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Thrift Store “Everywear”
By: Alishba Nasir
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

This idea came to my mind, when a few days ago our electricity went off of just one room, and we called an electrician, he came with his 7 or 8yr old son who was wearing just a single, thin fabric shirt and was shivering, that day was really cold as the temperature fell up to 8 degrees so I told my mother about it and she then give his father some money to buy him something to get him warm. Then I decided I will be doing something for the people who are not privilege enough to buy clothes for them to even cover them properly.

My idea is to built a store just similar to the thrift store in abroad, here are many “landa bazars” but even they are really expensive in such inflation. Poor people are unable to buy clothes which are needed in extreme weather and hence they get sick, and then there is no money to pay for medications so the problem becomes more complex either ways.

In my store “Everywear” people will not be getting things for free, but they will get it for a very small amount of money as of 5 or 10 rupees, so that their dignity won’t hurt. The clothes will be taken from the people who want to charity, then they will be washed, fixed and then displayed in the store so as to give the people a sense of shopping of their choice and their need. This way people will get the right thing in the right weather.
“ HARASSMENT”
By: Arsalan Shahid
Tags: Amalacademy, Harassment, Harassment Prevention, Megaprojects

“ Harassment is nine-tenths of the law. ”

To be fair, harassment is an intractable problem all across the world; but some societies are documenting fewer cases because they have taken sturdier steps to deal with the problem.

“ CHALLENGES ”

Prior to solving the problem, it will have to be contemplated as to how to bar this heinous crime from being practised. The solution, however, lies in prevention. It will have to begin working from the family unit because it plays a very constructive role in the reformation of society. The greater attention of parents in this regard is radically required to raise and mold their male children who must be rovided with sufficient psychological, spiritual, and emotional stability to empower them to function as decent adults. Besides, family units must have nothing to do with the run-through of shielding-cum-supporting those who are sex offenders.

On our society every gender can harassed,

So Parents will have to take this initiative and teach their childern according to it.

A mother can teach or guide her daughter.

A father can guide his son.

There are 3 types of Sexual Harassments;

1- VERBAL

2- NON-VERBAL

3- PHYSICAL

Sexual harassment includes many things...

• Actual or attempted rape or sexual assault.



• Unwanted pressure for sexual favors.



• Unwanted sexual looks or gestures.



• Unwanted letters, telephone calls, or materials of a sexual nature.



• Referring to an adult as a girl, hunk, doll, babe, or honey.



• Whistling at someone.



• Sexual comments.

Why i want to work for this issue;

A few years back I started reading HOLY QURAN with Urdu translation. While reading the translation, I saw multiple times about women respect like,

O you who believe! You are forbidden to inherit women against their will. Nor should you treat them with harshness, that you may take away part of the dowry you have given them - except when they have become guilty of open lewdness. On the contrary live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If you take a dislike to them, it may be that you dislike something and Allah will bring about through it a great deal of good. (4:19)

So after having an understanding of what Allah wants us to do, thats is to improve the imbalance and to stop this harassment, i got an urge to do something for my sisters, mothers and daughters who donot have that curage to speak out.

So i am planning to start discussing it to my other fellows and colleagues, I also made a plan to go and arrange the short leactures in schools, colleges and universities. Schools are more important because that age is the most important to pick & learn something. I want to make a team, in which there will be Boys and Girls. We all will prepare a demo vedio or Teblo, in which we will teach how to resist that people who try to harass anyone. We will visit the remote areas, where women are not not very much awared from their rights and haven’t courage to speak out against these type of activities.

Thank you for reading
Reflection on AMAL tips:
By: Alishba Nasir
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

Amal tips, from the very beginning, have been very helpful to me, in just a few weeks I have started to sense the change in me.

Honestly speaking, I was doing self-talk before but all I was doing was “you can’t do it, don’t even take it for yourself, your idea is dumb, people will laugh” etcetera. This Amal tip has given my the same mind to be better in a way, that I feel myself to be able to encourage myself if no one is there to do so. This is so far my most favorite, as I am controlling myself by some really positive and encouraging things, which will ultimately have an impact on everything I do, and also my perspective will be dealt with accordingly.

I had my comfort zone till my school days, as they passed, every single level was very difficult for me to adjust to. So I tried to make my own circle even of 3 people and stay in it no matter what, as I was so shy speaking to strangers, not confident enough to give ideas, that was also a kind of comfort zone to me, but now I got the essence of success which is in getting out of the comfort zone, as you will not be served success on a plate, sitting in your couch.

Starting new habits will not only have an impact on your happiness but will have an impact on your work-life eventually, learning new things are crazily fun, as you don’t stick to one thing and leave it if you get bored, so creating a hobby which gives you pleasure is indeed going to change the fixed mindset.

