List, details, prioritize and celebrate

This week reading link. I admit that I was busy spinning around in 2014 and I didn’t feel really accomplished, because I wasn’t able to focus on getting my plan completed. I was easily drifted into something else. Like a small kid easily attracted to candy. So, one of my missions this year is to read a new blog post per week and share my learning or relate my own experience. It may not be a breakthrough science, but sometimes […]

3 things to remember when facing challenges

There are always times when we feel that the burden is getting heavier on our shoulder, and as always we have options. Here some tips to change our perception, to see things differently: 1. Be grateful That we are still able to use our body and mind to produce something. 2. Don’t complain Complain will take your energy away. 3. Divide the work into smaller chunks Facing a pile of work can e intimidating. When we felt intimidated, we tend […]

Blogger apprentice

On one afternoon, my friend sent me a personal message through messenger. He noticed that I update my blog on daily basis recently. He compliment me for being able to write regularly and told me that he is struggling with finding ideas for his personal blog. This friend actually has another blog, about JavaScript programming. I read his occasionally and I find it was well written. He provides examples and detail instructions, as well as theory behind it and tips […]

A thing called compromise

Do you feel your stomach churn before your exam? Or before you have your big gig? Well, I do. Thanks to a friend of mine; talking to him yesterday made me re-think the whole big picture, or should I say, my big picture. Let’s go back to the nerveousness, most of the time before I had school presentation, exams, or meeting clients, or even teaching, I was nervous. (some of my friends don’t believe it when I said so)

5 self asking question which help to motivate ourselves

In my previous post, I listed how to tackle bad mood. One of them is recognizing the cause of it (writing my thought down). So, below is a short list of questions which help me to find out the cause. 1. Do I expect too much? 2. Do I enjoy what I’m doing? 3. Do I need it or do I want it? 4. Do I worry about the outcome? 5. Have I really done anything to achieve it?

10 things to lift your mood up

We surely have our ups and downs. We feel that we can conquer the world when we’re in a good mood. But, when we’re out of it, we felt that how unfair the world to us, we become grumpy, we do nasty things, we fight with other, or you just name it. So, I’d like to share some which works fo me when I had my downs: 1. Sleep Most of the time, I read from an article that lack […]

50 important things I achieved in 2009

Inspired by some blogs I read that said one of many ways to feel good is appreciating what we have completed. Therefore, I’m going to list 50 things I achieved within last year which can be categorized into different groups: On setting new adventure: 1. Quitting my job I made a bold decision on late 2008, to quit from my work place. My parents, especially my father objected to it. He had his reason, recession just hit South East Asia […]