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Lessons from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

100 Things I Learned in 10 Years and 100 Reads of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations

Meeting Sheryl Sandberg in Vietnam

When we got the phone call to come for a meeting with Facebook in Da Nang, Vietnam, they didn’t tell us who we’re going to meet. Girls in Tech Indonesia has been working with Facebook for the past 2 years for #SheMeansBusiness and #WhyNot program. But I have a strong feeling, this time is different. I feel that I’m going to finally meet Sheryl Sandberg in person. And boy… I was right.

She has the charm and the charisma of a queen. She didn’t speak much, more because she wanted to listen. I bought Option B just before we got on a plane. It’s about how Sheryl cope with the sudden death of her husband. I read it, sobbing like kindergarten kid on the first day of school, and get a grasp on ways to handle grief.

I always thought that I need to properly grief. I feel like, whenever I encounter sadness like when I lost my father or when I break up with my fiance, I either skip the process, or I don’t take enough time to be sad.

Sheryl mentioned she push herself to write gratitude journal in the most difficult times after Dave’s gone. Writing gratitude journal for me has been a way of keeping my sanity. I guess this is why I can snap out of grief instantly. Thank you, Sheryl, for your inspiration. Can’t wait to see you again, maybe next time in Palo Alto!

Mount Agung and The Meaning of Patience

Assad face looked a bit worried. He’s going to speak with me at Entrepreneur Bootcamp 2017 event in Bali, but he also want to make sure he’ll be back on time when his wife give birth. Following Mount Agung eruption, the status of Ngurah Rai airport has been unpredictable.

I assure him that everything will be okay. Even when we finally stuck in Bali for few days because Ngurah Rai airport was closed, I still think everything will be fine.

On the fourth day we were in Bali, from the 2 days trip plan, the organizers decided that we can go by land to Banyuwangi and get a flight back home. We got the last flight.

If you been to Blimbingsari Airport, you’ll know that it’s tiny. Hundreds of tourists got the same idea and flock in the poor little space.

Of course, we had seemingly endless waiting time and delays. But we’re glad to be home. We learned to enjoy the journey and the stay, buy meeting old friends, enjoying the nature, eat traditional food, and more. After all, it’s a natural process for Mt Agung to erupt. We just need to be patient.

Let’s send positive vibes and prayers for the people affected by Mount Agung eruption in Bali

10 Kesalahan yang Dilakukan Pengusaha Saat Baru Memulai Bisnis

I made this video to be shown to 250 of the best students from all over Indonesia at Entrepreneur Bootcamp 2017 in Bali. I’m excited to see their the energy and passion. This is the future of Indonesia!

Jakarta, GrabHitch and Nebeng Economy

Sebagai orang yang punya rumah di Depok dan bekerja di Jakarta Barat, saya paham sekali bagaimana GILA-nya commuting Depok-Jakarta setiap hari. Selain jarak yang berpengaruh pada waktu tempuh terutama saat harus menembus kemacetan di jam kerja, commuting juga besar pengaruhnya ke dompet dan budget untuk transportasi. Boro-boro mau nabung dan berinvestasi, kalau biaya transportasi harian saja sudah segunung. Tak ada yang paling membuat miskin dan menderita lahir batin selain commuting ke Jakarta.

Sharing economy bisa menjadi salah satu solusinya. Dengan ‘sharing’ kendaraan alias nebeng, masalah-masalah seperti biaya besar bisa terpecahkan, karena praktisnya kita akan membagi biaya perjalanan dengan teman nebeng kita. Praktek ini sudah kita lakukan selama bertahun-tahun secara tradisional. Ingat kan, betapa bersyukurnya kita dulu kalau ada teman kantor yang pulangnya searah?

Di era teknologi, konsep nebeng menjadi berkembang. Sekarang kita bisa memilih nebeng naik motor daripada nebeng naik mobil yang rentan terjebak macet. Soal jadwal, dulu kita harus ‘terikat’ sama teman nebeng kita, pulang kantor harus tepat jam 5 sore dan harus janjian tiap hari tepat waktu, kalau nggak bakal ditinggal. Sekarang, ada banyak teman searah yang bisa kita tebengi sehingga kita bisa lebih fleksibel, nggak perlu harus menyesuaikan setiap waktu, tinggal atur jadwal 30 menit hingga 7 hari sebelumnya agar jadwal dengan teman tebengan mana pun bisa cocok. Jadi kalau kita mau pulang kantor lebih cepat atau lebih lambat juga nggak masalah.

