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Post by Sam on Aug 1, 2020 23:49:15 GMT
Oh, good, it's August already. It feels like July didn't even happen, for some reason. Weird.
While I'm not appreciative of the reminder of the inevitable passage of time, I am looking forward to fall. Summer in California is brutal for someone with a heat intolerance, so cooler weather is a relief. Plus I love the fall aesthetic and everything. Yay, fall! (Sort of, technically fall isn't until September but shhhhh.)
Anyways, here's the accountability/goals thread for the month of August. As always, this is a place for you to share any goals you might have and to give and receive encouragement in achieving them. Many people, including myself, post monthly goals, but you can post goals that are as short or long term as you want.
We're looking forward to hearing about the goals you all have!
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Post by Sam on Aug 1, 2020 23:59:47 GMT
This month is gonna be really busy for me. My summer class ends on the 11th, but I only have like a week off until my fall term A class (English, ughhhh) starts. My parents are going on vacation during my break, which would be great, except for the fact that I'll be left to take care of 3 animals (at least 2 of whom are having medical issues) in addition to myself. I have several appointments. I pushed off a shop update until September, but I need to do everything for that, including somehow finishing writing a couple of patterns with enough time left over to send them off to testers, get notes back, and get everything ready to publish them. So, yeah, I'm gonna be very busy and probably overwhelmed. My goals this month are: - Sit with my emotions. I didn't do too great about this last month but you know that feeling of being overwhelmed that I just mentioned? I need to sit with it instead of running away by daydreaming.
- Prepare for shop update. @ self: if you feel too overwhelmed to do everything, its okay to push some of the stuff off again. Only take on what you can do without causing too much damage to yourself.
- Make sure I have enough resources and am ready for my English class this fall. It's supposedly a lot of work and minimizing the stress I feel going into the class will do a lot to keep me on track this term and make sure that I'm properly balancing my life.
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Post by maggie on Aug 2, 2020 5:47:20 GMT
Hi everyone, This month will be a particularly stressful one for me (which always leads to more "MDing" for me). MD has been a significant burden at college and I hope that I can get a better handle on things before heading back. With that being said, my goals for August are: - Aim to limit my "MDing" to 30 minutes a day at most - Continue to work on losing weight this month and keeping up a healthier lifestyle - Create a plan for the upcoming semester Also I just wanted to say that finding this group has been a relief for me. I joined this group a few days ago, but I have been living with MD for a long time. It is a comfort to know that I am not alone and to see others doing well with MD. - Maggie  |
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Post by someone on Aug 2, 2020 11:54:00 GMT
This month I have to finish up classes I have incompletes for from spring, study and pass the reading portion of the driving test, complete 40 hours of community service for a city scholarship, and start this new spring semester without falling behind (or catching covid)
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Post by someone on Aug 2, 2020 18:37:33 GMT
My motivation is zilch. I have to work on this lab for chemistry; I don't want to. I don't want to at all. I'm just so not feeling it. I can't trust me to do it. I'm tired of it and all my work. This is terrible. Summer was supposed to be my time to focus on me emotionally and then physically and then trying to learn correctly and things I want to learn and then getting ahead on my next semester work and then I'll be ready for next semester. Now my summer is over in a couple weeks and I'm so so drained. I don't know how I'll keep up next semester. I'm in overdrive. Fighting not to quit work for last semester. How can I get through another semester without a break? I went a whole year now without one. I'm so at the edge of my abilities and doing anything is too hard. I don't have a choice. College is the only thing that works right now for me. I just got to trudge through it. I'm so worn out though. I'm  how I'll do this. I'm honestly nearly completely sure at the moment that whomever I talk with about this at my college wouldn't be able to help me with this. They will try, I'm sure, but it won't help. I want to do this, but I don't really want to. I don't want to start. I'll go back here later and write about whether I do it or not. To make it worse, things are distracting right now too. |
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Post by Sam on Aug 2, 2020 19:37:25 GMT
My motivation is zilch. I have to work on this lab for chemistry; I don't want to. I don't want to at all. I'm just so not feeling it. I can't trust me to do it. I'm tired of it and all my work. This is terrible. Summer was supposed to be my time to focus on me emotionally and then physically and then trying to learn correctly and things I want to learn and then getting ahead on my next semester work and then I'll be ready for next semester. Now my summer is over in a couple weeks and I'm so so drained. I don't know how I'll keep up next semester. I'm in overdrive. Fighting not to quit work for last semester. How can I get through another semester without a break? I went a whole year now without one. I'm so at the edge of my abilities and doing anything is too hard. I don't have a choice. College is the only thing that works right now for me. I just got to trudge through it. I'm so worn out though. I'm not sure how I'll do this. I'm honestly nearly completely sure at the moment that whomever I talk with about this at my college wouldn't be able to help me with this. They will try, I'm sure, but it won't help. I want to do this, but I don't really want to. I don't want to start. I'll go back here later and write about whether I do it or not. To make it worse, things are distracting right now too. Does your college have a... not a counselor exactly, idk what the right term is. Basically, I have a success coach through my college who I can talk to about trouble with motivation, access to resources like tutoring, etc. She's really helpful for me. If your college has someone like that, it might be good to reach out to them and discuss some of the problems that you're having. |
