Hello! Another project I’ve accomplished for 2020 is new year card. I got some cute new year cards couple years ago from my friends, that this year I want to send my own to them and to myself. I used to create and send things for myself, even I got Eid money from myself too lol. I like to save them in one place so that some years later I will come back to read or get surprised of the money I have there. 

This year I sent my new year cards to some friends which replied to my update whether or not anyone wants new year card from me. At first, I wanted to write only a letter for them, but then I thought that 90% of them are living faraway, some are in other lands, so I changed the plan. I made extra cards too. The contents are really random. I used random picker online to pick certain keywords, color, and quotes for it. Then I randomly picked one from each card for each name.  I don’t know who gets the which lol. I want it to be a surprise for myself too. 

It’s the first time I sent my own new year cards which I made and designed it myself. I also made the envelope myself (because I love to). I’m so proud of myself that I have accomplished this project without delaying it. I now see myself as someone who goes after her plans to bring it into life. A random message for everyone reading this blog post, if you used to see yourself as a lazy and incapable person, you can challenge yourself doing something new. It hasn’t to be something big, but as you are able to do it, you then build your confidence. You’ll see yourself as different person, you’ll see yourself as someone who has done something new. Honestly, I never made something like this before, even the lailiving 2020 journal is something new for me. I only go for what I want, for trying and learning. 

I hope I will create and send more cards for 2021. 

This is one of the cards I received from myself. The messages for this card are actually from Crystal Spirit Deck by Colette Baron-Reid. I love sending random messages for myself, sometimes I get some random messages stuck in my mind, that I’m able to write them into Weekly Message, Monthly Message or Today’s Message section for this blog. I hope the random messages I’ve gotten will be useful for other people by sharing them here.

Since I stick the envelope with double tape, I won’t be able to open it lol. I will open it 3 or 5 years later, maybe, haha. 

Also, I'm happy that all the cards I've sent has been arrived safely (A friend even made an unboxing video in her instagram story too). Surprisingly the first one arrived was the one for my friend in Kalimantan, while the nearer place hadn't arrived yet that time. The most important thing is I have done something I wanted to do to spread positive messages. 

How about you? Do you send new year cards too? Share yours in the comment box below

I’m getting ready for my upcoming project #MyKindFebruary. Are you going to join me? Please check this post for more details : Let’s Join #MyKindFebruary. I’d love to see you join this little baby project of mine (This is my first time doing this thing too, haha, I don’t know how it will turn out but I’m having fun in the process right now, so it’s a good sign for me).

You might currently feel unappreciated of work you have been doing, or you feel like the hard work you have put into your project don’t give the results you expected, or you feel people around you are against your decisions. 

It’s okay.

You are actually full of ideas, passionate, enthusiastic and willing to explore more. You have so many great plans to execute. Maybe, you have spread your focus into too many points that you end up feeling exhausted. Maybe, you are always saying yes to everything that comes to you because you don’t want to upset people. Maybe, you have been comparing your work to other people’s. Maybe, you are too detailed on small things that you forget why you started this project at the first time. Maybe, you have certain limiting beliefs which prevent you from seeing the opportunity.

It’s important to address whatever it is which hold you from being the best version of yourself. Address what beliefs you have in terms of relationships, finances or about yourself. Shift from ‘there is nothing left for me’ into ‘there is always enough for everyone in this world’. Give and help freely without expectations. Create grateful list of everything you have and you did, no matter how small it is. Recall the 3 things you are most grateful for everyday before going to sleep.

Any outer events you experience is a reflection of your inner. You can decide what your think and what you feel. Remember that any of the circumstance you have is temporary. As you are able to shift your thoughts, emotions, and focus, you will get better understanding and take control of yourself to the outer circumstances.

  

Everything you need will come to you easily.

Eliminate fears of getting lost and making mistakes. Don’t listen to the voices which judge you from being who you really are. Erase your judgement toward yourself and other people. Commit to make changes you want to see, keep doing. Disagreement from people is normal. Please realize that you can’t make every single person happy all the time, you can’t say yes to them all at the same time. 

Analyze what you have done or what you have been doing. When you feel exhausted and tired because of not seeing any progress, you might need to see the bigger picture. As a whole, what steps you have taken in order to reach your finish line? When you are able to find what it is the most important thing to do, you will get aligned back. Pick the only one thing you need to do and focus on it, then move into the other. 

