If you Google things as much as any human with a smartphone does in today’s age, you have probably had the feeling that Google’s predictive search feature works too well.
Google is able to predict (sometimes with very creepy accuracy) what you will search for. I can recall a conversation with a student where she was telling me that after a conversation offline about their bedroom furnitures with her husband, the next online search she performed was full of autocomplete options related to bedroom furnitures.
Google and other big data companies like Facebook already know so much about us that they probably don’t need to eavesdrop on us to predict what we might need in the next few hours, days, weeks and years.
There is already a ton of content and research performed out there with evidence that goes into details how that works technically, and detail a myriad of ways that information is used. My goal with this article was just to share my experience. And to be clear, yes, your phone is listening to you.
Now, I start every new year with a list of 3 to 5 goals. I was inspired after reading the book 
I was once listening to Zig Ziglar and I heard him say “There are no hopeless situations, there are just people who have lost hope while facing those situations.” This goes in alignment with the saying: “Hope in the future gives us power in the present.” Next time you are facing a situation that feels hopeless, ask yourself the question: “Is there really no hope in this situation, or am I the one losing hope?”