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Tag: wissam charafeddine
Thought of Today: July 15, 2017 at 10:12AM
A 1998 survey by UFT found that 1 out 4 public school biology teachers believe that humans and dinosaurs inhabited the earth simultaneously. I wonder if the ration is the same 20 years after.
Thought of Today: July 09, 2017 at 10:14AM
There is a difference between respecting peoole’s sensitivities towards their believes, and granting those believes immunity from critical scrutiny.
Thought of Today: July 08, 2017 at 10:31AM
If you are not for yourself, then who will be for you?
And if you are only to yourself, then who are you?
Thought of Today: July 07, 2017 at 10:32AM
“Don’t live your day as if it is your last day, live your life as if it is your last life.”
Thought of Today: July 04, 2017 at 04:17PM
Humans: we are the dominant species.
Bacteria: you are so cute! When you grow old and survive your first 100 million years, then we will talk about it.
Thought of Today: July 04, 2017 at 03:31PM
Purpose is in the future, and the moment we realize the freedom of the fact that life has no inherent purpose, we appreciate the now, and only then we would truly live for the first time.
Thought of Today: July 04, 2017 at 03:06PM
Intuition is only important in the subjective matters.
Triannual Goal Report
It has been 4 months using the W Planner, and it is a good time for an overall reflection and analysis of managing myself for 2017.
Since February 1, 2017, when I started the W Planner electronically, I have had 1764 tasks. I accomplished 1051 tasks, that is 60% of all the tasks assigned.
Some of the accomplishments of this year so far outside of full time work:
Accomplishments
- Successful and comfortable Diet plan losing about 15 pounds and feeling healthier.
- Finished a course in Coursera in Music Theory
- Studied one full piece of piano, and half of another.
- Established the Advisory Board in one of the Non-profit organizations and recruited a number of volunteers for it. Also started two regular recurring meetups for it.
- Established Meetups in about 40 cities for another Non-profit organization and membership skyrocketed.
- Started Facebook Live Series and recorded the first two episodes live.
- Launching WDD with a full time Chief Designer.
- Successful Family Vacation in Florida
- Establishment of a Arches business group
- Established new relationships through attending a leadership meeting for a specific Michigan coalition.
- Found a co-organizer for Muslimish-Detroit
- Secured the ANEX of the Arab American History Museum for the Arabic Poetry Meetup.
- Completed 7 days consecutively of meditation.
- Established Dearborn Blog and Detroit Blog.
- Met with the renowned traveler and hiker Assam Saidi
- Established Charaf Group LLC
- Established Caulousheh
- Launched Yousician training for Reem and Bob
- Agreement on the structure of dearbornblog.com
- Learned the 12 bar blues on the key of A on guitar
- Finished reading and studying Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Created Muslimish Conference promo video and 2017 conference site
- Established Dearborn Arabic Poetry Open Mic (DAPOM)
- Leased the HOUSE to be HQ for all companies
- Managed to reach a success rate of 72% at one time which was the record high so far
- Prepared for a lecture to be given in several conferences
- Visited and Discovered London and reconnected with Walid Marmar
- Gained Arab American News as a client for WDD
- Established relationship with Sheik Ahmad Alkatib and Walid to establish IRSHAD office in London.
- Trained Walid to represent WDD in England
- Launched Arabic Poetry Night first meeting
- Increased quality time with family
- Won DENMARK in PS4 FIFA 2016 World Class level
- Started Atkins initiation diet successfully
- 14% fluent in French through Duolingo
- Contracted advanced developers for advanced projects in WDD
- Discovered a website that will allow us to create courses online
- Took a Marketing Course successfully
- Hanan Yahya joins powers with me to work on WDD, W Institute, and W Network.
- Two certificates in learning guitar
- Created the first video for W network and decided on direction of electronic marketing for it
- Launched London Trip Travel Memoir and blogged half of it so far.
- Launched my personal memoir and blogged up to 1984.
