Aida Azlin | KL Meetup

Assalamualaikum everyone!

I'm excited! I can't believe I've met Aida Azlin in real life! Eeep! *fangirlingmoodon* 💙

I went to the meetup with Zahidah. She was super excited about it when I first told her about the event. To be honest, I never go to any meetup before, so I'm not sure how the meetup works.

My groupmates. 💙

So we went there, alhamdulillah on time. And all the ladies are so friendly and I can already feel the positive vibes all around the cafe when I first entered the cafe. The cafe was super nice and hommy by the way, I wish there's one near my home. It was very enjoyable, comfy, and positive vibes all around the cafe. I really love the meetup, it's actually my first time being in any meetup. I didn't know we're going to talk among each other more. I was expecting to listen to Aida more. Anyway, I super love it and I gained a lot of new knowledge, friends and positivity. It was overall a good experience.

Here is Aida, talking about how tired she was, but it's all worth it after seeing all of us. Cue "awww".

I feel like she is the same person as she is in the video. Aida is so compose, I don't know how she do it. She is so positive, friendly, compose, calm. I really admire her. I wish to be as compose and friendly like her.

Look how excited I was. At the end of the meetup, everyone was lining up to take pictures with her. I was shocked when she called my name, but then I remembered something, we all have nametags. Haha It was heart warming when she called my name. I feel so belongs. We could totally be friend! 💙

Zahidah and I with Aida. All smiley. 💙

Things I wish I could do that day : Tell Aida how much she means to me, how her works really helps me, how her Tuesday Love Letter keep me going every week, how her videos inspired me to make own videos too, how she inspired me to be the best version of myself, and to give her a warm big hug just like this auntie did. But being the typical me, I froze and just, "Hye, can I take picture with you?" 🙄

💙 SOME OF THE GEMS 💙 

These are 3 questions that were asked on that day. Basically, most of the answers are inter-related with one another. So, I just combine everything and try to simplify for better understanding.

1. How do you ensure excellence in your daily pursuit?
2. How do you maintain selfcare while toiling with the akhirat? 
3. How do you ensure self love while serving for others? 

Some of the answers shared among the girls:

🌸 Intention - Set your intention, goal and direction at the beginning of the day. We need to know what we are doing. Sincerely for Allah. Ikhlas. At the end of the day, everything you do today, is it because of Allah or for you? 

🌸 Planning - Planning your day better. Start the day with something you love. Make a to-do-list, action list or checked point. Set your priority. Have a daily goals and 6 important things to do for the day. What do you want to achieve for the day. Delegate works to other people if necessary or ask assistant from others.

🌸 Positive Affirmations - Create positive affirmations about yourself. Say it out loud and put it on paper or in phone. 

🌸 Compartmentalize - Compartmentalize or segmentize your feelings. Focus one thing at a time. When at work, focus on work. When with family, focus with family.

🌸 Reflection - Reflect everyday at the start of the day and before sleep. At the end of the day, you are still a servant of Allah. 

“Renew your intention in the beginning of the day, through out your day, and at the end of the day.”

🌸 Self love - Always put yourself first. Love yourself first. You need to love your first, before we love others. "Put the mask on yourself first, before you put to others." 

🌸 Know yourself - It's very important to know yourself. Your capability. Your body need rest. Our soul need food. 

🌸 Self care - Sometimes you neglect things and forgot what you should priotize. Be kind to yourself. Love yourselves. Be positive with your ownself.  to have positivty in yourself. Husnuzon.  It's okay to stumble. Take care of yourself physically, mentally and emotionally, but not in a selfish way. Be proud of yourself. Reward yourself.

🌸 Have a me time - Make schedule to yourself to do what you love. Set yourself as priority.

🌸 Get a strong support system - We tend to think that others know what you want. You are strong when you seek help. Love and loyal your husband. Be good friend to people. Avoid negative people.

🌸Positive people - Choose and select 5 people that will reflect you, in every aspect of your life. Surround yourself with positive people. We don't need to have an enemy, but we can avoid negative people. Be kind to others. Accept other races, make them know you. Be positive to them.

🌸 Relationship with Allah - Find one worship that connect you to Allah. Allah is so mercy. We are all different. He gives us different ways to worship. Try to do Tahajud prayer, dhuha, or read Quran at least 2 pages a day. Talk to Allah. Do the best to talk to Allah. Make Allah listen to your pain. Put aside of dunya, do not rush your solat.  No matter how busy you are.

🌸 Read - Read more. "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." 

🌸 Don't be sad - We are allowed to be sad, but don't dwell to it. There will always a better days or opportunity ahead. 

🌸 Feelings are energy - That feelings that you feel, (hated, jealousy, sadness) are energy. Use that energy to other things. The harder you try to forget, you are wasting your precious time and energy. Forgive and forget, for you.

To Aida, Ida and the rest of AA team, thank you for making this happened! I pray that we will meet again in the future and in Jannah (insyaAllah), and may Allah bless and ease your next steps.

To the rest of the girls, may Allah ease everyone's journey towards Him and make us a better person each day. May we all be reunited in Jannah (insyaAllah).

DISCLAIMER : This is not a verbatim transcript of the sharing and is just based upon my written notes and memory taken during the meetup.

May you be benefited from the gems too,

AS