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„The worst day ever”
By Chanie Gorkin

Today was the absolute worst day ever
And don't try to convince me that
There's something good in every day
Because, when you take a closer look,
This world is a pretty evil place.
Even if
Some goodness does shine through once in a while
Satisfaction and happiness don't last.
And it's not true that
It's all in the mind and heart
Because
True happiness can be attained
Only if one's surroundings are good.
It's not true that good exists
I'm sure you can agree that
The reality
Creates
My attitude
It's all beyond my control
And you'll never in a million years hear me say that
Today was a very good day.

Now read it from bottom to top, the other way,
And see what I really feel about my day.

Our ways of self-motivation 💪🏻

For both of us the hardest day to do some work is Monday, as after good weekend we find it hard to find motivation to go to classes especially if it’s 9 am. ⏰But there is one saying that always motivates us: it’s not who you think you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you are not.

The thought of that our laziness can hold us back from reaching our goals, dreams and accomplishments. ❌We always make excuses for not doing work but is it worth it? We are delaying the time of our possible success and learning nothing meanwhile.

It doesn’t mean that we have to do always something productive and useful or go to all the classes. 📚However, we need to learn how to prioritize our responsibilities and find motivation to fulfill them. 📝If you choose to do something without much effort, that is who you think you are. But, if you find something hard to do it is because you think you are not that person.

As promised before we are sharing a few platforms where you can find FREE online courses/internships:
1. Udemy offers a range of online courses from personal growth to professional skills development (https://www.udemy.com/courses/free/)
2. Virtual experience at InsideShepra including law, technology, accounting, marketing and others (https://www.insidesherpa.com/ )
3. Shaw Academy has many diverse course from fitness, photography to marketing and technology ( https://join.shawacademy.com/select-your-course-2020/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=row_search_brand_core_exact )
4. Top universities also offer a range of free online courses that you can enroll ( https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/distance-learning/9-top-universities-offering-free-online-courses )
These courses will improve your CV and increase your employability. It’s a good time and free way to learn something new.

A few months ago we discussed the topic of “Self-discipline” and outlined the main components of it. To learn the self-discipline is essential while becoming independent and starting building own life. One of the main components is belief or self-confidence.
So how to become CONFIDENT?
Here is some first simple steps:
1. Realize that it starts with you - only you can change and affect your life. Find your inner power and adopt new habits such as meditation or reading. It can help to reduce anxiety and make you feel more confident.

2. Examine your own beliefs. What are the beliefs that makes you feel this emotion? Negative emotions are deeply connected to your deep opinions and realizing them can help you relieve stress.

3. Learn to respect yourself. If you cannot respect yourself how can you learn to believe in yourself? To do so, you can start treating yourself like you would treat an esteemed mentor.

Try to follow these steps for a start and see a result.

There are several things that you can do during summer holidays/quarantine if you feel bored:
1. Read books
2. Watch movie/Tv show
3. Go for internship (further we will outline where you can apply and find opportunities)
4. Study an online course from leading universities for free
5. Start healthy lifestyle by doing exercises at home or outside and having homemade food
6. Cycle
In the next posts, we will share more regarding each point.

Nowadays, you have a lot of time to start doing anything that we never had time for before. You can start reading a book, watch a new movie, start a blog or even learn something new through diverse range of free online courses. However, all we always lacking is enough desire to start doing things. The hardest bit is to start it and then it gets easier to keep on doing it. To start you just have to get over your laziness and start taking small steps towards your goal. For example, read just 10 pages a day of the book and then keep increasing by 5 when you feel comfortable; and by the end of the month you will finish the book and won’t even notice. By the end, comes the highest level of satisfaction and happiness as you managed to do something that have been striving for so long. Don’t hesitate, just begin doing it.

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of ‘Self-discipline’?

Routine. Possessing a consistent lifestyle, with the same day-to-day activities, without feeling the need to do more. These day-to-day activities gradually remould one’s comfort zone, this comfort zone calls for satisfaction when undertaking the same activities every day.

