Ladies and gentlemen, Sal and Mike back with another video.  Turn on notifications, the feedback, y'all have been awesome. Brand new video every Monday and Wednesday. We're jamming out today. We're talking about powerlifting motivation. We're talking about hypocrites. We're talking about Jedi braids. Ooh. Give it a like for the Pad of One braid. I'm probably guilty of some of the things we're about to go into. But at least I'm self-aware enough to talk about it. The most common question over 10 years of creating content on the internet, Instagram, here is how do I find motivation? Where's motivation? And I know many other people have also gotten this question because I've seen their responses whether it be on Twitter, Instagram, or YouTube. Many people talk about motivation and what I feel like all these things have turned into, maybe it's people being frustrated and again I'm probably guilty of saying this and I'm probably guilty of answering some of you guys a little bit short or not as friendly But that's just because I've answered every single DM nearly every comment for 8 to 10 years on the internet. I got into this to help. I got into this to teach. I got into this to entertain So why would I ignore those things? Connect community like those are my goals here So that's part of my goals to you and again I've seen other people be short about it and when I and maybe this is me being judgmental, but what it feels like is people being Virtue signaling, it's people gate keeping It's people being holier than thou kind of mentality where when someone asks them Hey, how do you keep motivated? They put on this tough guy badge and say I I don't I don't get motivated. I'm disciplined Well, that's really easy It's easy to say and it's even easier to do it's easy to be disciplined with something you enjoy And so if these people are getting paid if it's their job if it's something they love It's easy to show up in bench press if you love to bench press that doesn't make you disciplined that doesn't make you tough Side rant lifting weights doesn't make you tough. It doesn't make you courageous. It doesn't make you cool Doesn't make you disciplined none of that. Does it take great discipline to do things you do not enjoy That's what takes discipline to build new habits to be self-aware and change your habits to adapt That is difficult that takes discipline that takes courage a lot of things take courage That's a pretty broad term but in terms of this aspect here and So I've probably said similar things where someone says hey Mike how do you stay motivated or how do you get motivated to go to the gym and Yeah, the blanket statement is like I rely on routine I build routines to everything I do one to stay organized to I build these have these routine turns to habits And so I don't have to do them anymore or think about them anymore. They just kind of go on their own I don't have to think about breathing and I know that's slightly different But you get what I'm saying I don't have to think about eating I don't have to write you build routine that turn into habits over consistency and then hopefully the Discipline allows you to do those things when you really don't want to Lifting is a little bit different for me. Does it Fuel some of my business for sure. It fuels my content my strength My physique allows me to tell my story better the experience of lifting weight since I was in eighth grade Training power lifting the numbers I've hit or whatever the people I've coached the people I've interviewed Allow me to make a living here creating content Which has turned to me creating content on video games follow me on twitch.tv Michael 2k is for streaming all night every night Start an apparel company tons of opportunities have come through the gym, but I'm not madly in love with training I've done a video a long time ago about I'm not a power lifter. I'm not a world record holder I've never wanted to be those things. I never have been those things. I've never claimed to be those things Lifting for me is just part of my routine. I'm an athlete. I've trained to be an athlete It's just part of what I do as part of who I am. I Video games are slightly different. I love to play video games, right? I love to play basketball basketball is my first love. I love movies. I love music. I Like training. I like the barbell. I think they're very good tools and it's part of My life and it's part of what I get to share with you guys now Counter to all that. I think being motivated being inspired is great. I love to be motivated I love hearing a good story. I love cheering for the underdog Who doesn't like to watch the Olympics and hear the underdog story about overcoming adversity? I think that's what takes discipline. That's what takes courage. That's what toughness is whether it be mental or physical Overcoming adversity after adversity to still lead towards a goal to to build that routine When it's not easy to do things when it's not easy. I think is the discipline is the courage there now Again being inspired being motivated is okay.     No, don't do that. You're you're weak. You're not tough.   That's just a little pet peeve that popped up. I've been seeing things obviously January is the month of Motivation and fitness for whatever reason. I mean, I know it's for New Year's resolution But I think in the long term building the habits of routine will allow you to adhere and Have the best chance to reach your goals. I also think setting up your routines With some thoughts some process some self-awareness, right? If you know you can't get to the gym five days a week Don't set a goal to do it set it for four days a week set realistic goals things that you can accomplish things that you can do that are Repeatable, right? That's the entire idea of how flexible dieting started versus just eating broccoli all day Even me my my new goal this year is to really grow our twitch community. We have an amazing small community there I want to grow it. I want to spread the positivity. I want to have some fun on there I really enjoy talking to you guys and playing on there and instead of saying Mike I'm gonna stream 40 hours a week when I'm already working 40 hours on this business 40 hours and I run for businesses I don't have that many hours. So why would I say that when I'll just burn myself out or not be able to accomplish that? So instead we're going Monday through Thursday Sometimes Friday we're streaming three to four hours every single night 3 p.m. Pacific center time and that's something that I'm gonna force myself to do consistently and I say force not that I dislike it, but sometimes I'm tired. I've been here since 5 30 a.m. I got a train I got to write my emails. I have my meetings in between There's other things going on in my life and instead of forcing myself to pretend to be disciplined or whatever Sometimes I may watch twitch I may watch someone who's successful having fun playing video games on the internet to give me a little bit happier or more Excited to go build my community and remind myself Why I set that goal and why I'm about to go do what I'm about to go do wrong story short Don't let anyone tell you that you can't be motivated or inspired by videos movies I love remember the Titans. I love miracle I love movies that are based on true stories that get me freaking hyped up and who are you to Shit on what makes me happy motivated or excited don't let anyone shame you for your Motivation for your goals for your discipline Fug of them. We don't play that game. You do you boo boo me do me We say that for a long long time here me do me Look inside yourself choose goals based on passion not ego Allow yourself to be motivated inspired Build routines that lead towards your goals that lead towards habits. Enjoy yourself. Take care of yourself Take care of your loved ones surround yourself with good company, man. I appreciate you sell the mic. We're out of here


Madam President, colleagues, members of staff, ladies and gentlemen, fellow graduates, friends and comrades, allow me to say it is a petrifying pleasure and an honor to be standing here in front of you all offering the vote of thanks in this special occasion as an outgoing co-president of democracy and education of the SOAS Students' Union. I've only recently understood how important it is to celebrate accomplishments in life, particularly when these mark the end of a cycle, closing one of the many parentheses life is made of. Our time at university is definitely one of them, and if you want this ceremony, these funny robes and hats, represent some sort of exclamation mark coming right after this parenthesis. I would like to thank all of those who were involved in some shape or form, organizing and working through all of this punctuation. From the team who organized today's ceremony to those who followed us through our time here from the world-renowned academics to faculty and support staff to the librarians, catering and security staff, and obviously to the always-inspiring SOAS cleaners whose ongoing struggle to be recognized as full members of our academic community has accompanied us through our time here, teaching many of us way more than any degree you could ever hope to. I would also like to thank my colleagues in the Students' Union for having managed to put up with me and the rest of you for a whole year, and for the smiles and the acute intelligence for their patience and friendship, for their support and professionalism in representing the many loud voices of the SOAS students. And finally, despite him not being here this morning, please join me in thanking Professor Paul Webley, who's highly regarded consideration amongst both students and staff, his clear testimony of the hard work, modesty and vision he provided in his eight years as Director of SOAS, so please join me. I have to be completely honest with you, I cannot remember much of what was going on when I was sitting there last year, apart from the fact that I was somewhere in that area there, drowning in a black borrowed lawyer's gown way too big for me, blissfully unaware that SOAS has gone grey, far from any exit routes and having forgotten to stop at the toilet before. Big mistake. That said, in solidarity with any of you who may be going through the same experience today, I'll try and be brief. The first time I tried writing down what I was going to say today, I found myself with a never-ending list of memorable experiences and anecdotes completely unrelated to anything vaguely academic. Most things I had written down had to do with picket lines and smoke grenades, night-long jams in the junior common room and unrecommendable substances in the Kazakh yurt, ingenious plans on how to take down management, silent raves in the library, naked pictures on the Japanese roof guard. And other unbelievably silly and embarrassing experiences that I'm sure all of you would really want to hear about. However, I decided not to use that in today, I decided not to use that list in today's speech, as I thought that maybe your parents or the government shouldn't know exactly how their money has been spent. A good friend of mine once told me, seek self-respect and not attention, as, trust me, it lasts far longer. If I started speaking about our many adventures, I'm sure I would have your attention. I'm not that sure about the self-respect. That's why I'll try and be a bit more ambitious today in spending a couple of words on why opening and closing this university parenthesis is such an important moment in our lives. Universities have always been an essential part of the social system we've inherited, being one of the many patriarchal tools used