Ask for help is a very good tip, as a human being can’t be perfect at things, so asking for help may decrease the chances of failure and it may also lead to a good network as Sohail sb suggested.

It is a very helpful tip to pretend as if you have the mindset adopted till you actually have, sometimes your mind tricks you and does the actions according to the pretense, which may become a helpful thing afterward, So fake it till you make it. I am going to implement it till it gets to the point where I think there is no need to pretend anymore. To keep a check on it I will be accounting myself, am I making decisions on the basis of my pretentious mindset or the old mindset I have?!.
Getting closer to ‘Bringing your ideas to existence’
By: Amna Arshad
Tags: Amal Academy

I am glad that Amal provides this amazing opportunity to bring our ideas to existence through this Mega Project!

During the thought processing for the Project, I went into a deep sense of indulgence with myself and the people around me and find many problems that can be addressed but keeping in mind the achievability I chose to address the problem, a 12 grader goes through in our community that what should they be pursuing for their higher education? Still, the problem doesn’t lie in that question but in the precise amount of choices they get to opt from; Arts, Medical, Engineering, and Commerce.

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When I was brainstorming for the problems around me, I remembered this latest event when my brother was in the phase of selecting the field before admission to the college, almost every day he used to change his mind from one subject to the other, later I guided him with this but I know that he is not the only one going through this, there are multiple career counselors out there but usually after graduation or during graduation, very few consider the importance of counseling at the age when it is required the most especially with those who can not afford to study in an expensive college or school.

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My idea is to develop an online platform for such students where we can counsel them by providing opportunities to meet professionals already working in the fields they might be interested in, and also by helping them know their interests.

This venture can also help me in several ways, I can also develop my networks, my communication skills, and most importantly, it will be serving my purpose in life to a great extent.

Thanks for reading! ;)
Reflection On “Amal Totkay”
By: Natasha Kareem
Tags: Self Improvement, Amal Totkay, Growth, Mindset, Amal Academy

Amal Totkay is very Helpful for grooming our minds. It also develops our minds from fixed to a growth mindset. Each and Every Amal Totkay is encouraging us to step forward to success.

“Change Your Words that Change Your Mindset “

I already adopted these 2 Amal Totkay:

1:Self Talk: I really motivate myself that yes you can do that and first I talk to myself in every situation then take the next step.

2:Fake It Till you Make It: This Totka is very useful for me when I don't know about anything. But I show that I know everything and try to give my best.

Amal Totkay Implementation and favorite tip:

After joining Amal academy I realize I am in my comfort zone and I push myself to see the world face challenges and work hard until you reach my goal.

Then I also Enhance my knowledge by knowing the fixed and growth mindset. I want to become a life long learner and this happened only when we allow our selves to Create new Habits these new habits upgrade our minds. These two Totkay is my favorite Amal Totkay and I start to implement these in my life.

These Amal Totkay does not help us only in our personal growth but also help us in grooming our minds in professional growth.

Amal Totkay Takeaways:

1:Believe in yourself.

2:Face Challenges learn from your failure and change your failure into success.

3:Always Try to learn new skills Don’t rely on a small piece of Knowledge. Try to Explore your habits and skills so your mindset groom day by day.

4:Every people feedback is important but always consider constructive feedback because it helps you to improve yourself.

5:Adopt a behavior that leads you to a better future.

What can they do to develop a Growth Mindset beginning from Today?

From the beginning of a growth mindset Create new Habits is very important it does not only increase our knowledge but also grows our mindset. When we try to explore new things we also enhance our vision because we are developing a growth mindset.
CONTAMINATED WATER :
By: Mühãmmåd Āñåx
Tags: Amal Academy

CONTAMINATED WATER :

Contaminated water is killing us ,we should be careful about our health

We all love Pakistan but we don’t think about one of the most dangerous problem that we are facing and will extremely face in future .

WATER 💦 without it we cannot survive but we cannot also survive when we drink impure water.Contaminated water can cause a lot of ridiculous diseases that can lead to death ,it is estimated that almost 485000 diarrhoeal deaths occur by drinking contaminated water.

According to one estimate, 53,000 children in Pakistan die of diarrhea every year after drinking water containing dangerous bacteria.

Its a very huge amount and is very serious issue on which none of our government sector is taking any action.

Contaminated water can transmit diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio

In Pakistan due to impure water these diseases are common

Even in the town where i live in Multan water is not pure ,the water is in yellowish colour means full of impurities that can leads to diseases.

So i selected this problem because most of my relatives are also facing serious issue related to contaminated water,

From reading an article most people that are suffering from impure water are from Punjab.

And the biggest source of contaminated water are our industrial areas .

So I had read all the issues and effects from dirty water that is not only polluting the environment but also killing people.

