How We Can Be Productive? PPF tips..

"I need to work but I'm getting bored and feel sleepy. How to overcome this problem?"

Above situation always happens to most of the entire human being in this world including myself. It usually happens when I was trying to focus on study. Let me share with you a three practical tips that I often used to overcome this problem:

1. PLAN your day

Before I went to bed or during a weekend, I will plan any task that I would do for an entire day or whole week. This could direct you to prioritize and making sure that you won't waste your precious time by doing nothing. Marie Forleo said that someone told her, if we are not planning, we actually do not want to do it.So, planning our day means we really really excited to do it. The to-do list planner could tie us to fill our time effectively. I gonna share with you how I plan mine:

First, I would figure out THE MOST URGENT TASK to do for entire week
>>Start making a list. Eg, There is Test for Fundamentals Of Pharmacology this Monday. I highlighted it with my red highlighter so that I won't miss it.

Secondly, I would list THE MOST IMPORTANT BUT NOT URGENT TASK
>> Jot down when I'm gonna do those. Eg, Online Tutorial of Fundamentals of Pharmacology. Do it on Friday because I had leisure time.

Thirdly, this part that most probably people won't put in their planner that is PROCRASTINATION TIME. This lead me to next step..




2. PROCRASTINATION TIME@Give a break to ourselves

Procrastinate is not good BUT WE WILL PROCRASTINATE UNLESS WE ARE ROBOT. We a human being, not a  robot. We can't keep doing things over and over without giving us a break. It is not a crime to unwind ourselves after work out a lot of stuff in a day. The question is, how we suppose to fill our procrastination time efficiently? Okay, at this point you would think it is weird to procrastinate by doing something good. So, before I move on, I'm gonna ask you, "What did you do if you start to get bored?" You don't need to tell. Though, I could read people's mind. Let me guess..

- Lying or bed?
- Facebooking
- Instagramming
- End up withhhh.... zzzzzzzzz Sleeping!

Aha!! Were that right?? Yaa, I told you, I am a mind-reader. You can't fool me. Okay, Just joking, no offense! Smile..

So how are we gonna do if we are starting to procrastinate? Procrastination time also need to be in our planner as well so that we won't waste another precious time that we had and at the end of the day, we would say, "I targeted to finish my homework today but I end up Facebooking for hours rather than finishing my homework", "I think 24 hours that we have was not enough".  In those situations, we actually blame others that are innocent, do nothing to us and the fact is, we are the one who need to be blame off.

Okay Farah, could you please just move on. I'm starting to get bored with all the babbling

Snap!

As I said before from my first tip, I will plan my entire week the task that I should done and work on and as well as if I couldn't focus on my work. I think sleep is a cliche and boring things to unwind myself and not enjoyable at all. So, I will turn the procrastination time into positive habits. These are a few activities if I started to procrastinate. Probably it will give you general ideas to procrastinate effectively.

~ Spend time with Youtube.
   Watching motivation videos such as Marie Forleo, Thomas Frank and Nouman Ali Khan.
~ Blogging
   Actually, I planned to blog during weekend only but, at the time I write this post, I can't focus to study because I need to memorize lots of
   mechanism of action of drugs.
~ Read a book.
   I downloaded a few ebook so that I could read it during leisure time or if I procrastinate

Are you following me? Yup? That's awesome!


3. Last but not least, FORCE OURSELVES!

Marie Forleo said, "Loser Wait For Motivation, Winners Just Get Things Done". We don't want to be a loser, right? So, ACT RIGHT NOW! Stop reading my post! Ignore it! Okay just kidding. Please don't leave me. Stay! That's excellent!

I take me as an example, I usually felt really tired and sleepy after I back from class. I know I need to study but how I could do that if sleepiness takes over my brain, mind and body? Did I surrender and give myself to bed? Nope! I force myself to study. At first, it would be hard but as time goes by and I tried to change my learning style actively by making own notes or be a teacher to myself by saying "okay students, (actually me..) today we gonna learn about drugs that act on ion channel and Gaba receptor". Guess what? It works! If we pressured ourselves to do something, we actually managed to do it well by any means necessary.

 A very very common situation happen when we got a deadline to submit our assignment OR we going to have an examination next week or probably tomorrow. Okay, now I'm the one who feel tense. haha. So, those situations led us to stay a whole night, sacrifice our sleeping time, dissociate ourselves from bed because the pressure that dominates ourselves. Challenge yourselves! Force our mind and body to do what we are supposed to do.



Alhamdulilah. That's all I could share my own experience to gain a productive time. I really hopes that we can fill our time with beneficial activities that lead to a productive life, InsyaAllah. Thanks for spending your time reading my blog.

Why Smart People Underperform by Marie Forleo

Hi and Assalamualaikum. Lately, I was watching motivational videos on Youtube by Marie Forleo. Most of her videos were about life and business as well as inviting a lot of influence people to inspire us to talk any relevant topics. Today, I'm going to share one of her inspiring interviews, "Why Smart People Underperform?' with a psychiatrist, Ned Hallowell.

This topic was suited us well as we living in a busy and overwhelmed by a long to-do list that would never reach the finish line unless we dead. Does dead could solve anything, though? Do we want to die in peace after done a great job for ourselves in the world? Allah said in Quran meaning, "So do not weaken and do not grieve, and you will be superior if you are [true] believers," (Ali Imran 3:139).

