Time is our big asset. Time is our big asset and we should use it properly. I got the idea of the time spent on something great, even though it requires small steps, is better than the time spent for nothing. And the word "nothing" here can indicate different meanings to different people. If you watched a TV for 2 hours and did not get any useful insight then you spent it on nothing. If students spend their days watching youtube videos just for fun rather than studying and exploring more on their fields, their career will go for nothing. People work in different jobs from the cashier in McDonald's to being CEO of one of the big companies in Silicon Valley. Surprisingly most people tend to settle down and stick to one low paid job not trying their best and evolve. The reason is we have a proclivity not to change anything too quickly but be in our safe zones or as they say "Comfort Zones". We have dreams, ideas, and plans inside, that could change the world. But, we have to delay it because we were busy working 24/7. We work every day at the same job from paycheck to paycheck just to keep our lives stable. We always waited for the best condition and time to accomplish what we actually like to do and change. It is the year 2020. The year brought us many surprises along with deep emotional and practical lessons. The COVID-19 caused a pandemic in the whole world. We as a nation started fighting back the virus by taking care of each other and quarantine ourselves. Scientists throughout the world are experimenting to find the best vaccine that could finish the virus once for all. All the doctors of the world are giving their precious time (24/7), and dedicating their lives to save the human from this virus. They could also spend their time around family and friends but they chose to save lives instead. Doctors are the heroes of the world. Quarantine has lasted 4-5 months in different countries. The time in these months we had for ourselves was enormous. We had 5 months to spend with our thoughts and ideas, to learn something new, to self-develop, finally do the thing we always were prolonging for a better time. My daily healthy routine. I wake up early at around 4:30 to 5:00 am. The first thing I do is washing my face and drinking water, water helps our organisms to stay hydrated. Then I go outside to train. I run every day and try to overcome my own achievements in the distance. I think I grow faster when I compare myself with my past. Then, I take the first hot then cold shower, it trains my body to stay healthy and immune. Next is making breakfast for my family. We have breakfast at 7 a.m. After that, I check my phone for news updates for different topics and make a plan for the day. Finally, I will be ready for my studies and work at 8:00 am. A good healthy routine will help a person to get their targets in life faster than the ones which are mixed up. The story below is how I came to the decision of following a healthy routine. When I first came home after studies were overdue to quarantine, I did not have any routine at all. I finally was feeling free of waking up early and preparing for school, I was binge-watching my favorite series of "How I Met Your Mother". At first, I kind of felt good but then my days and time started passing so fast that I did not care about morning and night. At some point, I started realizing that I was just slacking off my time. My studies continued and became online. I became so lazy at that time, that I was not clearly focusing my attention on my studies. I had clutter in my thoughts. Sometimes, the things we want in life are not useful and healthy for us. We just do not realize it until we experience it. So, thinking about the outcomes of our actions at the current moment would make a huge difference to faster accomplish life challenges and targeted achievements. One morning, I just thought about life and what my intentions were towards it. How to make a change and influence the world, make it a better place to live. All that stuff comes from our wants and interests. If we find what we love to do and it is useful for the environment. We should not have the second thoughts but try as hard as we can, to make at least a small influence that could be helpful to the communities, societies, and the world. So, I also set my own goals and promised myself that I would never give up. And set up my routine and trying to keep it every day. Study hard and work on yourself to get the best future you could possibly have. Because this COVID-19 gave millions of people a great opportunity to spend some time for themselves and think about life and their actual wants. It also gave a chance to accomplish those interests we have inside but could not actually do because of our usual jobs and stereotypical everyday issues. Do not lose a chance and be the best version of yourself now. Because later you may not get this "sales ticket" again.

It all started when I finished high school. At that time, I did not have a concrete plan of what I should do ; I just studied well so i can study medicine in the UK. When I look back now, lots of things led to me being here. In 2015, after graduating high school I started contacting universities in UK ,but to no avail and time just flew by; one year passed while trying in all possible ways to study medicine there until a staff member of a certain university told me frankly it's hard to be accepted in medicine in UK and it was extremely expensive for me as well .A year passed by which was devastating because I had this thought that I should apply right after high school like all other students ingrained in my mind. I started to think differently that I wanted to be satisfied with what I am doing, feeling fulfillment by helping others. Something that by the end of my life makes me think like ‘yes I've spent 100000 hours doing this job' so I decided to study medicine in turkey and I became even more confident about what I want; I applied to a university and was accepted ,but then my father had a financial problem so later by the help of my mother I applied in another university which i believe now is better. I was the type of kid who was very dependent on her parents' money to study in school and university; don't get me wrong I am not spoiled or anything i was just raised like that; i was young after all and I was never pushed to the edge as now to start working and earning my own money ,to stand on my own two legs. I always wanted to be independent financially ,but not like this; I had a robotic way of thinking of getting my degree first then start to depend on myself. After graduating from school, I took two gap years, two years of anyone's most precious time “youth”. When I finally started university I was 21 by then, the emotions I went through those two years were horrible; I was really depressed seeing everyone from school going to universities except me; it left a huge impact on my personality, for some people this might look trivial ,but for me it was my future; it was everything on stake simply because there was no other way for me to study medicine unless i travel abroad and to study medicine in a private university which is not cheap. I started thinking will i even start studying in a university; I did not want to study in my country because that would mean I'll just study business and stay in my shell. I wanted to travel and experience everything