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Stay Productive During a Lockdown
Staying productive during a lockdown is not as easy as it looks. To keep on pursuing your goals that you might have start or just wanting to start might be more challenging than it used to. I have experienced lockdown while I was on my third year of PhD. Suddenly my routine changed 180 degrees, all the plans and projects that should be progressing in our laboratory have to be stopped. We had to find other ways to move forward. It was hard. But, there’s always a way to go forward. I always truly believe, that our God will not test us more than what she/he could bear. So we have to keep on...
7 Apps for Kids We Love
It is a movement constraint order again here in Malaysia. The Covid case is increasing by days. And we are all in fear. It’s hard to plan too much about the future when we don’t know what the future would look like. Life. Constrained. Felt normal now. Taking it slow… felt normal now. But what if we aspire to want to do more? I am still in the “holiday” mood over here after we moved from Japan in April. The one thing that I’ve learnt throughout my life is that success starts from taking the smallest action towards the goal that you want to achieve. Thus, I’m trying to take it slow in the last...
How To Be More Grateful
It is easy to look at other people’s lives and be dissatisfied with our own lives. We fall victim to the power of social media. Comparing our lives with others is easier than ever before, and we easily feel unhappy with our life.What good does it make? Instead of looking at the picture-perfect photos of others, why not look at the real-life in front of us. One of the habits that I’ve developed over the past 6 years is journalling. At first, it felt awkward, it feels like complaining about my life to something that couldn’t give me feedback. So what's the point?But after a...
How I Overcome Procrastination
When I asked people, what is their biggest challenges to achieve their goals?… Some answered “PROCRASTINATION”. Procrastination is something that we all are struggling with, right? It blocks us from moving forward to get closer to the goals that we set for the year. I learned over the years that procrastination is not a character of ourselves, but more of a habit. So if it is a HABIT, then, there’s a TRIGGER that’s causing this habit. In the case of the procrastination habit, the trigger is usually STRESS. So, whenever you found that you are procrastinating in your task, project or achieving...