2025 Week #1 Weekly Goal Sharing! (Monday 12/30/24 - Sunday 01/05/25)
I welcome anyone to commit to a goal here today.
But importantly, talk about getting it done..... or why it didn't happen yet.
To praise each other for our efforts and wins.
While supporting each other through trials and setbacks.
And to continue trying and not give up.
Remember:
Every Goal should be considered "Worthy".
Never belittle your achievements and be proud of yourself for your daily accomplishments!
Whether they be Complex or Simple.
Getting out of bed is a good day..... Good job I say!
Share your goals today, for support and encouragement.
WOW OH WOW! WEEK # 1...... LETS DO IT AGAIN!
There was so much I wanted to talk about this week but I cannot do it now. So many strategies I used last year, just to keep trying. So many times other people stepped in help me push through the hard times. So many failures and I did not see the many successes.
I'm starting this year with the benefit of the successes I had last year, not the failures. WEEK # 1 of 52!
@Kait @Apeatrice @decisiveBranch2794 @IchooseLife79 @cloudySummer @mytwistedsoul @KristenHR @Tinywhisper11 @CyclingThroughLife @Psalm139 @Enthenia @anonyTortoise3336 @spicyavocado3788 @neatBlueberry5213 @AmyK1234 @ivoryLakeuk @MusokeHere @seashell145
And Any Others. If you want to be added to the tag list, let me know. 😃
@IsayUncle
Hello everyone. Here is to a new year! In just a couple days we'll be into 2025 and it will be a clean slate year. I love the first day of things. First of the year, first of the month, first of the week, and first of the day. They are all opportunities for a clean slate "do over" experience. It's a new opportunity to do today or this week, etc. what I didn't try or do last time or to practice what I'm learning over time.
This year I decided to pick the word expectation.
I picked expectation this year because I want to expect more and focus on what is positive that is possible, rather than what I don't have. I have expectation of growth personally. I have expectation of growth professionally. I have expectation of growth spiritually. I have expectation of growth in my relationships. I have expectation this 2025 is going to be the best year of my life yet!
If you pick a word for the year, I'd love to hear what it is.
@KristenHR
Expectation is a good one. Being used, kind of like a visualization. Expect yourself to be there or get that done and you can do it if you can see it. I like that. Happy New Year! 😀
My word is "Continuation". Practice the continuation of all the steps that produced progress and positive results in 2024. Continue those steps and continue fine tuning the things that didn't work just right.
@IsayUncle
I like it. I love how you will refine within your continuation as well. There is so much to that.
See you next year!
Happy New Year to everyone......
"So many failures and I did not see the many successes" This is such an awesome statement......I fall into this catagory as well.....I feel as though so many of us do.....This is going to be something on the top of my list to try to remember....to see the success through the failures......
@CyclingThroughLife
I know one of your successes. You are 52 weeks closer to retiring than you were last year at this time and you made it through that. That is huge!
And I'm sure that you have other success that none of us know about. Stay strong with the things that have gone right or have gone better in spite of problems beyond our control. Stay positive, you are and you can.
This is my first post! I hope I am doing this right!🤪 My goal is to break through my fears. I am going through a bankruptcy and have so much anxiety I am frozen and can’t communicate, check my emails, call the lawyer, etc. I have 4 daughters who have all recently graduated and I’m a new emptynester. I have been a single mom, so I am dealing with burnout as well. I have many goals… do I stick with this one or write down others? Thanks for guiding this newbie!
@helloSugar3822
Hi and Welcome. We are lucky to get your first post. 😀 and you did it just right!!
You made it through 4 daughters who have graduated..... WOW A powerhouse to be sure.
Perhaps what you are going through now is a much needed burst of pressure relief. (Really sorry to hear about the bankruptcy) Do the best you can because you have to. I do not think you are new to making it through tough times because you have to. No fear, You got this.
There is no right or wrong way to list your goals here. Often, goals are entangled with othrs so it could help to talk about whatever you want. 🙂
What a great response! Thank you for your kind words from your heart! I used the Ai chat bot today, It really helped me work through some things to accomplish my goal. Thank you for this group and the encouragement!
