Milestones 2024 – 235 posts!

 

Milestones 2024 – 235 posts!

As of a couple of days ago, we completed 235 posts!

Yet, one more target was reached this year!

This was the number of posts for the year 2023.

Now the next target is 273  of the year 2018.

The one after that target worth chasing would be 282 posts in the year 2022.

The one next to that would be 297 posts for the year 2017.

The one after that would be easy to reach - 302 in the year 2016.

If the previous target is reached then this would be a cakewalk if time permits -304 in the year 2021.

The highest so far is 329 posts posted in the year 2020. Wow, I seemed to have lots of time allocated that year for a blog. Maybe was also more committed to writing than all the years put together. Would be a hard job reaching that target this year - so, let's see! 

Which year target would be the one we would be reaching this year?

Let’s see if you will cheer me by participating regularly by sharing your views/experiences/observations and all!

Milestones 2024 - 225 posts!

 

Milestones 2024 - 225 posts!

We already completed 225 posts!

Yet, one more target reached this year!  

This was the number of posts of the year – 2014.

Now the next target is 235  of the year 2023.

Let’s see if you will cheer me by participating regularly by sharing your views/experiences/observations and all!

What do you think of our blog journey of this year till date?

Milestones – 600000 hits so far!

 

Milestones – 600000 hits so far!

One more milestone reached this 2024!

We have hit 600000 so far!

And to think we crossed 500000 just on November 2^nd 2023!! https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/11/milestones-500000-hits-so-far.html

Wow! It seems to be like “anything can happen year – 2024”!!

Does it mean much?

I really don’t know.

Honestly, I don’t care that much too….

Sometimes, we just have to take that which is served to as “wow and beautiful” and gulp it all with a smile, raise a cup for celebration and wear the feather in our cap! https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-me.html

Sometimes…..

Not every single incident needs to be understood. Not every single incident may mean anything to us and yet may be the cause of some sort of celebration for us!

This is one such one!

What’s yours?

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# milestones, 2024, 600000 hits so far, savour every fall, savour every rise, 

 

Milestones of 2023 – New record in the number of posts this year - …. Posts

 

Milestones of 2023 – New record in the number of posts this year - …. Posts 

The total number of posts for this year stands at “ 234” as on 31^st Dec 2023.

This is a new record!

Hurray for that!

It shows – We may seem lagging in our target that is set in any aspect of our life, but when we tighten our seat belt and set to work honestly and sincerely, we can always make ‘history’.

Don’t go on a guilt ride of “wasted time”.

Don’t keep going around “but if only I/he/we had done….”.

Whenever you realize you have wasted enough time, that is the right time. Then, don’t waste any more time and start working. Give your 100%. Don’t keep looking at the target. Don’t bother about the target!

Just keep working.

And, then, you’ll be surprised at the length of the journey you’ve made at the end of the journey!

So, similar to our ‘blog posts’ story!

Take this from this year’s blog – target reached and apply it in the area of your life that is relevant and important to you.

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Note : One of you guessed we would cross 225 and we did....so technically each one of yours guess had come true!

Take a leaf from that too!

Question time:

So, what are your takes from blog this year?

How did it benefit you?

What are the changes you would like to see in the blog posts?

What are the things that you would prefer to delete from posts in the coming year?

What are your lessons from this "milestone reached"? How are you going to apply it in your life?

Share any other thing that comes to your mind/ understanding/ experience related to this blog/ blog posts....

 

December 31st – last day of the year – 2023

 

December 31^st – last day of the year – 2023

e.    Little moments of joy are many in between. In the rush of chasing bigger and meaningful dreams and desires, don’t miss out on living these lighter moments. At the end, only those matter. Bigger achievements are far in between. Chase them anyhow. But the little joys are score to a dozen a day. Chase them, live them, be with them. Awareness is all that is needed to live them. Collect them, before long you are rich with fond and sweet memories. Don’t underestimate the power of a penny!

f.   
Don’t fret and fume about the future. Just do your bit for today and the future will take care of itself – very well too!

g.     Time flies – both good and bad. So, in tough times, hold tight, be in sadhan and try to make contributions, however small in every field to come out better than last time!

h.   Be in sadhan in good times, so that you develop clarity of thought to face tough times when they do. You’ll develop internal and mental strength to face tough times when they come. Little by little your strength increases – be in sadhan every single day.

i.    Bring your awareness to every single act of the day! That way, you would have cherished what you lived. Otherwise, we mostly just exist. We pass our days like zombies! Think about it!