to educate, control and reproduce the elites. Saucer's colonial mandate after all, when it was founded a century ago, speaks for itself. Today, however, the role of universities is to feed the system in another way, being complicit more than ever in the reproduction of consumer capitalism. We live today in a society that needs professionals, technicians, employees and consumers. And towards these, the university mandate is clear, to produce marketable degrees purchasable by the new recruits, needy of a certificate to access a highly competitive labor market in order to become those fully entitled professionals, technicians, bureaucrats, employees that our society so desperately needs. In this sense, universities and capitalism are working hand in hand, one feeding the other, increasing competition to higher the demand and shaping the offer according to the commercial principle that whatever sells and is successful is good, whatever has low demand and has very few students is bad. Value is price, they tell us, price is value. On the other hand, however, universities have also been the bastions of critical thinking, being the only institutions which have been able to shed light on the historical and social dimension of men and women's individual discontent with this world. Both in the past and in the present, universities offer the necessary time and the resources for the elaboration of those questions that, if answered, will help us understand how we got to today's very troubled world. It is widely acknowledged that never has humanity lived in an age so enriched by scientific knowledge and technological discovery or better equipped to defeat illness, ignorance, poverty, while at the same time being so confused about how to use this knowledge. Universities offer a privileged ground where to address these fundamental questions, where to contest the assumptions holding together our unequal and unjust society, where at the same time we can evaluate what is worth keeping and cherishing, as also giving space to the emergence of new radical ideas, combining hard work with pure intellectual curiosity and imagination. This is what universities are for. At its highest level, every form of science, be it natural or social, is guided by one's own spiritual engagement and not mere technical knowledge. Be it music, be it law, every discipline we study is grounded on imagination and intuition. It's speculative, creative, interactive, rather than definitive, career-oriented, market-driven, and most of all, every discipline of study is profoundly political in its ultimate research for new horizons and possibilities. This is what I found at SOAS. At SOAS, I found an oasis where the youth, together with older generations, could contemplate the past, evaluate the present, and prepare for the future, while at the same time learning to live with integrity and an open mind toward the infinite wonders of the world, which is pretty outstanding if compared with the message coming from most other institutions where the mantra is to get a degree, pay one's duty, and start a career, being pressured towards the only inevitable result, this engagement, indifference, and the growing tendency to separate our actions from the moral responsibility of their outcomes. It might be because of the latest financial crisis, it might be because of our growing atomization, but to be honest with you, the feeling I get is that there is very little faith in us. Little faith that the generation with the highest ever dependency on our family's savings, our generation, will manage to straighten up the crooked timber bent by those who've devoured the 20th century, which puts us here today in an interesting light, privileged to have been given the chance to come to university, whilst inheriting a world that is more and more divided, egotistical, unfair. All of this encircled in the assumption that we can't do much about it, but accept it, feed it, conform to it. Well, I think that in my four years at SOAS, I've probably been brainwashed enough in thinking that our generation not only can, but actually has a mandate to try and prove these assumptions wrong. So as graduating class of 2015, as an outgoing SOASians, I believe this place has taught us all that we have a responsibility not to turn our back to the crude reality of our time. This doesn't mean taking the whole way of the world on one's shoulders. What this means is being audacious when we go out there and decide what's coming next, when we get to the stage of having to measure our own dreams with the reality around us. It's a responsibility to be modest in our ambitions, to be pragmatic in our creativity. In measuring ourselves with the outside world, let's not lose our ability to believe in change, to value differences, to resist the norm. Huge challenges arise in the path towards a radical reconstruction of a truly equal and just society, as much as long and winding is the road to the fulfillment of our own individual dreams. Alas, SOAS has shown us how we don't need to choose ourselves over the world or vice versa. As by simply taking responsibility over ourselves, we will take responsibility for the world around us, too.  But remember, good old Karl's say, the point, however, is to change it. Thank you for listening, folks. Good luck.


Backroads is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, with money by the vote of the people November 4th, 2008. My name is Jim Olson. I've been a guitarist all my life. I've played in many bands and I've done a lot of solo work. I guess my main thing nowadays is all instrumental. I played a lot of weddings, ceremonies, social hours, corporate dinner events, things like that. Also playing some bands still, but most of it is solo instrumental. And when did you start playing the harp guitar? The harp guitar is a recent instrument for me, but I was aware of them for years. Back in the 70s, I ran across the guy that had one of the original harp guitars from 1902 or something like that. And he played old style songs and he just really did a great job at that. And I wanted to get the harp guitar and get into it. And it just took a lot longer than I thought it was going to take, but I finally ended up with it. But I really enjoy it because the main advantage with the harp guitar is it adds low bass. And I like to have that kind of that drone bass going on. It's an interesting instrument because when I first started playing it, there were things about it that I didn't realize. One thing, for example, is that I was assuming, okay, you want to play those big low bass strings and then you'd play the rest of the guitar. That's a traditional guitar. And then the top half is the harp side. I thought it would be you just play those notes and then there you have it. Well, I found out that if, for example, you play a G chord, the big low G string will start playing by itself. And then you play a C chord. Well, the C bass string will start playing by itself. And I thought, wow, that's really cool. But it's not so cool by the time you play your third chord, maybe a D, because the G and the C are now taking off at full volume. So I had to learn that it wasn't so much playing them as it was muting them. You had to kind of let them play and let them ring and then kind of mute them out. And that was a whole aspect that I wasn't even aware of when I got into it. But just keep working on it. First get into playing music. Back in 64, I was six and the Beatles came on Ed Sullivan. And that was in February. It took the rest of the year lobbying my folks for a guitar. But finally, at Christmas, I had a guitar of 64. And of course, you know, it was one of those things I had to make the deal with my dad that I was going to take lessons. And so I did that deal and I hated the lessons, but I'm glad I stuck with it because that was a good foundation. And a couple of years after that, I started playing in a little band with some kids from the neighborhood and just kind of went from there. Miss, that was another song that I actually put together when I was down in Gainesboro, Tennessee, which I don't know, you probably don't know Gainesboro. Gainesboro is a small little town in Jackson County, Tennessee, which is about 85 miles east of Nashville. And I lived there for a number of years. Very beautiful, very picturesque, a little rural Tennessee town. But as you know, in Minnesota, we have some extreme weather. It gets 40 blow and a lot of snow and summers are hot. Well, we don't have that in Gainesboro, but what we do have is some other extremes. One extreme, and I suppose this was probably because I lived right by the Cumberland River, it gets incredibly foggy.  And I would take my dogs up a bluff up the mountain and we'd be running around and I'd be playing with them and I'd be calling for them, hoping that they wouldn't get lost or something, and all of a sudden they would appear through the mist. And again, I guess I'm writing a lot of songs for my dogs, but like I say, they're great friends and great companions, and that's where that song came from. When did you start going into performing at weddings and banquets? That happened when I lived in Nashville. I did a lot of solo work doing concerts. I did a lot of concerts in churches where it was actually playing and singing. I played with a trio down in Nashville. We traveled all around the country and we would go out on tour two or three months in a row. So when we got back to Nashville, it was kind of like, boy, we really need to take a break and so you kind of would have five or six weeks off. But I still wanted to play and so I would start going to some of the local restaurants and just saying, hey, would you be interested in some music? Well, it kind of evolved that, boy, this was really fun. I like this and people seemed to like it and so it kind of just grew from that. And then people would come up and say, boy, we like your playing, would you play at our wedding? And somewhere along the way, it flipped where when our trio kind of disbanded, more and more weddings came in and more and more solo things came in so I just kind of went that direction. I really do enjoy weddings. You know, it's a festive event. Everybody's dressed up. It's fun. Everybody's in a good mood. And it has a lot of meaning to it and I really enjoy it. Most of my writing is instrumental stuff and it usually will come about because of a little riff or something on the guitar or maybe a different tuning. You can tune the guitar different and then you'll hear some different intervals, things that kind of give you a little inspiration. Or it could be something completely non-musical. I have one song that I do. It's about my dog Max. And that riff came about as just something I was working on and it reminded me of my dog Max running through the woods for who knows why, but that's what came to mind. And that's what it turned into was a song about him. I love Northern Minnesota. I love it here. Whenever I get back here, whenever I'm glad to be here. I've lived in Tennessee, I've lived in Texas, I've lived in Hawaii for a while. They're wonderful places but Minnesota still seems, makes me feel like I'm at home. As far as the music goes, I would have to say I'm thankful that I play and enjoy a lot of different kinds of things because that just opens up more doors. I know there's musicians that like I say, they focus on one thing and boy, they're great at it. But when you're so focused on one thing, you might not get as much work as you would like to get. I'm very content, I enjoy playing and that's what I've always wanted to do and I've been doing it, so I hope to continue. Thank you.