Do one thing at a time. Eliminate negative self-talk and judgement in your mind, maintain your focus, listen deeply to yourself. You will be okay. Keep doing. Keep going.

Hello, beautiful people!

We are approaching the end of January, February is about couple days to go (since Sun has moved into Aquarius too, and tomorrow we have a new moon in the same sign, which both strengthen the February vibe for me). Because February is one of my favorite months in the year,  as I have tweeted before, I will hold a 29 day kindness project for the month of February. 

(Kita sebentar lagi mencapai akhir bulan Januari, artinya Februari tinggal sedikit lagi. Bulan Februari adalah salah satu bulan favorit saya, sehingga seperti yang sudah saya tweet sebelumnya, saya mengadakan project untuk melakukan hal-hal baik selama 29 hari di  bulan Februari)

We already feel that the recent situation sometimes makes us feeling uncomfortable, worried or scared. Through this small 29-day project, we will together do something good in order to shift the energy from the uncomfortable into better one. Everything is started by small things, so don’t ever think that your effort or your small baby step doesn’t matter. It matters. Everything matters. Your steps bring changes. Your good intention shifts the energy. You have the power within. Don’t hesitate to do the good, even though you are the only one doing this. As I wrote in my previous post about lailiving journal, my theme for January is freedom. Yes, this is the freedom, doing what your heart tells you to do, alone, is freedom. 

(Kondisi belakangan ini mungkin membuat kita merasa tidak nyaman, khawatir atau ketakutan. Melalui project sederhana ini, kita akan bersama-sama melakukan hal-hal baik untuk mengarahkan fokus energi kita dari hal-hal yang tidak nyaman ke hal-hal yang lebih baik. Semua hal dimulai dari hal-hal kecil, jadi jangan pernah berpikir semua usaha atau langkah super kecil kalian bakal tidak berpengaruh. Semua hal punya pengaruh. Termasuk yang kalian lakukan. Langkah yang kalian ambil akan membawa perubahan. Niat baik membawa energi yang baik. Oleh karena itu, jangan ragu untuk berbuat baik, meski kalian sendirian yang melakukannya. Seperti yang saya tulis di blog post sebelumnya mengenai lailiving journal, tema bulan Januari untuk saya adalah freedom alias kebebasan. Ini adalah salah satunya. Melakukan apa yang menurut hati kalian baik, sendirian, adalah sebuah kebebasan)

Okay. Basically it’s a project or challenge or move or anything you want to call it, to do kindness act in your daily life, for a month during February. It’s not about doing big expensive things which can be a difficult thing for some people. It doesn’t require money or buying something new. You simply need the stuff you already have in your home - and you have already had within yourself (in some days it doesn’t allow you to buy certain things). My intention for this project is asking more people to do good things, so I would be very happy if you are interested to join in. 

(Intinya, ini adalah challenge, gerakan, project, atau apapun kalian ingin menamainya, untuk melakukan kebaikan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari selama bulan Februari. Ini bukan tentang melakukan hal-hal yang mengeluarkan uang dalam jumlah besar yang mungkin membuat beberapa orang kesulitan mengikutinya. Project ini tidak membutuhkan uang atau tidak menganjurkan kalian membeli barang baru yang tidak kalian butuhkan. Sebagian besar menggunakan benda-benda yang sudah kalian punya di rumah dan dalam diri kalian sendiri (bahkan ada beberapa hari yang melarang kalian beli sesuatu). Tujuan saya mengadakan project ini adalah untuk mengajak orang-orang untuk melakukan kebaikan, jadi saya bakal senang sekali jika kalian tertarik untuk ikut)

If you are super busy, don’t worry, you can start anytime and do the stuff you are able to do. I will provide the #MyKindFebruary calendar and checklist in the end of this post. I will tweet everyday throught my twitter account @lailivingroom everyday at 12.00 AM (GMT+7) too as daily reminder. You don’t have to follow me or subscribe my blog to join in. 