Now what can i do!! firstly i will start from my village as here many families are illiterated and dont know the harmful effects of contaminated water.

I shared this problem with my cousin who lives in Khanewal and doing Agriculture From AGRI UNI MULTAN.

We both had made some solutions for example;

1) we will educate them about pure water

2) we will tell them how to pure the water

By boiling and filteration.

3) we will check the places where pure water is available and tell them to use only that water or by myself provide them.

As pure Water is Also a Big blessing of Allah

“Serve Pure Drink Pure!!”

#amalacademy

Amal Academy

@amalfellowship
Thalassemia
By: Muhammad Umair
Tags: Social Impact, Thalassemia, Megaprojects, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy

What is Thalassemia?

Thalassemia is a blood disorder that is among the small children. It is blood disorder that passed down through the families. Thalassemia appears when a new born baby is 4 months old. Thalassemia is named thalassemia because this disease was found on countries near Mediterranean Sea. This blood disorder means that there is lack of Red blood cell and Hemoglobin that is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. This disorder leads that stem cells are not working properly thus lack of red blood cells in the body. Bones in the body fail to develop the blood.

How it’s transferred?

There are two types of Thalassemia, thalassemia minor and major. If both parents are thalassemia minor then there are 25% chances that the baby is going to born with thalassemia major. Thalassemia minor patients have hemoglobin less than 12.0 for example 10.0 or 11.0. Thalassemia major patients have hemoglobin less than 9.0 for example 7.0. In pregnancy in certain conditions after tests if it seems that baby is going to born with thalassemia major then under certain conditions abortion is allowed by the certain treatment centers.

How patients react and what are the symptoms?

Babies and toddlers start turning yellow with heavy fever, they even stop eating. After the tests if it is proved that there is blood disorder than they need new blood transfusions every three months to survive. Because of lack of red blood cells in the body and bones are not able to make blood there are certain problems with liver, heart, and spleen. It may also lead to heart failure. 50% of the kids die between age of 10 and 90% die between the age of 20

Covid and Thalassemia

Due to Covid-19 outbreak, people were donating their plasma to other Covid patients but blood donations is also required for the patients as these kids are in need of blood and due to lockdown situation and Covid fear, people are resisting to distribute the blood. Blood need to be checked for Covid before donation because thalassemia patient already have low immunity system and they can’t handle both diseases together.
lets start the journey
By: Hira Naveed
Tags: Amal Academy

In our education system mental health of students is totally ignored, students go through anxiety, depression and stress, everyone advises them to take it normally but for their mental health, it’s never normal.

Everyone around you acts like it’s normal to take tension and stress off your work specially as students. Most of them project that when you take stress than you learn etc. but this stress, tension and anxiety how badly affect them its not normal for a student.

Every student’s coping mechanism is different. At this point I want to share the story of my friend who is also my hostel fellow, we spend all our wake time together and work together as well. At the end she was having panic attacks, her hands got cold instantly just by talking about the final defense, she mostly repeats something again and again after sometime and mostly after repeating she adds did it tell you this. So most of the time my answer was yes and she concludes that I think I am suffering from short memory loss, jokingly.

At this era we are living in every information is on our fingertips. But the problem is in our perceptions. It’s time to change them and take mental health problems seriously. it’s time to include the psychologists in the education sector to provide students a safe place, where they are allowed to express their issues and problems, their anxieties and feelings that helps them to find a way to deal with them.
#just start Communication
By: Tayyab Sial
Tags: Speaking, Communicating, Just Start, Ideas, Amal Academy

I am very weak in communication skills so, i want enhance my communication charm.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

If you want to successful in life, you need to be a good communicator. If you can’t convey your ideas properly .you can’t be what you want to.

From my past experiences, it is some thing on which i really need to work. And its not some thing that you can improve in mints it takes a canvas of time. Now i want to improve it step by step this is my purpose to join even amal academy.

For this i am going to debate on different talking with different people. As it is only mean to share and discuss ideas.

#Amal Academy

#just start

#😍
— Developing a growth mindset.
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

— Developing a growth mindset.

Hello everyone, this is Ameer Hamza and i am back with another blog.

Getting through my online courses i had to write a blog on my experience with AMAL TOTKAY. So first of all i will like to reiterate what those 5 totkas were. These are:

Self Talk Get out of comfort zone Create new habbits Ask people help Fake it till you make it

And now i am will be going to answer some particular questions asked within the course.

How did ifind the 5 tips?

Ok, so the tips arereally good enough to follow up and for sure these can help one work on their growth mind set while transition from the fixed mind set.

Productive

W hat are my takeaways?

My takeaways from the totkas are self reflections, self belief, a never ending learning attitude, importance of team work and power to faking the person what you want to be.

