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✿ Life sometimes gives us challenges that measures our patience, determination, mental stability, hope, and happiness. Life is not always about having fun, achieving goals, and success. You have to struggle. We have to struggle. But, do we have to face then with the feeling of pressure, confusion, and gloominess? A big, NO.

We must always prioritize ourselves, especially, our health during these situations.

Personally, when I face challenges, I prioritize my mental health. I often do things I love to feel relaxed and at ease. It helps. I consider those activities as my coping strategies.

Adaptive Coping Strategies, that is what you can call it.

✿ Strategies or Activities I always do to cope:

🎨 Paint/Draw- Seeing beautiful paintings or drawings affects me. It gives me the satisfaction and relaxation.

📚 Read- I do spend my time reading, especially at night.

🏞️ Nature- Staring at the sky, the rainfall, the stars, the moon, the leaves, and everything in our nature clears my mind.

🎶 Music- Listening to music while dancing at times also helps. Bopping your head as you listen to different songs is enjoyable. Your problems just disappears into thin air.

👀 Watch- Watching is my thing! Anime, Kdrama, Live action, and the list goes on. Basically, watching series or movies could make you forget what occupies your mind.

✍️ Write- As a kid, writing is only done to learn how to write. But, as I grew up, I practiced more with my writing. I published few books year 2020 and deleted them. Then, I suddenly found myself writing again to put my thoughts together and make some people have fun as they read.

🐈 Pet- Having pets at home, like cats and dogs is a recommendation. You can pet them, play with them, and admire them. You don't need to pet your problems, pets do. And, pets are adorable while your problems are not.

📷 Photo- Photography. Taking pictures of sceneries, animals, people, places, food, or any other visible things around us is also a nice choice of hobby and a coping strategy.

Many things needs to be done on this week, we have to make our make mock defense with our thesis adviser. and another thing is we still have to continue and validate our Product to potential customers. Customer validation is important to determine if the problem were trying to solve is really a problem that many experienced. how can a startup really start up of there are no real customer to the solution they are offering. 

Another thing that we had to do this week is to prepare for our pitching nextweek. So we have to group up multiple times to construct ideas to put to our pitching deck. At first we had a difficulty finding our competitors, we thought that we have no competitors. But in reality there are competitors but, one are those products that do the same thing as our product but their product operates manually.

In life there may be many mistakes, expect to commit mistakes since nobody is perfect. But always put it in mind that mistakes gives you lessons, so don’t make a mistakes on the same thing again.