One of the major barriers to productivity I often hear about when I meet sisters across the world, is the lack of self-confidence. I know from personal experience that is isn’t easy to develop confidence – some people are born with it, but I believe for most of us, it has to be developed and nurtured as we grow! I often have friends and family tell me I carry an aura of confidence about me; some wonder ‘what’s her secret?’ – it has has certainly taken some training! It is really disheartening to see Muslim women who are so talented, educated and ambitious thwart their progress and productivity because they have low self-esteem. I’d like to explore how we sisters can boost our own confidence with practical tips from the Qur’an and Sunnah.
Firstly, I want to remind you that Allah has honoured women, affording us rights more than 1400 years ago and endowing on us the opportunity to earn the highest stations in Paradise, through the various roles we play as daughters, wives, mothers and Muslimahs in our society. We only have to look to our historical examples of female scholars such as Aisha bint Abu Bakr to learn that achieving confidence is not a sign of arrogance or being against Islamic values. In fact, one can be confident in their faith whilst being a Muslimah in pursuit of her goals.
Remember, Allah says: “And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them on the land and sea and provided for them of the good things and preferred them over much of what We have created, with [definite] preference.” [Qur’an: Chapter 17, Verse 70]
Cho Kyu-hyun, born in Nowon, Seoul on February 3, 1988, is a South Korean singer and member of the South Korean boy band 슈퍼주니어(Super Junior). He is one of the first four Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps. Kyuhyun won third place at the Chin Chin Singing Competition in 2005. In May 2006 he joined Super Junior, a 12-member boy band, who had their debut in November 2005 with the single, "TWINS (Knock Out)". Kyuhyun made his debut performance on 27 May at SBS's I-Concert with "U". The CD single "U" was released on 7 June 2006, which was their most successful single until the release of "Sorry, Sorry" in March 2009. In July 2009, Kyuhyun sang his first solo track on the television programme Yoo Hee Yeol's Sketch Book. The song was released as a digital single, and on Yoo's album on 30 June, with all proceeds going to UNICEF. On 6 January 2010, Kyuhyun's solo track "Listen To You", for Korean drama 'Pasta' was released. It peaked at number one on music portals real time charts.
In November 2010, Kyuhyun along with label mates TRAX’s Jay, SHINee’s Jonghyun, and new singer Jino formed project group SM The Ballad and released their debut album, 'Miss You' on 29 November 2010. Their debut album includes a solo track, "Love Again" by Kyuhyun.
5 Tips to Stop Social Media From Taking Over Your Life
Photo Credit: mkhmarketing flickr[dot]com/photos/mkhmarketing/The Prophet advised us to take advantage of our free time before we become busy. We have somewhat of a different problem now.
Instead of becoming busy, we’ve made ourselves busy. A lot of us go through the same social media routines constantly. At work we cycle through Gmail, ESPN, CNN, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Buzzfeed, and Pinterest on a habitual loop. We don’t even think about the websites we’re looking at, we’re programmed to do it. We take our phones and we have a similar pattern wired into our brains: text, Facebook, Twitter, email, Tumblr, Instagram, and so on.
After a long day we get home, and we’re mentally exhausted. If anyone asks, we say “it was a busy day.” The reality is we didn’t accomplish much, but we were busy. It has practically become a fad or bragging point to show how busy you are all the time. People stare intently at their phones as if they’re engrossed in saving an endangered species (while instead playing Angry Birds) just to look busy.
After this business, we “veg out” in front of the television to recover. Our families start to take on the same characteristics. Family time becomes everyone sitting together in the living room, each on their own device. Dinners with friends are now dinners with friends and their phones.
So what can we do? It is not feasible to suddenly shun something that has become an integral part of our lives. There are definitely apps to help keep you focused and productive, but if you’re like me, you hate micromanaging your life. To use an app to block out a website takes too much willpower to even download, much less turn on.
Instead, here are 5 easy things you can do to change your social media consumption behavior and make better use of your time and mental energy:
1. Turn Off ALL Your Notifications
I remember when it was cool to carry around a pager. It meant you were important enough that you needed an extra way to be reached by people. Now we’re too available. I’m not here to tell you to deactivate your Facebook account or anything like that, but there are ways to systematically reduce your consumption of social media.
A notification forces you to think about one of these apps when you were (or should be) thinking about something else. Turning off notifications makes you use those apps only when you want to think about them, on your own terms.
Turn off all notifications for:
Facebook Messenger WhatsApp groups Facebook (likes, comments, etc.) Twitter (replies, retweets, favs) Email Yes, email. But what if you miss out on something that important? Well, you do carry around a smartphone. Someone will find a way to actually call you if it’s that urgent.
