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HEALTHY CHANGES TO MAKE TODAY

By Sonya Octa - Sunday, September 30, 2018

Making changes is not that easy and done just in a day. It's gonna be hard but if you start it with the small steps and do it constantly, it's not gonna be that hard. Change your habit to be a healthy lifestyle is the best choice you'll made and you'll never regret it because it's that worth it. All you need to do right now is just do it! So, I will share to you guys what things what small steps that I made into a healthy lifestyle that I have right now. Let's get it!

1. Change Your Mind

Set the right mindset how you gonna start this. If you gonna start a healthy life but your mindset still think that being healthy is not important and it's not yout priority in life. Then, you'll never reach this goal. It never be. So, mindset is really important to start this healthy life tips. It's kinda first step you need to do.

2. Walk More

Without you know or understand, walk is becomes one of the easiest workout you can do on daily life and it's totally free. You needn't earn so much money for gym to be healthy, right? Walk is becomes the alternative that provided. Walk in the morning is my favorite. Also, I thought that walk in the morning is the best compare to the other time. I can inhale the fresh air and it makes me happy and ready to kick off my day. So, I recommend you to walk in the morning. But, as you know, walk can be done anytime, right? From now on start to think it's better to walk instead of ride any transportation. But, if the place too far for you to walk, you can ride a bus, a car or any other transportation. Start to make it as your habit.

3. Drink More Water

Water is really important for our life. Literally really important. Do you drink enough water in a day? Do the pee test! If it's as clear as water you're not lack of water or dehidration. Otherwise, if your pee is not as clear as water, it means that you need to drink more water in a day. Water is really important in our daily life for the sake of our health. Without enough water you will be dehidrated or even dying. Make it as a habit to drink more water than usual on your daily life. The normal amount of water amunition in a day is about 5-8 glass per day or 1-2 liters a day. The more you drink water in a day the better for your health, but don't drink too much or too less.

4. Eat Slower or Less

Eat mindfully gonna help you to digest the food better. People nowadays like to eat in front of their computer, laptop or any other electronic devices. It spends a lot of time approximately 20-30 minutes compare to when you eat mindfully which is need 5-10 minutes only. Eat mindfully means that you just eat without doing any other things or multi-tasking at the same time. Eat your meal mindfully gonna turns your meal into nutrition. Eat mindfully also helps your body to absorb the nutrition from your food even better.

5. Meditate

Do you ever try to meditate? If not, it's gonna be challenging when you try it for the first time. For me, 2 years ago, when I tried meditate for the first time it just feels like nothing. Nothing different and I don't felt something unique from doing meditation. But, I tried it again and over again. At the beginning I just try it for once a week until now I do it every single day every morning. To start meditate, all you need to do is do it again and over again until you find the real magic of doing meditation. Literally, meditation changes my whole life. It changed the way I think about life, problem, gratitude and any other things. It helps me to be mindful and calmer. My favorite meditation app are 'Calm' and 'Headspace'. I recommend it to you and go start to download the app then you'll be ready to meditate. The app will helps you how to meditate. It's gonna be easier than without app. You can download the apps for you iOS or your Google Play. I will linked it down below.

CALM for iOS
HEADSPACE for iOS
CALM for Android
HEADSPACE for Android

6. Stretch Your Muscles

Stretching is really important for human body. Stretching helps us to relax the tense muscles. Sometimes people too focus and busy with our work from morning till afternoon or night. Then, you gonna feel so tired at the end of the day. Actually, when you do a simple stretching while you're working it gonna makes your body feel better, relax and less tired than before. Stretching will help you to refresh your body from activities that you do in a day. Do 5-10 minutes stretching every time you feel so tired is enough. Do stretching every morning when you wake up also really good for you body and to wake up your body. So, let's start to do stretching everyday!

