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2015, An Year of Learning

December 25, 2015 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Learning 2015

Here I am completing yet another year in my short life.  Looking back at 2015 I would call it an year of learning.  These are some things I managed to learn.

Life Lessons

I learned some important lessons about life.  Here is the list.

  • Personal health is of utmost importance.  It is our own responsibility to maintain it in good shape
  • Make decisions that prioritize happiness over everything else.  Even if it involves making strange or unpopular decisions, do so
  • Spending quality time with kids help them grow better.  This is the best we can offer them
  • Life is never fair all the time.  Sometimes we don’t have answers to few situations we end up with.  Attitude make all the difference in this case

Intellectual Lessons

  • Got my long pending PMP certification in January
  • Completed the 12 books target which I set at the start of the year
  • Finished about 5 courses on Coursera including one Certificate course on Leadership that will complete early 2016
  • Got membership with Lynda.com and completed about 10 sessions in Management and Leadership
  • Worked on Agile Software Development education and practice. Planning to get PMI-ACP certified early 2016
  • Got better with my German and working on my Spanish

Physical Learning

  • Got regular with my workout sessions, at least 3 times a week. 7 Minute workouts really work!
  • Weekly cycling session clocking about 10-20 km each
  • Received professional Hatha Yoga training, good enough to continue on my own
  • Learned basic Tai Chi, planning to advance in 2016

Barring few personal problems 2015 was quite a productive year for me.  I am hoping the same trend to continue in 2016.

Wishing you and your family a very happy holiday season and a great 2016.

Image credit: Flickr creative commons by Alan Nevine

Filed Under: Good Life, Last Five Tagged With: learning, mental learning, physical learning, pmp, taichi, yoga

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