(Jika kalian super sibuk, jangan khawatir, kalian bisa memulai kapanpun dan melakukan yang bisa kalian lakukan saja. Saya akan menyediakan link kalender dan checklist #MyKindFebruary di bagian akhir post ini untuk panduan mengikuti project ini. Saya juga akan membuat tweet setiap hari di twitter saya @lailivingroom setiap hari pukul 00.00 WIB sebagai daily reminder. Kalian tidak perlu memfollow saya atau subscribe blog ini untuk ikutan project ini)

I will also join in, since I’m the one who came up with this idea so I made it easy and fun enough to do it myself. I planned to make it as a twitter thread to make it easy to track. If you want to share your progress and thoughts through social media, you can use hastag #MyKindFebruary and/or #BabyStepForChange on your post, I will happily read them all and share/retweet them. Or if you are a blogger like me, you may post your thoughts and/or progress on your blog too. Don’t forget to reach out to me when you want me to read your post regarding this project. Also, you can post in any language you are comfortable with, but I only understand English and Bahasa Indonesia (sometimes Melayu) (I might be using google translate for any other languages).

(Saya juga melakukan project saya sendiri, karena saya yang membuatnya sendiri dan mengacu pada diri sendiri agar senang melakukannya. Saya akan membuatnya dalam bentuk thread agar lebih teratur. Jika kalian ingin share progress atau pendapat kalian di media sosial, kalian bisa pakai hastag #MyKindFebruary dan/atau #BabyStepForChange. Saya akan senang sekali membaca post kalian dan membagikan/meretweetnya. Atau jika kalian juga seorang blogger seperti saya, kalian juga bisa membuatnya jadi blog post mengenai progress dan pendapat kalian mengenai tiap topik yang berbeda setiap harinya. Jangan lupa beri tahu saya jika kalian ingin saya membaca blog kalian juga. Kalian bisa menggunakan bahasa apapun untuk ikutan, saya mengerti Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Inggris, terkadang Melayu (untuk bahasa lain saya akan pakai translator)

Oh, also, I provided 2 versions for both calendar and checklist in pink and blue for both English and Bahasa Indonesia version. The pink one is made based on the title picture which turned out to be pink lol. For you who aren’t into pink stuff, you can choose the blue version which is looked more neutral. So, which team are you? Blue or pink? Share yours in the comment section below.

(Oh yaaa, saya juga menyediakan 2 versi untuk kalender dan ceklis dalam warna pink dan biru untuk kedua versi Bahasa Inggris dan Bahasa Indonesia di bawah ini. Untuk yang warna pink, saya buat agar cocok dengan title picture post ini yang ternyata jadinya pink, haha. Buat kalian yang tidak begitu suka pink, ada versi warna biru yang terlihat lebih netral. Jadi tim manakah kalian? Share di kolom komentar di bawah ini ya)

Okay, are you ready to allow yourself doing more good things?

See you on February 1st!

English version :

#MyKindFebruary Calendar – Pink ver.

#MyKindFebruary Checklist – Pink ver.

#MyKindFebruary Calendar – Blue ver.

#MyKindFebruary Checklist – Blue ver.

Versi Bahasa Indonesia :

#MyKindFebruary Calendar – Pink ver.

#MyKindFebruary Checklist – Pink ver.

#MyKindFebruary Calendar – Blue ver.

#MyKindFebruary Checklist – Blue ver.

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Nothing is coincidence, everything has its own meaning and purpose. 

You have been holding onto something which limits you to pursue your dreams. You have isolated yourself from opportunities and experiences. You might also have been hurting yourself without even realizing it. Then God sends anything to move you, for you to make changes in your life, through goodbyes, heartbreaks, chaos and even conflicts. Those will wider your perspective and to honor yourself more. It’s time to look within, to see what limiting beliefs you have been holding on to, to heal yourself and ask for help if it’s needed. 

You have arrived to the point where you are now. You have gone through many things and you have worked hard for this. Please appreciate yourself for all of that. No matter what happened in your past, you can’t change them. The only thing you can change is your future. If you remain in the same point without doing anything and dwelling into the past, you will go nowhere. It’s not the time to regret and punish yourself. 

Take time to heal, to ask yourself, to understand what you really need in this life, to listen to yourself and do the necessaries for you to heal. It’s okay to pause for awhile. You can’t continue helping others while carrying all the wounds. You can’t pour someone else’s cup with nothing inside your cup. 

