[Short term] One thing you're proud of

[dawning_light]

In the spirit of getting things rolling, let's do a quick exercise! Because the little things we accomplish every day are crucial to our long term goals, we should be sure to acknowledge and celebrate them. It's all well and good to want to learn Chinese, but you can't get there without the day-to-day effort of learning new words and characters!

So, here's the exercise: Comment with at least one thing you did today that you're proud of. It doesn't have to be a big thing. It can be multiple things! It can be absolutely anything.

And if you can't think of something, or you didn't accomplish as much as you wanted, rather than get down on yourself try writing a sentence about what you're going to do to improve matters. If you accidentally slept in when you intended to get up early, instead of telling yourself how lazy you are, write that tomorrow you're going to put your alarm clock across the room so you have to get up in order to shut it off. Negative self-talk doesn't get things done!

Go, fight, win!

Comments

[sativa]

It's a work related thing, but I finally sat down and wrote up a unique monitoring form for a potential issue here at work (it ended up not being one, which is good! But the write-up still needs to happen so auditors know we followed up on it properly). This has been on my to do list for 3 weeks now and getting that marked off my list makes me feel great considering I have a ton of similar write-ups on the backlog I need to get to.

Once one is down, the rest should be easy enough to start finish, right?

[dawning_light]

Yay! The work TDL can get so long, I remember this well, and it always feels awesome to finally knock something off that's been on there for a while. Go you!

[thehandofwisdom]

I'm glad you got it done!

[prefacing]

Man, work stuff is always so hard for me to accomplish sometimes, so you are clearly a master! And the rest will totally be easy for you to start finish. :D

[homgsekrit]

Totally agree! Once you get started and something gets accomplished, it does get easier. At lest, it works that way for me. I feel better and accomplished, and start getting on a roll.

Keep at it!