Males risih sama orang baru apalagi yang beda jenis kelamin? Nggak perlu pusing, teknologi memungkinkan untuk pilih teman nebeng yang sama jenis kelaminnya dengan kita. Jadi kalo kita cewek dan pengen nebeng sama temen cewek juga, supaya bisa pegangan lebih nyaman, tinggal pilih checklist ‘same gender’ aja.

Menurut saya, tidak perlu ragu juga untuk nebeng dengan siapa saja, karena pastinya teman nebeng sudah diverifikasi dulu identitasnya. Yang membuat nebeng makin menarik, jika teman-teman nebeng kita ternyata karyawan yang bekerja di perusahaan dan bidang yang sesuai minat kita, ini tentu kesempatan untuk menambah networking untuk kebutuhan profesional atau bisnis.

Jadi layanan apa yang bisa kayak gini? Di Jakarta, Grab punya layanan GrabHitch. Dengan GrabHitch kita nggak perlu pake helm dan jaket warna hijau dengan logo Grab, sehingga pengalamannya benar-benar seperti nebeng sama teman kita sendiri.

Prosesnya gampang, 30 menit hingga 7 hari sebelum berangkat, kita tinggal masuk ke aplikasi Grab, pilih GrabHitch dan masukkan lokasi dan tujuan kita. Untuk keamanan, kita juga diminta untuk menghubungkan akun kita dengan Facebook, atau manual meng-upload foto dan nama kita jika kita tidak ingin menggunakan Facebook. Setelah itu, kita tinggal menunggu konfirmasi dari teman searah yang berminat menebengi kita. Sedikit tips, pasang foto kita yang penuh senyum ya biar temen nebengnya nggak serem ngeliat kita :))

Sekarang tarif GrabHitch cuma Rp 20.000 dari Depok-Jakarta dengan tarif dasar Rp 1.000 tiap kilometernya. Apa untungnya buat temen nebeng kita? Ya dia bisa dapet duit tambahan yang lumayan banget buat beli bensin. Untungnya buat Jakarta? Jika lebih banyak yang nebeng, maka jumlah kendaraan akan berkurang. Kalau biaya lebih murah dan nggak perlu fokus bawa motor sendiri, tentu lebih enak nebeng aja, nggak capek!

Sebenernya bakal makin seru kalo kita bisa melihat foto temen nebeng kita dan milih untuk nebeng sama dia. Siapa tau udah ganteng, ternyata ngobrolnya cocok, dan bisa berlanjut ke jenjang kehidupan lainnya, kan? *Salah fokus*

More info tentang GrabHitch bisa kamu baca di https://www.grab.com/id/hitch/

Kalau baru nyobain GrabHitch, coba deh pake kode promo ‘CUMAGOCENG’, biar hemat kemana aja Rp 5 ribu!

Enjoy your nebeng time!

I Love You. Which really means…

When I say I love you, this is what I really mean…

I have the needs of love. I need you to remember me in the morning, during the day, at night and telling me about it. I need you to clearly express with words how your world is turning upside down without me in it. My happiness will be rooted deep inside you, and I will think you’re responsible for it. I could drained you with seemingly endless neediness, if you’re not the right person for me.

I have storms of insecurities and you’re the indestructible wall, not getting affected, but in the same time spread out humor and lightness, ’til it dissolves away.

A big part of your weekends and free time are mine. Spending time together with you is something that I look forward to. You are the source of energy that moves me, like mine boost yours.

You are mine. No girl can touch you or talk to you ever again. Especially when they’re smart and pretty. Forget about it.

I will brainstorm and tell you all about my dreams. Sometimes it’s big and wild, but nothing is too crazy for both of us. Together we can think of a way to make it happen. Together we are power.

I will be who I am and stand up for what I believe in. I have my own mission and vision of the future that we will align with every single day.

I will say that I accept you the way you are, but sometimes I might want to change you: better style of fashion or better way to say I love you. I will communicate my needs and I will judge if you listen to me or not. I can confused you and make you feel like you’re not enough, if your root is not fully gripping to the core of your values.

I accept you through the goods and the bads of life. I will help you get through shit as well as the beauty of it, no questions asked. It is normal to have those experiences. No event is more stressful than the others. It’s just is.

