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anime/manga 2017  (≧◡≦)

60 days before 2017 ends! here’s a masterlist of the animes i’ve watched & mangas (completed ones only) i’ve read this year as of 1026/2017! the ones with a  ♡ are my highly recommended ones! 

anime [  current count: 3 ]

special a  ♡

ao haru ride  ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

manga [ current count: 58] 

hibi chouchou rereading

sono me, kuchi hodo ni

last game rereading

heroine shikkaku

ao haru ride rereading

megami no libra

hirunaka no ryuusei  ♡

special a rereading

ouji-sama ni midara ni midareru

kyuuketsuki no uruwashiki kekkon

salon diana ♡

he loves you (YANAI wakana)

hiren trip

kimi dake no shirushi

akaku somaru kiss wo shite

shitteru kimochi, shiranai karada  

kekkon suru kara shite mo ii yone

gekijou komoriuta

propose no okite  

sekai wa kirai de afureteiru ♡ 

hatsukoi wazurai ♡

tayou no ie  ♡

ookami shoujo to kuro ouji ♡

amakute zurui wana no naka

junjou haraguro kareshi  ♡

taro-kun wa kou miete igai to xxx desu  ♡ 

kono kekkon ni wa suki ga nai

smile! (ICHIKAWA Shou)  ♡ 

sakura no kioku 

onegai sensei

wagahai wa yome de aru ♡ 

majo wa kaben wo mi ni matou  

ano koto boku no ie  ♡

sakura no kioku

silent kiss

twinkling stars

mayonaka no waltz  ♡

date me until i die  ♡

smile death match

38cm  ♡

damage danshi

melting summer

milk cake in the reflection

usotsuki kusuriyubi  ♡

calling (HORI mai)

untouchable love  ♡

after christmas

animal panic

akuma no hanazono

birthday of love

yuuwaku honey

jisatsuya honpo

koakuma no jikku!

tsukiatte kudasai 

18-sai no himitsu 

kono saki, rabu-rabu nari

kono kekkon ni wa suki ga nai

hoshi ni negai o futatabi

higanbana

yume nado mite ha orimasen

shinkon gokko  ♡

3-byou, sude ni koi

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Books You Should Read

Biographies

Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock

Is Everyone Hanging out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso 

Series 

Miss Peregrine Home for Peculiar Kids by Ransom Riggs

The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 

Poetry 

Whiskey Words and a Shovel (Volumes 1,2 &3) by r.h. Sin

Rest in the morning by r.h. Sin 

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

Dirty Pretty Things by Michael Faudet 

Bitter Sweet Love by Michael Faudet

Beautiful Chaos by Robert M. Drake

Classics

  Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 

Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte 

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

The Pictures of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 

Fiction 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

Looking for Alaska by John Green 

All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda 

The Oxygen Thief by Anonymous 

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 

 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss��

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my masterlist of 'how to life’ tips

Cleaning & Tidying

Make your bed in the morning. It takes seconds, and it’s worth it.

Reset to zero each morning. 

Use the UFYH 20/10 system for clearing your shit. 

Get a reed diffuser and stick it on your windowsill. 

Have a ‘drop-zone’ box where you dump anything and everything. At the beginning/end of the day, clear it out and put that shit away.

Roll your clothes, don’t fold them - or fold them vertically.

Automate your chores. Have a cleaning schedule and assign 15mins daily to do whatever cleaning tasks are set for that day. Set a timer and do it - once the timer is up, finish the task you’re on and leave it for the day. 

Fold your clothes straight out of the tumble dryer (if you use one), whilst they’re still warm. This minimises creases and eliminates the need for ironing. 

Clean your footwear regularly and you’ll feel like a champ. 

Organisation & Productivity

Learn from Eisenhower’s Importance/Urgency matrix. 

Try out the two-minute rule and the Pomodoro technique.

Use. A. Planner. (Or Google Calendar, if that’s more your thing.)

Try bullet journalling.

Keep a notebook/journal/commonplace book to dump your brain contents in on the regular. 

Set morning alarms at two-minute intervals rather than five, and stick your alarm on the other side of the room. It’s brutal, but it works. 

Set three main goals each day, with one of them being your #1 priority. Don’t overload your to-do list or you’ll hit overload paralysis and procrastinate. 

If you’re in a slump, however, don’t be afraid to put things like “shower” on your to do list - that may be a big enough goal in itself, and that’s okay. 

Have a physical inbox - a tray, a folder, whatever. If you get a piece of paper, stick it in there and sort through it at the end of the week.

Consider utilising the GTD System, or a variation of it.

Try timeboxing. 

Have a morning routine, and guard that quiet time ferociously. 

