Weekly sharing of Goals! Week #41 2024 (Monday 10/14/24 - Sunday 10/20/24)
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.
@decisiveBranch2794 @IchooseLife79 @cloudySummer @mytwistedsoul @KristenHR @Tinywhisper11 @CyclingThroughLife @Psalm139 @Enthenia @anonyTortoise3336 @spicyavocado3788 @neatBlueberry5213 @AmyK1234 @ivoryLakeuk @MusokeHere @seashell145
things better. We all know what it's like to run head first into an OOoops!
A Shout Out to the Tech Team.... You Can Do It! 😃🤔
@IsayUncle
Please add me
Thank you for posting such an amazing thread, buddy.
Your support and empowerment has lighten up our community.
Sending cookies and luck
@Apeatrice
It'll be the first time a long time I actually thank someone for cookies.... 🤣😁😂. Thanks for the well wishes and encouragement. You're awesome!
I hope you have a real nice day today and I will be happy to add you to the tag list.. I start a new thread every week by the yearly week number. That way it's easier to have a fresh start every week and maybe sometimes leave some of our baggage behind in the past week. 😉
I wrote a whole post about the problems that we were having with the site this week and not to get discouraged and to give the tech team our support and encouragement and the whole post is gone I don't know what happened to it.
@IsayUncle
Thanks for doing that....finding things here now is like looking for a needle in a haystack.....I miss replys and posts so much lately that sometimes I feel like I'm talking to myself....and honestly, I don't have time to sit here and scroll, navigate and "look" for what I want to find.....I am the type of guy who will stop using the site if it gets too hard or annoying for me to navigate.....I'm holding on for a change....I just hope they don't lose too many because of it....
@CyclingThroughLife
Yea I hope you saw my first notice... it's there now, just go to start of conversation to see it. We all will have to be diligent not to lose the momentum we all have going here.
I also don't have the time.
Also seeing the thread encouraged interaction... not seeing it discourages that and not being able to follow easily discourages it even furthur.
Thats why i hope we all support others so there are more supportive hits than misses it the terms of support.
Thank you so much for all your growing involvement!
@IsayUncle
My goal today (October 14)
- Finish dictation chapter 3 to 4.
- Write an paper about Students' Day.
- Math homework.
- History, 10 pages.
- Reading; Unlock book 4, page 1 - 50.
♡No relapse
♡10 minutes meditation.
♡Mentally and physically preparation for tomorrow 😭 what happens when you get a doctor appointment on your mind? I'm🫠
@Apeatrice
WOW, you are quite the Go Getter. Glad to meet you. I hope you have a great day getting all your stuff done. It looks like a strong but practical list. Good for you!
I went and looked up the unlock book. What a great series to invest your time in. 👍
Do you have a condition that is making you worry about your doctor's visit or do you just not like the doctor's visit in general?
If it's in general, don't worry about it. It's good to have someone look under the hood every now and then make sure everything is OK. And before you know it you'll be done. 😀
@Apeatrice
Only finished math and history. I'm still clean.
@Apeatrice
That's good about your math and history. I think getting in there and getting something done is awesome. I hope you get a chance to finish up the other stuff so you feel like you're on top of things. You can do it😀.
How do doctors visit go? "You're still Clean" that is wonderful, if you'd like to share more, you can. 💜
@IsayUncle
Thanks for your kind words.
Eh...it went ok. They say I'm going to be fine, but our emotions are unstable, so I may get a recheck soon...
I relapsed tho😭 hands are red and marked...
@Apeatrice
Awww, you're welcome. I'm sad to hear about your relapse. What made that happen?
You're stronger than that!
You Just have to get the timing right.
None of us are strong all day long.... Nobody is.
Save your super strong for when you need it.... Because you are.... strong enough.
Keep practicing your timing, you'll get it. 💚.
There is strength.... and then support, do you have anyone helping you with your relapses.
I was pretty tired last night so maybe I hit the X button by accident instead of the post button. I've done that before. (I think it was a well written post 😅😩)
Anyway, a shorter version of what I was trying to say yesterday.
The way things are with the sites now it's really easy to lose our posts and our replies. Please don't think that you are getting ignored or slighted if you do not get a reply to one of your posts. They are getting lost easily.
I encourage everyone this week to support each other just to be sure lost posts are getting picked up by somebody. Thank you.
