Could you be (more) motivated if you have to do only 10 things in 101 days? (part 3 of 3)

by Diar Adhihafsari - 2002

In the second part of this writing, I suggested ESA to set only 10 goals to reach for in one-term duty (in 101 days, to be exact). This suggestion is not obliged to be followed; it’s a mere suggestion. My purpose in writing this is only to inspire you :)

I’m trying to say (based on my very own experience) that you cannot count one year as 365 days when it comes to doing duties as ESA Executive Board members. As much as you love ESA, who doesn’t love days-off (be honest)? You’ve got to do stuff relating to your own, your family, your friends, your lecturers, your duties in ESA, and other stuff that only you and God knows what they are. There are delays of Board meetings, delays of committee meetings, delays of this, delays of that. Do you know exactly how many effective months you guys really have in finishing your duties in ESA? I don’t know, but I’m proposing 101 days (out of 365 days, there are no excuses to not spend only 101 days, people—and it doesn’t have to be 10 things and/or 101 days in a row, anyways).

Well, here are the brief points:

1. Once you’re all elected ESA Executive Board members, set a day or two to meet and sit together to set 10 things ESA would like to do in a 101 days. I’m saying 10 concrete, measurable, logical, meaningful, useful things to do.
2. Have the list everywhere (your mind, your bag, your pocket, your headquarter’s walls, just simply anywhere and everywhere) so that you can always stick with the 10 things to do.
3. Focus on doing those 10 things. Have strategies in finishing each one.
4. Cross any number off the list every time you eventually complete one thing.
5. At the end of your one-term, evaluate the list (is there any thing you haven’t completed? Why? Would you suggest the future elected Board members to include the un-checked thing to do in the next term?).
6. Have fun :)

You can just skip this project if you think this won’t work. As I’ve said, this is merely a suggestion and inspiration, that setting only reasonable goals in a reasonable set of time is easier than the opposite.

I hope you’re now more enlightened and more inspired to do something, at least for your sake :)

Happy New Year (both Islamic New Year and Gregorian-calendar New Year)!

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Moslems in Christmas Day

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Christians will welcome the day which they have been waiting for so long: Christmas Day! They must celebrate it as marry as Moslems celebrate Idul Fitri.

Indonesia is the country of which the Moslem population is more than the other religion believers. No wonder when there are feasts of Islam, such as Idul Fitri, we can feel the lustrous atmosphere around. Then, what the feast of Christian, just like the Christmas which will come soon? What usually Moslems do on the ‘D’ day?

Living in heterogenous environment demands us to respect each another. When the Moslems celebrate Idul Fitri, Christians and other religion believers use their time to visit their colleagues, friends, and relatives. They also do things we call ‘silaturahim’. It is one of the ways to respect others when they celebrate the feast. Moslems also do this when Christians celebrate Christmas. As one of ESA members of 2002, Hasanudin usually does. “I usually do nothing special in December 25, yet I still go to my friends’ house who celebrate the Christmas. The rest, I just stay home”, he said.

However, in fact there are a few people who feel that they themselves have no use in Christmas day. Zulfkifli, student of Agriculture Faculty of Tanjungpura University is one of them. He said, “I do nothing special in Christmas day. I don’t get involve in the day, so I prefer staying at home”, he answered when he was asked whether or not he wants to spend the holiday to go around the town, or even go to the other town. “I usually walk around in my regular day, no need to wait for the holiday because holiday like Christmas is my time to stay home”, he added.

Although maybe some, or even most of Moslems think that they do not get involve directly in Christmas, in this case is they do not celebrate the day, the most important point is Moslems, as well as other religion believers, always try to respect one another when they celebrate their feast. Visiting friends’ house who celebrate Christmas, sending a Christmas-greeting SMS, and give chance to Christian to perform a religious service are ways to keep the peacefulness and tranquility among the religion believers.

Well, then. Representing whole Moslems around the world, I’d like to greet Merry Christmas for all Christians in Pontianak, especially those who is reading this blog. Have a nice Christmas! (dhz)

Article about the meaning of Christmas for a Moslem can be downloaded here.

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Could you be (more) motivated if you have to do only 10 things in 101 days? (part 2 of 3)

by Diar Adhihafsari - 2002

In the first part of this writing, I requested you to think about only 10 things you’d like to do, say, starting New Year. What would they be?

Okay, now put the list aside for a little while and please allow me to tell you in brief about this one gorgeous individual project I’ve been doing since early 2007. So, one day I found an inspiring blog post about a woman doing her own project and was inspired in an instant. What is the project? It’s doing 101 things in 1001 days. How does that sound to you so far?

Just so you know, thousands of people throughout the world are actually doing the project at the moment. Click here to find out who and what inspired us.

It’s a common thing for us to ‘re-start’ doing many things as part of our New Year’s resolutions. For those of you who think that 365 days are not enough, why don’t you make it 1001 days (that’s about 2.5+ years)? We sometimes want to do something big and a year doesn’t make us optimal in doing or even reaching it, so a longer set time might do us good.

Now I’m not going to discuss the said project in detail, as you can visit the website yourself for more information. Let’s focus on ESA. Once a year, ESA sets some (new) goals and let’s speak the truth, you don’t always reach all of the goals (I know, as I was a few times being part of ESA Executive Boards and/or committees). In this writing, I’m not asking you to do 101 things in 1001 days (since ESA Executive Boards are chosen to do their duties only for about a year). You’re students, your main duty is to study, and you know that. That’s why frictions sometimes show up when Executive Board members have to sacrifice either their study or their obligation(s) in ESA (or even both). But what if there are only 10 things or goals to reach during your one-year duty in ESA? Can’t you possibly be great in both your study and in ESA?

