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The Importance of ME Time

  Sometime when I need to clear my head, I’d drove to somewhere quite.. Where I could be alone, by myself, and just enjoy the solitude.. The peace and quite of ME time. No pretense, no effort to maintain composure, no mask, no phony conversation, nothing. A place where I could get away from all the crazy commotion around me, and just Do Nothing. Inhaling peace from the silence.. On that place, I could meet myself, give myself a pat on the back.. And say “Hi! How are you faring? Everything will be fine..” I think in the face of hardship or uncertainty, we all need to STOP and [ ... ]

Always the Hopeful One

I logged in to my Facebook, and stumbled upon a post from one of my friend, and see that she already had a baby. After 31 years of looking, she finally found the love of her life, got married, and now happily a mother. Wow.. It touched me cause I know how she struggled through it.. I see her trying hard to discover herself..to figure it all out. And she discovered herself after she bare it all to Allah and ask for His forgiveness.. Being more close to Him instead of shying away. I am a lot like her in a way.. [ ... ]

Yuwana’s #30BBM Day 13: Uphold a Positive Character Trait

This is Day 13 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” (30BBM) August 2011 Challenge that I participated in, which is run by The Personal Excellence Blog. This post contains excerpts of the original article by Celestine Chua which can be found here. Hi everyone! It’s Day 13 already on the 30 Days challenge to Be a Better Me. I am almost half way through the challenge and I have learned so much from it. I’m really grateful for this opportunity. After making our Character Board in Day 5, we are a step closer in working towards our Ideal Self. Today’s task [ ... ]

Yuwana’s #30BBM Day 12: Showing Appreciation (of Yourself)

This is Day 12 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” (30BBM) August 2011 Challenge that I participated in, which is run by The Personal Excellence Blog. This post contains excerpts of the original article by Celestine Chua which can be found here. © image source After an emotional task yesterday, today’s task is no less emotional, which is to write a thank you note to ourselves. Kind of weird isn’t it? I thought so at first. But then I realized, I do tend to get overly critical of myself that I seldom stop and give myself some credit for the [ ... ]

Yuwana’s #30BBM Day 11: Showing Appreciation

This is Day 11 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” (30BBM) August 2011 Challenge that I participated in, which is run by The Personal Excellence Blog. This post contains excerpts of the original article by Celestine Chua which can be found here. We are moving on to day 11 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” Challenge. Day 10 Task is for us to scheduled 30 minutes of action to do the activity plans that we already made to achieve our ideal self. I used my 30 minutes of action time to start working on my long overdue [ ... ]

Yuwana’s #30BBM Day 9: Explore Procrastination

This is Day 9 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” (30BBM) August 2011 Challenge that I participated in, which is run by The Personal Excellence Blog. This post contains excerpts of the original article by Celestine Chua which can be found here. © image source This is day 9, of Be a Better Me in 30 Days Challenge. Day 6-7 of 30BBM is break day, so no task were given to allow the participants who fell behind to catch up with all the assignment so far and to give participants the opportunity to share their feedback based on their one [ ... ]

Yuwana’s #30BBM Day 5: Creating My Character Board

This is Day 5 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” (30BBM) August 2011 Challenge that I participated in, which is run by The Personal Excellence Blog. This post contains excerpts of the original article by Celestine Chua which can be found here. Hi everyone! We’re back again.  If you noticed, I did not post Day 4 of 30BBM and opted to skip to day 5 instead. In Day 4 of 30BBM, we are asked to cultivate a positive value, which is Kindness. So our task is simply to Be Kind for the whole day yesterday. It’s a simple [ ... ]

Yuwana’s #30BBM Day 3: Discover My Ideal Self

  This is Day 3 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” (30BBM) August 2011 Challenge that I participated in, which is run by The Personal Excellence Blog. This post contains excerpts of the original article by Celestine Chua which can be found here. © image source Today’s task is my favorite task so far.  I get to visualize what my ideal self would be like and what do I see as the highest version of me, someone who is a 10/10. It’s so much Fun and Inspiring!  Celestine Chua post several question in the beginning of this task that [ ... ]

Yuwana’s #30BBM Day 2: Understanding My Negative Traits

  This is Day 2 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” (30BBM) August 2011 Challenge that I participated in, which is run by The Personal Excellence Blog. This post contains excerpts of the original article by Celestine Chua which can be found here. © image source Hi everyone!  We meet again in Day 2 of 30BBM. Today’s task is on understanding our negative traits. After having assessed my self yesterday and identified 5-7 traits that I want to work on moving forward, now it’s time to start addressing my negative traits.  In addressing our negative traits, the first thing that we should [ ... ]

Yuwana’s #30BBM Day 1: Assessing My Self

  This is Day 1 of “Be a Better Me in 30 Days” (30BBM) August 2011 Challenge that I participated in, which is run by The Personal Excellence Blog. This post contains excerpts of the original article by Celestine Chua which can be found here. © image source It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. – Brian Tracy – Day 1 in 30BBM is about self assessment, because to be a better us, we should first be brave enough to analyze our current self, the good and especially the bad. It’s essential to weed out [ ... ]