Remember that we have an amazing tech team on this site and they always try to make things better. We all know we work real hard sometimes just to run straight into a Big OOooops. Let's try to have patience and tolerance and give the tech team all of our best support and thanks for all the hard work they do. 😃
@tommy Hi, i know all are working hard. thank you. (any progress? with the new layout)
So now it magically appeared..... oh please tech team ...... pleeeeease. love ya, but....🤪... going crazy.🙄
@IsayUncle 😂😂😂😂😂
@mytwistedsoul
Hi Soul, you back home? Everything OK? 🙂
@IsayUncle Yep made it back earlier today. Now playing catch up on everything I missed here lol
The back and forth with trying to find everything has given my a work out lol 🤪
@mytwistedsoul
Good, sounds like you are pretty good. There'e a time to grieve and there's a time to put things to rest. I hope this was the final stepping stone in that sad event that you had to go through this year. Always there but hopefully an ending period to the uncertainty and continuation of things. 🙂
Here at 7 cups, I don't know what to say about this format. Pay attention to the conversations you want to follow and what the original post looks like. That makes it a little easier.... They collapse everyting and you have to open each thing up.. I'm afraid there will be less activity. 😭
@IsayUncle Lol the pay attention part is what gets me 😅 I'm not sure what they were thinking with that feature tbh. Actually I'm not sure what they were thinking with any of this change and if it's a bug why don't they test this stuff out before unleashing it on us unsuspecting souls here? 😕
Nature left me a surprise yesterday! Right across the lane lol and me without a chainsaw. Think I might start carrying one. This is the second time this year 😅
@mytwistedsoul
You and I could live on the same road...... I'll post one I cut out last week. LOl... I did have my chainsaw but 1 arm..... Tourists from ecuador and michigan showed up and helped. 😀
@IsayUncle Oh wow yeah one armed would make it a lot more difficult! I'm impressed! 😄 That's pretty awesome that you got some unexpected help. Wow Ecuador! That's pretty cool too!
@IsayUncle Holy crap! 40 mile around it!? And two mile out from the house? 😮 Good thing you did have your chainsaw! It's so cool that they pitched in to help and they've got a cool story to tell when they get home. Ok I got to admit I'm a little jealous you got a river near by. That's one thing I'm missing here. You ever do any fishing?
@mytwistedsoul
I got pretty lucky buying this property. I enjoy fishing but I have not taken a minute in the past six years to do anything. Not true, I've been out a couple times (thats it) but not like what I would love to do.
I live on an amazing Creek river, ankle deep at times to 50 - 60 feet deep when on flood stages and different levels throughout the seasons.
@IsayUncle Whoa that's a pretty deep flood stage! That would be scary. But it would be so nice having that near by!
@mytwistedsoul
Sadly, I waste/lose an enormous amount of time being innefficient / depressed / unable to function that the rest of the time i have to work. I don't have it figured out yet. There is no additional time (worry free) for doing nothing productive towards a goal.
It's about the money. I'm not financially secure yet.
I'm getting there though.... then all kinds of fun stuff coming my way. The master plan. Make money showing tourists where to fish. 😉
@IsayUncle I hear you there. I've become pretty proficient at wasting a lot of time too. I used to say before I had all the motivation but no time. Now I have the time but no motivation. You'll get there and if there's anything we can do here to help all you ever have to do is say the word and we'll cheer you on
Being a fishing guide sounds awesome!
@mytwistedsoul
Thanks Man! I really appreciate everyones support. It means a lot and it helps a lot.
I don't know if this happens to you but it happens to me often.Do you go through a cycle of highs and lows? When I say low, I mean, not being able to think past or get your body to do something that's basically easy normal and you should just do it but for some reason it's the one thing that you can't do...... If that makes any sense.
That's my personal description of my own type of depression and then of course if that goes on too long, things start to fall apart and I'm in jeopardy of falling into a deep depression.
I feel fortunate that I've been through this enough that I recognize the scenario and because the low is only 1/2 of the scenario I can expect a high to come if I don't give up and go into a deep depression. (that takes a lot longer to come out of and usually with some form progress badly lost)
And it just happens in a moment. I do admit though, it's usually after I conquered a major daunting beneficial task.
I'm on the upside this morning...... wait for it....... still waiting?..... I threw a line in the lake yesterday!😀.... and no... no bites. 😂.