Control. In possessing a consistent lifestyle there is some form of control in the individuals hands to act on the same activities. Control does not exist in the sense of the word, exceptions being positions of power in one way or another. This control does not necessarily mean ‘physical control’, but rather a distinct form of ‘mental control’, which enables an individual to keep within the bounds of his self-designed comfort zone.

Belief. The foregoing reference to ‘mental control’ may be best defined as ‘belief’. In its simplest sense, ‘belief’ just means a steadfast thought. The steadfast nature of the thought may not exempt an individual acting upon it, possessing a thought is not the same as acting on the thought. To enable an individual to act on a ‘belief’ another element plays a vital role, namely ‘drive’.

Drive. This sub-element may be best expressed as ‘motivation’, or the feeling pushing one forward to pursue what he aims to pursue. This feeling of needing to do something, goes a step further than just possessing a thought, ‘belief’. Acting on one’s ‘belief’ demonstrates ‘drive’, but the extent to which it is compatible with the ‘belief’ purely depends on circumstance-to-circumstance.

Infinite process. This sense of uncertainty regarding the compatibility of the ‘drive’ with the ‘belief’, circumstance-to-circumstance, renders perfecting this compatibility an ‘infinite process’ in evolving times. For an individual to exact the ‘drive’ required for a ‘belief’ comes down to practicality and experience, which in and of itself keep evolving with the passage of time, lending credence to the fact that this is an ‘infinite process’.

Sense of purpose. For one to quantify the ‘infinite process’ in terms of time, it requires a ‘sense of purpose’. Assuming the ‘sense of purpose’ is the individuals final,highest and utmost goal; One may attribute a reasonable time to go through with his goals, in line with practicality. Breaking down one goal into multiple, smaller goals makes it simpler to conquer this ‘sense of purpose’ using the ‘divide and conquer’ principle, with an essential personality trait.

Honesty. This characteristic may be deemed of the highest importance in a bid to redeem oneself. ‘Honesty’ in this context simply means being brutally truthful with oneself, which goes to the core of anyone and everyone’s ego. To be able to objectively vision what one may be doing matches up with his sincere ‘belief’, requires honest brutality and over-criticism about one’s own self.

Self-sufficient. In defining this element it may be empirical to mention the thin line of difference between illusion and reality. Everyone prefers to think they are in their own way ‘self-sufficient’, but in reality ‘self-sufficient’ are only those without a family. This does not mean anyone with a family may be deemed not so ‘self-sufficient’, however, to be truly ‘self-sufficient’ one should not feel the need for any social help, social contact or social company. A ‘self-sufficient’ individual views anything he is required to do, or needs to do, enough for himself to undertake alone without the help of any other person.

Independence. All the preceding themes trickle down to this idea of ‘independence’. ‘Independence’ may be interchangeable with the idea of ‘self-sufficiency’, however it may be distinguished in the current context. This idea dictates for the individual to reflect and realise whatever his actions are, are only attributable to him and no one else, even in circumstances of undue influence, such is the principle of ‘liberty’. ‘Independence’ requires one to perfect the art of ‘Self-Discipline’, by doing what is reasonably required to possess a routine, taking account of some (if not all) of the preceding themes.

Overall, ‘Self-Discipline’ has several subjective underlying themes and ideas, depending on the way one perceives the idea. A ‘routine’ breathes life into ‘Self-Discipline’, as the only tangible theme in such an abstract concept. Every other underlying theme always links back to ‘routine’; the ‘control’ over a consistent lifestyle, the ‘belief’ in following the consistency, the ‘drive’ in achieving one’s goal through the use of a consistent lifestyle, a reflection on the infinite nature of the consistent lifestyle process, the ‘sense of purpose’ to undertake one’s consistent lifestyle for an ulterior motive, ‘honesty’ with oneself while evaluating the infinite process, and finally, ‘Self-sufficiency’ and ‘independence’ for an individual to push himself, rely on himself, and believe in himself while doing anything and everything. All these elements construct the idea of ‘Self-discipline’, without following any chronological pattern.

These sub-elements prove vital in significance, when each and every one of them carry the same level of significance, of course depending on the subjective view one perceives them with.

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