that comes with traveling from depending solely on my self to having new friends, new encounters, meeting people with different views on life from different cultures which eventually happened. In my teens, I used to watch lots of Turkish dramas which made me want to learn Turkish language and go to Turkey as a tourist ,but never thought of coming here as a student. In the two years, I had taken a Turkish language course; it was a nice experience to learn Turkish which helped me later on when I decided to go to Turkey. In 2017, I finally started university and yes my financial problem was not yet solved not even till now, but somehow the ship sailed although I still have debts to my university. Now I should be in 3rd year, but that's still vague because my financial problem got worse; it's this year that I started to think out of the box when the pressure inside was too much for me to handle. It's these kinds of situations that actually make us who we are and know how to tackle our problems. This summer because of the pressure of the makeup exam which if I failed would mean I lost another year and the money problem; I had decided to start working already.One thing led to the other; in my gap year I used to read comics and novels so I thought why not start writing and publishing a novel online myself; I started entering contests such as this one and I also started my own comic with a collaboration with a comic artist which I hope will be published soon. Yes, I accept what is happening with me, but that doesn't mean I should give up; It only means I should try harder until I get that degree. Indeed moving to another country now after I settled here is not easy furthermore it was hard for me to be emotionally stable because as much as I wanted to travel abroad, in my first year reality hit me hard and I started missing my family and I even regretted coming to Turkey ; I was very depressed, but that all subsided now; I became more independent; I have friends who stood beside me and made me feel as if they were my second family here. As I am writing this ; it strikes me how much I've changed through these last couple of years into a mature, strong-willed woman from just an indecisive high school girl, so if someone is reading this who went through a bad experience don't worry, you're not alone and always remember it's all for your best because believe me you will flourish into something really beautiful and remember everything happens for a reason.

Self-Evaluation Exercises for Individuals Self-evaluation every once in a while may render an individual with the prospect of re-assessing oneself, as well as reflect on ones' accomplishments. It is basically a simple procedure to organize one's thought process in order to perceive, analyze and estimate ones own professional action and its consequences in order to improvise and stabilize. Though self-evaluation maybe a very overlooked term, ideally, it increases the capacity of learning among people of all ages and logically goes before any other sort of evaluations. Now the question is, how can self-evaluation be a tool for professional development? Let us take teaching effectiveness as an instance. Professional educators collect various intuitive data' on their on teaching efficacy and try to analyze their involvement while reaching out to the mass audience. Hence, self-evaluation can take on many forms and these different technique methods have found to be very successful. The students role in Self-Evaluation The perception of students' and their learning outcome is very critical to their personal and career development. If the students adapt to various method of evaluation themselves, they'll observe various outcomes from their results and will understand the level of their learning only to find out how much they're lacking or how much they need to cover the concepts in order to pass their individual assessment. From the data of these evaluation records, amusing results are noted. Sometimes, these results indicate that the students' are struggling and their learning aftermath suggests that they're themselves putting restrictions on their method of gathering knowledge. In conclusion, multiple research indicates, that students need more effective and accountable learning methodology to sustain and establish their effective learning outcomes. Approaches and Tools For Personal & Professionals Development Reflection on ones' professional and personal development is essential and enforces an individuals' improvement strategies for further development. Students seeking a higher education with certain academic needs are facing substantial challenges every now and then and need a very supportive learning environment to co-exist. Now, what are some of the human niches that might enable an individual to take measures for contemplating upon oneself while at the same evaluate factors responsible for tailoring a viable career pathway? Temperament Why do you think it would be so difficult for you to be flexible, task-oriented, self-confident in your career while at the same time boosting productivity without having to care what type offensive remarks you're getting from your colleagues? You're pouring heart and soul for your individual development, yet when you self-evaluate yourself, you still find those attributes almost impossible to achieve and you keep on thinking your job is still draining all your energy. Our temperament is an eternal psychological nature that determines how we think, feel and react. It allows us to make interaction, reflect upon the decision we make and apply the abilities we have gathered for development of self and others around us. Hence, it is necessary for us to study our own as well as others temperament type for a better understanding of everyone around us. What are the few modes of temperament? • Successful sanguine Their main strengths are- 1) They're full of confidence and do not take negative remarks. 2) They are sociable and have amazing interpersonal skills 3) They do not torture themselves with hackwork. 4) They are pro-active in any social discussions. • Assertive choleric 1) They are the most ambitious of all temperaments and goal-oriented. 2) They possess strong leadership skills and can exhibit them in projects with immense passion. 3) They are analytical, straightforward and persuasive. • Cool-headed-phlegmatic 1) They are the most special type of employees or student with immense self-control and patience. 2) They do not make any rapid decisions and have fixed habits. 3) They are good team players. • Dreamy melancholy 1) These are the introverted individuals capable of making a pragmatic decision after analytical thinking. 2) They're very shrewd, creative and classy organizer. 3) Strong problem solver. Hence, temperament is the factor which engages us on how to react, behave, think and work. If any of us or around us have any of these temperament moods, they're not an individual peculiarity but possess a psychological nature that can take them to a successful career and a happier life. Personality Insight Developing your personality and career go hand in hand. Here's how- • Your communication style with others will enable you to be in everyone's focus. • Your decision-making style will have everyone put confidence in you. • Once you create a value on your team, people will ask for your opinion as it will be highly valued. .