Power of as self beilieve, self reflactions and team work

What were my fav tips?

My favorite tips are Self talk , create new habbits and fake it, till you make it.

Favourites

What have i started implementing already?

I have already started with self talk, new habbits and asking people for help.

Implementation

What can i do to develop a Growth Mindset beginning from today?

I can devlope a growth mindset by faking that i already had a growth mindset to overcome overthinking of fixed mindset.

Growth a seed today for a fruit tomorrow!

It was great experience getting through the totkas and answering these questions. Happy learning!
Getting Closer to your Mega Project Problem
By: Farhan Zafar
Tags: Amal Academy, Food Security, Food Safety

My Efforts:

I have my graduation even in agriculture to understand all about agriculture. I also have experience of farming and I learn a lot which includes that we have to move towards organic forming.

Pakistan is presently self-sufficient in major staples — ranked at 8th in producing wheat, 10th in rice, 5th in sugarcane, and 4th in milk production. Despite that, only 63.1 percent of the country’s households are “food secure”, according to the Ministry of Health and Unicef’s National Nutritional Survey 2018.

Causes of Food Insecurity

· Food Supply and Demand

· Food Demand: Population and Purchasing Power Change

· Supply and Demand Gap

· Physical and Economic Access to Food

· Infrastructure Facilities and Market

· Conflicts and Large Scale Population Displacement

· Poverty

Although food is readily available in Pakistan, the country’s overall food security is poor. High levels of poverty and high food prices have given Pakistan some of the highest rates of malnutrition, undernourishment and childhood stunting in the world.

And the food which is available also not that of quality which is required for proper hygiene. Most of our farming community is almost illiterate and don’t even know what are the effects of dirty water of water pods fed to agriculture land to human after consuming that food stuff. Here I have a strong mindset to develop such a kind of agriculture farming(Poultry farming, Dairy farming etc.) that instead of producing a quality food stuffs for society also produces a kind of cheap food for the people of our society who unfortunately fails to afford such a costly food stuffs and many of them dying due to lake of food due to poverty. Here the goal is first to provide food to poor families and 2nd is organic farming so we minimize the effects of hazardous substances to human health after easting that cheap quality food. All is about purity which is almost very far from Pak. Community.
Fixing Stuff Around Yourself
By: Hafiz Saddam Hussain
Tags: Leadership, Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

I always want to see my bed organized and clean but this has never happened. After learning leadership without authority in the AMAL fellowship program. I take a firm stance to clean my bed. Photo is shown before taking the initiative of leadership.

Before Fixing

After motivation from the AMAL program. The picture is quite different and gives a sense of pleasure.

After Fixing

It made me feel independent, the blessing that everyone wants to feel. This gave me the positivity to start up my day with positive energy around me. This is the key, I believe. The key to nature, the key to attracting good and positive energy to yourself so that your chances to spend the rest of the day happy and peaceful increases. If you start your day with a small task achieved, you will be in a better position to achieve big tasks during the rest of the day.
#Just start Goal #Amal Academy My just start goal is to be a strong in professionalism because I feel that I am final years student yet I am not as much strong as I should have. Being as a student of…
Tags: Amal Academy, Just Start Smart Goal

#Just start Goal

#Amal Academy

My just start goal is to be a strong in professionalism because I feel that I am final years student yet I am not as much strong as I should have.

Being as a student of Engineering or related to any filed professionalsm is something which we can’t learn through books are in University courses.

I want to be strong as much as I can in communication verbal plus written also Amal academy also helps me to achieve my this next target.

My next steps to do Course’s of amal academy with proper consantration full of interest and will participate in class activities.
Fixing stuff around yourself
By: Razi Allah
Tags: Amal Academy, Everyday Leadership, Batch165th, Fixing Stuff Around You

Fixing stuff around yourself

I was completing Amal PW2 tasks and found this DIY activity, and while examining my environment, I identified that some documents are needed to be arranged and I should fix my bed too.

These documents were my academic records and scholarship application documents that needed to be assembled and filled for applying in January. While that arrowhead shows a piece of cloth that I bought for a new suit.

I felt more organized after completing the pending task and a sense of relief that one another thing is now marked done from my to-do list.

I have still done this task even if hadn’t been asked to do so but at a different time in the winter holidays because it was far low on the priority list and many others were pending and near to the deadline. But as this activity came part of the Amal PW2 task so its priority changed.

This was a healthy activity that helps us demonstrates everyday leadership by being responsible, punctual, and well organized
JustStartYourGoal
By: Mahnoor Naveed
Tags: Front End Development, Amal Academy, Reactjs, Web Development

I want to get an internship at MLH fellowship programme. One of the requirements of getting enrolled in the programme is a project which showcases your coding skills.