Alright, yeah, so before the break, we were looking at the unchanging nature of God, so some critics use the King James version to kind of criticize this point, because in some passages in the KJV English, it says the Lord repented, that word repented basically means you turning around, you're changing your mind about something. So they talk about this Saul passage, where it says that the Lord repented and he wished that he had not made Saul king. So they refer to that passage in the Seisi, in this particular case, God repented, God changed his mind. So how would we explain that? So first Samuel chapter 15, verses 34 and 35. Okay, that's basically where if you were looking at the King James version, it would say that the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. Now, if you look at the passages which talk about the punishment that God brought upon Saul, we see that God's nature has not changed. So let's look at first Samuel chapter 13 verse 13. So if we could have someone read out for us, first Samuel 13 verse 13. First Samuel chapter 13 verse 13 and Samuel said to Saul, you have done foolishly, you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded. You for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. Yeah, so there was a promise that God made to Saul that if he would be a good king and be a leader who will really genuinely represent God, then God would establish his kingdom over Israel forever. So you see that was the promise which God gave to Saul. So we see that very clearly in some first Samuel 13 13 where Samuel says, you have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you. If you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. So this is something that God had promised and God would have kept his word. So therefore, you know, so this is the first occasion where Samuel says this to him. Samuel tells Saul to wait for him to come and make the burnt offering, but Saul is very afraid because the Philistines have already gathered for battle. And so instead of waiting for Samuel to come and make the burnt offering, he makes the burnt offering by himself. He disobeys God. And so at that time Saul, Samuel says to him, God had made a promise. God would have kept the promise, but you chose not to keep your side of the promise and you know, your side of the agreement. And so, you know, the kingdom will not be yours anymore. And then you have a second incident where Saul disobeys that is basically where there is a war with the Amalekites. And even though God has said that he must kill all the Amalekite cattle, he chooses to keep some of the good cattle for himself because the soldiers want those cattle.  They don't want to come back empty handed. And so they just to please them, Saul chooses to disobey the Lord. So in first Samuel 15, 27 to 29, this is what Samuel says about God and his character. So if we could have someone read out first Samuel chapter 15 versus 27 to 29. First Samuel 15, 27 to 29. First Samuel, chapter 15, verse 27. And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul sees the edge of his rope and it tore. Verse 28. So Samuel said to him, the Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. Verse 29. And also the strength of Israel will not lie, not relent. He is not a man that he should relent. So in verse 29, Samuel explains and says, the he who is the glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind for he is not a human being that he should change his mind. God made a promise to Saul. God said, I can establish your kingdom forever. All you need to do from your side is represent me accurately and be a good leader. Be a good king. But Saul was interested in pleasing the people rather than pleasing God. And so God takes the tears, the kingdom away from him. And Samuel says that he's giving it to one of his neighbors. And so he explains that God does not lie, not change his mind. So even though you're begging me now to change my mind, I cannot do anything about it. Is what Samuel says because God is what God has said. He has said. So in that sense, there is nothing that God has to ever repent of. There's nothing that God has to change his mind about. He has spoken something and he will bring it to pass. According to what he has said from our side, we can choose to either follow his conditions or not follow his conditions. And based on that, we will receive or we will not receive. So we are the ones who would have to vary in our responses. God on the other hand stands by the promises which he has made. So we would have to understand this term repentance used over there in the sense that God made an agreement and God was willing to keep that agreement. Saul refused to keep his side of it and therefore then God thought to himself it would have been better if Saul had not been made king. Because now Saul has unnecessarily brought judgment upon his head. So God did not want to punish Saul but Saul brought the punishment upon his head. Whereas on the other hand when God makes an unconditional declaration, he holds on to his word irrespective of whether the human beings have acted and done their part or not. Which is what you see in the promise made to David. So 2 Samuel chapter 7 verse 16. Very plainly this is what God says to David, your house and your kingdom will end your forever before me. Your throne will be established forever. There are no conditions attached over there. God does not say if one of your descendants sins then your lineage is finished. God does not say that this is an unconditional declaration. So wherever conditional declarations are made like in the case of Saul it was a conditional declaration. If you Saul do your part I will do my part. But when it comes to the promise made to David because God was having the Messiah in mind. Therefore God did not attach any conditions over there with to the Davidic covenant. He says your throne will be established forever. There are no conditions attached over there. And so when it comes to unconditional declarations we see that what God has said he does bring it to pass. Irrespective of whether humans have kept their side or not. So having looked at all of this, we declare that God is faithful in his nature. Whatever he has spoken he will hold to what he has said. And because he is a faithful God, we have that beautiful passage in Lamentations chapter 3 which we can rely on during our classes. So if someone can read out Lamentations 3 22 to 23. Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning great is your faithfulness. So here you know Jeremiah is writing this book of Lamentations after the fall of Jerusalem. He is heartbroken about what has happened to his people, to his nation. And he is weeping over what has happened. And he says yes we brought this upon our heads because we were not faithful to the Lord. But even now there is hope and then he uses this term over here. He says because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed for his compassions never fail. That word compassion which is used over there. That's usually a word which is associated with the covenant of God. So his compassion towards the Israelites was always based on his covenant. He had made a covenant with them that they are going to be his people. So even though he has punished them now even though now they have been driven out of the land of Israel. You know Jeremiah comforts himself and reminds himself and he says his compassions. You know those covenant mercies they will never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Therefore Jeremiah has this assurance that even though something so terrible has happened to them because God is faithful to his covenant. One day they will come back to the land once again. So this is the assurance that he has. So today when we are going through trials and difficulties. Do we look at our situation or do we look at the covenant, the new covenant which has been established through Jesus Christ. Because if we look at our circumstances, circumstances keep changing. One day everything seems to be going well. People are supporting us. People are on our side. But you know one year from now don't know whether those people will still be supporting us. They may have got angry about something and now they are against us. Circumstances change. So it's best not to place our faith in circumstances and in humans. It is good and wise to place our faith in the unchanging covenant of the Lord. Jesus Christ has made a covenant with us and he will abide with it. So every week when you're holding that grape juice and that wafer in your hand. Those are symbols which are pointing to the covenant which God has established. Which he will never bend. Which he will never cheat upon. So we hold on to that and say Lord I no matter what my circumstances are saying to me. I'm holding in my hand the symbol of the covenant which you made. You will never break that. So declare that to him when you're holding those elements in your hand. Declare to him and say I'm standing on this covenant because I know your covenant faithfulness. Because you know here in the Old Testament in lamentations. Of course here Jeremiah is talking about the Old Covenant mercies. And if Jeremiah could talk so confidently about the Old Covenant mercies. Imagine how much more confident we should be. Because now we are in the New Covenant. Which is which you know the New Testament says is a better covenant. So we have to place our confidence in the covenant of God. Because he is faithful in his nature. He will never break the covenant that he has made. So moving on to the righteousness and justice of God. Isaiah 45 21 is basically where God is described as righteous God. Isaiah 45 21. So let's look at this a little bit at this righteous nature of God. Okay, if we could have someone read out for us Psalm 71 verses 19 and 20. Psalm 71 19 and 20 please. Also your righteousness O God is very high.  You who have shown me great and severe troubles. Shall revive me again and bring me up again from the depths of the earth. These words are being written by a man who has gone through great hardships. Because that's what he says about his life in verse 20. He says he says to God though you have made me see troubles many and bitter. So here is a man who has gone through many troubles and they are bitter troubles that he has gone through is gone through a tough time. But he reminds himself in verse 19 you know this is what he says your righteousness God reaches to the heavens and last week we established to the heavens. How many miles away are they? How many kilometers away are the heavens? Infinite. So in the same way the sky limit is infinite. There is also limitless. So this man who has gone through many and bitter troubles. He reminds himself of the righteousness of God which reaches to the heavens. And therefore he says because you are righteous even though you have permitted these things to happen to me he says you will restore my life again. And he says from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. So when we are going through our trials and hardships the trials that we go through may be many and bitter but we must remind ourselves that the righteousness of God extends beyond the heavens. No there's no limit to it and therefore he who has allowed these seasons of difficulty to come for a while once that season is finished he will bring us out of those trials and he will again you know bring joy into our lives. So we need to trust his righteousness and his sense of justice. He will never do injustice for us because sometimes when we see the lives of all the other believers going so smoothly and you know you look at your own life and there are so many hardships and trials the thought may come into your mind that God is treating you unjustly. He's being so nice to the others but when it comes to me and my family why are these things happening to me? Is God being unfair? So then you would have to remind yourself of these verses and declare the truth and say no his righteousness reaches to the heavens. Another aspect of God's righteousness and justice is that he hates to see any kind of oppression or abuse or ill treatment of people.  