Care to add some more points here??!!

So, let's take these lessons and start this year. This way, our journey for this year has already got the momentum it so deserves. 

Now, we are ready to welcome this year - 2024!

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# milestones, end of year 2023, start of new beginning, every old gives rise to new, year end,

Question time:

    So, what other lessons have you learnt this year?

  What are your achievements for this year?

     What are your goals for this coming year - 2024?

December 31st – last day of the year – 2023

 

December 31^st – last day of the year – 2023

So, the year 2023 ends! With it comes a new beginning – the year 2024.

At the start of the year, the year seems so long and so full of dreams and hopes. We are all excited and looking forward for our dreams to be fulfilled. And, at the end of the year, the whole year seems to have “just passed by”. So it is with this year too!

So, what are the lessons we can learn from this?

a.    Time flies. We assume there is lot of time to do the “right thing” like meditating, healing, being in sadhan and lo! The entire life has just flown off…

b.    Now, is the time to do the “right things” of life. Those are the only things that are going to come with us. All other things and people of this world are going to stay back here for everyone! Enjoy the things and time with people in your life but also take REGULAR time to be with yourself and that happens only when you are in sadhan.

c.     Sadhan, meditation, healing is the way to get reconnected with oneself. Don’t miss that out for anything – I repeat, anything of this World!

d.    Little deeds of goodness can be sown now and here. In the process of wanting to do something big and meaningful, don’t waste time. Don’t postpone doing good now! Do whatever you can, however small it seems, right now, right here! Remember, time flies.

Contd....

# milestones, end of year 2023, start of new beginning, every old gives rise to new, 

also read suggested: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=year+end

End of year – 2023 - A round up!

Contd....

End of year – 2023 - A round-up!

Just remember that all this is for the higher cause. Enjoying things of this world is not the Be- all of our existence! Experience our ‘Beingness’ is! As you make your life comfortable, delve deeper within yourself to discover yourself. Don’t get bound by things of this World. Don’t be so blinded by them you choose every method to get them. They don’t deserve any importance apart from making our lives comfortable. Develop that clarity! Reiterate that every single second of your wakeful time!

When we are slaves of this world, we become selfish, self-centered, vicious, and live in eternal fear. Our pleasure and growth – both remain stunted.

Instead, grow in oneness. Aim high beyond selfish reasons. Think global. Achieve success and happiness by cultivating oneness, servitude, cooperation and harmony.

Bring a smile to every place you inhabit.

Seek the highest and don’t settle even for the second-best!

Concluded....

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# year end, looking back, purpose of life, living life aimlessly, search within, kingdom of heaven, soul energy, soul power, unlimited scope of our expression, divine nature, asuric nature, attitudes, character, growing as a person, scaling heights of spirituality, ego, awareness, mindfulness, 

also read suggested: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2015/05/purpose-of-life.html 

and

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=temple+construction 

Year-end treasure hunt:

Let's look at all that the year gone by 2023 has left behind in our lives.

Let's make a memoir of things that we achieved this year.

Let's kneel down for all the things that worked out for us.

Let's celebrate and thank for all the dreams that have come true.

Let's bless others with all the riches that we have experienced this year.

Let's look at all the areas we worked on ourselves and feel the pride in the process and the steps we have taken towards our better self!

Let's thank for all the relationships that we earned or healed and enriched ourselves with affection in our lives.

Let's pat ourselves for having the courage to let go off the toxic relationships in our lives.

Let's look at all the milestones that we had set to cross this year and did!

And add anything else too if you please!