I have started with my project but stuck and couldn't continue.

I have taken my first step towards my goal and Ask my friend to help me figure out the problem with the code. We did a meeting and I am ready to go.
#JustStart
By: Fatimaa Saleem
Tags: Amal Academy, Just Start

The goal I have chosen to work on is getting back into sketching and painting more often as I used to when I was younger.

‘I will spend at least 3 days in a week (2 hours per day) practicing sketching or painting through Youtube tutorials because it will help me make more free time for myself and will make me happier, till June 30th, 2021.’

I have been delaying this goal for a really long time by using the excuse that I don’t have enough time to give to my hobbies. But the truth is that I am scared to start sketching/painting again because I used to be insecure and worry that I’m not good enough. I used to be a perfectionist and I was very hard on myself. Over the years, I worked to overcome this and allow myself to make mistakes, and accept that I can be bad at things and that’s okay. There is nothing wrong with that.

The three tasks that I need to complete to achieve this goal are:

Buy supplies for painting and sketching Watch Youtube tutorials and practice something I might be interested in Create a final art piece to see how much I have improved through practicing

My first step was to go to the store and buy art supplies. This was an overwhelming experience because I was not sure what kind of supplies I should start with, there were so many different kinds of paints, paintbrushes, sketch pencils. I had to watch Youtube videos to help me decide what kind of pencils would be needed for a beginner and I decided to start with acrylic paints because I have used them before and I wanted to start with something I’m comfortable using. I also bought the paintbrushes the store owner recommended for beginners.

I was expecting that buying the art supplies would be a relatively easier step, however, I realized I was never aware of any other kinds of paints when I was younger because we did not have enough access to the internet and only used poster paints or acrylic paints that were the most common. M

The next steps in my goal will be to start exploring the different kinds of art I can make with acrylic paints and what specifically I want to draw. After I have specified these two tasks, I will practice them for 3 days in the next week, 2 hours each day.
Fixing stuff around yourself. In this story I am going to introduce…
By: Muhammad Ibrar
Tags: Amal Academy

In this story I am going to introduce the very basic act of leadership which is creating small positive change in your as well as others life. I have done this arranged the objects which I use to study while doing this activity I am sitting the courtyard of my house which is shown below.

I was taking course of Amal academy and they told me to do this activity. The situation of my surrounding before doing the activity was this shown in figure below.

The note book and other objects are scattered around my sitting as shown in above figure.

Then now I arranged the objects and I consider this act as an act of leadership because a leader is one who brings small positive change in himself and in other people. Now after arranging the objects new scenario is shown below.

I might not do this activity if it was not asked by Amal.
A gift full of love and compliments!
By: Urooj Fatima
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship, A Gift Overdue

Though I have got so many stories and lollipop moments in my life but here I am sharing the most cherish moments from my life. There is a long list of people in my life who have helped me in a way that left an impact on my life. I can never forget that!

The person whom I want to gift is my best friend.

Now, it is my time to make her realize how their tiny acts of kindness and her words gave me lollipop moments.

To make her happy, I thought why not make a hand made card full of love, attention and energy, having so refreshing words that can make her feel honored and precious just like me!

In order to do so, I bought the card,, a ribbon, fomic sheets, quilling and made a card out of it. I also sew the ribbon in a way that it shaped into adorable flowers.

So here is the final look!

Lets us enjoy together!

a card made with love for my lovely friend

As she loves chocolates, so I also added a gift of chocolates and packed it too make her curious while opening it.

I am sharing it with you guys but do not let her know!! Sssshhhhhh!

This is not the first time I did it. Back in a while, I also posted a post on my Instagram for her. Here I am sharing that post too.
Goals
By: Syed Ali Akkas
Tags: Amal Academy, Just Start

Goals

Part A:

I want to improve english skills (including communication) I want to be fit (including exercises , gymnastic).

Part B.

I select a goal of fitness (no. 1)

Write down three steps are:

1 . First week I want to walk , running on daily basis.

2.Second week I want to increase a area and add some exercise including pushups ,chinups , wrist, and improve a flexibility in our body.

3.Third week I want to increase to work hard of chest , six packs , legs , shoulder.

I completed a running with a jogar I am satisfy with itself. And It was amazing experience when I was started on first day its looks like difficult but third day feel well and increase the stamina as well throughout the week . I want to fit at higher level and always proactive in his life . I know it was a very benefit for me . Just Start
My JustStart Experience
By: Fahad Gulfraz
Tags: Amal Academy, Just Start

One of my SMART goals is to complete an online course related to Digital Image Processing from YouTube within 40 days dedicating 2 hours every day.

The first three steps that I can take towards achieving this goal are as follows:

Look for a YouTube course with the best reviews.

