manifesto

gara-gara ngebaca ulang "The Happiness Project," gue semacam ketularan Gretchen Rubin untuk sering-sering ngobrol sama diri sendiri. trus jadi kepikiran these things I'm trying to tell myself:

1. make it easy on yourself. 

stralah. gak usah ngoyo kalo lagi capek.

gak usah nagging.

perbanyak toleransi sama anak, sama diri sendiri juga. you're the only one you need to please. 

eh tau-tau denger lagu ini lagi di radio, setelah sekian lama,

"when you're searching your soul,
when you're searching for pleasure,
how often pain is all you find?
but when you're coasting along and nobody's trying too hard,
you can turn around and like where you are."

2. stop feeding my fear. 

gak akan kenyang.

lagian, have some faith, sih. 

3. make it a routine. 

minum lemon. itu aja dulu deh.

(plus rutin ngelatih anak main electone dan iqro.) 

4. "if my life is just a teeny tiny blip on the radar, the only meaning it has is what I give it, and the only person it needs to mean anything to is ME. 

that means not stressing out too much about anything or about being "known" in any way, and focusing instead on enjoying my time on the planet as fully as possible each and every day." - from an article in "Rookie."

5. stay calm, so you can figure out what to do.