I'm on the upside because I fished while waiting for a friend / customer to come back from a job he was on. After talking with him, I secured an agreement of work with him until the first of the year, After that, I can get back to my own agenda again.
@IsayUncle I can't really say I have the highs unless you consider days when the anxiety is really bad lol. But I have times that it takes all I have to just get up. It's not that I want to sleep, I just want to be nothing. Let me lay and grow mold. Responsibility kicks in because there's animals that need tended to but that's all and that takes everything I got. I won't take care of myself at all. That might not be what you mean though.
@mytwistedsoul
I wish you can experience some highs.. Some people would say it's bad because it's part of that bipolar thing but I like it mostly. It's doubly discouraging though when you crash and start hitting the low. (and NO, I don't think anxiety is the same thing) I'm sorry whenever you suffer anxiety... Yuck.
I agree about the fishing line in the water, it is very soothing. But then when you get a bite, it's like woo Hoo!
By the way, know that we're here for you too so if you ever want a barking post throughout the day try to get up over the hump, hopefully someone here can say the right thing. Like you indicated, we are a little bit limited but it is nice to know that in our own way we care about each other.
I was starting to get into that same mindset, (about collecting mold) staying in bed later and later and just getting up to do the absolute necessary. It was starting to feel really comfortable and like you said just let me collect mold. It felt good but I knew it wasn't sustainable. But that's because I still have to work to pay the bills...... Maybe that's a good thing.
Anyway, I recognize that was happening and that's when I made a rule for myself to be out the door ready by 7:00 AM. It's not that I had to go to work or I was obligated to be out the door for any commitments, Just the thing to say be ready, get ready for the day. Regardless of what it may bring because it will always bring something we don't expect. And if worse comes to worse, I kicked off my shoes after the fact laid back down anyway.. But it feels really good to meet this daily challenge.
Now i have to pick it up a notch. Be out the door ready by 6:00 AM because I want to leave by 7:00 AM when I'm working.... 1 hour drive to my job. 😒.
Well, time to get at it.. Good talking with you this morning. I hope you have a pretty good day. 🙂
@IsayUncle That high helps you get things done? You feel energized with that go get 'em mind set? It would be hard though when you start to slide over to the darker side of it. Do you cycle through it often? Are there things that set it off or does it have a mind of its own?
First I need to get caught up with work again. Taking Friday off made me a week behind again. Also, I have to factor in the fact that saving anything now takes twice as long and all those in higher ranks don't care about any of that; they just want results.
Get my 6th assignment done. It's a continuation of the 5th but I think I may have to load the entire thing on another platform because Git isn't reflecting the changes I make in the code and that's sort of important.
@Enthenia
Dropping in to give you a hug (if accepted) those are tough tasks, buddy. But I believes you, you can do this.
(side note; please also remember to be gentle and take care of yourself)
Best wishes
@Apeatrice thanks. I had a horrible afternoon. Bus never showed so I checked the timetable for the next one which said another fifteen minutes. Saw one go past that was taken off the line so I started walking down to where I could get my connection. As I was walking another bus went past (could have caught it if I had waited) so I waited for my connection which also never showed. I didn't get home until an hour and a half later than normal. That threw my plans for going to the store out the window.
When I got home, I had a note on my door about a late fee that I need to pay (which was what I was going to do if I had gone to the store) and there was a large package that I was expecting but not today. I had to get the dog out of her crate because she waited longer than normal. The cat wanted attention, the dog wanted to play, I had to go to the restroom...
@Enthenia
What a bummer! 😣. I hope you manage to get everything put back together and have a much better morning. I hope you get to the store today and take care of all your stuff.
May work not be too hard and you get a chance to relax with your pets this evening. 🤗
@Enthenia
Omg. Sounds like you had a long and harsh day. Dealing with so much😔
Sending cookies and a tight hug. Hope tomorrow won't be so awful.
@Apeatrice it's par for the course. Usually deal with a lot; just not usually that bad.
Hopefully today I can get to the store.
Right now I need to make some more progress on my tasks at work...
@Enthenia
I got that, most of our days have awful and hard hit things going on. Its like we are savagers, catching glimmers even tho...
Good luck on your tasks.
Luv u
@IsayUncle
My goals today. (Oct 15)
- History, page 30 - 40.
