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Annual Review 2021

Lots of habits, and hence, many accomplishments were achieved this year! I thought 2020 was the best year of my life, and 2021 turned out to be even better! Some of the things that happened in 2021 were out of my range of predictability. In other words, I didn’t think at all, of them at the end of 2020.

The purpose of the Annual review is not to show off my accomplishments or to make you feel less, instead, it is for my interest in documenting my life publicly. In other words, to etch my legacy onto the walls of this website. And also to inspire you and myself to do more and better in the coming year – 2022.

Ok, that being said, let’s get into it. I’d like to classify my Annual review points into 2, Quantitive and Qualitative. Quantitative is the attractive part to flex, and qualitative is the part which I don’t have any proof to showcase, yet I know I’ve got that. But of course, the fulfillment you get in having accomplished both ways is beyond words. Ok, so let me begin with Quantitative itself.

Highlights of Quantitative growth in 2021:

  1. Website launched
  2. My originals streaming on all major platforms
  3. Books read – 55
  4. No. of blogs written – 35
  5. Original music – 3
  6. Videos made – 14
    1. Originals – 3
    2. Collabs – 4
    3. Others – 7
  7. Wrote a book, yet to be published

There are of course many other quantitative points I can add like YouTube, Website & Spotify metrics, My networth. But I didn’t add them because I want to show you the only ones I consciously made choices and habits that made these happen. And numbers like my networth are not huge in terms of rupees, but only seem huge in terms of percentage.

Highlights of Qualitative growth in 2021:

  1. This year was filled with new and unique experiences – everything from traveling to new places within and out of Bangalore, trying out new dishes, to filming in my mind the entire stretch of rituals done after my grandfather died.
  2. Since this year is the year that I’ve written the most, it was very transformative and therapeutic. And due to which my low-feel curves were lesser than last year.
  3. Lots of reflection with October 3rd week being the peak of the times of realizations. I’m now able to perceive Advaita very closely. I just shrugged, remembering the time when I clearly saw the distance between my 5 sheaths, especially with the mind and body.
  4. Great sense of stillness installed, a scent of it being always with me. 
  5. More awareness and conscious. Way ahead than last year.

Again, I can add more here too. But I felt only these as highly signficant that I can remember as of now. And one more thing, qualitative growth points seem very cheezy or cliche. But I gurantee that none of the above points are exaggeration of the actual situation. That is all, for this year’s annual review.

Thank You,

Yours Loving,

Sanath Kumar Naibhi

Wish you a very Happy New Year !!!

Annual Review 2022

The purpose of the Annual review is not to show off my accomplishments or to make you feel less, instead, it is for my interest in documenting my life publicly. In other words, to etch my legacy onto the walls of this website. And also to inspire you and myself to do more and better in the coming year – 2023.

Ok, that being said, let’s get into it. I’d like to classify my Annual review points into two, Quantitative and Qualitative. Quantitative is the attractive part to flex, and qualitative is the part which I don’t have any proof to showcase, yet I know I’ve got that. But of course, the fulfillment you get in having accomplished both ways is beyond words. Ok, so let me begin with the Quantitative itself.

Highlights of Quantitative growth in 2021:

  1. Published my first book – The Flower of Fulfillment and received great compliments
  2. Manana Podcast launched on July 3rd and 26 episodes released.
  3. Books read – 44 (11 less than 2021)
  4. Concerts – 48 ( 16 less than 2017 and 32 more than 2021, but of course that low number was due to COVID. ) The accuracy of the number of concerts mentioned may be off 1-5 concerts, because I may have missed or forgotten to document few concerts.
  5. Blogs written: 52
  6. Original music – 2 (1 less than 2021) Shame : )
  7. Long format Videos made – 14 (same as 2021)
    1. Originals – 2
    2. Collabs – 0
    3. Others – 12
  8. Short-form videos – 39
    1. Violin Bits – 18
    2. Quotes – 15
    3. Other Repurposed – 6
  9. Carnatic Music Junior Notations published both in English & Kannada versions. (self-typed)
  10. 3 free e-books made available on my website!
  11. Chanting Atharvasheersha every day and Gayatri Japa count increased to 2160/day. Of course, there are exempted days when I couldn’t due to concerts, classes, etc. But there were extra days too like solar and lunar eclipse days when I did 1080 japas on top of the usual 2160. Before this, I barely used to chant 216/day. This year, I gradually increased it, starting from 600/day in March to 2160/day by November.

There are of course many other quantitative points I can add like YouTube, Website & Spotify metrics, and my net worth. But I didn’t add them because I want to show you the only ones I consciously made choices and habits that made these happen. And numbers like my net worth are not huge in terms of rupees, but only seem huge in terms of percentage.

Highlights of Qualitative growth in 2021:

  • I thought 2021 was the best year of my life, and 2022 turned out to be even better! But the kind of better I’m referring to is entirely different here. In fact, this year was probably the year I’ve experienced the highest pain so far in my life.
  • But that pain was turned into something so beautiful that I enjoy every day now. Like I’ve mentioned in the blog: Hardships & Pain, pain is always an indicator as to something is wrong and hence it also helps you figure out where & what’s wrong. So, I think this year was a massive growth not in terms of quantity, but in terms of quality, or in other words, in terms of personal and spiritual growth. The level of clarity I got after figuring out through all that pain, is incredible.
  • And as soon as I started making decisions based on that clarity/awareness, it started feeling like the whole universe is supporting my journey.

Again, I can add more here too. But I felt only these as highly significant that I can remember as of now. And one more thing, qualitative growth points seem very cheesy or cliche. But I guarantee that none of the above points are an exaggeration of the actual situation. That is all, for this year’s annual review.

Thank You,

Yours Loving,

Sanath Kumar Naibhi

Wish you a very Happy 2023!

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