So, without any further delay, let's go through several tips to perform better in lives:

1. Define our Goals Clearly and Specific
Ned Hallowell said that we should be specific and clearly define our life goals in short, medium, long-term and lifetime.  But, as he told us "BE SPECIFIC AND CLEARLY DEFINE" meaning not making a long list but only THREE. Probably we had many goals that we want to achieve in our life but limit the number of goals could help us prioritize things.

                               

2. Avoid Screen-Sucking
We have gadgets stay beside us 24/7. We checking emails, scrolling Newsfeed in Facebook and etc, thus, lead us to suck our mind from the screen gadgets. To avoid this, Ned told us to set an amount of time to do so and TIO: Turn It Down!

                                             

3. Setting our Default Response from Yes to "Let Me Get Back To You. Let Me Think About It"
We used to be generous in saying something that we wouldn't know if we could overcommit at it. "Yes, I can do that for you", "Sure, I can show up". What I totally agree with him was, " We say yes to many things". That's true, guys. If we shift our "always yes" response into "Let Me Get Back To You. Let Me Think About It" plus, we support ourselves with solid reasons, people would accept it, though.

                              

4. Never Worry Alone
Ned said' "We are super connected electronically but as we have connected electronically, we've been disconnected interpersonally. People don't have that sense of affiliation of belonging, of company.."
When we have got stuck on something, we shouldn't worry alone. There are three steps to overcome this problem:
- Never worry alone. Worry is toxic that may lead us to totally disconnect with people and do harm ourselves.
- Get the facts. We always worried by ourselves because a lack of information or been rooted by wrong information.
- Make a plan even it doesn't work, revise the plan. When you have a plan, you feel more in control and less vulnerable which makes you more effective.

                          

5. Cultivating Lilies and Getting Rid of Leeches
What does that mean?
Cultivating lilies means we should do a project that worth it. It might take time and a lot of effort but as long as we satisfied, that's the key performing better in our life.
Getting rid of leeches referred to people or projects that just aren't worth it. They may be worth it in their own right but not to us.
But, Ned warned us that if we were done too many worth things, it could cultivate leeches as well. So, go back to our first tips "Be Specific and Clearly Define Our Goals" and set our priority.

                              

That's all. Feels motivated? Act now! One of interesting tweetable from Marie was, "Loser Wait For Motivation, Winners Just Get Things Done". Oops! No need to snap, I never call you a loser, though. But, we probably a loser if we don't act right at this moment.

I also provide a link if you are interested to watch the video by yourselves.
>>>>https://youtu.be/OBV2vBFD29I?list=LLBMaY1R5C9rwMm6Jc4dFfHQ<<<<

Notes: Most of this post are not using my own words. I just recall and share the input I have got from the video. Thank you.

My beautiful Adelaide continue...

Two weeks mid-sem break could be give me much time to update my blog. As I said from my previous blog, InsyaAllah I'll share a lot more about a beautiful Adelaide. 

This is Rundle Mall that people usually go to do some shopping, eating or just to unwind ourselves

St Kilda. There are playground special for adults and kids. yuhuuuu

I'm in State Library. A nice place for students to study

Gorge Wildlife Park. Here, we can meet these animals with our own eyes. 

Actually this is not a kanggaroo, I forgot its name. We can feed them as well. They were so hungry when we arrived to that place. haha.

Picking strawberry at Adelaide Hills

Picking strawberry! 

A few souvenirs that I bought at Gorge Wildlife Park. I was the one most excited to buy those things even though I still have a lot of time to spend in Adelaide. haha

Hi! Meet my "baby"

I was at Handorf German if I'm not mistake

That's all. Hope this sharing may help you to give you some ideas if you planning to visit Adelaide. See ya!! Assalamualaikum.

Cool! I'm a Bachelor of Pharmacy Student!

One of my goals when I decided to create my own blog is to share my precious experiences. I'm not good in convincing and confront people directly. That's why this blog is existed.

I'm quite busy lately as I'm now an Undergraduate student in University of South Australia. It's been one month I'm in Australia. Before I fly to Australia, I do crossed in my mind to study abroad but I could never imagine that I am able to feel by myself a great chance to pursue my Degree in overseas. 

My first impression when I start to stay in Adelaide is "This place is likely make me feel secured and safe wherever I go". It doesn't mean it's totally safe, it is just likely pretty safe compare to my home country. Besides that, the cleanliness and obligation of citizens to the rules are really impressed me a lot. I'm also impressed with the attitudes of Australian each time I took a bus to go anywhere. When the passenger enter the entrance of the bus, the driver will greet by saying "Hi", "Hello", or "Morning". The passenger then will say "Thank you" to the driver when they reach to their destination. Australian also very nice to anyone by greeting and talking to us even though they do not know us. I never seen this situation happen in my home country. That's why some people says that we could see a Muslim behaviour in non-Muslim country. Muslim is the majority predominant in my country but unfortunately and sadly, we are still lacking in being an Islam as our way of life. But hey! No worries. There's always space for us to improve ourselves. ;)

There are much more places that I still don't manage to go because a lot of unavoidable factors. But, let me show a few nice views in Adelaide as an introduction to Adelaide, South Australia. :)

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA CITY EAST CAMPUS :)

BROOKMAN BUILDING IN FRONT OF UNISA CITY EAST

BONYTHON PARK

I can't recall what this place is, but I think this is River Torrens behind UniSa City East :)

TRAM

ADELAIDE MOSQUE

Inner part in Adelaide Mosque

That's all I guess. InsyaAllah, there are more sharing rom me for next blog. ;)