My words might hurt you, your words might hurt me and we will fight about the state of the world, macro economy, our lifestyle and how we raise our kids. We will fight to stay. We will fight to grow stronger and bigger together.

I listen to you, but sometimes I don’t. I’ll give you my advice, telling you my experience, and proving that my views are right, instead. But next time, I will listen to you, fully, as long as my strength to be mindful could.

I will say weird things about the planet, outer space, and spiritual terms you never heard of. I will change to be a better person, I will create different things, I will change the world and you will be there with your love and strength to support me.

We will travel the world and you will pay most of the expenses, because you insist. We will choose romantic places with lots of beach, but I can’t swim so I can’t accompany you when you dive. I will clearly opt to read books by the beach and let you have your own adventure.

You’ll have all of me. I trust you with my fullest being. And I’m not afraid to pour immense love into you and our relation. I will be the solid foundation on your despair and the loving arms for you to rest upon.

I take care of you. I learn to cook and make our house perfect from YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram. I am a learner and together we will learn something new every day.

I will be fullest romantic. I will write poetry and dedicate it to you. I will create arts for you. I will go extra miles to make you happy.

I adore you. I enjoy the way you talk and how your eyes sparkle when you explain about works you love. I make jokes just so I can see your smile. You don’t have to do anything, you just melt me by being yourself. When I love you, you are the only one.

And when you read all these and you laugh, not nervous laugh, but loving laugh, because you can see it in the future and you’re not afraid, then I meant to be yours.

Happy Valentine’s day!

Life and Startup Lessons from Yiping Goh CPO MatahariMall.com

Yesterday, I had duck dinner with Yiping Goh, Chief Product Officer of MatahariMall.com and also MatahariMall.com first employee.

Yiping is originally from Singapore, so I asked her about her decision to move to Jakarta and build MatahariMall.com, a company with hundreds of million dollars in investment, from scratch. Did she ever felt intimidated and having a hard time to take the challenge?

Yiping answer was around her decision to move to Jakarta. She said it was tough at first because she didn’t have a lot of friends in Jakarta, so she started to ‘solve her own problem’ by creating her own circle by making ‘Expats in Kuningan’ type of meetup on Meetup.com. But she didn’t mentioned anything about taking the enormous responsibility to build an e-commerce giant, recruiting from scratch to 500+ employees in 2 years.

When I brought this up, Yiping was confused. For her, the decision was easy. She always been curious in Indonesia’s big market and e-commerce is the best way to learn. I told her, that lack of self confidence can stop women to take this type of leadership role, I’m speaking for myself. I would second-guess myself for sure. She said, if someone already choose you to take certain role, they know for sure that you can do it. So, just do it. This has been truly her #WhyNot moment.

After our conversation, I know that her dad had been creating this taking-up-big-responsibilities habit to her since early age. When she was 8 years old, she was responsible for cashier and financial part of her parents food business. This is a big responsibility, even for me, someone in her 30s, let alone an 8 years old. This habit paid off, responsibilities didn’t scare her. If anything, she take it as a challenge and she’s excited to do it.

She taught me on how to structured her communication with her team, the routine meetings and clear KPIs to make sure her visions with her top managers always in-line.

Yiping recently married to a Spanish Architect living in Singapore. She said, she was the one who ‘picked him up’ when she saw him in a restaurant. One year later, she’s also the one who proposed (and he said yes!). She definitely knows what she wants and she’s not shy about it.

She also said that I should not settle for less than someone who equally into me. Someone who listens to what I need and would over-do things for me (because that will show that he care so much about me more than anything).

“Ollie, our life is complicated enough by ourselves, man! Don’t add the complication by living it with someone who’s only half into you or you’re half into him. Yikes!”

She also kindly gave me a sincere advise, “If you don’t find someone by 37, freeze your eggs! It will buy you time to find the right daddy for the baby, while still having high quality eggs! I’m not kidding!” :))

Thanks for all the enlightenments, Yiping!

#AskOllie – Developing Entrepreneurial Mindset: How to be More Decisive

“Authentic leadership is a product of clarity. Clarity in what you stand for, and what you will not stand for.” -Rodger Dean

Few weeks ago I got a question through email from a young womanpreneur I met in Jogja.