Take time to let go and say thanks to everything which is meant to go. They have served their purpose in your life, it’s time for you to hold on to new things, new opportunities, new beginning. There are many new beginnings you are going to embrace, because life is not about one beginning and one ending only. Life is multi-chapter-ed story with so much ups and downs, meetings and goodbyes, conflicts and celebrations, dark and light. The two opposite things should be there in order to balance your life.

Whatever comes into your life is not coincidence nor accident. You are meant to experience various things in this lifetime in order to level up and be better, to spread wisdom and light to other people, to fulfill your life purpose. You can’t resist nor escape the things which is destined for you, both good and bad things will come to teach you something. Good and bad are just perspective, how you see them, how you accept them. Sometimes what’s other people considered as scary isn’t that scary when you decided to step into it and face it. 

Take everything as lesson. They are coming for a purpose, to help you. When they have completed their purpose, they will go and when that time comes, let it go and be grateful for the lessons they have taught to you.

You are required to remain calm to see everything clearly and to welcome the things you are going to receive. The bright future is coming for you.

Hello! As I said in the previous post, December 2019 was a month full of inspiration and urge to execute everything inside my mind. One of them is this lailiving Journal 2020. I love to journal both using physical journal and digital ones. Previous journal I used were either lined or blank. I always wanted the dotted ones but even the biggest stationary store here doesn’t sell that kind of journal. There are many options when buying it online, but I feel like wanting to make it myself, add more pages and choose the color I want.

I drew nemophila flower as the cover. Actually it has the wrong flower color lol. A big note for the next lailiving journal on 2021 : to properly communicate with the printing service. 

This journal is inspired by Nemophila flower aka Baby Blue Eyes. It comes in A5 size with 200 pages in 80 gsm paper. I planned to use 100 gsm ones but 80 gsm has already making it this thick lol.  

Next pages are supposed to be intention setting pages, the big theme of the year, things I want to do, emotion I want to feel and bucket list. But, as I printed the sample pages before and tried to fill it, it didn’t feel like me. So I ended up skipping them and created the pages manually lol

The sample page which ended up being removed :

I decided to add this monthly themes to set what vibe I want to create each month. My January 2020 theme is Freedom. Walking alone in my own path is a freedom for me. Freedom is also my astrological aspect. As I always say about astrology, it’s more like an inspiration for me. I’m gonna embrace every positive aspect of it to be part of me.

The rest pages are dotted ones. I choose to not add tables or points (like those in common daily planner) to give myself so much freedom (again, freedom :D) to write here and there even draw anything without limits (that’s why the first plan to have everything in templates is ended up being cancelled). Even if sometimes I feel lazy to draw or even create lines, I’m always proud of what I have manually written / drawn on my journal no matter how messy it looks lol (this one is one of my best handwriting, so it could be unreadable when I have no motivation to write lol) 

I’m the type who has too much random things popping inside my mind, so it’s easier for me to just jot down the ideas or plans by the week, then decide which one to be done in which day at the beginning of every week. So my style is more like Alastair in weekly version.  

The only tracker which works for me. From my previous journals, this period tracker was the only one who ends up being fully filled for the whole year. For 2020, I didn't make any other tracker. 

Overall, I’m proud of this journal as the 1st journal I made myself. Finally I can execute the ideas inside my mind without so much delay nor excuses to procrastinate. I will plan the next lailiving journal earlier so I have much time to print the samples and communicate properly to the printing service. 

Also, I add a pocket to save anything related to this journal from this year.

If you are interested to print yourself the intention pages (which I’ve removed from the journal), leave the comments below, I will convert it into pdf and post the link in the next post. If you love this blog and get interested to donate, I’ll be happily accept it! I have both Buy Me ACoffee and PayPal accounts, you can use them, please feel free to message me if you get trouble using these services. 

May the good vibes you have sent come back to you even bigger than you expected. Hopefully, 2020 will be a good year to make all of the dreams come into fruition. Remember that, like attracts like, good energy attracts good energy, every good things you send out will lead more good things to come into your life.

How about your plans for 2020? What theme did you set for this beginning of new decade? Tell me in the comment box below. 

You are the never ending story you are telling to yourself.