He's against such things so the righteousness of God it extends to the way he treats us personally. It also extends to the way he looks at people who are ill treating others. He will judge them in his perfect timing. So when we look at all the injustice that is going on in the world today we may ask ourselves where is the justice? God is sitting on the throne and looking at what is happening but why is he not acting? That can be a question which comes to our minds but then Jesus when he was speaking regarding this matter this is what he said in Luke chapter 18 verses 6 to 8. Luke 18, 6 to 8. What does the Lord say here? Someone could read out. Then the Lord said, here what the unjust judge said, and shall God not avenge his own elect who cry out day and night to him though he bears long with them. I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the son of man comes will he really find faith on the earth? Okay so now due to the kind of translation that is done we kind of misunderstand this verses. Here Jesus says, I tell you he will see you know God will see that these people who are chosen ones who are crying out day and night he says the Lord will see that they get justice and quickly the word over there does not mean that you will get your justice in very shortly like tomorrow or day after tomorrow. It's not talking about span of time over there. It's talking about the suddenness of time. Like when the son of man is going to come back you know when the second coming of Jesus happens it will happen quickly, suddenly, unexpectedly when the people in the evil, the wicked, the oppressors, the unjust rulers and politicians are you know doing all these evil things suddenly when the least expected in that sense you know in that sense when the least expected judgment will crash upon their heads. They'll be thinking oh we are doing fine. You know we have given this many lax to all the religious places of worship. So now we are fine. We are safe. And when the least expected judgment will crash upon their heads. That word quickly they've just used over there. That's the word. That's the Greek word. It's talking about the suddenness of justice. God is patiently waiting giving them opportunity after opportunity to change their ways to at least improve if not completely change so that you know the judgment on their heads can be a little less. God is waiting but when that appointed time comes without they realizing it judgment will crash upon the heads of those evil doers. So therefore Jesus says in this parable do not stop praying. Do not stop expecting justice. Do not stop expecting that God will do good for you. Please do not stop praying you know because this parable starts off with that. It explains in verse one why God was giving them this particular parable so that they will not grow discouraged and get the wrong idea and stop praying. God is saying over here. Jesus is saying over here. If you are crying out to him for justice it will be given to you and it will happen suddenly when you least expect it and when the evil doers least expected it will happen because you know God is sovereign. He will do it. He will do it. However this is how Jesus ends this. He says however when the son of man comes will he find faith on the earth? Will there be anyone left who really trusts God the righteousness of God and the justice of God to that extent? Will there be at least a handful left and we can be that handful even if all the other rest of the believers have given up hope and they're saying yeah injustice justice will not be done. We can be that small handful who are holding on to God and saying yes we are the people who truly believe in the righteousness of God and we believe that in his perfect timing without delay suddenly and in that moment which God has decided which God has fixed judgment will come upon the evil doers. So we can be the minority that are holding on to faith and God will be greatly pleased because we trust his character we trust his nature. The reason that we are doing this course this particular class is so that we can know these things about our God and hold on to them in faith and when we hold on to him in faith in this manner it brings him great pleasure. It brings him great joy because we are the small handful who have chosen to truly believe this about him. We are not doubting it. We are choosing to believe this about him and because he is this truly righteous God he will honor us that we have placed our faith in him. So because he is completely righteous and because he is completely just he chose to sacrifice Jesus Christ. So the reason that Jesus Christ had to be sacrificed is because of the righteousness and the justice of God because God is a just God he cannot simply cover up any sin covering up a sin is quite a bad thing to do and because I think it was probably in a Philippians book that I read a man he speaks in anger and he says my little child was raped. Is God just going to cover up that? Will justice not be done?  He took out the full wrought and punishment of what that rapist did. He took it out upon Jesus. Jesus paid for it in full. The full righteousness of God and the full justice of God. God will not cover up any sin.  It was brought upon Jesus. Jesus paid for it. So the most rotten things that are being done on the earth today the punishment for it was already paid by Jesus.   You know forgiveness is available to that person. So that is the beauty of it. Imagine the level of his righteousness and the level of his justice. He wants even the most rotten people to have a free pass if they will just repent and come to him. Even their rotten sins he has finished paying for them. So that is the beauty of what God has done. So because God has forgiven in that way if that person truly repents you know then we also should be able to approach that person with the same love that God shows. And of course even if the person does not repent we are supposed to walk in forgiveness. That of course is a fact we should not forget. Okay so moving on to the next point. The sovereignty of God. How he is king of kings and Lord of lords. This is an Old Testament word once again you know a Hebrew word king of kings and Lord of lords because you see at that time the world was filled with kings and lords. Lots of masters lords and kings. So the term basically saying there may be a billion kings and lords but this living God he is the king of all of them. Even in the principalities and powers you know you have the spirit kings and the demonic kings the demonic lords but this king is king over even those spirit lords and kings. So in that sense he is the king of all kings and the lord of all lords. So you know if you were to use the current terminology you would say is the politician of all politicians. Only thing of course the Lord is not a politician in any way. So please don't quote me on this ever. I just was trying to bring out the point that you know whomever we consider as the influential leaders of our day he is leader even over them. Okay so I just meant it in that sense because when we use the word politician nowadays it has such crooked nuances. So maybe it's not a term that we should use for God. Okay so yeah. So God is sovereign and this is what Isaiah says about the sovereignty of God. Isaiah 46 verse 10. Isaiah 46 verse 10. Isaiah chapter 46 verse 10 declaring the end of from the beginning and from Asian times things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. My purpose you know in the NIV it says my purpose will stand. I will do all that I please not just some of what I please you know when Satan allows me to get my way then maybe I'll do a little bit of what I please. That's not what God is saying. I will do all that I please it shall happen. My purpose every bit of it will stand. That is what God is saying. Doesn't matter what scheme Satan comes up with. Doesn't matter what strategies the evil ones come up with. Doesn't matter how disobedient human beings choose to be in the end and all is said and done. Ultimately God's purpose will stand to what extent will God's purpose stand. All that he has chosen that he chooses to do he will do it.  And so because he is this kind of a sovereign God if we align our choices with him in a way that pleases him then we will be able to enjoy the benefits of his sovereignty. On the other hand if we take a stand against him because he is sovereign we will end up getting crushed. So when you know when someone is all powerful it's just common sense to align ourselves with that person who is all powerful you know why do you want to take sides with the second most powerful person that person is going to get defeated. So it's best for us in our own interests to align our you know our interests and our choices with the one who is all powerful and God he is sovereign. So it is good for us to align our choices with his purposes you know rather than choosing to rebel against his purposes. So in now you know we are doing a very layman's version of systematic theology and doctrines if we were to actually use all those technical terms and all of that you know it would get a little more complicated so which is why we are trying to avoid all of the you know the really intellectual terms and all of that but you know just to talk about something basic here the antecedent and the subsequent will of God this is a concept which you know is helpful for us to remember the antecedent will of God is basically what God had originally decided okay so for example the antecedent will of God is that nobody should perish even one human being should ever perish and have to go to hell that is God's antecedent will is original will for all humans every single human is that nobody should perish but there is also a subsequent will of God which is based on the choices which human beings have made so even though God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that no one should perish who are the ones who will finally get saved the ones who believe in Jesus that's how that verse ends right John 316 so those who have placed their belief in Jesus even though God's antecedent will is that nobody should perish because of which because of this antecedent will of his that nobody should perish he chooses to give his son as a sacrifice for even the most rotten people so that even those rotten sins will be forgiven will be paid for by Jesus Jesus will take the punishment for those things so that even those people can be forgiven so his antecedent will is very very clear that nobody should perish but his subsequent will is based on the choices which people make so if somebody chooses and says that I will not place my faith in Jesus then God's subsequent will for that person will be yes you will have to go to hell so there is an antecedent will and there is a subsequent will so what is God's antecedent will for every one of us believers sitting over here he wants us to reach our full potential he wants us to enjoy all the glorious riches which are stored up for us in heaven he wants us to become Christ like this is God's antecedent will for us but at the end of your life when you're 85 years when you're 90 years what will actually happen it will depend on how much you have chosen to align your life choices to what he wants so in the end at the age of 90 if you have really not chosen to follow the Lord in any way or obey him or submit to him then God's subsequent will for you will have to be that you know you're just maybe like Paul writes in his epistels you're just saved as though through fire you have because you have made your commitment to the Lord Jesus you will enter heaven but there