Milestones of 2023 – 225 posts

 

Milestones of 2023 – 225 posts

As of yesterday, we completed 225 posts for this year. As predicted by one of you, we have crossed 225 posts and couple more posts to go this year…new record set this year…..let’s see what that number would be….https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/12/milestones-2023-200-posts.html 

Read the links https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=milestones+posts to see how these blog posts can teach us some important lessons of life. If we don’t see these milestones as just a ‘random number of posts’ and ‘not much deal about them’ attitude to it, then we would be surprised how many of our questions are answered. So many of our fears put to rest with this understanding!

Let’s keep working on our goals, one step at a time. Let’s do our bit and leave the rest to time. Things will somehow work out right in the end. We may not see it as we start or as we are enroute but it will surely work out right. But, of course, there is a condition for that. The condition is, the intent should be pure and right, our effort 100% and we should be honest in our efforts. Perseverance and honesty are necessary ingredients for any success.

Even the unrighteous succeed in life or so it seems. But, that success is only temporary and ends up with lots of pain and suffering during the process and at the end of it too – for sure! The end doesn't justify the means!

All said and done, victory comes to all who have put in right efforts in right direction - always!

Milestones 2023 – 200 posts

 

Milestones 2023 – 200 posts

We have crossed one more target set before us – that of 200 posts https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/11/milestones-2023-blog-posts_01460706384.html

Let’s celebrate it. So what and how are you going to celebrate this milestone?

How is that you wish to show your gratitude for this amount of work put up and for benefit received?

Think and come back with your answers.

Btw, our next target would be 225 posts of the year 2015. Can we reach it?

I don’t know and can’t say for sure but will keep writing as much as I can. Let’s see on 31^st Dec 2023!!!!!

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# milestones, targets set, achievements, every step takes you towards your goal, one step at a time, give your best,    

Points to ponder:

What did you observe / learn from these "achieving or reaching milestones" posts?

What is this all about?

How is it related to your life and how does it benefit you in any way?

Little Milestones of 2023

 

Little milestones of 2023

Just 40 odd days and we will be completing this year 2023 – off! Looks unbelievable!

This year went by so fast!

Seems just yesterday that I was typing my first post of the year and now, almost there at the finish line!

We had decided to chart out milestones for every month – but all missed doing that!

So, now, jot down your milestones for this year – so far – so that at year-end it will be easy for you to wind up “milestones of the year 2023” effortlessly!

Don’t tag them as big or small. They are your milestones. Just note them down. Validate them. You may write a few today and then remember a few after a couple of days. No issues, that day again come back and post those ones now…you don’t need to write all of them at once. Even if you can think of just one, write it down.

We have reached various milestones in our various areas of life viz., physical, mental, clarity of thought, understandings, wow moments, dreams fulfilled, desires fulfilled, achievements and success had, accumulations made, experiences had. The list is big. So should yours be!

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also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-luck-by-chance.html

 

Milestones - 2023 blog posts

 

Milestones - 2023 blog posts - 174 posts so far!

Further to https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/11/milestones-2023-blog-posts.html we have touched our set target of 174 posts - 2 days back....??!!

And yet not one of you was aware of it??

Now, celebrate it with a dance and a song. Celebrate it with an ice cream. Celebrate it with a sweet - but, whatever is the one you are eating, first let it be "prasadam" to the "Almighty" who is making this journey possible for us!

Now, the next milestone would be 200 posts of the year 2015..

Let's see if that is possible this year??

Remember this always, whatever your goal (one that is legitimate and ethical), to get that all you have to do is "Badhe chalo, badhe chalo" - keep walking, keep walking! 

In the meantime, read the given link and come back with your comments 

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=174

Milestones - 2023 blog posts

 

Milestones - 2023 blog posts - Next stop

Honestly speaking, https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/09/milestones-2023-blog-posts.html I was skeptical as on Sep 8th 23. The numbers were pathetic. I wasn't happy with myself. Though I had reasons to justify, I also have "arguments" to counter them myself like "You have millions reasons to 'not do' and have and need only one to do i.e., "to do"....

But, your participation and cheers kept the morale high and here we are at our next milestone reached - that of 156 posts - that of the year 2013. 