2. Replace Your Most Used Apps with Something Productive
If you check Facebook 60+ times a day, you need to cut it down. The best way to do this is not by forcing yourself to check it less, or forcing yourself to wait a certain amount of time before you check it again, or even temporarily deactivating it.
Each of those requires cognitive energy for each decision point. It becomes mentally draining and you’ll eventually give in. Instead, delete the app you waste the most time on off your phone. Check Facebook all you want, but just not from your phone.
The location where the Facebook icon was, replace it with something else like Kindle. Now when you habitually hit the same spot on your phone, you’ll open up something useful instead.
3. Unfriend, Unfollow, Unsubscribe
Go through all your lists. There are people you voluntarily allow into your personal mental space; get rid of as many as possible.
We have this great FOMO (fear of missing out) that prevents us from unfollowing someone. You can never possibly process all the content you want, so instead become extremely selective. There was a point in time that I used to follow over 100 blogs regularly. That list is now down to less than 15, and even then I delete 95%+ of the posts without reading them — on purpose.
This one-time effort of unfollowing people will now free your mind to focus on things of true value.
4. Hang Out With Your Friends, Not Your Facebook Friends
Every time you go to a restaurant you see it: a table full of friends, all eating their food while occupied with their phones (probably talking to other friends on Facebook). Why do they even bother to hang out together? Just text if that’s the case.
The next time you are with a group of people, take all the phones and stack them on top of each other. Focus on enjoying the real, live interaction (and definitely the real food!). Also agree that the first person to reach for their phone picks up the bill.
5. Check In Family Devices At A Certain Time
Block out a set time of at least 1 hour a day where no one in the house is allowed to use a screen. Take a box, and collect all the devices and put it away. Force yourselves to talk to each other. Do this for a while and watch how this will improve communication and bonding between family members, inshaAllah!
If you are a family with kids, it is essential that you and your spouse have your own time set aside daily where you speak to each other without a screen or phone within reach.
Time is the best parameter we have to measure our life: the more time passes, the more life does too; and the more we allow things like social media to control our time and how we spend it, the more our life is out of our own control.
The above were just five things you can do to cut down on unnecessary time spent on social media, and use that same time for something better and more fulfilling. What other ways have you tried to stop social media from taking over your life?
Kelima member Big Bang akan menghadiri ‘20th Tokyo Girls’ Collection 2015 S/S’.
‘Tokyo Girls’ Collection 2015 S/S’ menggelar tahun ke-10 mereka tahun ini, dan akan diselenggarakan pada 28 Februari mendatang. Big Bang berkata,“Kami mengucapkan selamat untuk Tokyo Girls’ Collection untuk hari jadi mereka yang ke-10. Ini sangat berarti bagi kami karena dapat berpartisipasi di atas panggung untuk merayakan 10 tahun dan 20 pertunjukan. Kami akan menampilkan panggung yang bergairah sehingga para penggemar dapat mengingat bahwa 28 Februari adalah sebuah hari yang sangat menakjubkan.”
Cahaya
di Alam Semesta
adalah sebuah buku pengetahuan yang ditulis oleh Weni R.Dkk. Buku ini membahas
segala sesuatu yang berkaitan dengan cahaya yang ada di alam semesta kita.
Cahaya adalah radiasi
elektromagnetik, baik dengan panjang
gelombangkasat
mata
maupun yang tidak. Cahaya memiliki beberapa sifat, diantaranya adalah cahaya
merambat lurus, cahaya menembus benda bening, dan cahaya dapat dipantulkan. Pemantulan secara teratur terjadi jika
cahaya mengenai permukaan benda yang rata. Sedangkan cahaya dipantulkan secara
baur jika cahaya mengenai permukaan benda yang tidak rata.
Pelangi merupakan fenomena optik dan
meteorologi yang menghasilkan spektrum
cahaya yang (hampir) bersambung di langit. Pelangi terbentuk saat matahari
bersinar setelah turun hujan. Pelangi membentuk sebuah lengkungan yang
berwarna-warni dengan warna merah di lengkung paling luar dan ungu di lengkung
paling luar.
Tahukah
kalian apa yang disebut sumber cahaya? Sumber cahaya adalah sesuatu yang
menghasilkan cahaya. Sumber cahaya yang terbesar di alam adalah matahari.
Keberadaannya membuat kita dapat melihat dunia ini.
