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I admit that I’m not the best person to give you tips on this because I’m not really the type to list down New Year’s resolution and stick to it. But I guess, as someone who doesn’t really stick to New Year’s resolutions, I can give you tips from my experience what worked for me.
Continue reading “How To Follow Through With Your New Year’s Resolution” →
Covid-19 pandemic, bushfires, Brexit, natural disasters, political and government disasters. The year 2020 is the worst year ever. Lockdowns, quarantines, worries over job stability, worries about food depletion, being away from loved ones, our loved ones being sick or worse, losing them, it exhausted us until the very end. It’s constantly whacking us back to back to back.
And so, we wish for the year 2020 to end. It’s just a cursed year. We hope that 2021 will be better. It’s already the end of the year and I know that many of us are itching to get over it but why not reflect back into our 2020 and see the good things that we have overlooked, dumped underneath the worry. Also, since it’s such a depressing year, let’s look at our resources we can tap into to uplift us and make us smile.
I’ve made a simple worksheet for that. You can save the pictures or download the PDF file as you please and print.
Continue reading “Not So Crappy 2020: Appreciating the year clouded by negativity” →
Disclaimer: This post is 30% Boracay guide and 70% reflections and comparisons (of the old and the new), give or take. Also, if you’re not familiar about this Boracay reopening thing, it would be good to read at least one article online so you can relate. Continue reading “The New Boracay and Why I Miss the Old” →
A medical course is a dead-end course.
A stranger I met once told me this. He said that being a nurse like me or a doctor like his father, having a medical degree means you’ll just end up in a hospital with not much flexibility to branch in other areas. Somehow, he did eat up his own words when he told me his father was more of a businessman now (probably didn’t really realize it until then) and about a doctor colleague when he did his military training who taught him how to do an emergency chest decompression in the field.
There are more opportunities for nurses that we didn’t realize until we resigned.
A chat with a friend led us to this realization. We both started and ended at about the same time in the hospital we worked at after serving for about four years. Post-resignation, we’ve worked on a couple of part time jobs, most of which are related to nursing. Huge income aside, we found sidelines wherein we still used our knowledge and practiced our skills as nurses. Continue reading “6 Non-Hospital Gigs I’ve Tried With My Nursing Degree” →
Monologue to self: You created this blog to share thoughts on productivity but a year had gone now, you only had one productivity post. You’re indeed lazy.
Respark Challenge 2018 is a short mini course by Arriane Serafico of The Purposeful Creative. It’s a 5-day challenge wherein the participants called “resparkers” follow an everyday prompt, simple things that can be done for about 15 minutes or less to avoid excuses of being busy or having no time to do it. Continue reading “Respark Challenge 2018: Reflections and Learnings” →
Paparating na ang tag-ulan, oh ano na ba?
Kailan na makukulayan ang drawing na ginawa?
Kaya pa, kahit saan, go agad itong tropa mong gala,
Nang ‘di na ulit abutin ng bagyo ang lakad ng barkada.— YoloYoyo (aka my sister)
Continue reading “#barkadagoals: Malumpati Cold Spring, Pandan, Antique” →
Disclaimer 1: No, this post is not a critique of the art as seen in the movie or of the movie in general. I don’t even know what point I am making in creating this post. Probably, to see the worth of freelancers. Or this might just be a random rambling.
Disclaimer 2: I guess I can call myself a freelance graphic artist because I earn from making digital art, so yeah. I’m just speaking from an amateur’s point of view. So, if there is anything I’ve said about the freelance graphic design world that was in any way not true or partly untrue, then, please, enlighten me.
Watched Never Not Love You. Triggered by a scene where Joanne’s father sort of devalued Gio’s being a freelance graphic designer, living on just gigs. Had a conversation just recently explaining what exactly I am doing working as a freelancer currently. Piece these all together and here’s what I came up with. Continue reading “Good Art Ain’t Cheap: Dissecting Never Not Love You from an Amateur Freelance Graphic Artist’s View” →
Adulting is hard. You are forced to navigate life and move forward even though you can’t really grasp the why and what for of it. It leaves you confused, distracted, and depressed most of the times.
I recently found my Mind Map notebook where I just jot down ideas and thoughts that come up in my head every now and then. One page is this:
I didn’t really force myself to establish life principles. I guess, as I went through life, I just tried to learn from past experiences and hope that I live my life meaningfully with these principles I set for myself as guide. Continue reading “Three Life Principles” →
After years, I opened my Blogger blog again, not this one, but my very first personal blog. I guess I owe it to my subscription to Arriane Serafico‘s newsletter. No, that’s not an affiliate link you got there. I genuinely want to share the benefits of following her.
That particular newsletter is about the New Year. We usually write resolutions over and over and get depressed about not achieving our goals the previous year. What she encouraged to better do is to start with looking back at your 2017 wins.
I thought, then, aside from my longest long-term travel (just almost a month), creating this website last year was one of my top wins. Humans my age were buying gadgets, buying houses, creating families and babies. For my 27th birthday, I gifted myself a domain and started my blog. Continue reading “The Entire History of My Blogging” →
Manoush Zomorodi, on one of her TED talks, encouraged people to “love being bored.” She mentioned about a one-week challenge she designed, Bored and Brilliant, wherein you are given a simple challenge everyday involving ignoring your phone, challenges such as deleting a very important app in your life and having a photo-free day among others. Here’s an excerpt of her talk towards the end of it:
“So the next time you go to check your phone,remember that if you don’t decide how you’re going to use the technology, the platforms will decide for you. And ask yourself: What am I really looking for? Because if it’s to check email, that’s fine — do it and be done. But if it’s to distract yourself from doing the hard work that comes with deeper thinking, take a break, stare out the window and know that by doing nothing you are actually being your most productive and creative self. It might feel weird and uncomfortable at first, but boredom truly can lead to brilliance.”
It was very timely that I stumbled upon this TED talk when I was planning a trip to Tatlong Pulo, Guimaras. Aside from #BEACHgoals, I just wanted to take a break from social media so that I have time to do some other things and actually finish them. Since I’ve been there twice already, I figured it’s the perfect place for this “experiment” because there’s no electricity. Continue reading “My Little Beach Retreat and some Boredom = Creativity + Productivity experiment” →