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Post by Sam on Aug 2, 2020 19:40:02 GMT
Hi everyone, This month will be a particularly stressful one for me (which always leads to more "MDing" for me). MD has been a significant burden at college and I hope that I can get a better handle on things before heading back. With that being said, my goals for August are: - Aim to limit my "MDing" to 30 minutes a day at most - Continue to work on losing weight this month and keeping up a healthier lifestyle - Create a plan for the upcoming semester Also I just wanted to say that finding this group has been a relief for me. I joined this group a few days ago, but I have been living with MD for a long time. It is a comfort to know that I am not alone and to see others doing well with MD. - Maggie <3 These are all good goals :) Remember to be kind to yourself if you go over your goal time for MD. And make sure you're replacing daydreaming with something else that's helpful (like exercising or meditating) for whatever's causing the urge, or it'll be nearly impossible to keep to the time you want. |
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Post by alvi on Aug 2, 2020 23:30:27 GMT
Its so hard to make goals when so many of the things I need to do aren't accessible right now. All my classes were cancelled and the clubs I was attending have been stopped and it doesn't look like they will be starting up again until the new year.
I need to empty out my bedroom and bathroom as much as possible so that they can be redecorated. I will sort out some things for charity and donate them once the charity shops are accepting new donations.
Exercise more. Its been so hot I haven't done much and as I haven't replaced the swimming I was doing with a new activity.
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Post by someone on Aug 2, 2020 23:36:35 GMT
My motivation is zilch. I have to work on this lab for chemistry; I don't want to. I don't want to at all. I'm just so not feeling it. I can't trust me to do it. I'm tired of it and all my work. This is terrible. Summer was supposed to be my time to focus on me emotionally and then physically and then trying to learn correctly and things I want to learn and then getting ahead on my next semester work and then I'll be ready for next semester. Now my summer is over in a couple weeks and I'm so so drained. I don't know how I'll keep up next semester. I'm in overdrive. Fighting not to quit work for last semester. How can I get through another semester without a break? I went a whole year now without one. I'm so at the edge of my abilities and doing anything is too hard. I don't have a choice. College is the only thing that works right now for me. I just got to trudge through it. I'm so worn out though. I'm how I'll do this. I'm honestly nearly completely sure at the moment that whomever I talk with about this at my college wouldn't be able to help me with this. They will try, I'm sure, but it won't help. I want to do this, but I don't really want to. I don't want to start. I'll go back here later and write about whether I do it or not. To make it worse, things are distracting right now too. Does your college have a... not a counselor exactly, idk what the right term is. Basically, I have a success coach through my college who I can talk to about trouble with motivation, access to resources like tutoring, etc. She's really helpful for me. If your college has someone like that, it might be good to reach out to them and discuss some of the problems that you're having. No. I was hoping they would have a coach like that, but they don't really. They got lots of resources, but not that. Also, I didn't get anything done on that lab. Just sat there with everything at hand and barely reading what I had to for it from time to time. |
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Post by Sam on Sept 1, 2020 3:37:48 GMT
My goals this month are: - Sit with my emotions. I didn't do too great about this last month but you know that feeling of being overwhelmed that I just mentioned? I need to sit with it instead of running away by daydreaming.
- Prepare for shop update. @ self: if you feel too overwhelmed to do everything, its okay to push some of the stuff off again. Only take on what you can do without causing too much damage to yourself.
- Make sure I have enough resources and am ready for my English class this fall. It's supposedly a lot of work and minimizing the stress I feel going into the class will do a lot to keep me on track this term and make sure that I'm properly balancing my life.
This month was really hard. I've been stressed and overwhelmed for a large portion of the month. However, I do think that I did better this month about sitting with my emotions. At the very least, I used other healthy coping skills more frequently, even if I didn't sit with my emotions. I've been so busy with my class that I haven't finished preparing for my shop update, which is supposed to be published in... like 12 hours. I'm gonna publish what I can and publish the rest later. My English class started like 2 weeks ago and that's mainly why I've been so overwhelmed and busy. But I think I'm adapting and I should have the resources I need, so that's good. |
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how I'll do this. I'm honestly nearly completely sure at the moment that whomever I talk with about this at my college wouldn't be able to help me with this. They will try, I'm sure, but it won't help. I want to do this, but I don't really want to. I don't want to start. I'll go back here later and write about whether I do it or not. To make it worse, things are distracting right now too.