Matahari adalah bintang terdekat dari
bumi dengan jarak rata-rata 149.680.000 kilometer. Matahari merupakan sebuah
bola gas raksasa yang berpijar dan ternyata bentuknya tidak benar-benar bulat. Warna-warna
dalam cahaya putih matahari dapat dipecahkan menggunakan prisma menjadi jalur
warna. Jalur warna ini dikenal sebagai spektrum.
Di permukaan matahari terdapat jilatan
api yang menjulang hingga mencapai ketinggian 100.000 kilometer ke angkasa yang
disebut “Sun Flare”. Semburan sun flare ini dapat mengganggu gelombang
komunikasi. Sejak zaman dahulu, cahaya sudah
membangkitkan rasa penasaran beberapa ilmuan besar. Diantaranya Isaac Newton
dan Ibnu Al Haytham. Al Haytam merupakan salah satu ilmuan perintis yang
meneliti tentang cahaya
lebih awal dari Newton. Buku
ini merupakan hasil karya sang penulis lulusan Fakultas Sastra Universitas
Gadjah Mada dengan Jurusan Sastra Indonesia di Yogyakarta. Ditulis dengan
bahasa yang santai dan mudah dipahami, buku ini sangat cocok untuk dibaca oleh
anak-anak.
Dalam buku ini, penulis juga menyelipkan
gambar-gambar yang berwarna dan terdapat glosarium sehingga kata-kata yang
tidak dimengerti oleh pembaca dapat dilihat pada halaman glosarium tersebut.
Kita juga dapat menemukan berbagai jenis percobaan yang berkaitan dengan cahaya
yang dapat kita lakukan sendiri di rumah. Kekurangan buku ini adalah dalam buku
ini, tidak terdapat kata pengantar. Cover buku juga kurang menarik. Meskipun buku ini memiliki sedikit
kekurangan, tapi tentu tidak menjadi masalah, karena, isinya memang sangat berguna
bagi kita.
Banyak sekali pengetahuan yang dapat kita ketahui setelah membaca buku ini
khususnya pengetahuan tentang cahaya.
Not happy with your unhealthy diet? You're not alone. So many people eat a diet of heavily processed, high-calorie foods. The result is excess weight, that sluggish feeling and eating a bad diet isn't good for your health.
Are you on a mission to improve your unhealthy eating patterns? It can seem like a long uphill battle, but with these easy tips you can get started on your dietary quest.
1. Drink water instead of soda.
If you're getting ready to grab a bottle or can of sugary soda, just walk away and go pour yourself a glass of water. You'll instantly save calories by eschewing the sugar. Drinking water is a good habit to form. If you're not a fan of plain water, you can dress it up with sliced fruits.
Alternatively there are zero-calorie beverages sweetened with various non-nutritive sweeteners. Miss the fizziness of soda? Go to the grocery store, pick up bottles of mineral water -- look for brands enhanced with a little fruit flavor. But watch out for 'flavored waters' that are flavored with sugar or high fructose corn syrup -- they're just as high in calories as sodas.
2. Hide the treats and bring forth the fruit.
If you have bags of cookies, candy or other treats in plain sight -- by all means go hide them. Out of sight, out of mind. That doesn't mean you can't have the occasional treat, but if they're not sitting out, you're less likely to be tempted to grab one whenever you walk by.
With the same idea in mind, if you have fresh fruit like apples, bananas, oranges and pears lurking in your cabinets or refrigerator, bring them out. Put them in a big attractive bowl on your counter or table. If you don't have any fresh fruit -- add some to your grocery shopping list.
One of the challenges that a Muslim faces when trying to wake up for Fajr everyday is the constant shifting of the Fajr prayer. Depending on the season you’re in, it constantly shifts either few minutes forward each day or few minutes back each day. Thus, it can be difficult to keep up with a varied Fajr schedule throughout the year.
This varied schedule poses three challenges for a productive Muslim: It’s difficult to “train” your brain to wake up at a certain time each day. When you read productivity books, their advice is to always wake up early around the same time each day, e.g. 5am. This helps train your brain to wake you up early regardless of how late you slept the night before. However, for a Muslim, this is not realistic, especially with the shifting time for Fajr prayer, which can start as early as 1am or 2am or as late as 7am, depending on the season and which part of the world you’re in. It’s difficult to maintain a regular “night” prayer routine. If you want to benefit from the last third of the night and get up and pray, you cannot have a consistent schedule. In some seasons, this will require you to wake up as early as 1am or 2am and in some seasons, you’ll need to wake up at 5am or 6am. Again, it can be difficult for you to stay consistent. You cannot maintain a consistent schedule or morning routine. Since your morning keeps expanding and contracting depending on what time you have to wake up for Fajr prayer, having a consistent morning routine can be quite challenging. So How Do You Overcome This Challenge?