Now, our next target is that of the year 2009 and 2019 - that is 174. Hope to reach there by year-end! Keep reading, and keep participating. You do your part good and I'll do mine!

also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=posts 

Read the above link and find out :

1. Why these milestones are important 

2. How to celebrate them and 

3.Why to celebrate them...

Milestones - 2023 blog posts

 

Further to Milestones - 2023 blog posts

Further to https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/09/milestones-2023-blog-posts.html only two among you had predicted the possible number of posts we could reach this year. And the numbers were 123 and 150. 

I thank both of you Kshitija and Swati for giving me a target to work on. I reached both, as of now!

To celebrate the same, sent Reiki to you both! Both have predicted the right number. Let's see how far we can go this year??!!

Milestones - 2023 blog posts - 123 mileposts crossed!

 

Milestones - 2023 blog posts - 123 mileposts crossed! 

Glad to see that you remembered the "next milestone" https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/10/becoming-eligible-for-grace-by-healing.html?showComment=1696568203907 and have celebrated on reaching this milestone .......

Hip hip hooray to each one of us!!!

Our this YAGNA is towards the goal of reaching the state of "Nirvana", "enlightenment", "mukthidhaam", "sthithapragnya", or "purnathaha". May we all cross the milestones in the same fashion as we take this path towards our respective goals too!

Don't see how much others have covered!

Don't see how much more to walk!

Look how much you have already covered!

And see, how to make the next step possible!

Keep doing sadhan every single day! 

Keep cheering each other!

Keep sharing your experiences, fears, pain, and anxieties but also pledge every day again and again to overcome them!

Let's also keep celebrating every milestone that we cross!

Let's also celebrate every hurdle addressed and overcome!

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/09/milestones-2023-blog-posts-113-milepost.html

Becoming eligible for grace!

 

Becoming eligible for grace!

Bhagya Rekha, Kshitija, Swathi – sending reiki to you three for walking the most difficult yet compulsory and beautiful journey in the entire Universe! This is the ONLY purpose of our existence! Every other thing depends on this walk and these milestones that you cross in your life! What you receive and don’t depend entirely and solely on this journey!

You may not be able to do the entire journey in this very life – though I would wish and pray that you all do! But, even a few baby steps taken in this direction would affect your present life and all your future lives to come (for those who believe in its existence!).

That doesn’t mean you do a couple of exercises and leave it for this life! NO and a big NO! Once you start this journey, keep walking. You may go slow, that is accepted but don’t ever stop! Keep walking. That is the key to your growth and happiness – not to forget the most important one – your safety!

Many stop after taking just a couple of baby steps. That is the biggest blunder. Don’t do it!

As this journey is tough and lonely, I wish to show my respect, appreciation and support by sending reiki to you three for the next week to come. At every step and corner, you’ll see me standing by you, cheering you, encouraging you, shouting at you, yelling at you and telling you stories to frighten you enough to not let you stop walking this path!

While you do all this and suffer the pains of walking this path, also remember, there is no personal agenda that I have in here! I don't sit to gain anything in any form for any growth that you see in yourself! I just wish everyone gains access to their full potential which is within their reach! That's all! Nothing more for me here!  So, remember, you are not doing any of this to please me. You can't please me with your decisions on this path! You are walking this path for your own good ONLY! Nothing more, nothing less!

Every person who walks this path deserves and becomes eligible for Divine support and grace automatically. No need to beg or seek anyone’s blessings! Become eligible for that and this is a sure-shot way for that! And to prove that is by sending reiki to you all!

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****When the Reiki was sent to the above mentioned, some of you had doubts as to why to them especially? This post is to clarify that doubt!! So, I retained first and last para from the previous post! https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/09/becoming-eligible-for-grace.html?showComment=1695455541209 

# enlightenment, nirvana, knowing self, detachment, attachment, samsara, spirituality, ego, games of mind, living life fully, living in the moment, mindfulness, sadhan, healing self, healing earth, karma, destiny, 

read also: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-healing-guru-god-and-all.html 

and

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2018/03/stories-and-all-dog-and-priest.html