You might be feeling trapped in a life you don’t want, you might be feeling trapped inside a body you don’t love, you might want to switch to another life which seems better to live in so you are able to be better person and able to reach your dreams. You might have been doubting yourself for everything you deserve. I want to tell you that you don’t need to switch to another body or be reborn as royal family member. You don’t need to. You are already having everything you need. You have so much potential and strength to make your wishes come into fruition.

When the usual story you’ve been telling to yourself is about being a victim, being the weak, being the most hated person or being the ugliest girl in the world, then those ones are your reality. What you constantly say, create your belief, your belief builds your action, your actions create your reality.

You have so much power to change your life into anything. 

You may think that you are ugly, you don’t have excellent brain, you are poor, you can do nothing. Then you are right. 

You may also think that you are beautiful, you are loved, you are smart, you have everything you need, you can do everything. Then you are also right.

There is nothing wrong with your story you say to yourself, there is no false beliefs. Whatever you believe in, you are right. Everyone has the equal freedom to believe anything they want. But, you can’t blame other people for your belief. Your belief constructs your life. Your belief creates your reality. That’s why you are the only one who get the full responsibility of your own life.

When you know that everything you believe is coming into fruition, what thing do you want to believe then? Is it the you who are ugly, poor, incapable and hated? Or is it the you who are beautiful, smart, loved, rich and powerful?

Your life is in your hand. You have the full power to choose which story you want to create, what role you want to play. You are the author of your book. Take a look to where your energy and attention goes. Are you delivering your attention into something which brings you joy and success? Or are you dwelling in the same old story which no longer serves you for the good? That scared voice which holds you back from moving forward is part of you which is still trapped in the past and tied by limiting words from other people. Don’t hate that part of you, he is there to teach you something. Don’t listen him but learn something from him to free yourself from that scared voice. 

Whatever inspiration or idea sparks inside you, go for that, you might feel scared at first. But the thing you want to go for, can be the answer you have asked. 

Once you are able to free yourself from the heavy baggage you have been carrying for so long that is the same old stories you have told to yourself, some of your wishes will come true, you will make progress, or if you have thought about it before, you are going to move to a better place. The most important thing is, you are getting the freedom you are longing for, you are able to fly higher and lighter toward your dreams. Appreciate your hard work, be grateful and be present in the now. So much blessings will approach you as you are able to keep focusing in the present moment. You will be surprised that Earth is a beautiful place to live in. 

Yes, Earth is beautiful, because it has you, a beautiful human living on it.

You were born to shine.

Everyone has different way to contribute in this world. You might not realize yours yet. You’ve been following to be other people, but that doesn’t satisfy you. Even though you get exactly what other people said as happiness, but you are still craving for the true happiness for you. You are now leaving that confusion as you realize what your power is. You need to shine by that power of yours. 

You are leaving anxiety and fear, letting them go and being grateful for the lessons they have taught to you. You are not regretting the steps you have taken in the past which caused you to question about your identity, your true self, your needs. By the mistakes you have made, you learned so much, you are growing into better person with so much knowledge and wisdom. You forgive yourself and people around you as you are moving forward toward new direction which is meant to be your path. You are leaving the old which doesn’t serve you for the good.

You are now stepping into a new foreign territory.

It’s normal to have fears of unknown and new things, but it’s a step you have to take in order to expand your kingdom, your comfort zone. You have the source you need within you. Use your potential without hesitation to take action now. You have the power to translate your dreams into reality. As you are able to build trust inside you, you will be directed toward anything which supports you. 

You are a hero. When you see other people as hero, you are a hero too. Find that hero within you who needs to come out. Let him shine as himself. What you like from anyone is actually the thing you have which needs to be revealed. It’s okay when you don’t know who you truly are or what kind of hero inside you, but when you try to embrace the positive qualities you admire from other people and do your best in your everyday life, you will be guided toward who you really are. 

Don’t hesitate to help, to inspire, to express, to speak, to create. Don’t diminish your abilities, don’t say anything bad about yourself. Appreciate and be proud of any achievement and hard work you have done. You don’t need anyone else to give rewards. No matter how many awards and gifts you receive, you won’t be happy when you don’t appreciate yourself. You don’t need criticism, harsh words nor punishment to learn and be better, you just need to accept what your mistakes are, analyze them and try again. Know that mistakes are there to teach you. You will find who you really are as you learn and accept everything you have and you did.