will not be any reward for you because you have failed in every way to submit to him to accept correction to go in his ways to enjoy the treasures that he is you know that inheritance which he has for you in heaven you have failed to access any of it so finally God's subsequent will for you when you're 90 years sadly will have to be that okay this person will escape as though through the flames of judgment because of the faith they have placed in Jesus but they won't be any reward they won't be any honor but that is not his antecedent will for us his antecedent will for us has always been originally that yes we should enjoy all that he has planned for us and we should get our entire total inheritance in him through Christ that is his antecedent will for us so therefore it is important for us to align our interests with his interests so that you know our end will be a good end the human end because of course once I mean we continue to live even after death so our human end should be a good human end alright let's also look at the holiness of God now this word holy in is of course a Hebrew word an Old Testament word and the Hebrew word over there is Kadosh the word Kadosh basically can be used in two ways the first way that word Kadosh was used by the Israelite community is that anything that was set apart for God anything that was dedicated to God whether it is things or whether it is people all such objects and all such people were declared as Kadosh so if you are a Levite then you are Kadosh because you have been set apart for full-time ministry you are set apart that word Kadosh means set apart so and in the same way the vessels in the temple they are Kadosh they are set apart for only temple usage you cannot use them for any ordinary everyday chores so any object or any person who was set apart and dedicated unto the Lord was automatically declared as Kadosh so that word Kadosh in our English Bibles is translated as holy therefore in Leviticus 1144 when God says I am the Lord your God consecrate yourselves and be holy he is talking about how we should set ourselves apart for him we should dedicate ourselves to him so all the speech coming out of my mouth should be dedicated to him there should be no unclean speech or any destructive speech coming out of my mouth all my speech should be dedicated and set apart for him it should be of a quality which will honour him it should not be anything dishonourable or hurtful or wrong okay so that is the first sense in which that word Kadosh is used so if you look at Leviticus 1144 the first portion this is what God says I am the Lord your God you know consecrate yourselves you know dedicate yourselves be holy set yourself apart for me the second part of the verse is because I am holy now what does this mean God is saying because I am Kadosh is God saying I am set apart for myself I am dedicated to myself what is the second portion of Kadosh mean so the second portion of Kadosh is also set apart but set apart in a different sense set apart as in separate unique there is nothing else like that that is unique completely exclusive so set apart over here is used in two ways in the first portion God is telling the people you people set yourself apart for me dedicate yourself to me why because I am set apart I am unique I am exclusive all these other pagan gods that are there around you the pagan gods that you so happily worshipped when you were you know slaves in Egypt none of them are like me I am unique set apart the one and only true living God so because I am that you people set yourself apart for me and dedicate yourselves to me okay so literally that word Kadosh means set apart but it set apart in two ways set apart can mean exclusive unique separate or it can mean anything or anyone who has dedicated themselves to the Lord so how do we apply that to ourselves today this Jesus whom we consider our Lord and Master he is unique we have all kinds of pagan stories and myths and legends you know which are followed by the different religions but among all the religions of the world nobody talks about a God who sacrifices himself to be a savior Jesus is unique set apart exclusive there's nobody else like him and therefore he says I am the only path to the father there is no other way you can go to the father it's only it's only through me so he is set apart unique in every single way now because he is that and he's the only path to the father we choose we have we know we make a choice to set ourselves apart and become his followers and his followers alone we don't choose to follow the world we don't choose to make friends with the world we don't choose to live the way the other people live our priorities and our value system has to be set apart for him we can't have the same value system as all the other people and so while the whole world is chasing after riches and career and satisfaction of their desires we choose to set ourselves apart and run after what God has for us what God has for us his purposes his plans so our career choices should be in line with what he wants for my life I fulfill those desires which he says yes I can fulfill at that particular point of time on the other hand he says no do not fulfill that desire at that particular point of time we submit and say yes Lord I know to take a very simple reason God has got nothing against food we can enjoy all the food we want to but then if God says you know this is what the doctor said about your BP so I am asking you to curtail what you are eating because your human body is my temple you need to honour it and by doing that you would honour me so in obedience to God you would have to become careful in your eating so in every choice that you make you don't make choices the way the world makes because now you are set apart for him you have dedicated yourself to him so even when it comes to simple things like eating habits you would have to submit to him if we are living in that way then we are really honouring him because it's easy to stand on Sunday and on lift up our hands and say holy holy holy but how are we treating this holy God during the week it is the simple choices the food choices that you are making the choices you make in when you open your mouth and the words come out those simple choices are you set apart in all of those things if you are then indeed you are treating him like as if he is exclusive and you are really acknowledging that he is holy and set apart so those are the aspects which we can focus on when we are talking about the holiness of God now coming to the love of God this is one aspect of God that we actually enjoy talking about and learning about because it makes us feel safe yeah I think that's the reason so 1st John chapter 4 verses 8 to 10 talks about one beautiful aspect of God's love if you could have someone read out for us 1st John chapter 4 verses 8 to 10 1st John 4 8 to 10 please 1st John chapter 4 go on brother ok thank you brother he who does not love does not know God for God is love in this the love of God was manifested towards us that God has sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him in this is love not that we loved God but he loved us and sent his son to be the perpetation for our sins yes so it's in this portion John says God is love and then he goes on to explain what kind of a love this is this is a love which acts and takes action and initiates the action even without explaining even before anyone has has offered to return something in exchange for that love in that I mean in the sense it is unconditional God does not say if you get your act right and you clean yourself up and you come to me and make certain promises only then I will love you no God's love is being freely given even to people who are never going to come and submit to him so in that sense God's love is completely unconditional his love extends to everyone even the people who are never going to submit to him who will never say yes to the Lord Jesus his love has been extended to them just as generously as to everyone else so what kind of a love is this love of God what kind of a nature does he have his is an completely unconditional love it's a love which expresses itself generously whether or not you're ever in your lifetime going to reciprocate we believers we have chosen that we want to reciprocate so we try to act in love towards God we treat him honorably we try to please him and bring joy to his heart we have chosen to reciprocate but there are going to be people out there who will never ever reciprocate his love but he is keeping them in good health day by day they have money in their bank accounts because he is taking care of them the same sunshine the same rain is provided even to them so there are a lot of people enjoying the generous love of God who will never ever reciprocate who will never ever repaid back of course it can't be repaid but they don't express back their love towards him but he is still being faithful to them so it's that kind of an unconditional love which takes the first step and pours itself out even though there is a chance that it will never ever be reciprocated in any way so that is the kind of love that God has and therefore because his love is that generous we choose to honor him and so the correction and the disciplining which God does it's a loving correction Hebrews 12 5-6 talks about the correction of God Hebrews 12 5-6 if someone could read out Hebrews 12 5-6 Hebrews chapter 12 verse 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons my son do not despise the chastening of the Lord nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him verse 6 for whom the Lord loves he chastens and scourges every son whom he receives alright so here the advice which the writer is giving to the readers he is saying do not make light of the Lord's discipline do not lose heart when he rebukes you so just because you know you can feel God correcting you don't get discouraged because you know from the pulpit the love of God is promoted so much that people think that God will just will accept absolutely any kind of behavior so when they start sensing God's correction they get very very upset they start thinking oh maybe God doesn't love me anymore maybe now God is not going to bless me anymore they start having all these thoughts because they have a very shallow idea of God's love but true love doesn't just allow someone to go on going down the path of destruction true love tries to pull the person back so that they can be safe once again so because God truly loves us he is going to correct he is going to discipline he is not going to just watch over there peacefully while you are heading towards destruction that would be very cruelty God is not cruel, God is loving so therefore when correction comes to us when God's disciplining comes upon us let us not be discouraged because he is doing it out of love who is the parent who never corrects it's the parent who couldn't care less what happens to the child I mean we actually see that in some homes where the children are just not corrected at all I mean they are just left to their ways and the parents think that they are being very generous and modern in their parenting but actually it's like as if they have no interest in the future of those kids and it's very very sad if you really cared about your kid you would be so concerned you would keep them inside the boundaries you would place restrictions on them because you do want their life to be destroyed you want them to have the best most beautiful future possible and so when discipline comes to you when correction comes to you when you can feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit and you think my goodness why is he being so picky with me because we sometimes feel that when we go to our father to have our time of devotion we won't go to give all this flowery verses where he is saying all kinds of nice things but