Make a timetable to fix two 1 hour slots on all seven days of the week.

Revise what I learned in the course I took in the university.

I chose this goal because image processing is a skill that is extensively used in sports tech companies. Take an example of the ball-tracking system which is used in cricket. Now, the ball does not actually travel to the stumps but using image processing and the trajectory of the ball, the whole journey of the ball is visualized to see whether it hit the stumps or not.

I’ve had this course in my conventional degree program but the project I chose for this course was not really up to the mark and I didn’t learn much from it.

I looked for a course with the best reviews and I found a channel named “Allan Saberi”. The course has 77 videos and if I go through 2 each day, I can complete the course in 40 days.

Also, I’ve decided to work on the course from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and then from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day.

Now that I have set up a complete plan to achieve a specific goal, I feel a lot different like I really want to do this. I’ve never gone about things like this before. And I think this can help me a lot to get over my laziness. It really is an excellent approach to do things.
Just Start Your Goals
By: Faisal Saleem
Tags: Amal Academy, Just Start Your Goals

I want to improve my report writing skills in the next 6 months for my professional development. It will help me out excel in my career. It is the need for time as well that complements the approach of lifelong learners.

It was quite tough for me to work on this task in past due to multiple engagements. But I have decided to address this now and spare some time for this. Sometimes it is a tough experience to complete lots of reports in a week. There is no doubt that I can write a report easily but in my self-evaluation and feedback, I had to face some challenges like lots of correction or revising the phrases. So I have decided finally to include this challenge of my professional development as to just start the project.

I have learned from this experience that I have to improve my skills to overcome this issue forever. The next steps are about finding the right course, register me there, and learning the thing that I really need.
You Have to Start
Tags: Amal Academy, Just Start

We guys always have so many goals that we want to attain we have the plan in our mind we have the execution and we have the road map. we are researching it for quite some time but we unable to start it because of procrastination and mainly due to self-made excuses. It's all in our mind and we just thinking and thinking on it again and again and stuck in the cycle of thinking and never able to make it to the execution and implementation of that particular plan that you have got in your mind.

I have always wanted to do freelancing but don't know where I have got to start so that I can leave the 9 to 5 Job cycle and able work for my self, I am the one who is able to grow after putting in my efforts, How we put so many efforts and dedication for other guys work So I have gone ahead and started taking baby steps in it.

I need a payment solution from which I will be able to deal with the rest of the world and offshore clients. I have made an account on Payoneer.

In today’s borderless digital world, Payoneer enables millions of businesses and professionals from more than 200 countries and territories to connect with each other and grow globally through our cross-border payments platform. With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, marketplaces, networks, businesses and professionals throughout the world can pay and get paid globally, as easily as they do locally.

The next thing would be how can I learn it from the professionals. so I have joined National Freelance Training Program and got shortlisted in that particular program.

And finally, I have started to learn to code the program is just for only keeping the track of my performance. I would always love to coding so then why not start from that. so here is a glimpse that I am deep diving and working with in ReactJs Development.

After that, I would join the fiver and start posting the gigs relevant to what I have learned so far and start offering my services and going to manage it as a part-time so yeah that is my #JustStart experience.
#JustStart your Goal
By: Memoona Siddique
Tags: Amal Academy, Goals, Just Start

So far, the fellowship has taught me so much. The thing I realized strongly is that, in the journey of finding my purpose, applying kam kam kam, along with stepping out of the comfort zone, taking risks and constantly working on the communication skills, my poor self has suffered the most.

So besides having some of the serious career goals, rediscovering my purpose and re-define my choices, I decided to start with practicing more healthy habits and more self care. As physical health is going to determine my sanity.

Also recently I’ve came across a quote:

“The 1st person you should show compassion towards is yourself”

Therefore my goal is: By the end of 2 months,

“I will be more focused and Practice more healthy habits and more self care.”

The first three tasks that I need to do immediately in order to achieve this goal are:

Eat recommended portion of healthy diet

2. Read 20 pages of a book daily

3. Write 1 thing I’m grateful about daily (A positive statement about my identity)

4. Drink water after every hour

5. No more than 2 cups of tea/ coffee (caffeine) per day

6. Wake up and go to bed at the same time daily

I have completed the 1st 2 tasks within this week, stayed away from processed foods and ate only seasonal fruits. Also have started reading a book.

Healthy food…

I don’t felt any obstacle doing so, but making it a habit will be a bit challenging as it’s almost the end of the semester and workload is piling up.

