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Foreign languages
My First Steps in Spanish
HOLA! Como estas?
I happened to have a real necessity to learn one more foreign language in the near future, as i've made a weird decision to become a student. AGAIN. I feel quite silly bceause of that, but anyway, it's too late to give it up, that's why i'm creating this goal. Spanish seems quite beautiful to me, and also i've learnt that it's one of the easiest languages to learn.
I've made a decision to write posts in English, which will help me improve somehow my English and also, as i want to connect my life with English as much as it's possible, describing things in English will be much more helpful and not as usual or even boring as typing in Russian. As for me, of course. But there is a little problem - even though there are a lot of sourses and ways to learn fo...
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General
Make a plan every working day morning.
In my thesis writing, there are lot's of different sub tasks and often I get lost not knowing what to do first, what to do quickly and what in-debth ... or what to do at all. Sometimes, it all seems like a huge mountain that I have to scale somehow. It's overwhelming. I've always made plans, but most of them were rather wishes than realistic. So, my time management skills still can improve. For helping myself with that, I'll do two things: First, I'll set up a realistic plan for this whole last year of thesis writing. Second is, that each morning I will make a schedule for the day.
The goal is to make a plan every morning during the week (Monday till Friday). The goal is not to keep to that plan nor even to work it all off. Only to make this plan, nothing more and nothing less. Th...
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Migration
Move to New Zealand
I want to leave the homeland, which does not meet my requirements for civil liberties and safety. During this journey I will be accompanied by my awesome girlfriend, and we will be satisfied only when we find a new great place on the globe to live and work. Considering the rapid deterioration of the situation in our country, we should leave in the summer 2015.
So, we have opted for New Zealand (NZ) with its magnificent nature, healthy lifestyle, English as an official language, and brisk immigration policy. As none of us has chances to apply for immigration to NZ and we both have on illusions about finding a job from abroad, the only remaining way is Study to Work. Thus, this goal is limited by studying in NZ.
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General
Positive Behavior Support in Early Childhood Education
UWashingtonX: ECFS312x Positive Behavior Support in Early Childhood Education
Learn the evidence-based models to promote social-emotional development for young children.
Many early childhood educators report feeling ill equipped to meet the needs of children with challenging behavior and frustrated in their attempts to develop safe and nurturing early learning environment. If you work with young children, you are not alone in your feelings! Increasing evidence suggests that an effective approach to addressing problem behavior is the adoption of a model that focuses on promoting social-emotional development, providing support for children’s appropriate behavior, and preventing challenging behavior. In this class, you will learn a framework for addressing the social and emotio...
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General
Cleaning my home once a week
I want to have a cosy, tidy, clean, organized home that is a place of peace and harmony. For 2018, I want to create a habit of cleaning my flat once a week.
Cleaning means:
- organizing my desk, the toys and everything that is laying around
- throwing away all the rubbish
- cleaning the bathroom (sink, toilet, bathtub, mirrors)
- cleaning the kitchen (stove, table, chairs, surfaces, dishes, sink)
- cleaning the grounds with vaccum cleaner/wiping cloth
- getting rid of dust
I plan to do the cleaning on the weekends. I will mark every Monday for the previous week.
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General
Work through a course on Number Theory and participate in the exam.
The exam is March 5th. I haven't yet really begun to study, nor even to read. There's 268 pages of textbook ahead of me. But I am smart, I can do it if I am disciplined. I want to participate in the exam, even if I don't feel prepared. I definetely will not feel prepared, but that doesn't matter. It will be an important experience to show off and take that challange.
My goal is to study about Number Theory for at least 60 minutes a day, six days in a week (Monday till Saturday). This will be at least 36 hours all together. February 27 I will evaluate the results and see if I have to change anything for the last week. Probaply I will be able to devote more time during the last week.
The goal is not to pass the exam. The goal is it prepare for it consistently and take it even ...
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Personal development
Unity
Practice with Unity through tutorials and books!
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General
#6 "Writing my Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day"
I want to continue my 15-minutes series and work on my dissertation each day in March, too.
Weekly extra rewards:
20:00 March 1st-7th: Narcos, Season 3, Episode 1 (not yet)
20:00 March 8th-14th: Narcos, Season 3, Episode 1
... March 15th-21st: ...
... March 22nd-28th: ...
Month's total extra reward:
80:00 for the whole month: ...
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General
Step out of my comfort zone everyday. Выходить из зоны комфорта ежедневно.
English:
You can give me advice, share your own opinion, experience, thoughts, ideas. I don't have many resources - I almost don't have money and imagination. So, you are welcome :) Dew to my experiment I want to develop imagination and to move back my fears, constraint, uneasiness, inconvenience.
Languages: Russian, English, French.
City: Paris, France.
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Thoughts during experiment:
I think I need this experiment for do not sitting at home and go out every day, do something new and defeat my laziness.
Русский:
Собираюсь развивать своё воображение, с удовольствием почитаю советы (так как для заданий у меня мало ресурсов - почти нет денег и мало воображения) и мысли на эту тем...
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General
Building good relationships with daycare providers
This will be an odd goal :) ...
