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I Have 15 ideas To Change Your Life. Do you Have 5 Minutes?

I’m the last person to say that life is easy. I don’t think that’s the case at all. But there’s one thing I’ve learned in recent years that changed everything.

The way you THINK determines the outcome of your life. But thinking is hard. That’s why we don’t do it often enough. Helen Keller said it best:

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

I’ll show you 15 thoughts about life that will forever transform the way you live. Ready? Let’s go.

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Is there a skill you’ve always wanted to master someday, but kept procrastinating on? A language you started learning – then abandoned? A topic in class you’ve never quite grasped? Or maybe you just want to expand your horizon and try something new? Distract yourself from your usual studies?

This challenge is the perfect opportunity to achieve that! Pick a skill and see how much you can improve and grow in 30 days – or really start working on your to-read list (I know those books have been piling up), your portfolio for that dream job in Illustration you want, or your blog you’ve been meaning to post more original content on.

Self-growth and development are so, so important, which is the main reason why I created this challenge.

The idea of this challenge is that people from all communities come together to gain knowledge, add skills and just have fun with the amazing amount of resources out there. This way, we can all support and motivate each other, whatever field you might be interested in.

Post an introduction with the hashtag #30dol with your goals and expectations for the month (starting June 1st), and what your current level is. (Of course, you can join in later as well, but it’s fun to start a the same time!) In the end, you’ll be able to compare and see how much has changed!

Rules:

choose a topic or field you want to concentrate on

post an introduction to #30dol 

define your goals or aspirations

update daily or weekly, we want to hear from you! ♥

post a picture, a sketch, or audio, whatever you deem fitting to show us all your progress for the day/week

Here are some ideas for you:

bullet journaling (read about it here on @emmastudies, here’s an amazing online course on it) 

books/reading (if you don’t have a personal to-read list, here is one with the best books of the 20th century, best series with a gay plot/subplot, and books everyone should have read at least once)

coding (here are some sites to learn html, css, data science, python 3, java, etc.: x x x x)

design/illustration ( stickers and illustration, character illustration, Ink Illustration, 45 best adobe illustrator tutorials, 

business/freelance/open your own shop (tips on how to open your own sticker shop, digital skills: web analytics and marketing)

languages (apps like lingodeer, duolingo, lingvist, busuu, blogs like @lovelybluepanda. there are also so many pdfs and amazing websites out there depending on your target language!)

online mass education courses (edx, coursera, skillshare, futurelearn where universities and professionals teach you about their subject - be that astronomy, engineering, ancient greek history, artificial intelligence or medicine!)

social media (learn to take iphone photos for your tumblr or instagram, and here’s a great post by @studyquill on how to start and maintain a studyblr!)

photography (travel street photography, find photographers you admire like annie leibovitz or henri cartier bresson and read about their path, or browse youtube channels like negative feedback which specialize on photography)

creative writing (there are tons of workshops online - you could also try to set yourself a piece or word limit similar to nanowrimo) 

culinary (check recipe websites, or challenge yourself to try one new recipe a day, or dedicate the month to a specific cuisine)

music (learn music production, andrew huang has also made a video on how to start making music here)

film and filmmaking (karsten runquist’s channel is wonderful for film analysis,  learn about cinematography basics here and film history here)

painting (acrylic painting, sketchbook illustration. you could challenge yourself to fill an entire sketchbook/create a piece every day or week, or to improve a specific technique) 

Every resource linked is free (if you click on the links you can get Skillshare for free for two months and cancel anytime), so all you need is some free time and lots of motivation!!

I’m very happy to be announcing this to you all, and will be working on my Japanese for this challenge – so excited to see what you all and I will do and how far we can come!

Use #30dol as the general tag, and add your field (your specific subject, or writing, painting, lang(uages), pho(tography), film, book, design) to find people doing something similar! Though honestly one of the things I’m most excited about is the multidisciplinary aspect - we are such a brilliant and colorful community :)

Have fun guys!!