Setelah ngobrol sebentar kemarin, aku jadi berpikir, sepertinya aku belum punya modal utamanya entrepreneur yaitu attitudenya. Aku anaknya masih ragu-an. ragu untuk mengaplikasikan ideas into action, terus bingung karena mikirnya kebanyakan. Kak gimana ya supaya lebih tenang, mikirnya satu-satu dan strategis, habit apa yang harus kubangun dari sekarang? beserta list buku yang harus kubaca mungkin

In short, she thinks that she’s very doubtful in running her business (to apply her ideas into action), think too much and not calm enough. She asked me how to have a better entrepreneurial attitude.

Looking back, I’ve been making big decisions in life (not only in business), and the best decisions I’ve made were when I quit doing things that no longer serve me to become a better person and quit things that no longer have the same visions and values with me.

Having said that, here are the things that needed to be paid attention to, to be able to be decisive:

Know what you want

This is where you should figure out what the outcomes you desire for your business. Take time to reflect and look at the big picture and see how the business going to end up in the end. Next time you need to make a decision, anything that is not aligned with this vision, is not worth pursuing. If you want to play for a bit, it’s up to you, but it’s going to delayed the process of getting to where you want to be. It’s your call. Now, I didn’t say you should be rigid. In startup, there’s a Lean Startup formula that allows you to experiment with your theory, and learn from your failure or success. But the big vision should stay the same.

“Individuals and organizations learn from making decisions, even bad ones” -David Spungin

Understand your values and priorities

Write down your life and business values and sort them into priorities. For example, among my top priorities, is integrity. If I get an offer to do a business with someone who’s dishonest and do dirty practices, I won’t do it in the first place, even when the deal is big. The decision would be easy.

Let go of trying to be perfect and pleasing everyone

We’re not here to be perfect, we’re here to experience and learn. So, stop depressing yourself with the pressure to be always right, to be perfect and in the end trying to please everyone. You can’t please everyone, even when you already do the right thing according to your vision and mission. So, have a laser focus on your own journey and let people minding their own business (they do have their own businesses and problems, they don’t care much about ours as much as you think they are).

Stay Mindful

The core of being mindful is to be aware, not drifted by the stream uncontrollably, but to be able to see the situation and act based on the outcomes you prefer. As zen and as balanced as I do, I also would express my anger when I need to make a point. But it’s not just snapping out of my head, the anger comes out after a careful consideration that this action will clears situation and create progress.

So, as we know what we need to do, then we want to instill the skills with some habits to practice. Here’s what I suggest:

Meditate in the morning and write gratitude journal to reflect your achievements, even small things that matter

These practices will develop your mindfulness skills needed for business.

Plan your day and choose your focus

I always say: structure before substance. Create a strong structure for your business with schedule, plans, and focus, then pour a lot of love and passion into it. This will also apply to anything else in life, including writing. The love of writing will get you in your wildest imagination, but structure will help you finishing your book on time to be able to serve humanity with your words.

Practice making smaller decisions

Volunteer to make smaller decisions in your everyday life. Start with helping your mom figure out what to cook, choose what to wear for your friends, and start increasing the complexity bit by bit. Before you know it, you will be the expert of decision making!

Recommended book to read on how to think and make decisions: Thinking, Fast and Slow — By Daniel Kahneman

A curious leader is a better leader. This is for her: I am grateful that you allow yourself to be vulnerable and ask me these questions, I thank you to take the time to read my thoughts and I wish you would get benefits from my experience.

Have a decisive day!

The Power of Journaling: I’m Stronger than I Thought

I remember vividly when I was at a beautiful island of Gili Trawangan, a friend wanted to ride bicycle to circle the island. Now, the island look small from the map, but it took at least 1,5 hours to circle it around. The most difficult part is when you have to go through the sand beneath you, difficulty level: 5 out of 5. Especially when you never exercise before. It was the deepest hell.

I almost fainted when I finally arrived at the restaurant where my friends were hanging out by the beautiful beach. I tried to act cool. Boy, I have completely forgot about the white sands and the beautiful turquoise beach. Toughest times make you forget to be grateful. I only remember losing breath and focusing to stay alive. What doesn’t kill you, will make you tanned!

Looking back, I went through some tough times in my life. It felt like history now but I had been in a very depressive situation where life is a daily agony, sadness and unhappiness.

If you’re walking through hell, keep going.

I survived by excessive journaling.