sometimes when we are having a quiet time he doesn't give us those flowery verses you get verses which are going straight inside and he is saying this attitude which you have been holding on to it just displeases me I do not like it and then you know you think I wanted to have a nice time today and God is giving me all these corrections but look at the heart with which the correction is being given he says over here because the Lord disciplines the one he loves he chastens everyone he accepts as his son because I am his daughter because I am his son therefore he is convicting me and correcting me and showing me how much that particular attitude displeases him and he will go on at it he will not give up till I have corrected that because he is a loving parent he is not one of those parents who couldn't care less what happens to you and your future so we need to accept correction knowing that he is a loving God there are a few other things that I really wanted to cover so you know we have kind of gotten to this strange system of finishing one topic half way through and then starting the next so next week first session we will finish the doctrine of God because I need to touch upon these aspects of the nature of God and so the second session we will begin our next doctrine which will be the doctrine of Trinity yes alright so there are okay is there any small aspect that we can cover right now because we still have time the graciousness of God you just don't need to be gracious to me for another two minutes and then you can be rid of me so graciousness of God Timothy, no Titus Titus chapter 2 verse 11 it says the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people so over here when it says the grace of God has been offered to people it's talking about the unmerited favor of God there is favor which is given to us because we have earned it you know you're really nice to a person that person will give you something back in return that is something which you have that's favor which you have earned that is favor it is unmerited favor you do not do anything to deserve it but it was just freely given so the graciousness of God it's a grace that is freely given to us even though we have done nothing to earn it and there are actually four kinds of grace of God which are mentioned in our New Testament I think three of them can be applied to our situation one will be of course this divine favor of God people who don't even deserve salvation are freely given salvation the second aspect of the grace of God is the divine giftings the New Testament gifts of the Holy Spirit which are given to us that's the second kind of grace that is given to us the third kind of grace which is given to us is somehow can never seem to remember it it always slips out of my mind I'll touch upon it next class sorry so sorry it's just not in my head right now let's close with the word of prayer as we are out of time Lord we just thank you so much that we worship God who is clean and fair and just in every way there's no corruption of any kind in you Lord you are clean and pure and truly set apart and holy so it is an honor or Lord to worship someone like you help us a lot to be to glorify you in our speech in our actions in the way we treat people in our choices because you are a beautiful God or Lord and you deserve the best so help us a lot we cannot do it on our own but Lord through your Holy Spirit O Lord so that we can be truly honorable in the way we serve you and in the way we live our lives thank you Lord in Jesus name amen thank you


Hello, and welcome to the NFC RFID tag segment of our ST25 NFC workshop. Before starting, make sure that you have the following boards, the ST25R3911B Discovery board and the GUI software, the cloud ST25TA tag board which comes with the ST25R3911B Discovery kit. You also need a micro USB cable. First plug the board to your PC via the USB micro cable. Click on demo board check. It should populate the dialogue boxes with firmware versions, demo board version and SCM32 unique ID. You should also click on calibration antenna and adjust regulators. Before we move forward with some hands-on exercises, let's do a quick review of the ST25TA product line. A typical NFC RFID tag is a memory with one RF interface. With its antenna, it received inducted power from the RF field generated by the reader. For standard RFID, we have products supporting ISO 15693 and ISO 14443B. The ST25TV is our latest ISO 15693 tags with memory size that is up to 64 kbit. Its data can be protected with 32-bit passwords. ST also makes ISO 14443B tag. I see it comes with features such as 32-bit counter and OTP bit. For NFC compliant tags, we make type 4 tags. Special features such as 128-bit passwords, 20-bit counters and field detect are available for some derivatives. Memory sizes range from 2kbit to 64 kilobits. We are going to go into details regarding our ST25TA product line. We will be discussing use cases. We go to the description of the ST25TA family variants or derivatives. We will discuss also the counter features and data protection. GPO features, we also talk about tuning capacitance and related ecosystem. The ST25TA product family has six main features. One, it has an ISO 14443RF interface. Two, it has up to 64 kbit of EEPROM memory. Three, 128-bit passwords for data protections. Four, 200 years of data retention and 1 million erase and write cycles. Five, it comes with a 20-bit counters. And six, configurable general purpose output signal for MCU wake-up. ST25TA tags can find their applications in smart industry where material identifications can be realized. PVCs or metal pipes, for example. In smart city, ST25TA can be used for ticketing and labels for tourism. And finally smart things can use ST25TA for Bluetooth or Wi-Fi pairing with wake-up. In wireless pairing, ST25TA can be used to store the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi hand handled and death message. A simple tab will pair your phone with a Bluetooth speaker or connected to a Wi-Fi network. The ST25TA can also be embedded into posters to give more information such as URLs. Going green with ST25TA and only carry one or two NFC business cards. A simple tab will store the contact information into the phone contact list. ST25TA can be included in consumer products to enable traceability and also protect the brand from clonings and fakes. ST low-density tags cover devices with 512-bit and 2K bits of data memory which are enough for applications such as NFC token, smart posters, gaming and NFC business cards. Data can be protected with 128-bit passwords and 20-bit counters. Devices available in son and bump English 8-inch wafer. The ST25TA O2K comes in two flavors P4 CMOS GPIO and D4 OpenDrain GPIO. It also comes in very small FPN5 package that is measured only 1.7 millimeter by 1.4 millimeters. The 50 picofair chip capacitance also allows small antenna design. The ST25TA 16K and ST25TA 64K are high-density tags with data memory of 16 kb and 64 kb respectively. The ST25TA 20-bit counters increment on each read or write events of the end-of-file. A registered setting allows user to configure the counter to increment on read or write. When the counter is disabled it will reset. Be aware that when the counter is enabled to increment there will be impact on timing of the read or write as some cycles are needed for the operation. There are two 128-bit passwords one for reading and one for writing. There is also option to permanently lock the memory in read or write. Two bytes in the CC file show the status of the lock or unlock. The state of the CMOS GPIO PIN can be configured as follow. MIP active when end-of-message updating is in progress. WIP active when writing is in progress. Interrupt controlled by the RF host to have the ST25TA producing a pulse at this pin. State mode RF host can control the state of the pin. RF busy all RF activities will trigger the event. Field detection active when the field is strong enough to establish communication. When choosing the CMOS version pull-up resistors are not needed but VCC and ground are required. Similar features as the ST25TA02K with CMOS GPIO PIN for the D version. Open drain means that external pull-up resistor is needed. So there are two chip capacitance values. The low density device has 50 picofarad chip capacitance implying antenna inductance of around 2.5 micro Henry. On the other hand the high density version has 25 picofarad chip capacitance which needs antenna inductance of around 5 micro Henry. The entire ST25TA support ecosystem can be accessed on ST.com. Register and log on to use our antenna design software known as the ST Design Suite and access the engineer-to-engineer community. Other items such as schematic bill of material and Gerber files can be found on most existing evaluation boards. They are also PC software tools, datasheets and mobile phone apps that can be found on App Store on either Android or iPhone. The cloud TA board is for evaluation of the ST25TA02K with CMOS GPIO PIN. The antenna is 18 millimeter in diameter and the device has 256 bytes of memory or that's roughly around 2k bit. Now let's complete an exercise involving NDEV message reading and writing. The goal of this exercise covers NDEV message supporting including reading and writing of the TAGS. Also we will see how native NDEV is supported on Android phone. We will need the ST25R3911B discovery board as an NFC reader. Of course you can also use your Android phone if the discovery board is not available. Step one click on the ST25TAG editor. This will launch a large menu. Click on ISO 14443A to choose the last item on the drop-down list. Now click on it. Click on the read NDEV message button and then click on the read NDEV message. This action will read the NDEV that is already on the TAG. Now we're going to write a new message. Before that we'll need to prepare the NDEV message. Click on prepare NDEV message button and choose the URL radio button. Now put in the URL http www.my-test-site.com then click on add record to message. Then step one choose the write NDEV message tab and you will see the NDEV record. Click on write NDEV message to write the record to the TAG. Notice the activity in the log below and make sure that the write was successful. Now you can click on the read NDEV message tab and proceed to read the NDEV message you just wrote. Now we're going to do a little bit more example on ST25TA. We want to show the level access to ST25TA and what is below the NDEV message layer. We will need to use the ST25R3911B discovery board and we will need to configure the GUI as we did earlier regarding demo board check and tender calibration and a chance of regulator. Then we'll put the board it on top on next to the reader board. Click on the ST25TA TAG editor button once the main GUI opens up. Once it opens use a drop-down menu under ISO 14443A to choose the ST25TA02K-P that will open up another GUI window. Now click on the large square button that does multiple commands. The RATS is then short for request for answer to select and PPS short for protocol and parameter selections. Once the button is clicked all the low-level commands will be executed and a new GUI windows open. Here standard APDU can be sent. First click on the NDEV TAG application select then click on select and read sequence button. Click on capacity contain file capability contain the file radio button then click on select and read sequence to get all the content of the CC file. Do similar operation with the system file and the NDEV file. That's it for the segment on the NFC TAG. Thank you