Save interesting-looking shit to instapaper. Have a set time where you read through the stuff you saved to instapaper and save the shit that you like from instapaper to evernote (or bookmark it properly). 

During your working hours, put on your footwear, even if you’re sat on your bed. (Why?)

Have a folder for all your important documents and letters, organised by topic (e.g. medical, bank, university, work, identification). At the front of this folder, have a sheet of paper with all the key information written on it, such as your GP’s details, your passport details, driving licence details, bank account number, insurance number(s), and so on. 

Try using StayFocusd and RescueTime (or similar apps/extensions). (I promise, you’ll find that you’re not as busy as you think you are.)

Schedule working time and down time alike, in the balance that works for you. 

Money

Have. A. God. Damn. Budget. 

Use a money tracker like toshl, mint, or splitwise. Enter all expenses asap! (You will forget, otherwise.)

Have a ‘money date’ each week, where you sort through your finances from the past seven days and then add it to a spreadsheet. This will help you identify your spending patterns and whether your budget is actually working or not. 

Pack your own frickin’ lunch like a grown-up and stop buying so many takeaway coffees. Keep snacks in your bag. 

Go to your bank and take out £100 in £1 coins (or w/e your currency is). That shit will come in useful for all kinds of things and you’ll never be short on change for the bus or the laundry. 

Food & Cooking

Know how to cook the basics: a starch, a protein, a vegetable, and a sauce.

Simple, one-pot meals (“a grain, a green, and a bean”) are a godsend. 

Dried porcini mushrooms make a fantastic stock to cook with. 

Batch cook and freeze. Make your own ‘microwave meals’. 

Buy dried goods to save money - rice and beans are a pittance. (Remember to soak dried beans first, though!) 

Consider Meatless Mondays; it’s healthier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly.

Learn which fruits and vegetables are cheapest at your store, and build a standard weekly menu around those. (Also remember that frozen vegetables are cheap and healthy.) 

Learn seasoning combinations. Different seasoning, even with the exact same ingredients, can make a dish seem completely new. 

Don’t buy shit for a one-off recipe, especially if you won’t use it all. If you really want to try out a recipe, see if a friend would be interested in making it with you, then pool for the expenses. 

Make your own goddamned pasta sauce. Jamie Oliver has a decent recipe here, but the beauty of tomato sauce is that you can totally wing it and adapt the fuck out of it. 

Misc

Have a stock email-writing format. 

Want to start running, but find it boring? Try Zombies, Run!. 

Keep a goddamn first aid kit and learn how to use it. 

Know your OTC pain relief. 

Update your CV regularly. 

Keep a selection of stamps and standard envelopes for unexpected posting needs. (It happens more regularly than you would think!) 

Some final words of advice:

Organisation is not a goal in itself, it is a tool. Don’t get caught up in the illusion of productivity and get distracted from the actual task at hand. 

Routines and habits will help you. Trust in them.

You have the potential to be an organised and productive person, just as much as anybody else. It just takes practice. 

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Hey guys! I created another collection of quotes from the psychologists. You know the drill! I hope you enjoy these inspirational quotes and find them inspiring too!

Carl Rogers

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

Erik Erikson

“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”

“We are what we love.”

“I am what survives of me.”

“Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.”

“In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.”

“The way you ‘take history’ is also a way of ‘making history.‘”

William James

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”

“Truth is what works.”

“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”

“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true self.”

“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”

“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”

“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”

Albert Ellis

“There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.”

“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”

“I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.”

“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.”

“Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.”

“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

“People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

“Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.”

Erich Fromm

“There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.”

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”

“If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?”

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”

Alfred Adler

“Man knows much more than he understands.”

“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”

Sigmund Freud

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

Albert Bandura

“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.”

Abraham Maslow

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”

“What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

Karen Horney

“Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.”

“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”

B. F. Skinner

“When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.”

“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.”

“The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.”

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

Carl Jung

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“The word 'happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”

“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”

“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”

“Man is not a machine that can be remodeled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.”

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Do not stop. Do not stop believing in yourself, in your dreams. Believe in everything you want even in times when you are uncertain of yourself. When you’re not sure if you can make it through but you know you still want it, whatever it may be, you need it. You need it so bad that suffering won’t even deter you. You are craving it, your goals, your dreams, your future. Don’t stop pulling through. We all fail, we all slip up, we all lay in the mud sometimes, we all think we’re are giving up by laying down and wishing we didn’t want it. But, no matter how hard we try, we still want it. That, that alone is what will give you it. The never ending image of that success and of that life that you could have. It is all you need. Do not stop. Do not let yourself down. If you can’t stop thinking about it, you will get up and you will try again. Just keep going.

Don’t stop believing in yourself - by Amy Kennedy

03/01/16

(via satiricalwords)