In the past, I always tried to maintain a healthy lifestyle but always I ended up prioritizing work on health and this is the sad part. The major hindrance is saying that I’ll start tomorrow, I have bigger problems today. Lifestyle modification is hard to keep up; I always convince myself that I don’t have time/energy for it. But this time, I ‘ll follow these short term goals to support the bigger purpose, hoping for the best!
Fixing Stuff Around Me
By: Faisal Saleem
Tags: Faisal, Amal Academy, Fixing Stuff Around You

Since I am currently working as well as doing a Fellowship of the Amal Academy, I was given the assignment to fix the environment or any place around me and express my views in this regard.

My Office Table

I have a habit of cleaning at home or in my room for a long time but I have rarely had the opportunity to do so in my office. That’s why I decided to fix my office.

Adjusting the condition of the office, I realized how easy it is to access everything and the whole place feels very clean and nice. And I have to continue this habit in the office.

Thank You Amal. Faisal

#amalacademy
#FIXING STUFF AROUND
By: Kashaf Ali
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship, Tidying Up, Fixingstuff

A messy room equals a messy mind

While doing this activity I was in my bed room, I examined my surrounding and find out that the room was in a messy condition, the bed sheet and blanket were untidy, pillows and cushion were also not in their place. So I decided to clean my room and made up the bed. Making our bed every morning, putting the things back where they belong to, these are the little habits that brings self-discipline in our lives.

A question was asked in the activity that if that task wasn’t assigned to you would you have done it, or not? So the answer is yes, I would have definitely done it. Your room is a place where you start and end your day so keeping it clean makes you an organized person. Your room reflects the type of person you are if your room is untidy then you’re actually sending the vibes that you are a messy and unbalanced person. Here I’ll quote Marie Kondo saying that “The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to fell happiness living within that environment”.

Here is a picture of my bedroom before and after doing this activity.
Just commenced working on my goals
By: Muhammad Shayan
Tags: Justsrart, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Goals

I am going to start working on my goal of wining a foreign scholarship for master’s program. Since after wining a foreign scholarship for master’s program, I would be able to pursue my research in my interested area, therefore this goal is very crucial. Research that I want to continue during my master’s studies is also linked with my dream project. I have a plan to establish my career in this dream project.

However, coming back to the main agenda, before applying for a foreign scholarship in some good reputable university, you need to have or prepare some very vital documents. These documents decide either the wining side or rejected situation of your applied profile for scholarships. These include the following i.e.

i. Academic certificates/degrees including your school or college transcripts, your CV, and language proficiency certificates, Medical fitness prove etc.

ii. Motivational letter (MOL)

iii. Research proposal or Statement of purpose (SOP)

Well, while considering about first part i.e., Academic certificates, I already have made sure that everything is available and ready to go. Therefore, I have started to work on making an eye-catching Motivational letter and I hope to complete it in the present week. Figure 4 presents the first paragraph has been written for the letter but still this is not the final one and needs some alterations and additions by the end of the following week.

Started drafting MOL

After drafting the final document, I would be reviewing this from an expert and again would be making some changes in it depending upon the feedback it would receive. After completing my Motivational letter, my next aim is to establish a good research proposal or a statement of purpose. I shall do these tasks in next and right after the next week.

I was planning to start writing my MOL for about a Month. But there I felt a slight laziness and lack of interest in commencing. The last day, when I was engaged about the leadership online courses, I came to know that there needs just to take a responsibility without waiting for an opportunity. So, I planned to take responsibility and just started writing letter.

I was surprised to see that writing an opening statement for my letter hardly consumed my just 30 to 40 minutes and I was just delaying it from a long time. It was an amazing experience to just commence the work. Although I have not finished it yet, but I am already feeling close to its final.

One thing that I learnt from this experience and which I am going to really admire in future also, that you just consider a pending task like a burden upon you until you begin doing it. Once you are on the road, things go quiet softly. You just need to practice leadership in your own personal matters also. Make a habit to accept responsibility and avoid waiting for an authority to do a thing.

I am feeling a slight satisfied after doing it!!
Importance Of Smart Goals In Life, Along With My Goals:
By: Syed Moman
Tags: Amal Academy

PART B : Just Start Your Goals:

Often, individuals or businesses will set themselves up for failure by setting general and unrealistic goals such as “I want to be the best at X.” This goal is vague, with no sense of direction.

SMART goals set you up for success by making goals specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. The SMART method helps push you further, gives you a sense of direction, and helps you organize and reach your goals.

I have following three ways to achieve my professional goal “ to join Atomic Energy”;

Be expert in my subject

No more negativity

Consult with a person who already joined Atomic Energy and have experience to get knowledge about updates

Just Start

I got a lot of things by Amal the best one is to decide my professional goal because before this I want to become a CCS officer but now I realize that I have abilities to work in Atomic Energy by this I can serve my country.