Taylor Swift since the release of '1989' has basically dominated American pop culture across all forms of media.
She's also become quite a figure in the entertainment business. Earlier this year, she made the decision to rip all of her albums off Spotify, saying: "Everybody's complaining about how music sales are shrinking, but nobody's changing the way they're doing things. They keep running towards streaming, which is, for the most part, what has been shrinking the numbers of paid album sales."
Now, in another business move, she's trademarking catchphrases from her latest album "1989," according to Rolling Stone.
She's trademarked five phrases in all with the US government, according to the legal database Justia.
Shakira and her longtime partner, Gerard Piqué, have just welcomed the birth of their second son, Sasha Piqué Mebarak. Shakira announced the arrival of her son, Sasha Piqué Mebarak, on her website and explained the meaning behind his name. "The name Sasha is of Greek and Russian descent and means 'defender of mankind' and 'warrior,'" her blog states. Sasha arrived Thursday night via C-section at hospital Quirón-Teknon de Barcelona. Sacha joins big brother Milan in the family fold. Although Shakira kept a fairly low profile during her second pregnancy, which was first revealed in August, the 37-year-old blonde beauty has always been open about her plans to expand her family. "I would love to have eight or nine kids with Gerard," she told Latina magazine. "My own fútbol team." Pretty ambitious, right?
Assalamualaikum Wr.Wb. Selamat pagi dan salam
sejahtera.
Yang terhormat Dra. Tutut Sri Wahyuni selaku
Kepala SMP Negeri 20 Malang,
Yang terhormat Bapak / Ibu guru, serta teman-teman
yang saya cintai dan saya banggakan.
Pertama-tama, marilah kita ucapkan
puji syukur kehadirat Tuhan Yang Maha Esa atas berkah dan karunia-Nya, kita
semua dapat berkumpul di pagi
yang cerah ini tanpa halangan apapun. Pada kesempatan ini, saya akan menyampaikan pidato tentang “Lingkungan Asri, Belajar Sepenuh Hati.”
Saudara-saudara,
salah satu cara untuk meningkatkan kualitas sumber daya manusia adalah dengan
bersekolah. Memang banyak cara lain yang dapat ditempuh untuk memperluas dan
memperdalam ilmu pengetahuan. Namun, sekolah tetap yang utama, karena melalui
sekolah, siswa tidak hanya belajar akademik, namun juga bersosialisasi, dan belajar untuk bertata krama yang akan menjadi modal utama untuk terjun langsung ke masyarakat kelak. Sekolah juga merupakan keluarga kedua bagi kita selain
keluarga di rumah. Jadi, sekolah yang nyaman juga akan turut berpengaruh
terhadap keberhasilan siswanya dalam belajar.
Saudara-saudara,
sekolah yang nyaman adalah sekolah yang mampu membuat siswa betah belajar dan
merasa senang. Sarana dan prasarana yang baik misalnya, gedung yang rapi, bersih, lingkungan yang nyaman, buku-buku yang lengkap,
dan kelas yang memadai atau layak untuk digunakan, sehingga suasana
belajar-mengajar akan terasa nyaman. Sebagai
bagian dari upaya pelestarian lingkungan, di SMP
Negeri 20 Malang telah melakukan program penghijauan dengan penanaman pepohonan
dan tanaman-tanaman hias, mengingat letak sekolah berada tepat di depan jalan
raya yang selalu ramai kendaraan bermotor. Dengan hal ini, polusi udara dapat
diminimalisir. Polusi udara seperti suara bising yang dapat mengganggu kegiatan
sekolah dapat diatasi dengan bekerja sama dengan pemerintah setempat untuk
memberi peraturan agar jumlah kendaraan bermotor dapat dikurangi, mengurangi
laju kendaraan, tidak membunyikan klakson, dan lain-lain. Selain itu, Rimbunnya dedaunan pepohonan dapat memerangkap
gelombang suara sehingga mengurangi tingkat kebisingan. Dengan
udara yang bersih, nantinya dapat membuat suasana lingkungan di sekolah lebih
nyaman dan penggunaan pendingin ruangan atau AC dapat diminimalisir.
has honoured women, affording us rights more than 1400 years ago and endowing on us the opportunity to earn the highest stations in Paradise, through the various roles we play as daughters, wives, mothers and Muslimahs in our society. We only have to look to our historical examples of female scholars such as Aisha bint Abu Bakr 
to learn that achieving confidence is not a sign of arrogance or being against Islamic values. In fact, one can be confident in their faith whilst being a Muslimah in pursuit of her goals.
advised us to 