7. Spend Your Time Outside for A While

I love nature so so so so much. I like walk in the nature and enjoy the atmosphere around. See the green tree and feel the fresh air in the morning, the wind, the blue sky, and the clouds. Nature always makes me feel better and makes me in a good mood. Everytime I get upset or in a bad mood, I just go outside to see the sky for a while always makes me so much better than before. Nature is kinda healing for me. Walk in the morning always becomes my favorite because of the fresh air, the sunrise, the sky and the beautiful scenery. Walk in the morning really good for the health eventho just walk for a short of time.

8. Sleep More

As you know, sleep for 8 hours in a day is kinda a standard that people usually use to measure your sleep quality by see how long you sleep that will impact to your health. Sleep is really important for our health. When you sleep late at night then when you wake up in the morning, your body don't want to cooperate with you because it gonna makes your body feel so tired, right? It different compare to the one who sleep early at night or sleep for 7-8 hours will wake up with a fresher body. Sleep for 7-8 hours per day will improve the stamina of your body, increase the quality of sleep and smoothen your blood circulation. Getting enough rest to recharge your body. So, the conclussion is to sleep more if you want to be healthier.

9. Watch TV Less

Start to reduce your time to watching TV and improve your time to reading more. The light from the TV screen is not good for your eyes health. It also applies for your gadget. If you want to reduce the consequences, you can use the radiation specs. If you don't want, reduce it and change it with reading more books will be better.

10. Laugh Your Ass Off

Laugh makes your feeling better. It helps you to improve your mood better. Laugh is totally free and it's not hard to do. Believe me, you'll get so much benefit by doing it. Laughter helps you to reduce your stress. You can meet up and hang out with your friends who always make you happy and laugh all the time. You can also watch humor movie in your room. As long as laughter is easy and free, do it as much as you can.

11. Smile More

I know it kinda hard to smile when you're not feel well, right? But take your time try to smile eventho you're on your lowest situation. Facial expression, in this case is smile, can really have a positive effects for your emotions.

12. Take a Hot Bath

For me, taking a hot bath after a hard and long day will helps me to relax. A little bit chilling but it makes my body feel much better than before. I can feel less tired after take a hot bath. Take a hot bath helps our body to relax and relax the muscles also helps to make our body better.

13. Enjoy Every Moment in Your Life

The key to enjoy every moment in your life every single day is gratitude. Gratitude is everything. Practice gratitude in your life every single day will totally change your life. It can changes the way you think, the way you face something, the way you act. Gratitude is a simpe thing that will helps you to enjoy everything that happen in your life. You are grateful with everything you have now and it just something to be proud of. We are alive, we breath, we laugh, we sad, we happy and we feel every emotion in our life. All of that is such a great thing that human can feel. Don't compare yourself with others. Try to practice gratitude and you'll understand what I mean. From practice gratitude, you'll see the purpose of life, at least the reason why you're here, right now, in this moment, in this universe.

14. Breath the Fresh Air

Take a walk in the morning in nature or get out from your house in the morning to get the fresh air is such the best thing ever. For me, it helps me to feel better and refresh my body and my mind to start a day. Make sure you get a fresh air everyday. Because that's really goof for yourself, your body and your soul.

So, that's all for the 14 tips that I share to you guys to start your healthy life. I hope that you guys found it out helpful and interesting. I'm so ready to hear your story, comment down below. Thankyou.

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HOW TO START DAILY ROUTINE THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

By Sonya Octa - Friday, August 31, 2018

Is that important to do a routine? It is.

Here, I want to share with you about my exprience on start a routine. Decided to start a routine is such a great and right choice. Believe or not, by create your own type of routine will change your life to be better. Having a good habits and routine will create a structure. Structure to make your life so much more directed and clear. Having a routine keeps you to stay organized. Routine actualizes stability, regularity, better life and life balance.

Then, how to start a routine? What thing that I should do first?

