On a recent tv show I watched during weekend, there is an actress who is going to learn flamenco in Seville. She will have her class for 3 days at a local dancing school, taught by Spanish male dancer and at the end of her lesson she is required to perform at one of the pub. It showed her hard time while learning the dance, scolded by her teacher, cried and kept her chin up high. The interesting parts are […]
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How to survive in hardships
Sometimes, without invitation obviously, issues, problems, or hardships come to us either we’re studying or working. Sometimes, we can barely breath in between those tasks, or barely have our lives back. Here are some of the things that help me through that:
3 easy tips to keep your consistency
Every one of us has their own pace on doing something. Doing it repetitively we can call it consistency. And far from the ideal scenario, we always have something happened in between our normal daily life in a way that disrupt the pace. Talking about work, sometimes we are so confused with our tasks. Usually the longer you work at your work place, eventually you will have more and more tasks. Just kidding. 🙂 Consistency can also means doing our […]
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 […]
Resolution Tree
My first post in 2011. Learning my last year lesson, I had made my resolutions now. I found my last year resolution note and I feel that I think I should be SMART-er when it comes to make my this year resolution. Here are some tips to make your resolutions easier:
Mimicry: The art of finding solution
I have 2 situations which are commonly happen to us in day to day activity: Let’s say you’re learning something new; something that out of your usual thing. What would you do? How you will start yourself to learn? Or, you are happened to be in some troubles, you are confused what to do or how are you going to solve the problem. What do you do in this kind of situation? Think about it for a while and keep […]
Win, lose or draw
Recent lesson: there is no winning (or losing) in relationship (with friends, someone you close with, or your partner) I have a friend whom tends to be late. She’s late to show for meet up, she’s going to work late (though she’s justify it by finishing work later, even it means to work overtime), she’s late to go for her classes, and many more. To my observation, she tends to keep it to the last minute then she will rush […]
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. […]