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I've seen so many people get stuck in their business because they don't have a great professional title or succinct description of their business or their program or product that they're happy with. And so they think, hmm, I gotta do more, even more branding work or I have to do more consulting with a marketing expert to get that perfect name for what I do, that perfect paragraph so that when I put it out there, everyone is just enlightened and astonished and inspired by the amazing work that I do. Let me tell you, I've seen so many people spend thousands of dollars and years trying to come up with that perfect title and description and their business hasn't gone anywhere. Do you wanna be like that? I hope not. And let me give you an alternative example. Me, look at me with my not ideal title of authentic business coach.  I'm not even sure I know what that means. Really, how did I come up with that title? Really quickly. I'm like, okay, I guess what I'm doing, some people call it business coaching or I've seen other people say I'm a business coach. I don't even have any coaching training. Let me say that again. I have not gotten any training as a coach. I don't know what I'm doing but I call myself a business coach. Should I be calling myself that? Well, I can't call myself a therapist because that's a licensed type of thing but there is no license for business coach. So I can call myself that if I want to. Same thing with you.  Fine, anybody can call themselves a life coach. I can call myself a life coach. Don't call yourself anything that requires a license but everything else you can feel free to use. So I just basically said, well, it looks like people around me who do this kind of thing, they call themselves a business coach.  Well, what word? Authentic, I guess, because two reasons. One is that that's one of my core values and that's how I want to set myself apart from other business coaches. And secondly, it looks like an acronym is forming. ABC, Authentic Business Coach. Yeah, that's kind of fun and playful. I'll go with it. Most of you don't even care. Most of you didn't even notice that there's an acronym. It doesn't matter. This is what I hope this video will inspire you to do. Now let me explain why it doesn't matter. Number one, I never really got understood what my name meant. Most of you don't even get what Authentic Business Coach means. Most people don't even remember me as that title. And yet here's the key. My business has been steadily growing for years and I've had a full-time business coaching practice since 2010. So 2009 was really for my first year and by the end of the year I had a full-time income. And by anyway, I've had a full-time income full year since 2010. For all those years, I had a sub-optimal title and let me give you my example earlier. When I first started, I didn't know what to call myself but I noticed that I was helping people with doing their social media stuff. So I knew social media had to be in the title somewhere, I guess, because that's what I was doing. But social media consultant, that's how I called myself. By the way, if you don't know what to call yourself, just call yourself a consultant. Really, so what do you do? What's the key word that people would easily understand even though it doesn't fully represent what you do? That's the key. Even if it doesn't fully represent what you do, it doesn't matter. You can still have a full-time business, great clients, lots and lots of clients without people understanding what you do. I cannot emphasize this to you enough. You are working too hard on trying to figure out what you do and how to describe it. It doesn't matter, not really. What, yes, George, it kind of matters because it matters when you're trying to scale. That's true. But in the beginning, your first 50 to 100 clients, it doesn't matter because here's what matters. Your first 50 to 100 clients and your first full-time, my God, your first full-time year and the second full-time year and a third full-time year income-wise, it doesn't matter. Here's why. What matters is that people have actually experienced the work that you do. So what matters more than you get going into a cave with a business expert, marketing expert and working on it for a year to come up with a perfect title and the perfect brand and the perfect description, what matters much more than that is to have as many of your friends and colleagues actually experience the work that you do. That's what matters the most. So you should literally reach out to everybody you know and say, I'm just started my business or even if you've been in business for 12 years, I don't care. If you don't have a full-time load, full-client load, this is what you should be doing. Going to everybody you know and say, I am eager to have more people experience the work that I do. I'm not even sure what to call it because people call it different things and but I know that what I do is really helpful for this type of person or if you don't know what kind of person that helps just make a guess. Make a guess because the next email you write might be a different guess or the email you write three weeks from now might be a different guess because now you've worked with people for three weeks. It doesn't matter. Your email is gonna keep changing or the message you send post on social media will keep changing. Let it evolve. This is what I'm trying to emphasize here. Please, I am so practical and so many of you are not practical. And I see you struggle with your business for years and I'm like, I don't understand where are you getting this idea that you have to get the brand perfect before you start? Where are you getting this idea that you have to get your niche perfect before you start? Now I have friends and colleagues who teach niching and branding and I love them for what they do. It's just that if you are feeling stuck, now, if you love doing that work, if you really enjoy that process, you should do it. You should do the branding process. You should do the niching process.   But I'm still doing it anyway. You see what I mean? Like, it's okay not knowing what to describe what you do. I still, I mean, to this day, George, well, my parents, I can't even describe in my own family what I do. My parents are kind of previous generation. So even if I could describe her because they still don't get it, what you sell something on the internet, you don't have a job. And I make more money than most people, I know who have jobs.  Do you, for taxes, for 2020, my reporting came over that my taxable income was about 170,000. Yeah, it was 170, 170,000 as a solopreneur with no assistance. I don't need, everything I do, I can do by myself in about 40, 45 hours a week, 40 hours a week. So I don't know.  Working from home, there's no commuting.  I don't have a professional title that I like. I don't like authentic business coach. I think it's kind of playful and fun, but I don't know what that means. And neither do you. And it doesn't matter because you're still referring people to me, right? Because you don't need my description. You just described to your friends, oh yeah, there's this guy on YouTube, on Facebook, on Instagram. He talks about business. Anyway, just check him out. That's all you have to say. Do you see what I mean? And that's probably what you are saying. And that's how you build a business. You don't need a, oh, brilliant name, title. The brilliantly, I don't know. I can't even come up with something. If I wanted to. But I almost want to model for you. It's like, I almost hope that I never figure out what I do. I almost hope that I never have a great title and succinct description of my, and great brand. Right now, I happen to be in a branding process with a friend who's kind of like making me do it. And so 12 years into having a full-time business, I'm finally gonna have a brand later this year. But I've never had a brand for 12 years. I never had a color scheme. Every day, my shirt changes. And these shirts, I don't have a color scheme for this stuff. I just pick, oh, I like that color. But that colors are all over the place. And my title is all over the place. I mean, I don't know. So I'm just trying to help you be practical here and to be able to make money and make a stable income as soon as possible. That's what I do it authentically. And authentically means that you don't have to force yourself into a brand. And like, that's a box that I don't want. Some of you don't like to be constricted in the box of a calendar and a to-do list and all that. So I'm like, wait a second. You're getting up and yet you want to constrain yourself into a brand box. I wish it was flipped. I wish you were willing and joyfully willing to constrain yourself and constrict yourself to a schedule and not be willing to constrict yourself to a brand and to a title. And tomorrow I can call myself something different. I don't care because my audience doesn't care. They're going to use you, my audience, are going to use whatever description for George Cow you want. I don't care because you're still referring people to me all day long. I have a waiting list. I've had a waiting list for years and it still keeps growing every year. I don't have enough time to serve the people who are asking to pay me to help them. Do you see why it doesn't matter that you have a title and a professional description that is succinct? May I be your example forever on that? Even, let me tell you this, even in my industry that is so competitive, my industry of marketing has people who have such brilliant brands, like amazing looking websites, the most catchy title, the most authoritative sounding name and professional description, I don't.  There we go, I just came over to succinct description, but it doesn't matter because it will change tomorrow. Let it evolve, let it go. You should constrain yourself instead, be willing to constrain yourself to a schedule of work. And that's what you're getting mixed up here. Stop trying to figure out your calling. I just said it. Stop trying to figure out your calling. Stop trying to figure out your purpose. And by the way, I'm sorry, I do have friends and colleagues that I love very much who work on these things, who work on purpose work and this work and that work. And that's wonderful. And like I said, if you enjoy doing that work, if you really are getting a lot of benefit, you should do it. You should pay them, do the work. It's part of something you really find meaningful, great. But now let's talk about practical business growth. That's what I'm talking about here. You don't need that stuff for the practical business growth. You just need authentically to show up to your friends, to your colleagues, anybody you already know and say, will you help me out? And will you try my work out? Now, if you're not the right fit, if it doesn't sound like the kind of work that you need at this time, do you know somebody who might enjoy trying out this work? And if you're in the beginning and you don't have any clients, don't charge money yet. This is a separate video. You can look up my video about the tapering strategy. Go look it up, Google it. Tapering strategy for clients. Okay, tapering strategy for clients, just Google it. And find my blog post and my video about it. And that's how you can get your first, not just your first free clients, but your first paid clients as well. I just want you to have a livelihood that you enjoy so much. That's really the whole point of this video. And that's my passionate plea to you to let go of figuring out that perfect title for your Facebook business page, that perfect title for your Instagram, that perfect title for your website, or whatever. Like you're spending too much time on that. You can let it go. And you can just, what you need to do to get plenty of clients is to have as many people as possible actually experience you being in front of them doing the magic that you do. You just need two things that you need to get all the clients that you want.  