Don’t dim the light inside you because of the mistakes you did. Don’t turn off that light because people ask you to do so. Don’t fade your light because you don’t have certain possession. Don’t ever darken your light just because you are now in the lowest condition of your life. Everyone was born to shine.  You were born to shine. You are going to shine.

You have the courage, confidence, passion and power to be a queen of your own kingdom. You are complete and whole. You bring good energy to your surrounding which inspire others to be like you. You are an inspiration and light for other people. If you’ve been waiting to do a new project or do something new, it’s the time. Go for anything you are dreaming of. It doesn’t have to be a big step at first. Small step does count. 1% does count. It makes changes. When you decided to make a move today, it will shift you to get closer and closer to your dreams. Believe that you are able to choose wisely, to think clearly, to make the best decision.

Let your heart feel enthusiastic and excitement. Receive the messages, signs or inspirations from anywhere. Be present. There are going to be new ideas which inspire you, and new opportunities which bring you hope. You are not going to be hopeless nor clueless. There will always light to guide you.

When you set where your finish line is, you will be guided and inspired along your journey. Don’t be afraid. Use your own voice, be bold, don’t follow anyone else, you are your own leader. You set everything for you to harvest later. Nurture your creativity, don’t hesitate to express yourself. You might be different, but you are you, someone who has so much potential and strength to make changes in this life. Everyone was born to make changes in different way. When you answer your calling, you will live in fulfillment. When you deny your calling and follow other people’s path which is not meant for you, no matter how much money you have, you will always question where the happiness is. 

Abundance is available for you. There is always enough for everyone in this world. Don’t worry, you are not lacking anything, you have enough resources you need to move forward. 

Don’t forget to have fun with life. Spend time with people with good energy who keep you inspired and growing. This life isn’t about reaching the finish line only, but how to enjoy the trip and learn about everything offered along the road. There will be ups and downs, and it’s normal. It’s not the outer situation which defines you, you do. Like the moon phase, you will go into waning phase, but please remember that you will come as a full moon again. Any phase you go through, you are still 100% you and you are not missing anything.

Take the offer to the freedom to create the life you want by taking the lead now. You are the one who can make yourself happy, you are the one who will make your dreams come true, you are the key of your story. No matter how impossible it seems, it’s possible when you are able to see it. Even though it’s only 1% progress every day, you will make it into 100% when you keep showing up, moving forward and believing yourself.

Hello! This is the last Monthly Highlight for 2019. I’m pretty excited to welcome the new decade, new fresh energy, new inspirations. Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who has donated via Paypal and Buy Me A Coffee, I’m grateful for so much help, love and support from the people who read this blog. I will continue creating new content to inspire and help more people. I hope this blog will be a source of inspiration for those who need it. May every good energy you have sent out will come back to you too, and awaken the positivity chain to trigger more good things happening in this world. 

2019 is closed by the chill cloudy December here. If some areas are in winter season right now, finally I get blessed by rainy season which is supposed to be starting in October but yeah, universe delayed it until December beautifully. It’s not massive rainy season with huge rain everyday, it does rain -sometimes heavily- but mostly cloudy and chill -my favorite kind of weather. It’s not too hot, but not too wet so my clothes get dried well even though I put it under the roof. It’s a month which has most things to do in my journal. I have tons of ideas to be executed but gladly I am able to prioritize which ones first. I created some stuff too which make me proud of myself, yay.

For the first time in my life I joined Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), the last part was held in December. The main reason I applied for this is to organize my learning schedule, which has been messy and I couldn’t see significant improvements in 3 years. I’ve been learning Japanese on my own, so yeah without goals or target, I loosen my learning and make it too free that there are months I wasn’t learning at all lol. I took N4 level which I had never taken before, even N5 I never did it. So this was my first ever JLPT. The fun thing is I decided to join it on August. So I have less than 4 months to learn everything -even though in the end I couldn’t read all of my study materials, but I’m proud of myself that I can see the improvement in kanji memorization -my vocab hasn’t significantly improved though. So, with this main goal, I don’t aim to pass this test, I only want to discipline my learning process -although I aim for N3 skill before turning 30. It’s not the certificate that matters for me, but the skills. So let’s see, and check this post before February 2023. Haha. 