When I need it the most, I can journal every 10 minutes. It’s when I feel the kick of negative thoughts or past memories that no longer serve me, I will jot it down in my journal. People say it’s brain dump, it literally is dumping out dirt off your brain to make space for better thoughts. This has been keeping me productive even in my most darkest moments.

Your MBA and other qualifications won’t help much in this world without maturity and the wisdom that coming out of it. You are responsible to be response-able to situations. No time to blame but to reflect: what can I do better to change this and grow?

I will talk more about my journaling techniques in 2017, and how I changed my life literally through writing.

For now, have a productive day!

The Fullness of 2016 and What’s Exciting for 2017

Oh wow, it’s that time of the year again!

In short, the highlight of 2016 is meeting and losing the love of my life in the same year *OUCH!

While I’m licking my wounds and keeping my integrity as a stoic, let’s see what’s 365 days really mean to me in 2016.

January 2016 

Signify a new beginning in my life as a founder by building Zetta Media with my partner Ega. Zetta Media is a digital media platform with 10+ lifestyle portals for youth. Zetta Media got seed funding from Kejora. This is my #WhyNot moment to take this investment and run on an entirely new industry for me. We learned a lot this year and I’m glad we have grown so well in terms of traffic, authentic viral contents and strong community. I’m proud to work with passionate partners and team at Zetta Media.

February 2016 

As I welcome a new venture, I must say good bye to my baby, officially closing online bookstore Kutukutubuku.com. My first ever startup, the one who taught me how to manage a business and taught me how to be brave. It’s not an easy decision but I’ve tried so hard for years to realize that the industry isn’t going to the direction that I prefer. Alhamdulillah, I’m glad the process was smooth, thanks for the understanding of my previous team, I’m forever grateful.

March 2016 

Sheryl Sandberg mentioned me in her status update on International Women’s day. This is an amazing and unimaginable situation for me and I’m very grateful for Facebook team who’s been choosing to highlight my story of building NulisBuku.com to empower Indonesian indie writers for #SheMeansBusiness

This is also the month where me and Anan came with the idea of #WhyNot campaign for Girls in Tech Indonesia to empower more women to use technology to improve lives in their community. We’re glad to conclude #WhyNot with 5 workshops, 3 meetups and 1 mentoring dinner, and also a book launch! A very ambitious year for Girls in Tech! Thanks a lot Facebook #SheMeansBusiness and our partners who’ve been supporting us

April 2016 

Start taking care of my personal finance. Paid off my credit cards debt and officially debt and loan free. Life has been much easier when you don’t have that kind of burden at the back of your brain.

I’m speaking on Kartini Day at Times Square New York for Women in Innovation conference, New York. It’s really a privilege to be able to speak to 300+ women in USA with other inspiring women from all over the world. Thank you, Catherine Barba, for always trusting me!

I really have to mention my meeting with Lesley Jane Seymour in New York. She’s the former Chief Editor for Marie Claire and More magazine. She’s my teenager hero, my inspiration to build the DNA of Zetta Media content to be authentic and full of personal social experiments that make readers relate with the articles.

May 2016 

Work with Telkom Indonesia and Storial to teach people how to read and write, a literary effort, with #PustakaDigital campaign. Found a true friend in my partner, CEO of Storial, Steve Wirawan.

Visit Aceh for the first time to teach creative writing

July 2016 

Make one of the most important decision in 2016: move to a nearby co-living house just 5 minutes walk from my office. Before this enlightenment, I commute minimum 3 hours a day. Now down to 5 minutes and it improves my life A LOT. BEST decision in 2016.

Trivia.id Managing Editor, Resty, joining our team full time and it accelerates my company’s growth.

First time learning and investing in Indonesia stock market. Creating a closed whatsapp group Wolverines of IHSG to share investing tips with friends and mentors. Second best decision of the year.

Start vlogging, Ollie’s Vlog: High Tea with Ollie, by interviewing one of top CEOs in Indonesia startup industry that I happily call a friend, Hadi Wenas the CEO of MatahariMall.com

First initiated RULA Creative Hub that successfully increased our female portal RULA‘s productivity in content to more than 1000% and 3x growth in traffic. Salute to RULA Managing Editor Mbak Onie and team!

August 2016

Our CMO Anas is officially joining Zetta Media and complete our search of a dream team.

Broke up with my fiance and start my journey of deeper self discovery.

September 2016 

Speak at Indonesia-Swedish Digital Forum that strengthen my connection with Sweden. They invited me to visit Sweden Internet Forum in Sweden in May 2017. Excited!