- Unlock page 1 - 50.
- dictation.
- Raz.
- Translation VOA 1 page.
- Math.
♡No relapse
♡10 minutes meditation
☆Be honest; today I'm going see a psychologist, its tough facing the problems directly, but I am going to be honest and face it instead of running away.
@Apeatrice
Good, Good & Doubly Good! 😊😉 You got this.
About ur appt..... get it out.... get it out..... Let It Out ----- SMART Move! 😤😮💨. Be strong and easy with yourself.
I finished math and everything except Unlock and Raz.
Still, its a well performed day. But I'm going to work harder.
I have grown weary of the monotony of my own dialogue. That's not a bad thing because it's reason for change. Positive change. A picture a day to think in a happy way. 
Poor Cheerio never wants to play in any reindeer games. Any guess which is Cheerio?
@IsayUncle I'm going to guess the one sitting? They're good looking pups Uncle 😊 Thank you for sharing them here!
@mytwistedsoul
YAY You Win. 😂
@IsayUncle Woohoo! What did I win? 😁
@mytwistedsoul
The dog food bill.... It's in the mail already! 🤣😂
@IsayUncle haha! Unlucky soul😂😂😂😂
@IsayUncle 😁❤ cheerio is the brown one ❤ awwwww uncle they are soooo cute ❤
I think I clicked "replys" 100 times alone in this thread just to catch up.....
I was hoping to get back into a good workout routine today after our long weekend get away.....but the get away left me lacking in some household chores and things that need to be done....add to it the change in my son's soccer schedule and I have another week where my routine is out of wack....I can't wait until I get back to where I was in my comfortable routine......they say you don't grow in your comfort zone, but the last few weeks, I think I've done enough growing.....
I did manage a 30 min spin class.....
@CyclingThroughLife 😂😂😂😂 and how many flags have you pressed accidentally, whilst pressing reply???😂😂😂😂😂 I hope you had a great weekend away ❤
@CyclingThroughLife
Yea, I know. I'm afraid it is going to destroy this thread.
I can't keep up with it either.
My whole point of this thread was not to let pasts go unanswered....... that is so discouraging for those that are struggling.
But now they made it almost impossible to follow a conversation..... without spending hours of clicking down on reply buttons.
I've been posting this thread for almost 2 years and it was getting really friendly. I'll continue to post it but i'm afraid it will end up in the thead graveyard.... death by confusion and inadaquacy..... (Not Effort and Hope from all parties involved)
I'd like to post your comment and this reply in the forum thread. Are you ok with that?
I hope you have a good day today.
My goals today
- Raz 1 paragraph.
- Unlock 50 pages.
- dictation
- Writing; The Importance Of Sleep, abt 2000 words.
- Math
- Translation script, 1 page.
- History
- BAG (better at grammar) page 1 to 5.
- No relapse (also sign the contact proposed by therapist)
- 10 minutes meditation.
@Apeatrice
Eh...finished math and everything else, but not raz , script, meditation and unlock and grammar😅
Got so tired, falll asleep on my baby sister.
(I have to sleep and take care of her during the night, she wake up screaming twice, feel so unrested atm)
Also, therapist requires mom to sign the agreement, mom refused, saying....feel so wounded and upset, because she won't even sign the agreement of no sh and su.
@Apeatrice
Now I know why you're feeling bad.
Try not to worry about finishing everything up.. Try the rest and remember that weather at your mom a friend or a stranger, you cannot get them to think the way that you think and we want people to understand us and understand the situation as we understand it but we can not make them do that.
That is not your fault but it still hurts a lot but it's not your fault,, it's not your doing. It hurts a whole lot but remember that you are strong it's time to start showing others how strong you are. But you still need your rest especially if you're taking care of your little sister and you have this emotional load wearing out your brain and body. Just rest. No relapses, just rest, you are strong.
Reflecting for possible reasons why haven't done it ye;
- Because I spent too much time on Cups.
- I have an unsystematic schedule.
- Too many chores, baby sister, cooking, laundry, etc
@Apeatrice
You forgot #4
#4 All the above. ..... sadly, sometimes that's the truth, not enough hours in a day. Don't beat yourself up about it. We keep trying to manage it the best we can. 🤗. You're ok.
BTW... what have you not done yet?... Just a general observation or something specific?