First of all, thing that you need to do first is to have intention to do it. Without intention, you'll never willing to do it sincerely. Plan your routine and just do it right now, not tomorrow or when you're really ready. Don't even wait until the right time will come because it's never come without your action. So, here some things that you should do when starting a routine :

Prepare your clear and right mindset before you start a routine. It's gonna hard at first, for the first 2 weeks until a month. But you're gonna used to it after that. Make a strong desicion to make it happen is become one of the important thing.
Start by doing the small things first. Don't try so many things when it's your first time doing a routine. Start it from the small one. For example, you can start it by drink a glass of water right after you wake up in the morning. In this case, when you're not used to drink water in the morning. Another example is by set your alarm 30 minutes or an hour earlier than your daily basis. Wake up earlier in the morning will make you more productive and can do more thing than before.
I know that every person has their own way and method on doing something. But, the another tips from me is to write down every single thing that you gonna do wthether it's for your morning, afternoon even night routine. Make lists and make it organized.

Maybe it's gonna be hard for the first three until four weeks. But it's okay, all you need to do is just go on. You just need get used to it. Do it day by day and try not to skip even just a day. A routine is all about persistance and consistency. Sooner or later it gonna be part of your day and you gonna do it as an autopilot kind of. Then, how about hold on the routine while you're busy or on travelling? Some tips for you guys who have a hectic time and want to maintain your routine, down below :

Be present and do things that possible to do based on the circumstances. Try to maintain it as well as you can.
You can change to do some things on the other time. For example, you used to do workout in the morning but you have such a hectic morning for a day. Then you can change the time to do it when you're free whether it's on afternoon or night. When you usually do workout for 30 minutes as your routine but you're so hectic that morning. You also can do the quick 7 minutes workout that morning instead of 30 minutes, that's no matter. It's okay not to always exactly the same with your routine. Make it flexible.
Prioritize it. When you're busy and it makes you can't do all things on your routine as usual. Then do things that you think important and you can't skip it even just a day.

Do as many method as you can to find the best one for you. Find what's work the best on you. It's not about copying other people's way but try to find your own way. Try to do a routine day by day and you'll improve on it. When you're get used to it, you're gonna find something new on your daily life and it will change your whole life as well, believe me. Have a routine will make you feel calm and enjoy your life even more. When you reach on the certain point, you'll see the power of a routine and how great it is. It's gonna be part of yourself and reflect yourself. Don't forget to always try new things, learn new things and practice gratitude every single day. The last one but not least, if you guys curious about my morning routine or you just need ideas to start your routine, so here my 2018 morning routine.

That's all the tips from me to start and kick off your routine for the first time. I hope this post really useful and helpful for you guys. Ready to start your routine? Comment down below and don't forget to share your story. Xoxo.

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THINGS THAT I LEARNED IN COLLEGE

By Sonya Octa - Tuesday, July 31, 2018

I just done my final year in my university. I graduated on May 2018 but officially on July 2018. Look back on my memory for the past three and a half years here. What I've done? I want to share about things that I learned during my study in college. So, here they are :

Being more independent than before. Do many things all alone without counting on others, mostly. Sometimes, yes, I need other people help too. But as you know, mostly I do it by myself.
Open minded. I never thought before I went to college, I just knew a bit part of this universe.
Learn about other cultures. I have so many friends from different region, culture, race and country.
English is really important, literally. When friends taught that English is such a strange thing for them, don't think it the same way.
I never get insomnia kind of when I'm i college, even until now.
I learned about other religion.
I've ever join film club. It just so fun to know the process of making film. I just really love about media and photography things.
I learned something from my friends. They instant noodles almost every week. Wow, it's not healthy at all.
Trust the process not the result. Enjoy every single thing that becomes my responsibility. Focus to do the best as the process and got a good result.
I understand what bilingual education looks like.
I see the importance of having friends that are just have the same taste as I am.
I know how important to leave the one who don't serve, it's a toxic.
I understand about the importance of respect each others and accept differences.
I am not a night person. Luckily, I'm not a late night person. I will forever be a morning person who likes to go to bed early.
I learned about student exchange things.
I learned how to use coreldraw and photoshop really well. Such a great experience.
I so much learned how to work as a team.
Work in marketing department for 2 yaers was really fun and it such unforgetable experience.
I know and understand more about people's different character.
I had my very first national conference and it was really great.
I went to journalist workshop for days for the first time by myself.
Making new friends is really fun. I'm glad to know such a good friends in college.
I know more about share & stock things.
I know how to read a graphic and interpret it.
Joined field studies (field trip kind of) was so much fun. I learned so many things from the event.
Visited ASEAN Office in Jakarta for the first time. I know it such a great experience that's not everyone can get.
Visited Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the first time. It was such an amazing and unforgetable experience in my life.
I learned how to see things from different side and perspectives.
The most important thing, I just need to count on myself. Everyone just fight for their own pleasure.
I learned from every mistakes and bad things that happened. Saw the positive side from what matter the most.