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Persona timida:

Soy como tu, con el mismo constante e irritante miedo al fracaso, a hacer el ridiculo, ser el hazme reir. Lo he superado, con el paso del tiempo lo haras tambien, claro que no deje de ser timida, solo disminuyo en mi o aumento el auto control y el amor propio. No fue hasta que un amigo al cual en tiempos pasados ame, me dijo que el “no se arriesgaria en conocer a una niña timida, pues no le aporta en nada, es aburrida y la gente timida nunca sera grande en la vida”. Yo, quien he odiado no poder entablar conversaciones, al igual que lo has odiado tu, yo, quien he perdido y dejado pasar oportunidades por no superar el miedo, al igual que lo has hecho tu, yo, quien se avergonzaba tras sonrojarme cuando el profesor me hacia preguntas ante toda la clase y respondia estupideces, al igual que te has sonrojado tu. Yo, hoy, te y me defendi, nos defendi al escuchar que no tenemos coraje, que somos incapaces, que no valemos nada, que somos don nadie, que no tenemos nada que ofrecer. Porque sé , lo que es luchar ante tus propios pensamientos, diariamente, lo que es convivir con tus miedos, lo que es no poder desenvolverte con normalidad, no ser el mas popular, no poder decirle a esa persona que tanto quieres, lo que sientes, se lo que es el temor, lo que es esconderse, pensar que el problema esta en nosotros, se lo que es vivir, bajo las rejas de la timidez. Y no permitiré, que nadie venga a decirnos a nosotros, que no valemos la pena, porque siento que somos quienes mas valoramos los detalles, quienes mas tenemos para entregar, quienes mas sabemos lo que es la oscuridad, quienes mas sabemos de soledad, quienes mas sabemos de soñar y de realidad, en comparación a ellos, nosotros no somos mejores ni peores, somos diferentes y ya es hora, de cambiar el concepto, de hacer que se valore una sonrisa timida, una mirada cabizbaja, unas mejillas coloradas, unas piernas temblorosas, unas manos sudadas, una voz entrecortada, es hora de que te sientas orgulloso de pertenecer a esta multitud de personas como tu, tal cual lo hice yo, es hora de que aprendamos a querer esta especie de defecto para asi poder manejarlo, es hora de que defiendas lo tuyo, de que te defiendas a ti. Yo soy timida, lo acepte y hoy estoy feliz ♡

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how to get back into studying when you don’t have a routine 🏡🌿🌙

it’s ok to have a fresh start whenever you need one - sometimes it’s easy to get stuck in a rut where you find you can’t plan, focus or be productive, or you have so much to catch up on you don’t have time to tackle much else. at any point, it’s fine to reboot. take care of yourself, plan your week, try something new, finish all the tasks you need to! why not now?

prioritise your tasks - organise your tasks into urgent, important but can wait, and to be done if you have free time, then tackle them from most important to least important. that way you’ve divided and cleared your to do list and that pile of tasks doesn’t look as intimidating. and if it works for you, a timetable could help!

switch up the ways in which you learn - doing the same thing over and over can be taxing so changing how you study and keeping things fresh can rekindle your interest and motivation. instead of glossing over old notes, watch a video. create a presentation ! teach your notes to a friend. introducing new ways of learning can help you have more fun and also improve what you retain.

do whatever you need to motivate you - make sure you’re eating. get enough sleep! dress comfy. or dress fancy! do your makeup all cute. don’t do your makeup at all! hang out with friends and family! spend some time alone. spice things up. deviating from your typical routine is a good way to feel like you’ve restarted and introduce change.

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The air was cool and fresh against my skin as the rays of the sun leaves a kiss on my fingertips. It was a day as perfect as any for a good book.

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to everyone taking exams: u gon be ok. we gon be ok.

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Golden sunlight is the purest form of happiness✨

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june 30th 2018 ; walking the streets of montréal and sketching in bed ✨

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Friendly reminder to everyone starting school again: don’t postpone your work until the end of the term, you’ll regret that 💕

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I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

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24/5/16 • day 4/100 of productivity (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و

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