They're gonna refer you to say, yeah, my uncle Bob has the issue that you're describing and you're describing it poorly, but I love you and I get what you're trying to say, or maybe I don't get what you're trying to say and can I ask you some questions to help you figure it out? Your friends and your colleagues can help you figure it out, a bad description. So please, step one, quickly come up with a bad description of what you do. A bad title, because I still have a bad title. My title doesn't describe. Athletic Business Coach, that's the funniest thing because I no longer coach people. I don't do one-on-one coaching anymore. I've stopped, as of this year, I stopped doing one-on-one, I stopped taking one-on-one. Thanks, because, gratefully, my group programs are going so well. I'm putting all my effort and energy into my group programs. I'm saying no to all one-on-one inquiries now. And I'm saying, if you'd like to, you can work with me in the group. Otherwise, here are some of my protégés. Here are some of my own clients, my own students in my group program who do one-on-one and they would love to serve you, right? So it's like authentic business coach. I'm not a business coach anymore. I'm more like a business thought leader who facilitates some groups, but that's too long of a word for me to put on my Facebook business page. So I'm still gonna keep authentic business coach, you see? Even though that's not the right title anymore. I don't care. It doesn't even matter. I'm trying to prove to you that it doesn't matter because it doesn't. I'm just gonna keep authentic business coach maybe for the rest of my life, maybe in five years I'll be doing spiritual coaching and I'll still be called authentic business coach. I'll just quickly switch it to authentic spiritual coaching, whatever. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. What matters is how many people are actually experiencing their work this week. That's what matters. So what matters is first badly come up with a title and the professional description and how do you come up with a bad one? You just quickly make it up right here on the spot. Right now, I'm gonna give you 10 seconds. Ready? In the next 10 seconds, I want you to speak out loud what your title probably, if you just had to shoot in the dark and just come up with one that you're gonna keep for a while, that most people will probably kind of understand and that's not too unrelated to what you do. Ready? Set. 10 seconds. Ready? Set. Come over to the title now. Go. Okay. You got your title. Done. No more, no more. Done. You're done. Comment below what your badly come up with title is. I don't even know what to say. How to call it? Your badly come up with title is. Comment below if you'd like. You don't have to, but I'd be curious to know what you come up with in 10 seconds. By the way, those of you who are watching this video can replay, can cheat and pause the video for another 10 seconds to come up with that. Okay. So now I'm gonna give you 20 seconds to come up with a description. If you had to blurt out, if you had to just blurt out your description to a friend of yours. So your friend's like, so can you give me an idea again? Like what is the work that you do? Okay. Ready? 20 seconds. Set. Go. Speak it out loud. Just say it. What is it? Did you say it? All right. Now, if you'd like, you can comment below on what you think you said. And don't worry if you didn't get the words right. Oh, I thought I said this. It doesn't matter. Badly come up with description. That's a new word, come up with.  Below. I'd love to see it. And that's where you start. And then you basically with each friend that you'd say, hey, this is, do you know anybody who could, like who might want to experience this work? Like I said in the beginning, if you're just trying to get people to experience your work, you don't have to charge for it yet. You'd rather have a lot of people become your ambassadors and people who can say, oh my God, that was really great. Thank you for that session. Now, some people will just thank you for that session and move on with their life. And maybe remember you three years later, it doesn't matter. But you want 50 people to experience your work as soon as possible. Because out of those 50 people, like when they say experience your work, literally you do some work for them. You do a session or two or three. If it's really a great fit, keep going. Three free sessions, it's okay. You do some work for them or however you do your work for the right person, right? The person goes, yeah, I actually need this. I actually want them. I'm curious, I'm interested. Okay, it's something I've been thinking about. Okay, so you need to badly come up with description and title, number one. Number two, you need 50 people to then experience your work starting with friends, family and the people they refer you to, okay? It's number two. And number three, what you need is to have a lot of people see your content again and again and again.  You know why you refer people to me? It's because you see my videos again and again and again. And even if neither of us know how to describe what I do, you kind of in the moment of talking to a friend, you just, it kind of just comes out. Oh yeah, George, I think he does it. You know, some of you might even say, oh, George, I think he teaches an Instagram class. I know you've been trying to get your Instagram game going. Well, I think he, I don't, I never say Instagram.  That's not part of my description. I probably should say it because Instagram is a place where a lot of people follow me and I do teach it and I really enjoy my strategy. It doesn't matter.  You'll suddenly blur it out. Oh yeah, this George Cow guy. I think he teaches about productivity too. I don't say that often enough. You see what I mean? Like content will save the day. Consistent content. You see me in my videos again and again and again and again. It doesn't matter. You see so many of my videos that now you can probably describe what I do better than I can. You see what, because I'm just busy trying to inspire and teach on my videos and I'm busy launching my courses. Now I have something like 17 courses. Like I don't even remember what I do sometimes. But it doesn't matter. I'm just busy doing the work every day. I'm just busy serving my group clients every day. I'm just busy creating content to serve all of you for free on a weekly basis. I'm busy launching my courses on a monthly basis. I'm just busy doing the work, not caring about what my brand is and what my title and subscription and description is and whatever. And yet I have so many people who just wanna work with me because I'm busy doing the work. And that's what I want you to, I want you to stop worrying so much about your marketing. I want you to stop worrying so much and being concerned that you don't have to write brand. You don't have to get, you don't have the perfect title and description. I think I've said enough. I'm getting tired talking about this. I think I've said enough. So please let me know if this is helpful or if you completely disagree with me, that's fine too, because you have a branding coach and a marketing expert that is helping you through a process that helps you to feel so integrated. But like I said, all of it honestly, if I could say it gently, it's a vanity exercise. It just makes you feel good. And if feeling good does matter, okay. But what's dangerous here? What I want to caution you against is to have a really ossified brand to have because it's stroking your ego. I'll just be real honest with you. It's stroking your ego. That's why it feels good to have a brand that feels integrated. You know, if you truly went into your heart of heart, you know you're infinite. You know that you are infinite intelligence.  That's why even though you might have the perfect brand and title and description, something still goes, it's always not quite right. That's why you go from brand project to brand project or the people who rebrand themselves 50 times in a year rebrand themselves twice in a year, okay. That's people, some people do that. Why did they keep rebranding themselves? Why? And I hope they're not spending a lot of money and graphic design work. It's because they know they're infinite and they can't stick with just one brand. I know I can't. I gave up on that when I first started. Gratefully, when I first started, I already knew. I already had a sense at that point that I am infinite intelligence and so are you. That I am unlimited creative eternal being and so are you. So why are we trying to ossify our ego and go, I am this title, I am this label? Essentially you are trying to hang on to that label because you think that's an integration of who you are. It doesn't snow. You will evolve. Probably tomorrow you're gonna decide maybe that's not such a good name. Fine, use a different name tomorrow. Change your Facebook page name every day for all I care and it doesn't really matter. Now, every day is a little extreme. You can do it every single day for months and months. You go like, what's going on? Your page name keeps changing every day. Just keep the bad name for a while and then keep the bad name for three months. I've kept it for 12, okay. I started a social media coach. I didn't know what to call myself. I'm a social media consultant and I seem to be working with a lot of coaches. So I'll call myself a coach too because I don't know what a coach means but it seems to be someone who helps people. Now, those of you who are trained coaches, no, no, no, there's a very specific method. You're asking powerful questions. You're doing powerful listening. There's a whole ICF competencies. I get it, I get it, I get it. But the word coach, what do you mean soccer coach? Parenting coach? What are you? Everyone uses the word coach so I can use the word too, okay. I know those of you certified or hating on that because you're like, no, no, certified ICF competencies or this competency, that competency. Okay, I get it, I get it. I'm sorry. So I started out social media coach 12 years ago because that's, I didn't know what to call myself. And then I became a webinar coach because people said, George, you're really good at teaching webinars. Why don't you teach more webinars? So I started doing that to my main thing. So I became a webinar consultant, webinar coach. People knew me about new, called me that for years. And then I'm like, oh no, I'm now beyond social media and webinar. I'm now a business coach. Well, I just want to add a word in front of it. Authentic business coach. And that's been like that since 2014. For seven years I've had a wrong name. Now in the first couple of years I actually did some one-on-one coaching. So that made sense, but it's been the wrong name for at least the last year or two or three. So keep your bad name for a couple of months. How's that? And then you could change it to another bad name for the next couple of months. That's slightly less bad, slightly less inaccurate.  So hold lightly to whatever title you come up with, whatever description you come up with, knowing that labels don't contain the wholeness of who you are. That's all. I'm George Cow, badly come up with title called Authentic Business Coach.  That's all. I'm trying to serve you with as much inspiration as I can in the moment, whatever comes here. So I hope this is helpful. And I'm genuinely curious to know what you thought of this and whether it was helpful to you and what your badly come up with title is and your badly come up with description is. Okay. And I'm really curious what the automated captions are gonna write for that. Anyway, I will see you in another video. Until then, just come up with something quickly, reach out to your friends and family and ask them to introduce you to people to experience your work, even if it's free, and then create content consistently. Cause then your audience will help you to come up with your next badly come up with title. Take care. I have been George Cow or whatever else you wanna call me and I'll see you in another video. Be well.