12. What a Monday! - not that usual

Hello! This week started straight with a couple of very inspirational lectures! Mondays are definetly not my favorites, but this time it was just great! The first one on Monday was held by Jaakko Alasaarela, the CEO of ZEF Solutions. You can check out the company's website in the link.

Jaakko Alasaarela and Zlatan as inspiration.

Jaakko talked to us about dreaming, achieving and passion. First of all 98% of people doesn't write down their dreams, including myself. But the 2% who does, are in general more happy in life. I think that is something I need to try out. Secondly, everyone should figure out the one thing why he or she is NOT giving up, no matter what. I can think of some things that keeps me going, but I can't find that ONE thing. This is also something I'm going to work on, especially when not knowing what to do with life. We need to think that whatever comes in our way, WE CAN DO IT! I can do it. Every one can, if they so want to.

Then he shared us ZEF Solutions values:

1. LOVE - Everyone wants to be loved. If their not being loved, they want respect. If they can't be respected they want to be feared. If their not being feared they want to be hated. So basically, Peace and Love ;)

2. PASSION - Let's change the world. Problems are solved straight away, giving up is not a solution.

3. COURAGE - Use the courage to change with the world. Don't feel scared, as a team everything can be done.

This man was truly an inspiration. So filled with passion, great stories from real life and enthusiasm. More of this please! :)

The second lecturer were no worse, also an amazing person, Camilla Tuominen, the CEO of Emotion Tracker. She lectured us about mastering emotions and the importance of understanding them, both our personal emotions but also others.

Camilla Tuominen.

1. WHY

"Too much information. We need wisdom."

This, and two following pictures are Camilla's own drawing. Super talented!

"Situations will become unpredictable."

"You have to know your system."

2. WHAT

"Emotions are energy and information."

3. HOW

"No judgement, just curious."

"Have the courage to look at your true emotions."

"Become aware and learn to choose your response."

These are quotes from Camilla's presentation, and I think they sum everything up perfectly. Also Camilla, just like Jaakko, encouraged us to write down stuff. And that's actually what our mentor Ilkka Kurkela also always emphasize so I'm starting to believe in it.. ;)

These lectures started the week perfectly. Tuesday and Wednesday we worked with a group task and the tasks given by Emotion Tracker's Camilla Tuominen. We have some great ideas for Emotion Tracker, let's see how it works out! But the group work was to analyse a bunch of thesis's (opinnäytetyö). Personally I think this was not that relevant to this course, especially when we are (or some have already) fulfilling a course just analyzing and learning about thesis's. But anyhow we made the most out of this too and made a video again! It's about the methods used in the thesis's. Find the video below!

On Thursday we had two more lectures. They were held by our digital coaches. The first one about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) by Jabed Kaisar. I'm sure I have talked about SEO earlier in this blog also, but briefly it strives to make better visibility for a website or blog.

The other one was about Freshdesk by Bui Duong. Freshdesk is a partly free ticketing helpdesk software, designed to make life easier. I have never heard about this before, but if any time needed then why not!

These guys did very well with their presentations and knew the stuff they were talking about, and I appreciate that. This week the Monday lectures were the stars of this blog post, but any information is great information on the path of learning!

So loved <3

On Sunday almost the whole FTS13 group (except Tanja :( ) goes Stockholm! See ya next week!