- Initiated the IRSHAD Conference Planning Committee
Resolutions
| 2017.3.3.a: Wake up at 6AM. Meditate to 6:15. Deep Work 6:15 to 8am. |
| 2017.3.3.b: In order for me to read and sleep, I have to be in bed by 10:30, otherwise a nap of 1 hour is needed in the afternoon. |
| 2017.3.3.c: Check mail only once a week and scan only once a month |
| 2017.2.24.a: Facebook is deleted as a phone application |
| 2017.2.24.b: Ceaze sharing of movie going on last Tuesdays of the month and enjoy going alone |
| 2017.2.23: Stop giving appointments to individuals who always perceive you as late |
| 2017.3.7.a: Change resolution 2017.2.24.a from deleting Facebook App to delete or hide Facebook App (to accommodate work tasks when needed) |
| 2017.3.8.a: Prohibit phone from bedroom after 10PM and move the charging station for it outside of the bedroom. |
| 2017.3.12.a: Use Pomodoro technique for daily tasks. Each pomodoro section counts for two days on the planner. |
| 2017.3.13.a: Use daily timed blocks technique on the W planner sheet or on a separate sheet or notebook. |
| 2017.3.17.a: Implement Resolution #2017.3.3.a [wake up at 6. Meditate to 6:15. Deep Work 6:15 to 8am. ] gradually by decreasing 15 minutes weekly of wake up time starting at 7:45AM |
| 2017.3.20.a: Add Arabesque Cafe to Arches Time. |
| 2017.3.20.b: Move Autoboard to LEKA/Geobuzz Time and Dedicate its time to cleaning and personal errands. |
| 2017.3.28.a: Consider Arabic Poetry Open Mic part a Dearborn blog project. |
| 2017.4.9.a: Incorporating Leisure and Social Time into calendar as one new category under Business. |
| 2017.4.9.b: Make Europe trip every Spring a habit for Spring Break. |
| 2017.4.17.a: Read two Get Abstracts a week and one book a month instead of one book every two weeks. |
| 2017.4.17.b: Combine Charaf Group with Arches and Arabesque Cafe |
| 4.17.17.c: Dedicate time for Leisure on daily basis. |
| 2017.4.24.a: Organize goals as to measure closeness to achieving the annual goal |
| 2017.4.29.a: Cook or try one new meal a week |
| 2017.4.30.a: Cease sharing pictures with friends via text.
2017.4.30.c: Change resolution 2017.3.3.c from “Check Mail once a week and scan once a month” to “Check Mail and scan only once a week” since I have made scanning easier with Cloud Scan |
SUCCESS CHART
|
HEALTH
|
Weight planned | 201 | |
| Weight Actual | 203.5 | ||
| Diet | 77.78% |
68.85%
|
|
| Menu | 81.35% | ||
| Exercise | 82.14% | ||
| Meditation | 54.37% | ||
| Sleep 8 hours/day | 48.59% | ||
|
EDUCATION
|
Online Courses | 81.75% |
73.48%
|
| Piano | 59.13% | ||
| Guitar | 55.16% | ||
| Publishing/ Writing | 90.48% | ||
| French | 89.29% | ||
| Reading | 65.08% | ||
|
BUSINESS
|
W Network | 24.21% |
44.61%
|
| WDD | 70.24% | ||
| Arches/W Institute/ Charaf | 56.35% | ||
| Personal Errands | 50.00% | ||
| Front End Dev. | 40.08% | ||
| Dearborn Blog | 14.29% | ||
| Leisure | 57.14% | ||
|
FAMILY, FRIENDS, PLAY, and COMMUNITY
|
Family | 64.68% |
88.39%
|
| Friends | 88.89% | ||
| game | 100.00% | ||
| Non-profit | 100.00% |
Failures and Challenges
I am not afraid of the word failure, so I like to use it in a failing forward kind of way.
Below 70% that needs a new plan:
- Family Time:
- Dearborn Blog:
- Front End Dev.:
- W Institute
- Charaf Group
- Arches Group
- W Network:
- Reading:
- Guitar:
- Piano:
- Sleep
- Meditation
Below 88% that needed improvement:
- WDD
- Online Courses
- Exercise
- Menu
Thought of Today: July 02, 2017 at 06:48PM
If you are searching for a religion to follow, follow a religion whose people have the cleanest public bathrooms.
Wissam Charafeddine 