Today’s lesson: when there are too many things to handle, do only one thing, finish it, and move on to the next thing. Do not think too much, nor complain too much, do it diligently, you will amazed on the progress you made after that. If my last two posts were describing what have I learned during my trip, then in this post I’d like to stress out some points from those. Last week, I was panic because there were […]
Author: kartika9
Getting our feet back on the ground
Lesson of the week: it’s hard to make a new habit, but it’s harder to get it back. This post is still related to my recent trip which I mentioned in previous post. The trip summary, we had a trip because of public holiday fell on Monday, so it was a long weekend trip. On top of that, we add one more day by taking one day leave on Friday, thus we have 4 days 3 nights for the trip. […]
Writing a memoir
mem·oir /ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr/ from dictionary.com a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation. a biography or biographical sketch. Usually, memoirs. an account of one’s personal life and experiences;autobiography. the published record of the proceedings of a group or organization, as of a learned society. I read in the newspaper somewhere around last week, Justin Bieber, a teen pop singer from Canada is writing his memoir and I remembered one of my friend comment when I told her about this, isn’t he too young to write memoir? What would his memoir tell? His journey to his stardom? Well, until the book is published, we can’t be too sure about it. On top of […]
Get rid of pessimism and boost the confidence up
Some people may always look confident on different situations, like in a party, during presentation, during a meeting with clients or even while hang out with friends. Meanwhile, some other people may look totally the opposite. They don’t look enthusiast, low spirited, try to hide themselves, speak low about themselves. I describe those two based on the book I read before, extrovert (confident) person and introvert (pessimist) person. Even if you feel that you are a confident person, sometimes you may […]
A room for improvement
On a casual talk with my friend, he mentioned about how our life repeating some patterns; for example, when we’re going to school, studying, having exams, making mistakes, being graded, given feedback, learned something and tried to be better. We always have learning pattern and of course making mistakes is part of it. And I was nodding, agreeing his idea.
Let’s find 5 things to be grateful at each day
Reflection of the day: What would you do every morning after you wake up? Do you often feels that the burden on our shoulder is heavy? Do you worried about your future? Thinking that you might not get what you want? Do you feel lazy to go to work? Or go to school? Do you think that other people are so fortunate and you’re so unlucky? Will you be jealous on someone over something that you don’t have?
To help or not to help
If my last post was inspired by a book, this post is inspired by a TV Series titled “Lie To Me”. On its recent episode, the main character’s assistant named Ria Torres received a panic call from her sister whom stays in a youth detention center. She was panic and asked her boss, Cal Lightman to help her to help her sister. It was emotional for Torres to solve the case therefore Cal, as her senior and boss, asked her […]
Boxing our thought
Recently I somehow has impulse to re-read one of my book collection, Personality Plus. The book has been my companion since I bought it in 2004; I did the quiz many times, and I had different results and learning from it too. This book is one of my favorite too, thanks to a friend who recommended it to me. Interestingly, I gain different understanding every time I read it, including this time. As I had my blog pretty recent, I […]