the world.", Gates announced.
This offer remains only for a week (it ends tomorrow!)
If you are a student, you can get the free PDF to How to Avoid a Climate Disaster here.
The first time I read it, I found it to be a really informative book on climate change. It delivers practical steps to achieve our world's big goals (zero net emissions by 2050).
Once again students can take advantage of this offer by clicking here.Save The Oceans:
#TeamSeas
#TeamSeas is a global campaign to raise $30 million to remove 30 million pounds of plastic and trash from our ocean, rivers and beaches. It’s also the second wave of the largest creator-led fundraising campaign to ever hit the internet: #TeamTrees. YouTubers "Jimmy" Donaldson (aka MrBeast) and Mark Rober launched #TeamTrees in 2019 with a goal of raising $20M to plant 20M trees and they smashed it—raising over $23M and generating more than 1 billion video views. Even two years later, TeamTrees.org is still receiving donations and planting 2,600 trees every day. Now, they're back again to rally the internet’s passion and imagination in support of the ocean.
It's simple. Every dollar donated = 1 less pound of trash in the oceans. During the time of writing, donations have removed 6,603,540 pounds of trash from the ocean (it keeps increasing every minute!). This is amazing. Their aim is to get to 30 million pounds of trash through planet-saving donations by the end of 2021.
Read more or see how you can help on teamseas.org
See Mark Rober's YouTube video here.
See MrBeast's YouTube video here.
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