@helloSugar3822
You are welcome. What a great idea with the chat bot. I'm really glad to hear you worked through some of your goals too. That's great.
That chat bot idea is really great. I have to fight hard to stay motivated and I use a lot of different methods because to tell you the truth, one method seems to lose it's potency after a bit. So last year I ended up rotating back and fourth through all kinds of methods just to keep going from one week to another.
About a month ago, a younger family relative turn me on to the chat bot, not for motivation but for information. Sadly, I can't get the voice activation to work. But I think it's such a good idea for motivational possibilities that I'm gonna have to try to get that voice thing working.
Thanks for sharing a great idea. I hope you have a good day today with some more forward movement. 😀
Welcome to the thread....
What is this chat bot you speak of? More info please....
For us technology challenged individuals....
@CyclingThroughLife
I think these are beta type programs that are testing AI responses. They're kind of unique because they search the entire web for your query but the responses are conversational.
There are numerous chat bot apps and I don't know which ones are better than the others. My nephew who's big into computers told me about "Chat Bot GPT"
The responses are not perfect. it's like looking stuff up on the computer but the difference is, you can continue to query down to the point that you're trying to get to. and it's done in a conversational manner.
Obviously having the ability to talk and get verbal responses is a pretty key factor. Otherwise you're just asking questions and reading answers. It's not the same, I don't think.
Sadly I'm having trouble with my voice recognition on my phone or with that program. I'm not sure. They have free versions and then advanced that ain't too much. ~ 40/yr
Am I incorrect in believing it's only the 30th? I know I can't keep the days straight half the time...
I don't have any major goals. Just try to survive each day.
@Enthenia
You're good. 🤣 😂.... It's a Happy New Years Week. You will survive, and I bet flourish in 2025. 🤗
@IsayUncle we shall see. This last day of December has been interesting. Wiped my response out (doing on mobile & hit another button which brought up a blank tab). Visited my insurance provider's website to get my doctor's:name because I figured I should do an appointment. It says I have a health condition and has guidelines from the diagnosis. But, I was never told I had any conditions. It also says I'm 55-74 which is false. Not even 50 yet and won't be for some years
Now I'm not sure if I want to call for an appointment or not. Wish I could do it online but I can't. I looked.
@Enthenia
YAAAAy, back to normal..... Just Kidding! 😏 I'm sorry for your hang ups. 🙁
Wouldn't it be better to talk to a nurse or something, not only about your appointment but about the discrepancies in your file?
Do you not like talking on the phone or talking to the doctor's office?
@IsayUncle well right now I can't find a valid phone number. One sound like a fax and the other two I found says they are no longer in service.
The information is on my insurance provider's page and that confusing enough. It's more like a broker I guess. I remember having trouble figuring it out when I was looking for a provider because the company wanted to go with cheaper services. What I had two years ago was easy to navigate through.
Not now. But, I searched the insurance page again and found a number that I didn't try (checked). I will try that. I think I just need less stress but things like trying to track down a valid phone number doesn't ease the stress
The number is valid but no one is there. Not sure if everyone went to lunch or they're closed for NYE or what. The message just says "sorry we missed you". I'll try next week I guess.
@Enthenia
That's for sure about the phone number not easing the stress. It's surprising how much these little nuisances can ramp up the stress; but try to remember it is New Year's Eve. So maybe that's it.
Also it might be a good sign for you to write down all the medical contact information that you need because it seems like these big companies try to make things so hard so they don't have to have accountability or something like that.
It's up to us as individuals to get to the bottom of things and that's just not fair to us for the time that it takes and the fact that it feels like they're doing it on purpose to get out of their responsibilities. 😩
You do go see a physical doctor right? What's his/her number? Maybe get them involved ?
Good luck and try not to stress on it too much. Now that the ball is in your court maybe you can stick with it until you get the things sorted.