So that's all about 30 things that I learned during my college life. I hope that you found it out interesting and helpful. Thankyou! xoxo.

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MY SELF-LOVE JOURNEY : SELF-CARE

By Sonya Octa - Friday, June 29, 2018

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A TYPICAL DAY IN MY LIFE

By Sonya Octa - Monday, April 23, 2018

I have something a little bit different in this post. It's always fun to know how other people's live and learn new things from it. So, in this post let me share to you guys about my typical daily life. It just kinda normal day of my life. It's start on early morning.

WAKE UP AND WASH MY FACE

The night before, I always set the alarm for the next morning. So, I'm not waking up in a rush. Wake up then laying in bed for 3-5 minutes and get up afterwards heading to the bathroom. Go to bathroom to wash my face as my morning routine.

MAKE MY BED

After I wash my face, always, make my bed is a must. Everything should be organized. Every single thing that clean and organized just makes me happy.

MEDITATE

Morning and night before bed becomes the best time to meditate, in my opinion. Meditate with the calm situation and the fresh air just made my mind feeling much better. I have two favorites meditation app that I usually use. The first app is called "headspace" and the second one is "calm". Sometimes I use "headspace" and sometimes I use "calm". It's all based on what I really need the most at the moment. Between "headspace" and "calm", it has its own characteristic. Both of it are the best app. Doing meditation every single day just made myself so much better, the mind and the body.

JOURNALING

Journaling becomes my habit since about a year ago or more. It makes my life so much more organize, seriously. I've ever post about what's in my bullet journal on this blog before. So if you don't mind and curious about my bullet journal looks like, just click here to get there. Write down every single thing that I have to do for today, the next day or even the next month. It's so convenient and all you need (if you mind to start it) are notebook for the bullet journal, your ideas for the content and the most important thing, your intention to do it. Trust me, you'll never regret doing it.

DO THE LAUNDRY

This thing becomes one of my obligations. I do it like everyday. When I feel so bored doing it, to make it even more fun, I just play my favorites music. Music just brings the positive vibes and motivation into my life.

CLEAN THE ROOMS

Cleaning all the rooms in my house has becomes one of my obligations till now. My house has many rooms and I have to clean it like every single day. I feel so productive, lol.

BREAKFAST

My favs part! When I eat my breakfast, a cup of tea or coffee (based on my mood) always accompanied me. Eat my breakfast and chill for a while by listening to my playlists on spotify or watching my favorites YouTube videos. So you guys want to know my monthly playlist on spotify (which is I add some new song on and delete some on every month), so here's the link. But I remind you first, mostly about Korean songs.

YOGA AND WORKOUT

This part also becomes my favorite tho! ehe. I started doing yoga last year and thanks to yoga, you changed my life a lot. Usually, I do yoga every single day. But, on my busy day when I have no time to do yoga in the morning, I usually do it in the evening or before bed. It's not such a big deal, doing yoga is flexible about time. Yoga gives me so many benefits! Oh ya, after yoga (in the morning), I usually do workout tho afterwards. It makes my body even better and fresh in the morning for some reasons. I am super grateful doing it in my life.

MORNING SHOWER

Sweaty and sticky body after yoga and workout. Yep, the next thing to do is take a shower. What else. After take a bath my body feels so much fresh and feels like a new person, lol, kidding.

