Post by Sam on May 1, 2019 17:28:04 GMT
New accountability/goals thread, yay! I was a little behind in reminding everyone to post their final updates in the April thread, but I still want to get the thread for May created so that people can talk about their goals for this month. As always, no goal is too small or inconsequential. The point of this thread is to share any goals that you might have and to give and receive encouragement from others who are on this forum.
I've been so busy in the past few days with millions of small tasks that my brain is basically short circuiting (ie why I forgot about the April thread), so I'm going to keep my goals for this month as simple as possible.
First and foremost is definitely working on balancing my life properly. I have a predisposition for focusing on one thing and completely ignoring everything else, even when the other things are just as important as the thing that I'm focusing on. Now that I'm really trying to move into a more adult-like life, teaching myself to properly balance my life so that I get everything done without burning myself out is essential.
I want to work on creating more crochet projects. I'm in the process of building up a stock of things so that I can open an etsy store--hopefully within the next few months.
I'd like to finish revising the trigger warning lists for the English books that my ex-high school teaches. I started the project way back in September of 2018 and it would be nice to finish them before the end of their school year (I promised to have them done before the start of the next school year, but I kind of want to get them done before then so that the teachers can do whatever they need to before they share the lists with the students). I have all of the lists already created, but I still have three more to revise (I reread the book so that I can check to make sure I didn't miss anything the first time--I usually miss things).
I want to keep working on exposure therapy and mindfulness. I've been doing an exceptional job so far, and I finally feel like I might be making some progress in doing the things that I want to while still feeling the anxiety. Doing therapy activities for at least 4 hours a day is exhausting and obviously time consuming, but I think its worth it. Plus, once I get to a certain point, I should be able to lower that time because all I'll have to do is maintain the progress that I've already made. But I'm not at that point yet.
I think that's about it for real goals that I have for myself this month. As you can see, its quite a hefty undertaking. Between all of this and also trying to prepare myself to hopefully start a degree program in the fall, I'm busier than I have been in years (this is also why I haven't been online as much as usual). I'm exhausted pretty much constantly, but I hope in my heart that all of this work is going to pay off.
I'd love to hear everyone else's goals for this month. Remember, they don't have to be big like the ones I set for myself. If you do end up setting larger goals, make sure that they're ones that you're able to split up into smaller pieces. Its much easier to accomplish things when they don't seem so large and potentially unreachable.
I've been so busy in the past few days with millions of small tasks that my brain is basically short circuiting (ie why I forgot about the April thread), so I'm going to keep my goals for this month as simple as possible.
First and foremost is definitely working on balancing my life properly. I have a predisposition for focusing on one thing and completely ignoring everything else, even when the other things are just as important as the thing that I'm focusing on. Now that I'm really trying to move into a more adult-like life, teaching myself to properly balance my life so that I get everything done without burning myself out is essential.
I want to work on creating more crochet projects. I'm in the process of building up a stock of things so that I can open an etsy store--hopefully within the next few months.
I'd like to finish revising the trigger warning lists for the English books that my ex-high school teaches. I started the project way back in September of 2018 and it would be nice to finish them before the end of their school year (I promised to have them done before the start of the next school year, but I kind of want to get them done before then so that the teachers can do whatever they need to before they share the lists with the students). I have all of the lists already created, but I still have three more to revise (I reread the book so that I can check to make sure I didn't miss anything the first time--I usually miss things).
I want to keep working on exposure therapy and mindfulness. I've been doing an exceptional job so far, and I finally feel like I might be making some progress in doing the things that I want to while still feeling the anxiety. Doing therapy activities for at least 4 hours a day is exhausting and obviously time consuming, but I think its worth it. Plus, once I get to a certain point, I should be able to lower that time because all I'll have to do is maintain the progress that I've already made. But I'm not at that point yet.
I think that's about it for real goals that I have for myself this month. As you can see, its quite a hefty undertaking. Between all of this and also trying to prepare myself to hopefully start a degree program in the fall, I'm busier than I have been in years (this is also why I haven't been online as much as usual). I'm exhausted pretty much constantly, but I hope in my heart that all of this work is going to pay off.
I'd love to hear everyone else's goals for this month. Remember, they don't have to be big like the ones I set for myself. If you do end up setting larger goals, make sure that they're ones that you're able to split up into smaller pieces. Its much easier to accomplish things when they don't seem so large and potentially unreachable.
