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Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.
Here's mine.
I like those posts a lot, even though I don't always comment. Oddly, I don't feel inadequate when I read others' comments. I feel pleased for them, or sometimes inspired (if something they're doing resonates with things I could want to do). Neat.
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Date: 2008-09-22 07:08 am (UTC)On three separate days, I helped a friend inventory and pack and move stuff for the library where he works without asking for anything in return, or expecting it, and I packed almost half the boxes that were packed.
This is a big deal because I was horribly intimidated by the whole thing (unfamiliar task + unfamiliar people + unfamiliar house + get up early + Gave My Word = no love) and because I'm selfish on the best of days. But I really love this friend, and I wound up having . . . well, it's not FUN, but it was a productive and satisfying thing to do, and will benefit the library and thus my friend immensely.
I wrote a check for $70k, and did not need to change my pants afterward, nor did I have a nervous breakdown.
I finished carving a dog skull and have started on a second.
I have made several deliberately ugly display boxes for my cabinet of curiosities.
I haven't killed anyone.
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Date: 2008-09-22 07:17 am (UTC)I wrote a check for $70k, and did not need to change my pants afterward, nor did I have a nervous breakdown.
I'm fairly certain this is on Maslow's hierarchy of needs somewhere.
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Date: 2008-09-22 07:20 am (UTC)Our kitchen faucet, by the way, has started to scream. Oh my god, this house is cursed.
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Date: 2008-09-22 07:29 am (UTC)I... may be tired and loopy.
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Date: 2008-09-22 08:19 am (UTC)So instead of cringing or sinking into deadline anxiety, I sighed and opened up the other project and did that one too--fortunately it only took 45 minutes--and turned them both in early. Even better, it's for a company that's very very serious about deadlines and got really twitchy the last time I was a day late on something. Now they know that I can buckle down and get shit done. And now I know it too. I'm probably more surprised than they are.
Of course, thanks to spending the evening doing more socializing than writing, I still have a possibly massive project to do in the next twelve hours, but I'm tremendously pleased with myself for correctly time-estimating and completing every other thing on this weekend's task list.
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Date: 2008-09-23 04:20 am (UTC)