DONE SOME WORKS

I always try my best to make my day stay productive. I always double check about things that I've to done today and sort it out to the urgent one or not.

PREPARE TO GO OUT

When I have some schedule outside, I just need prepare everything before I go. Make sure that everything is in hand and nothing forgotten. Prepare the stuffs, make ups and clothes that I'm gonna wear.

AFTERNOON SHOWER

When I got home, I take a rest for a while then take a shower afterwards. It's so hot outside lately in my country. Super humid outside so it makes my body feels so uncomfortable with the humidity. It so sweaty, sticky and it drives me crazy, lol.

AFTERNOON CHILL

When I still have left time in the afternoon, I use my time to chill, fresh my mind and practice mindfullness for a while. I usually read an inspirational book or just listen to my favorites music.

GOT SOME WORK DONE (AGAIN) AND GO TO SLEEP

I still have another time to done some assignment. Yo, productive! Then, when I've done all my works, I'm ready to sleep. After a long day and tired, time to sleep. Before sleep, I do some stretch to make my body stay flexible and feels better. It gonna make my sleep so comfy. Better to sleep early and wake up early than sleep late and you'll wake up late. What you choose?

So that's all for the typical day in my life. I'd really love to share it to you guys. You know, it's not the best one, it's just the kind of normal life cycle. But I do really hope we can learn each other by reading it. Left the comment down below your comment about my post this time. Thank you so so much!

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HOW TO STAY PRODUCTIVE EVERYDAY

By Sonya Octa - Saturday, February 24, 2018

Staying productive always becomes the most challenging thing for me. Productivity isn't about do many things that possible to do in your day, it's about making the right choices about how you use your time to do something more useful and work smarter. You can start it by make changes on your daily routine that can make it much easier to reach all your goals. So here, I have some tips to make your day stay productive. Let's check it out!

1. Make a List

You can drafted the things you gonna do next day the night before. You just need to write down everything you gonna do the next day. Plan the day before is really important. The purpose of making a list is to keep you on track. Start doing the productive things right after you wake up in the morning. Wake up earlier than you usually do, so you can do more productive things in a day. Just try it first because it's really worth to try.

2. Eat Your Breakfast

It's really important to fuel your body since the morning. If you're not the kind of person who like breakfast or you prefer to do brunch then you have to try to eat your breakfast. I don't ask you to do it every single day if you're not like breakfast before. You can start it by trying to eat breakfast once twice a week. But, don't forget too add more day so it can be your daily routine and it's never bother you. You'll feel fine even much better by eating your breakfast every single morning. You'll got even more benefit when you eat your breakfast than when you're not. By eating breakfast every morning before you do your activities in a day, it's really give you energy to start your day. You can eat bread, cereal, fruits or just drink your milk. So, start from now try to eat your breakfast every morning.

3. Stay Hidrated

Water is really important for our body, for human body. Water is an essential. It's really really really really really important. Drink your water every single day. I reccommend you to drink your water in a water bottle. Drink using a water bottle will keep you on track how much water you've been drinking in a day. For me, I got so many good things when I drink water more in a day than before.

4. Get Organized

Organized your space will make you easier to keep you stay productive for your days. You'll never got distraction when everything around you organized. If you want to know more about organizing things and want to know how to be an organized person, then you just need to click it HERE. You can check my latest post about organizing.

5. Don't Force It

We're human, we're not always feeling motivated like all the time, right? Yes, sometimes we're not in the mood to do it and it's totally okay. You just need to take a break for a while and spend your time for chilling just for yourself to make yourself feeling better. It's kinda of self-love even you should do it for yourself. Don't just care to other people, you have to care yourself first even more because it's really important. So, when you ready, just go back and do what you need to do.

So that's it my five tips about how to make your day stay productive. You can start to practice it right now and I do really hope it can helps you a lot to improve your productivity in life. If you find yourself so much struggling to stay productive, try to make it as a routine and do it every single day. It will helps you a lot. Last but not least, don't forget to drink water before you start your day! ^^

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