Timely: Careers and Stories Hashim Farooq

Today I talk about advice for your 20s but also just general life advice. give This episode a listen, you're not going to want to miss this one.

Live up to your New Years Resolutions.
What a year it has been.
This year has been one crazy year. in this podcast I talk about how to keep your New Years resolutions.

Thank you to all of you for an amazing 2021, here's to 2022.
Happy New Year!!!
See you all in 2022!!!!

In today's episode I discuss what its like working minimum wage jobs and why you get paid so little for minimum wage jobs. This is the start to my new series of "On the Job", where I will discuss real life issues I have found from working various types of jobs in various industries.

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Staying motivated: 

When I started this podcast, I had one goal in mind, I wanted to learn something new every day. For the most part I was, I’ve learnt a lot from the guests that have been on this show. As the podcast progressed, I became more and more concerned about the amount of listens the podcast was getting and what other people had to say about it. This craving of others acceptance started to demotivate me; I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do anymore I was doing what I thought other people wanted me to do. This complicated the podcast and became overwhelming. It’s nobody’s fault, it’s my fault. It’s easy to get caught up. and I did get caught up. this led to 6 months of rethinking the podcast and trying to make it into something that it wasn’t meant to be. I wanted the podcast to teach me something and teach the audience. 

With all of this demotivation going on in my life, I started to research some ways to remotivate myself and get back on the podcast. Covid-19 has been the biggest factor into my demotivation, after the 3rd lockdown, I completely gave up on most things I enjoyed doing, I was burnt out and for the most part still am. in the next few minutes I’m going to talk about what can help to regain motivation. 

Let’s start with the most common one setting goals. 
You’ve probably heard this a million times, but it actually works, you should set daily goals. Not unrealistic goals that will overwhelm you. But like simple goals, like make my bed, walk my dog, go for a 2km run, finish my homework, do 30 mins of coding, anything, as long as it is achievable. Trust me this will change your whole day; you will feel more accomplished by the end of it. You should make these goals more public, maybe by putting them on your Instagram story, writing them down, texting them to a friend, when you make them public you are more likely to accomplish them. Let’s take me for example, I set a goal today, which was to make a 

Finding your purpose, now this is more of a broader perspective. When you find your purpose in life everything becomes easier. You’ll know what you need to do in order to get to where you want. As Marcus Aurelius famously said, I have to go to work- as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blanket and stay warm. His words have never been truer, before I started working most of my days consisted of watching Netflix and staying warm. Breaking this barrier is hard, as when we as humans become comfortable, we tend to stay there, we become consumed by capitalism and consumerism, so far deep that some of don’t even realize. Finding a purpose in life is a true blessing. 

When you have found your purpose in life you should start counting on yourself, as the great philosopher Marcus Aurelius once said “turn your desire to store, Quench your appetites. Keep your mind centered on itself.
Start building a long-term plan, if you’re in university start planning your all your courses you need to graduate, start setting small goals you want to achieve by the end of the year and if you don’t reach your goals, readjust them. Think about what you want to do after you graduate, it doesn’t need to be something definitive, as life goes on things change and the path you chose in university might be completely different than your job. 

Also start building short term plans. Like if you have a goal to buy a car by the end of the year, what steps do you need to take in order to afford the car? Write it down, put it some place where you can see it daily. Being committed to the goal will be your key to success. No matter what challenges arise never give up, if you miss the moon at least you’ll hit the stars. 

Start showing up every day. Start doing stop listening to

In this weeks episode we interview Airin Avery who is a PhD student at UCLA.

Follow Airin and her journey:
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short bio from her website (https://www.airinaveryfitness.com/my-fitness-journey):
I started my fitness journey as a collegiate athlete at the State University of New York at Oneonta. As a freshman in college joining the team I had never really lifted weights seriously before. When they made us do our team lifts, at first I absolutely hated it, all I wanted to do was play volleyball and I didn’t understand why we had to lift. But this funny thing happened, the more I lifted, the more I started to enjoy it. Not only did my physical abilities improve but I was also excited to notice new muscles and veins that I never knew I had before. And that’s when my love for fitness began.
As a sophomore in college in 2015, I decided to take my fitness to the next level by competing in my first NPC bikini competition. It was this milestone that really cultivated my love for the fitness industry even more. Stepping on stage showcasing my hard earned work was a feeling like no other. I immediately became hooked on the sport of bodybuilding. Since 2015 I have competed in 7 shows, qualifying for nationals at 3 and I plan to compete in 3 shows next year including nationals. In addition to the bodybuilding shows, I have also competed in a powerlifting meet and currently still play volleyball for UCLA’s club beach volleyball team. I think its safe to say I am a little obsessed with fitness.

Thanks for listening, I'll be back next week with a new episode

Hashim Farooq talks about why grades don't define your intellect.

Welcome back to school, this is just a short podcast to help you get in the mood of school. Hope you all have a great 2nd semester.