Great Morning Routines for Students

I got this article from here to make our daily routines become fresher. Here are their advices:

Morning Routines for Students – Exercise
Another hallmark of a great routine is exercise. Exercise releases endorphins that help you feel better physically and mentally. You’ll also look great, which leads to an increase in confidence and happiness. A poll of the most successful Fortune 500 CEOs found that the majority of them spent between 30-60 minutes 3-5 days a week exercising.

Morning Routines for Students – Prioritizing and Planning
No great morning routine would be complete without organizing your thoughts and plans for the day ahead. You’ll want to utilize a planner to write down what you want to get done that day. The first step is to make a to-do list of 3-5 things you want to accomplish in addition to writing down any important meetings and activities you may have during the day. Research has shown that unorganized students experience higher levels of mental and physical fatigue due to being unorganized.

Morning Routines for Students – Prep the Night Before
Great morning routines often start the night before. That may mean preparing food, setting the coffee pot, and setting out your clothes for the day. It’s these menial tasks that save time and allow you to spend more time either sleeping or doing more important tasks such as planning, thinking, meditating or exercising.

Morning Routines for Students – Meditation
The morning should be reserved for thinking, strategizing and reflection instead of hurrying about trying to rush out the door. Great ideas and moments of clarity come during times of quiet reflection and meditation. We often get too busy to think about life’s deeper questions. Take 20-30 minutes each morning and find a quiet place to relax and reflect.

Implement these steps into your morning routine and you’ll find yourself feeling more balanced, content and successful :)

Change management

Change management is one interesting subject that I got in my master management study. I learn cases from well-known companies why and how they finally changed. In the same time, they are 8 exchange students from BEM Bordeaux Management School, French join summer class in my university. It is very interesting to know what European thought about some cases, how they mingle with people from different country and background. Moreover, the change management subject becomes international class afterwards, the lecturers deliver and communicate in English and all assignments and quizes must be written in English.

However, in change management class, we learn about 8 stages of Kotter change model. Every failure in change is due to an incompetent or inefficient management. That’s why change management has to be taken as a real and long process. Many stages have to be completed and respected so that the change last in the time. The 8 Kotter’s stages wall reflect the hardness of the process; create a sense of urgency, recruit powerful change leaders, build a vision and effectively communicate it, remove obstacles, create quick wins, and build on your momentum. If you do these things, you can help make the change part of yourself or organizational culture and finally declare a true victory..


"Change is the only constant."
– Heraclitus, Greek philosopher

Stumbling

"If you stumble, make it part of the dance"

Life has been complicated lately. I've been struggling, not only for my study but also in my social life. But, I try not to give up or sue The Almighty with the things happened to me. 

I have been learning to be a long-term oriented, visionary, hard worker and whatsoever you name it. Maybe it seems a bit ambitious or scary for my surroundings and in the process of achieving those things, I did wrong approach. Frankly, I paid half of my master tuition fee with my previous working salary so for me every penny really matters. The money came from tears and hardworking-sweat, thus I won't make it vain. 

But I did one mistake, I forced people to understand my position; to see what I see, to feel what I feel, to do what I do. To be honest, I can't stand to see lazy or not-visionary people meanwhile I have to struggle for the sake of my group's goodness. And if they didn't want to understand, I easily got high tension.

In the end, I realize these was my big mistake.

They start mocked, quipped, ignored and did things that hurt me. But, I try not to escape from the truth, I apologized to those whom I hurt and I really learn to face this with open-hearted and I ask God to give me faith, strength and wisdom so that I can think clearly, cold-headed,  and not doing wrong things anymore. Pain is inevitable but I know it is used to mold me to be a better person. Yes, this is stumbling me but I will make it a part of my dance.

Education and Children in Indonesia - Help them to get a better future!

"Sisters and brothers, please give us some money. We need it so much, we don't have money to go to school or even to buy some food. Giving Rp500 to us will not make you poor...."

It is very heartbreaking when I see children buskers and beggars, aged between 5-14, begging for money at public transportation or places. If you come to Indonesia, it is very common to see them, with their shabby clothes and unappropriate attitude, force everyone to pay attention toward them and with a little bit miserable words, they ask for money. Regardless of their location, the children buskers and beggars face hardships and exploitation. Street children are generally deprived of their right to education and have little or no access to the formal education system. The majority of them are illiterate and have either never been enrolled, or have dropped out of the formal education system. Only one in five (20%) of children below the ages of 6 years old receives preschool education in Indonesia; and those that are lucky enough to have received, it are likely to have been brought up amongst the middle or upper classes.

In fact, their protection and education are frequently neglected by governments, but it is also our responsibility to take care  the socio-economic backward to help them to get a better future. Therefore, we, one of the business schools in Jakarta, PPM School of Management - batch 67, would like to make community awareness for our young generation so that they can reach their dreams with education. We would share knowledge and experinces to socio-economic backward community in Depok and Jakarta, such as Masjid Terminal (Terminal Mosque) in Depok, Gereja Kristen Indonesia (Indonesian Christian Church) in Bilangan Panglima Polim-South Jakarta, Bimbel Senen in Central Jakarta and the last, Untitled Foundation which unorganized yet and has less instructor in Duren Tiga - South Jakarta.

It is our time to act!

to care, to share, and to learn!!

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