I know exactly how enthusiastic you are the first time you are elected Executive Board members. What about months after that? Is the same zest still there? And do you even still remember project A or D or even Z that you proposed earlier?

Think more on the suggested project and I’ll see you in the third part (which is also the last part) of this writing :)

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Could you be (more) motivated if you have to do only 10 things in 101 days? (part 1 of 3)

Note:
Just in case you’re surprised that a stranger writes in here, well… hello :)
I’m Diar Adhihafsari, alumnus of FKIP and former member of ESA (2002). I get the opportunity to write here as ESA invited me to contribute for this blog (so, no, I’m not trespassing, people). And below is my very first writing for ESA blog, genuinely written to welcome the new year :)

The question of the abovementioned title is not merely a question, but it’s really a question expected to be answered (well, particularly by the Executive Board members, if I may suggest). Despite the fact that the question needs only one answer (between ‘yes’ and ‘no’), chances are various answers will come up, either:

1. “Yes!” (with an astounding zest)
2. “Err… yeah…” (another form of “Well, um, I guess…”)
3. “What?!?” (with two eye balls almost come out of their place, as another form of “10 things to do in 101 days?!? What the bloody hell are you talking about?!?”)
4. “No.” (without even a wee bit of interest in saying it)

No matter what your answer is, I want you to stick with the first ‘yes’ answer, he he… ;)

I mean come on now. You’re a university student (means that you’re a grown up), you learn zillions of lessons both from school and daily life (means that you’re aware that life is not just about eating, hanging out, or making money), and inside you, I believe you have a sort of empty spot to be filled (I mean with fulfilled dreams, fulfilled idealism, fulfilled joy, etc.). Then it’s no longer a time for you to say, “It’s the brand new year once more. I want to be a better person” and that’s it. Do you REALLY have any idea what it takes to do to be a better person? Can you even enlist at least 5 concrete activities to do in order to make you a better person in the new year to come?

You have learned that an essay have to be started with an outline or at least with a first paragraph. You have learned that a paragraph is started with a sentence, and so on, and so on, you get the point. You can be ‘structured’ in school, then why can’t you in setting your very own goals (or New Year’s resolutions or dreams or whatever you name it)?

Okay, life is supposed to be pretty flexible and not to be bound by enormous amount of rules. But it won’t hurt, for sure, to reach your BIG goals by setting and doing and reaching the small ones first. So it won’t hurt as well to be a bit more structured this time in doing that. And guess what, this one’s good for an organization like ESA, too :)

Now I know you have, probably, 2536 wishes for the new year (it’s not like I’m counting). But what if you stop right there (before you make your 2537th wish) and reduce them until there are only 10? What are 10 things you’d like to do starting today (or tomorrow or January 1 or whenever you want to)?

Think about that and I’ll see you again in the second part of this writing :)

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Selamat Datang Semangat Baru

Hari ini, Kamis 4 Desember 2008, pengurus ESA FKIP Untan periode 2008-2009 mengadakan rapat pleno. Salah satu agendanya yaitu Reshuffle Pengurus.

Berdasarkan rapat siang tadi, maka diputuskan untuk mereshuffle Pengurus ESA FKIP Untan 2008/2009. Hasil Reshuffle Pengurus adalah sebagai berikut:

DIREKTUR : Dedi Irwan
SEKRETARIS : Dian Kartika Sari

BENDAHARA : Rini Ria Astuti

BIDANG – BIDANG

English Learning CenterManager: Dini Haiti Zulfany

Staff :

1. Mita Nur Aflah
2. Uray Yandi Rusnanda

Cadres and Human Resources DevelopmentManager : Apriliana Tan Wahyuni

Staff :

1. Heni Fitriani

2. Billy Setiawan Putra

Media Covered and Networking
Manager : Dewi Ismu Purwaningsih

Staff :

1. M. Rezha Sudiar
2. Frans Ajie Muda Akbar

Event OrganizingManager : Uci Andayani

Staff :

1. Meidi Sudaryanto

2. Habib Mustofa

Civic Education and AdvocacyManager : Riyanto

Staff :

* Devi Puji Indah Sari

Home AffairManager : Winda Diniyanti

Staff :

1. Helen Noventa Harlyn

2. Ita Darlina

Well, then. Kami berharap, dengan reshuffle kepengurusan ESA FKIP Untan 2008/2009 ini akan membawa semangat baru bagi kami dalam bekerja.

ESA, Ace up your Sleeve, Stand and Fight!

ESA Member, Too Young To Die, Too Hard To Break!

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BHRF XIV, new winner

Sunday early morning, Mr. Albert Rufinus announced to the audience of BHRF XIV, that the first winner of the festival is not Phyto-Plankton, but For 3 band. Congratulation!

The festival ran well that day. With about 600 audiences came to the festival, it really made us grateful and proud of the event. 3 foreigners from Germany: Dorina, Mathias, and Sina also came to the festival! Even Dorina and Mathias watched the festival till the MC said: See you in the next year BHRF. Mathias told that he really enjoyed the festival, and is waiting for the concert of hard rock music!

We believe that it would be great if the winner of BHRF XIV can make the concert for the audience. By the way, as we've told in the beginning of this post, we have new winner of BHRF this year. Phyto-plantkon, in fact, couldn't stand on their position as the first. They have to face the fact that the judges have decided:

For 3 - The First Winner
Polos - The Second Winner
Phytoplankton - The Third Winner

That very early morning, we really felt great honor since the representative of Danrem could hand the big Turning Trophy directly to the winner. We also do really hope that for the next Borneo Hard Rock Festival, Danrem and the other sponsors and supporters of this event still believe us to conduct the festival, as well they believe us to cooperate again.

Well yeah. Keep Rockin', and see ya in the next Borneo Hard Rock Festival next year.

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