With Anantya and Adriana from Girls in Tech, mentoring youth in Cambodia at Tech Camp Cambodia. Also my first visit to Cambodia. Had a great time with my bestfriend Kounila!

Get supported spiritually by my teacher Viky Sianipar and my Self Discovery family.

October 2016

Speaking at Facebook Women@ Asia Pacific conference in Singapore. Speaking about mindfulness and meditation. The first time ever talking about this public, especially in international forum. In this forum I revealed my ‘Transcendent Being‘ method to stay balanced and mindful in my life.

November 2016

Stayed at The Onion Collective and found true friends Mark Kuan, The Onion Co founder, and Arie from Passion Planner. With passion planner I found the virtue of deciding what I want to focus to ‘be’ (not to do) of the day and not getting overwhelmed.

My brother’s proposing a girl and will marry this January 2017. I’m a happy sister!

Joining spiritual Muslim global leaders in a closed Slack group, excited to connect with like-hearted people.

My trip to Sumba #GettoSumba with 14 lady CEOs! Found my sisters, support system and long eternal friendship from this trip. In this trip, I also given another chance to live, as I was almost drowned in a beautiful river in Sumba.

First time to attend and become a judge at Startup Weekend Bali!

Zetta Media team from Jakarta, Jogja and Jakarta meet for the first time in Ubud for our #MakeItBold trip to Ubud

December 2016 

Attending Eling Festival and came up with RE:WRITE concept, journaling for emotional healing, a concept that I will launched in 2017.

Met my good friend Cameron, who’s like an Angel, brought me rare spiritual books from Powell’s Portland to Indonesia. These books have helped me to become the Goddess that I am in my divine feminine heroine journey. 

Embracing my femininity by start wearing more skirts and cooking with Ocha and the girls!

Start listing down patterns in my life that are not benefiting my path to fulfill my mission, start learning from my mistakes and changing my limiting beliefs.

The important question to answer in 2017 is: “A better me would be…?”

My new niece is born! I became an auntie for the second time!

Appreciate the connections I made throughout the years and realized that it’s one of the most important wealth to create this year.

Best reads for 2016

Read 100+ books in 2016, here are the top 3:

Code of Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani 

I read lots of spiritual and business books, this one combine it perfectly and it has high quality insights from the very first page, came directly from the founder of MindValley. Highly recommended!

Intimate Communion by David Deida (or any books by David Deida, seriously)

I never highlighted so many insights in one book like I did with Intimate Communion. It just answered ALL my questions on the dynamic between man and woman, masculine and feminine, how by understanding this, will solve a lot of problems in our life. A must read!

The Be Book by Mynoo Maryel

Found this book in Ubud when I was burnt out from heartbroken and also doing too many things at once, even though what I did in my life was all my passion and what I love to do, but it still killing me at one point. This book helped me to focus to be, instead of to do, and make me focus on being, one be at a time.

What’s exciting for 2017?

Traveling is in order! Invitation from Sweden and Nepal already in hand. Also planning to attend more conferences in content marketing, media, startups and spirituality to connect with like-minded people.

Spend a month in either Turkey/Dubai/Edinburgh to finished writing my book, a spiritual novel and a memoir.

Zetta Media is my playground and we aimed for more exciting progress and innovations next year. New travel portal is coming up next with Windy Ariestanty as our partner!

Going to continue my mission to heal humanity with words through RE:WRITE workshops.

Setting up my retirement plans and goals properly. Planning to retire at the age of 45! (Inspired by my best friend who’s retired at 35. I guess it’s never too late to start!)

Find a life partner and co-create with him to fulfill our mission together on earth!

Strengthening my connection with people that matters, that includes remembering people’s names and stories

I will dance, sing and laugh more. Express more on my feelings and carved a smiley face. I will let go of my insecurities, my cold nature and aloofness.

Learn more every day through platform like Coursera, Udemy, Youtube, etc.

Continue my effort to empower women with technology through Girls in Tech #WhyNot programmes focusing in action and held Girls in Tech Festival 2017 in November

2017 will be the year of #MakeItBold where I’m going to ask myself “What’s stopping you?” and say #WhyNot. It’s the year of structure before substance. I’m not going to avoid structure, that means doing my homework and due diligence. I’m going to avoid laziness because it will only lead to mediocrity.

So, what’s your plan in 2017?