Weeks start on...well, whatever day you want them to, I suppose.

[tomakeanoffer]

I'm going to try to make a list of things I want to accomplish by next Friday. I feel like I need the structure and the reminder, probably the accountability too. We'll see how it goes.

I want to develop a writing practice again, I want to tryyyy and maybe pick up doing visual art a bit more than I have because I think part of the reason I was able to crack out a story in three days was because I was giving my brain something besides writing to do.

I'm not even going to try to write/draw every day or anything like that but if I can do something small maybe twice/three times a week, that would be awesome.

Also, I want to send small parcels/postcards for the end of the year but I'm not sure how that's going to go. I have the stuff to dos o, I just need to get myself in gear to make it happen.

Had not said anything here but I did talk about this to fullupwithfire but I'm considering either starting a kind o gratitude/positivity practice either here or in a more private place. I'm still not sure yet. I kind of want to write them down physically but I also know I'm terrible about hand writing things.

Okay, I have to star getting my shit together, so I can transfer houses for Thanksgiving tomorrow.

Comments

[shadaras]

Gratitude practices are so good and also so hard to keep going/make into true habit. Good luck!

[tomakeanoffer]

Yeah, I'm not surprised to hear that at all. I went to give it a try though, because I realized at some point that my brain was sinking deeper and deeper into the opposite of that sort of thing.

[shadaras]

:) That makes a lot of sense, and it's honestly a good way to refocus on the world.

I've generally done best at it when I have some form of external accountability and/or a specific time/day that I do it. And when I'm okay with saying something over and over again (e.g., if I were to say that I'm grateful for my cat, or that my girlfriend makes me happy, or sunlight, or flowers, or the other like five things that I often come back to -- that's okay, it's still part of the practice to say something you're grateful for even if it's the same thing), that's also a lot easier than the times when I give myself arbitrary things like 'no you need to come up with something new multiple times before defaulting back to those'.

[flybirds]

Yay for plans and everything that remind you life is beautiful and you in the world adds to that beauty, is a good thing in my book.

((Hugs you))

[tomakeanoffer]

<33333333 So much love and hearts and warmth at you.

[unhingedforest]

Sounds like a great list - good luck!

[tomakeanoffer]

Thank you, thank you!