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Apa sih yang diperlukan seorang woman entrepreneur?

Pastinya banyak yaaa! A business is a business, whether it is run by man or woman, kebutuhannya pasti sama. However, women are multirole. Ya sama sih, laki-laki juga pasti ada yang seorang ayah, anak, kakak dan adik. Tapi tetep ya level of involvementnya beda. Pasti perempuan yang lebih aktif urus anak, rumah dan keluarga besarnya. Jadi menurut saya memang ada sih yang sangat-sangat dibutuhkan perempuan, yaitu partner!

I turned 35 last week :o)

It just felt like another day, though. Of course when you get older, you stop making a fuss about your birthday, avoiding questions about age. As if you need another reminder that you are now a year older and getting closer to 40.



Birthday, along with new year is usually the time when I contemplate and evaluate what I've been doing this past year and beyond. Other than the few bags and watches, along with some much needed traveling, I'm pretty content with everything else right now :D. I think I can say that I'm living my dream. Almost everything that I have is something that was once a dream. The house, the school, the business, the husband, the office, the passion and so many other things. Some of those things that I daydreamed was unthinkable, like I had no idea how they where going to happen. But I visualized them anyway.

Gym, dengan segala alat-alat canggihnya itu terkadang bisa bikin intimidated, terutama ketika kita datang untuk pertama kalinya. Belum lagi kalau melihat orang-orang lain yang sangat percaya diri melakukan exercise dan juga terlihat akrab satu sama lain. Waktu saya baru sign up dengan PT, yang saya pikir adalah saya akan menggunakan semua mesin-mesin tersebut satu persatu. 



Ternyata salah!

Setelah beberapa sesi dengan PT, hanya ada beberapa mesin yang pernah saya gunakan. Sisanya? Selain TRX yang sudah saya ceritakan di sini, adalah strength training tanpa menggunakan alat apapun dan sisanya dengan alat bantu seperti barbell, dumbbell, medicine ball dan viper. Intinya, menggunakan alat-alat yang bisa dibeli untuk latihan sendiri di rumah kalau lagi nggak sempet ke gym atau mungkin mau meneruskan sendiri karena udah jago. Ciyee :D.

Jadi itu lah salah satu manfaatnya menggunakan PT kalau menurut saya, karena ‘knowledge transfernya’ yang akan selalu bisa digunakan selamanya. Nah latihan apa aja sih selama ini yang selalu diajarkan dan bisa dilakukan di mana aja? Berikut beberapa contoh:

Being a working mother is not an easy task at all. And it hasn't been particularly easy for me either these past two weeks.

These past two weeks I had a 3 full day conference, one that lasted till 10pm. Both of my kids had a fever in the same week. It broke me to leave the house seeing them just laying helplessly on the bed. The support system is all over the place this week. The driver has to go back home to visit his sick grandma, and one of the maids' mom passed away so she has to go home. The car was also in the body shop because of a small accident the week before. And a list of other things that went wrong at home.

I didn't feel like a good mom at all. I haven't got the time to take Jib to the doctor to have his health certification so he can join the pencak silat competition. I missed his futsal competition. I couldn't bake a cake with Jehan, again. Or make them their favorite chicken wing.

Ke Gym pagi-pagi itu menyenangkan, masih sepi

Two weeks has passed since the new year and the late night date with my laptop has already started! Langsung ngegas begitu masuk kantor lagi :D.

Last week was an interesting one. We kicked the year with 100,000 members! What a way to start a new year, right? About 10 brands approached us last week for a proposal, let's hope those will lead into a fruitful collaboration between us :). I have attended a few meetings outside of the office and an SK-II LXP launch, along with two interviews (crossing finger they will join soon), and a dinner with Female Daily moderators at Pad 28. Internally, in addition to Monday sharing session, I had Dept head meeting, Clozette Daily, editorial, event meeting and the last one was with IT discussing about banner placement.

2013 flew so fast for me, maybe because it was such an eventful year. So much happened, so many new experiences, so much learning involved. Mudah-mudahan sih, I come out of 2013 a better person that I was in the beginning of the year.

One thing that always need to be grateful for: a healthy family. I've been so blessed that aside from minor flu and migraine, we have practically been healthy throughout the year. No doctor was involved, except for the dentist :). I know health is something that we can't take for granted and even though I have taken better care of myself, I cannot say I've done the same thing to my family. So, my goal is to introduce more and more greens to my family. More home-cooked meals prepared by me and (much) less junk food.