I always love Rhonda Byrne’s books. Hero is the one which resonates with me much for this month. It’s about leading and claiming your own power as a hero of your story. I wrote a bit about hero in my previous post before reading this book which got me surprised later, that some messages she wrote here are connected to my post. There are so many sentences I quoted from this book to save it in my journal. One of them became my inspiration for my 2020 vision board.

The fun thing about her book is always answering my most recent questions. I was asking some questions related to my current job, and Hero answered them. Thank you! 

This month I made a sudden goal for fun to reach 14k overall views by the end of the year. You guys made it! Thank you! It actually surpasses 14k when it’s 3 days remaining for December. The night before I was thinking how it’s possible to reach 300+ more views in only 3 days. But a tiny voice inside my head said that there is nothing called impossible when you stop overthinking then let it be as it is. It happened overnight. Big thank you to everyone who has interacted with lailiving, liking, loving, commenting, reading, and sharing. This blog has grown so much. I usually get 1000+ views per month but it’s doubled this month. I’m grateful that this blog could reach more people. The numbers are only numbers for people but for me it has energy. I appreciate any number I get, I’m happy that there are people who are visiting this blog.

Also read : Big Thank You

I’m proud of myself that I have accomplished my own plans (which used to be left un-executed) which are new year cards and journal. I made new year cards for friends and myself, I’m going to send them after holiday and new year vibe ending (holiday sometimes bring chaotic circumstance in shipping services). Also, I created my own journal for 2020. My green journal for 2019 has reached its end, so I made a journal myself for next year. I will post in the different entry about this journal. Overall, December was my most productive month that I’m able to create many things I’m proud of.

We are humans who were born to learn and grow forever. For me, I always love learning -especially reading books- since my pre-school years. I pretended to be able to read dad’s newspaper and read it like newscaster I used to watch on the television -who I admired so much. By re-calling that enthusiasm and excitement I had during childhood days, I continue to learn in the middle of my roller coaster days lol. It’s only another message that if you find yourself unexcited to learn, please remember the very first reason you decided to learn it, remember your excitement as a child too. I’ve just realized it recently too, so it’s not too late to start learning anything. We might fail, but we learn from mistakes and keep growing time by time. 

Some songs I played during December are all available in Spotify globally -some of my favorite Japanese musicians have their songs region restricted, so it’s not possible to listen it outside Japan. 9inch Space Ship is a new song by Motohiro Hata (you might know him from Himawari no Yakusoku) which was firstly recommended by Spotify Release Radar. I’m falling in love with this song at the first listening. Beside it’s space themed song, the message resonates to me : If you can imagine it, you can make it come true.

9inch Space Ship / Motohiro Hata (Spotify)

Other version of Paprika by Foorin is the English one which came out first on December this year. The English version is performed by Foorin team E which consists of native English speaker kids. Like the original version which in Japanese, I always get moved by kids’ voices which sound so innocent, cheerful and pure. This song is like reminding of my childhood years too where I danced and moved freely without fears and baggage. My most favorite lines of this song are : We can make our dreams come alive. Come and count with me all the happy things, so much joy you always bring.

Paprika / Foorin Team E (Spotify)

Paprika / Foorin Team E (YouTube)

27 is a song by Nishino Kana. A friend recommended this song for me since I told her about my worries about getting 27 next year. This song delivers a message for me that being 27 is not making you change scarily you can’t ever imagine. It’s a natural song for me which the first line told about how her friend one by one getting married and she becomes the oldest in her office. A cheerful song which makes me looping it non stop. I’m pretty sure that getting older doesn’t mean getting less productive and less creative. Getting older is adding one year to our physical age, but it doesn’t change who we are unless we decide to. Ages are not limit.

27 / Nishino Kana (Spotify)

I thought it would be the shortest Monthly Highlight ever because I use English for the first time in this section. But it turns out to be this long unexpectedly. I’m looking forward to 2020. In smaller practical picture, it might seem like other usual days, nothing seems special too. But, as I already feel the good energy 2020 would bring since the beginning of December, I’m willing to embrace any goodness and opportunities that 2020 offers.

Also read : Yearly Message : Victory

So, happy new year! Welcome the victorious year with smiles and positiveness. I believe we are getting better and better by time. May all your dreams come into reality. Never stop. Keep moving forward.