@IsayUncle it's a physical location. I only considered going to an actual doctor after the incident with the dog which caused me to fall and cut my head. It looked worse than it was and one of the neighbors panicked & called the ambulance. Was stuck in the hospital for five hours and it took like three hours for someone to make an attempt to clean my neck. Then ten minutes and two staples, I was done but had to wait another hour or so to be released. Glad I had accident and hospital insurance but that experience really didn't change my opinion on the medical prof in my state.
That's why I'd been so reluctant to see a doctor. In the past, all they tell me is exercise more and eat less (which I have. Dropped at least 40lbs from when I had the last health screening for insurance to the exam I had last year.
And my current doctor basically told me to eat better and exercise more which was why the information on the insurance page surprised me.
Good thing I looked before I tried posting the response again. It gave me a false API gateway error.
The afternoon was fun. They let us go early and I thought I would bring up some reports so I wouldn't be behind today but the VPN wasn't connecting to the network drives again. Tried without to see if they maybe fixed it and didn't tell us but no such luck. As File explorer had already crashed when it couldn't bring up the folders on the network, I restarted the computer and left earlier than I should have. But, it can take at least ten minutes for the computer to restart (don't know why) and by then, it would have been time for me to go.
Got stuck waiting an hour and a half for the bus. One reason why I left when I did. The buses were on holiday schedules so I wanted to ensure that I caught it so I could go to the store that I didn't get to go to on Christmas Eve. Had to stand the entire way on the bus when it finally decided to show. One had been taken off the line. Managed to get to the store and got the dog her bones but the seasonal stuff I had wanted to get was completely gone. They had some sparkling water flavors I had wanted to get (spiced apple & the other was cranberry something) and I'd only seen them at that particular store but nothing was left aside from a seasonal coffee creamer and some seasonal pastries and pies that were in the freezer section.
I did get some groceries though and waited for the bus that had been late earlier. There was another route I could take but I figured my chances were better doing the route I took to get there. I had no idea if the second bus on the alternate route was on time or not and I could have waited at least an hour (I did the last time I tried that route).
I ended up getting home at the same time that I would have gotten home had management not let us leave early so I guess nothing was really lost.
@Enthenia
That sounded like quite the afternoon adventure. Too bad you couldn't squeeze in some of that extra workload and have that work out for you. You were able to get some extra shopping done in the same time window so that's a plus. 😀
@IsayUncle I could have done without the extensive standing...
Would have walked but it's 3.4 miles from my work. Bit far for me.
I got most of the work done yesterday but I didn't get to look at my grade for my assignment. Maybe I can get to it today.
@Enthenia
I'm glad you had someone to work help you go to the hospital get your injury taken care of. that was a doozy 🙁.
I understand what you mean about seeing a doctor just to tell you to do the same thing that you're already doing.
My goal this week...be mindful, keep a positive mindset, don't let my negative toughts take over where they don't allow me to enjoy what I have today. I don't want to worry about what is gone or what is not here yet. I just want to focust on the preset day every day
@uncertainpath122624
Negative thoughts are so destructive and I think it's impossible to get rid of them but to know that they are normal and and we can choose not to embrace them. But to choose to embrace the positive thoughts, I think is an awesome goal. I wish you the best of achievement. You can do it and you can do it consistently! 😀
What a well said goal. Stealing this one from you! Coulndn’t have said it better myself :)
@mytwstedsoul ..... Now, starting to worry about you a bit. In my thoughts and wishing you the best.
@mytwistedsoul.
It's good to see you around again my friend. You didn't see this post because I misspelled your username. Be well and stay in touch.
If you feel like sharing, what happened? Or more importantly, you OK? 😀
@IsayUncle That would be a good reason why I didn't see it lol. Eh it's nothing big or major. The holidays just hit hard and depression hit harder but I'm ok. Thank you 🙂
@mytwistedsoul - I know what you mean... it just happens sometimes and it suks but we have to go with it, until we don't. 😕
Welcome back! 😀
@IsayUncle Thanks! So what you're saying is I need an umbrella to fly? 😁
@mytwistedsoul
Yep, That.... or something stronger. 😁
@IsayUncle Drugs! Gotcha 😂😂
@mytwistedsoul
No way...snicker snicker.... a parachute! 😁 LOL.
