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Post by Sam on Sept 1, 2019 23:38:58 GMT
Almost forgot to do this for a second, but wow I actually managed to create it on the first of the month for once. As always, this thread is a place for people to share their goals, no matter how big or small, and to receive and give encouragement to help achieve goals.
For me, my goals for the month are to get my ID finally (I have an appointment on the 5th), to finish reteaching myself chemistry, and to work on figuring out the minutiae of opening my etsy store. Which is super stressful and every time I have to think about it I feel like I'm dying, which is super fun.
We'd love to hear everyone else's goals for the month!!!
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Post by Sam on Sept 27, 2019 20:07:27 GMT
I've attended a workshop and I'm signed up for a longer course that starts in November. I've gone out a few evenings with a new friend for photography events which was nice and he actually know a lot about agoraphobia and anxiety as his ex has it. I really want to do more classes as they've been quite enjoyable and although I still zoned out a few times it was nice to meet new people and it was really interesting when I met the people with similar issues to mine. It looks like there are a lot of people out there that are struggling. My physical health is a bit of an issue at the moment and I'm so tired that it might be a little hard to do all the things I want to try. Hanaiyah post about re-connecting with others has made me think that is a really positive way forward so I also volunteered for a charity and did that for a few hours and I will look into doing that again. Maybe it would be good to start a thread on rejoining the real world for those here that are isolated and they can say what they have tried doing and if it has helped them. I'm still trying to sell things from my flat but its taking aggeeeesssss listing thing, donating things and binning things. Its seriously annoying as I just need to declutter but there is so much stuff I want to hold on to! Oh, great, you are doing a lot of things to move forward! At the moment I'm thinking a lot about isolation, too. Especially in connection with my dd. I already volunteer but it's more of an office thing, nice people but not much chance to talk. I think it would be a very good idea to start a thread on "rejoining the real world". Or, after years of dd maybe just... joining? ;-) Yeah I agree with both of you, that thread would be a good idea. I'm super busy right now but unless someone makes a thread for it before like next week or something, I'll do it (but if you want to do it yourself, you're totally free to do so, I just want to make sure it gets done :) )
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Post by alvi on Sept 27, 2019 20:14:42 GMT
Oh, great, you are doing a lot of things to move forward! At the moment I'm thinking a lot about isolation, too. Especially in connection with my dd. I already volunteer but it's more of an office thing, nice people but not much chance to talk. I think it would be a very good idea to start a thread on "rejoining the real world". Or, after years of dd maybe just... joining? ;-) What is it you do in the office? I think isolation becomes a bit of an issue for a lot of us. I think I'll see if a thread gets started anywhere regarding trying to connect more with others as I hate trying to word things, I rarely make any sense!
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Post by bee on Sept 29, 2019 11:16:14 GMT
Oh dear, month already over, time flies lately... Well, here we go:
1. I did repaint my kitchen floor and oiled the worktops. It took me a few days because I had to move all the furniture and appliances out of the kitchen on my own. But now it’s all finished and the floor looks great again.
2. I didn’t sort through my notes and journal. I tried but I came to realize that my journal isn’t as useful for this as I thought. It’s a lot of everyday stuff and that’s fine, but to work on some of my issues seems impossible. I was thinking about keeping a different journal for a more analytical approach, summarizing last days entries from my “ordinary” journal or something… But that feels wrong somehow and too much “overthinking”, I try to avoid this. But I’ve started a new approach with an ACT-Workbook, partly because I wanted to find something that works, so, not a real miss here.
3. I didn’t eat out alone. I didn’t even try. I knew this would be hard so I talked with two people about it, but it didn’t help. Well, next month maybe.
4. I did sort of half a walking tour. Not really satisfied about it, don’t know.
Thank's for the support everyone!
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Post by Sam on Oct 1, 2019 18:22:07 GMT
As a quick summary of my goals for the month (since I completely spaced on posting it yesterday), I got my ID finally, I didn't quite finish reteaching myself chemistry (I had to take a break at the beginning of the month because I got sick), and I'm slowly making progress on opening my store (I ordered checks yesterday and once they come in I can file my doing business as statement).
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