I want to built good relationships with the nursery school teachers of my daugther. I know, this is partly beyond my control, but being an introvert I still want to try my best. The starting position is that I interact with anyone of them several times a week for a minute or so when I catch my daugther from daycare. Sometimes there is a little smalltalk, but it's all very impersonal. I want to build some kind of personal relationship, but I don't want to get on their nerves or to steal their precious time either.
So, I gave this project a little thought and I came up with some ideas on how to start building good relationships.
Note to myself:
- smile!
- pay attention to a neat outward appearance
- one shor...
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Career & Work
IGStat - приложение Android для пользователей Instagram: статистика, маркетинг, развлечение
Инстаграм (далее ИГ) достаточно большая и интересная по контенту и аудитории социальная сеть.
Мне самому, как активному пользователю, уже не говоря про тех, кто активно занимается маркетингом в ИГ, хотелось бы иметь здесь функции статистики и автоматизации. Я перепробовал много приложений для этого, пользуюсь одним из них на платной основе, и все же мне не хватает, есть желание сделать некоторые вещи по другому. А так же есть еще однa часть - развлекательная, которой я не видел еще нигде.
Даже больше чем другие социальные сети, ИГ эксплуатирует такие человеческие слабости как тщеславие, желание повыпендриваться и посоревноваться :) И мне кажется, последнее нужно развить: что если добавить дополнительные элементы геймификации? Я хочу создать алгоритм, который позволит оценива...
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Personal development
ECFS311x Becoming a Resilient Person: The Science of Stress Management and Promoting Wellbeing
Вкратце - как обрести равновесие и перестать истерить)))
Course goal:
The goal for this course is to give you permission to take care of yourself and empower you to be a resilient person. A resilient person is someone who:
purposely strives to be as mentally and psychically healthy as possible,
possesses the confidence to effectively cope with and manage stressful situations,
is compassionate towards self and others,
demonstrates grit or perseverance even in the face of adversity, and
focuses on the positive and fulfilling aspects of life.
Course supporting objectives: When you complete this course, you will be able to:
Describe why ‘functioning from the inside out’ is critical to becoming a resilient, effective person
Explain the...
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Health
Increase Willpower and Concentration
I made this goal to increase the time spent truly living and not just going through the motions of life. Will you join me on this journey?
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General
Complete "Introduction to Financial Accounting" Coursera course
Complete the "Introduction to Financial Accounting" on the Coursera education portal https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting/
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General
Fitness
ходить в зал 30-40 раз за 3 месяца
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Knowledge & Skills
To present a very inspiring speech
I want to become one of the best-class organizers of the world-famous events. For that I need to be a very powerful speaker - to motivate and inspire people around me. That is why I joined Toastmasters International, because this non-profit worldwide organization helps people to train their public speaking and leadership skills. At the current moment I want to receive a Competent Communicator award. For that I need to present an inspirational speech in front of Moscow Toastmasters at the meeting of one of the English-speaking Clubs: Moscow Free Speakers, Toastbusters or WorldSurfers.
My presentation should reach the following objectives:
- To inspire the audience by appealing to noble motives and challenging the audience to achieve a higher level of beliefs or achievement
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General
JNCIE-SP
The goal is to pass JPR-960 and to become JNCIE-SP in 2016. Right now I just passed my JNCIP-SP (2015), also I have some experience as a senior network engineer and some Cisco (CCNP, CCIP) background which may (or may not?) help me.
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General
Workout every day-Stop smoking-Daily meditation-Study-Get rid of garbage info
The goal of registration here is to trace the habbits.
Maybe, it will be impossible to check the site every day. I was registered here and my goals were failed by the system (coffee and alcohol) because I didn't check the site. But I had reached this goals. This is my second registration.
1. Daily workout. I can make 20 pullups and run 5 km, but I exercise 3 times per week. The goal is to make it every day
2. Smoking. Never feel the negative effect of smoking cigarets. But it is an evil, no doubt.
3. Meditation, the goal is to meditate daily at least 5 minutes.
4. Daily study at least 2 hours.
5. Get rid of garbage sites. Never visit news, sports or sites about self growing. Check viber sms once a day (evening). Turn of all notifications. ...
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Personal development
Create the habbit of short-time planning "TODAY EVENING - TOMMOROW"
There is best practise "plan for tommorow". I remember at least 2 successful personal who recommend it (G.Arhangelski, M.Mahala).
TASKS
1. Choose software for planning (android, reminders, ...)
2. Choose time for planning
3. Choose visualition for high-priority tasks (stickers, ...)
4. Make the list of books/blogs to read
5. Make your productivity schedule
PROCESS
I need to spent 45 min per day to read some bestsellers or blogs about planning . I need to spent 15 min per day to plan tommorow.
1. Current day report (what I did, what can I do better)
2. Define priorities (high, middle, low)
3. Appoint the 1st thing to do ("kill the frog"..?)
4. Appoint 1-2 high priority tasks to high-productivity time
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General
Read "Spring in Action, 4th edition"
The book describes a popular Java framework - Spring. This is latest edition - published by Manning in 2014, 569 pages, in English