Have a great evening! 🙂
@IsayUncle Did you know that bed sheets don't make good parachutes? Well now you do 😁 Have a good night uncle 😊
Today I will actually look at my grade. When I had to restart my computer the other day, I erased the instructions I had copied for the next as.
Haven't looked at the assignment yet. Had to create folders on my desktop for the 1st and 2nd since none of the leafs have created a 2025 folders yet (I'd do it but there are other reports aside from the one 2 do that go into that folder).
Went to pay rent and found it was a few hundred dollars more than last month (pet fee). I get it and since she's not a service dog, I have to pay it. Just wasn't expecting it. Then I had to use my card and was charged $55 for the transfer because I couldn't pay with my bank even though I did last month. All of that doesn't leave me much for other expenses.
Here I thought I was making progress...
@Enthenia
Oh No!!!!!.... Did they just all of a sudden add pet fees? That doesn't even sound hardly legal.
Is that a few hundred extra $$$$ just a once a year fee? That's a lot. It can't be every month... is it?
It is good to have a place that allows pets though. That can be very hard to find sometimes.
@IsayUncle it was more like a delayed fee. I wanted to get her listed as a service dog but I didn't have any legitimate claim. It's a one-time fee. I had to pay a fee when I had the other dog. She's legitimate now. Don't like having to pay extra a month to keep her in the apartment but they could kick me out if I didn't pay and that would be way more stressful than paying a little extra a month.
My monthly just got a lot more stressful. Have five assignments to do before the beginning of Feb., got assigned the normal monthly reports (which have names I've never seen before so I'll have to do background checks), the quarterly report and now I'll have 9 supervisors breathing down my neck wanting to know when they'll be completed. Plus the daily assignments and the two random ones I got. No more breaks or lunches for me after today.
Not fair, but all they care about is the job getting done. Also won't be healthy for me but it's all about the job...
Yet all the supervisors can take their breaks and eat...
@Enthenia
Awwww, So Sorry.... Holidays are over, everything back to push push push because now everything is behind because of the holidays and everything.
Your post I've been feeling like you're getting a little bit of a relief but now it sounds like things are gonna get back to the 'bad" normal.
@IsayUncle well I'm down to six of the monthly reports but those are the ones heavily laden with new people. Not sure how many names on the quarterly report I'll have to look up. It doesn't matter. It has to be done.
@Enthenia
That's the attitude... Get'er done! 💪. BUT i hope those last 6 aren't horrible.🤞
@IsayUncle Jersey and MI will have a lot--they always do. I will just have to see how many are brand new.
In other news, I now have to walk up to the next bus stop in the morning. Bus came and I was going to let the other person get on. Wouldn't then starts yelling at me. Had my headphones on so I don't know what he said. Bus mealy left us there. I don't like the other stop. I think it's a bit further to walk to and not well-lit (which makes a difference at 5 a.m.) but I don't have a choice.
@Enthenia
Sorry to hear that. what is misspeled word? "bus mealy left us there".... was that supposed to be (nearly or meanly) ?
Either way.... take whatever bus you want. Has this person bothered you before? You shouldn't be harrased like that.
@IsayUncle nearly. I don't like the smallish mobile keyboard.
Never seen this person before but why invite trouble? I could walk the mile up to the cross street to get the second bus but I don't like doing that because there are some extremely dark patches on the way up. Not worried so much about random people but uneven sidewalks or my visibility going to zero because of my glasses steaming up.
@Enthenia
That's smart thinking. 😉
WEEK #1 OF 2025 SUMMARY:
Week #1 was a mixed bag of accomplishments and non accomplishments. I'm finding myself to be quite fatigued and taking naps throughout the day as needed.
Week #1 was a big push towards my core balance chores and I did pretty good on all of those but I did not master them. I also made headway towards contacting some customers to keep the business hopeful. I did find time to visit a sick friend which was on my mind a lot. I also moved a lot of stuff out of my temporary tent storage to a more permanent storage building.