Thanks Amal to set my goal of life now I have no worries about my future profession because now goal, interest, profession and joy is a same thing.
Just Start Experience
By: Shahrukh Butt
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

Hi Everyone

This is Shahrukh Butt

Today I going to share with you guys about the #juststartexperience, before this i have to tell you its WHY and WHEN it started story.

My father is Diesel Engine Mechanic and has been doing maintenance 30 years, I mostly visit his workshop and as I am also Mechanical Engineer and understand the Engines so both of us have same interests.

We usually talk about the field and he teaches me a lot about new things either its about technology or new launched Engines.

I am learning from him since my childhood i used to play with his tools and often misplaced them.

He always say that this maintenance work is not of your caliper and it has lies and frauds in it, you should stay away from this, its enough that I am doing this, This always make me feel bad that why he says this every time when I ask him that I want to start my own maintenance company.

I started my first job as Trainee Aircraft Tech but I know at that time I am not capable of buying an aircraft but I can do maintenance.

But later on I decided to make my own company so that we can take maintenance project of different companies on a large scale but not with that traditional way of work I want to run this company with modern technology usage like trackers cameras and IT updated gadgets .

I have made this company but I am not working with that much struggles, here comes my JUST START EXPERIENCE

I Started this replace the conventional maintenance with modern and updates techniques.

I have goal because I want to introduce the same trucking system in Pakistan as in USA,

where no fuel tampering and illegal transportation activities are involved.

Challenges that I have been facing is that people do not follow educated system of working.

Task to do

These are the task that are still pending from my side that includes PRA registration, Account opening of the company, Profile update and buying safety jackets for workers.
Fixing stuff around yourself — Everyday Leadership
By: Farwa Ahmad
Tags: Amal Academy

I was going through the project work handed to us by Amal Academy sitting in our living room. It asked us to examine our immediate surroundings and find areas that we can improve or fix right away.

I looked around and this blank wall in our living room stood out to me. We have been meaning to decorate it but it kept getting postponed somehow. So, I decided to decorate it for the project.

My little sister loves to paint, so I decided to decorate it with her paintings.

And Ta da —

Doing this activity was really enjoyable. It made me feel the gist of leadership by responsibility. If it was not assigned to us, I probably wouldn’t have taken the initiative. The process allowed me to be creative and it was fun working on it with my siblings. The room looks complete now.

This activity made me realize that all you have to do is take a step. Take responsibility for any change that you want to see. This is the essence of being a leader and making a difference.
PW2 — Fixing Stuff Around Yourself
By: Fatima Tanvir
Tags: Amal Academy

When I read about this activity challenge, I was seated in my own room. My bed was messy, my study table had clutter over it, my bookshelves needed sorting, and a light bulb in the room needed a cover removed from it to make it brighter.

Firstly, I removed the cover from the light bulb to make it brighter and its light more suitable for reading purposes. The result is evident in the pictures below.

Before

After

2. Then I moved on to clean my bed and the results can be seen below.

Before

After

3. Lastly, I decluttered my study table and organized the book shelves above it.

Before

After

Even though I had done these tasks even if this activity was not assigned to me but it had taken me longer to get to them. However, after completing these tasks within half an hour, my mind felt sorted and my space cleaner.

Me deciding to take lead in cleaning up my space and making things less overwhelming for myself is an example of leading without authority and everyday leadership.
Fixing Stuff Around Yourself
By: Sukhra Khurram
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship, Fixing Stuff Around You

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

― Jerome K. Jerome

If we want to fix the world, or to change the world, we should start from our surrounding. Small steps of Fixing stuff around ourselves will help us to climb the staircase towards big steps and ultimately to the goals and success of our life. We usually left our surroundings undone because we think it as unimportant and it do not matter. But, without taking the first small step, you can not climb up.

Area to be selected: After reading the course it was difficult for me to select the area to fix around myself. I was cooking meal and was thinking to find some place to fix. When I came back to my room I realized how messy my study table was. As I was doing some project work there before and later my sister was reading a book, she left it on the table. it can be seen in the image below, how messy my study table was.

Things I Organized: my laptop charger, mobile charger, registers, my books, pencils and some of my art pieces.

Before

She messed up the books to take one of them, and left the book opened, my laptop charger, and color pencils were scattered.

It took me 6–10 minutes to fix the mess and organize my table.

“What we fear of doing most is usually what we need to do”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conclusion and learning:

I realized how important it is to keep your surroundings organized as it have much impact on your life as well. the more organized you are, the more relax and contented you will feel.

After

As whole activity is surrounded by the concept that whatever you want to do, just start it now. Lifting one step, you will start walking and ultimately you will achieve your goal. sometimes early and sometimes late but nothing can stop you if you are willing to take risk.

I will try to be more organized now, and will fix the stuff around me as soon as i see it.