Doesn’t have to be a big thing! For me, I just managed to handle an entire move all on my own, without help from friends or family.
I responded to someone’s call for help (assistance, not life-critical), even though I had just gone to sleep. Got up, dressed, went out into the world, and met someone to get tools to help someone who still relies on me.
Yay, me. :)
You’ll be able to carry around that warm fuzzy feeling from helping someone in need for quite a while - well done!
It’s tough not to get annoyed at those late night calls, but you’re a better person for it.
I am a program manager at a non profit that helps older adults. I have been working this morning on our annual report since fiscal just closed for 2022-23. I was astonished to see we somehow managed to serve over 500 seniors this year, a record for our small program.
It might seem like nothing, but my department has been literally me and just one part time person in the office for years. We finally got another ft help in December, and it really made a difference. I do manage several vendors that work in the field and a group of volunteers on top of that, so it’s pretty hectic. I used to be one of those people who never wanted to step into management because I love client facing work and hate the admin side of things, but I am really proud we did so much this year! We even managed to do it while losing our office space to a fire last fall, so all together we accomplished a lot. Feels good. 🥰
That’s 500 lives that have been changed for the better in an entire year. If you think about the cascading effect those 500 people have on others, you have touched countless lives!
I got a glowing review from work (I was promoted 6 months ago) by both my boss and boss’ boss. ’
I hate to admit it but it’s pretty amazing the impact on your confidence that feeling good about work can have.
I finally got myself to work on voice training exercises at home 😌
I’ve been trying to make myself handy to save money and I was able to change out my rear coils and front CV axles on my land cruiser recently. It was a huge pain in the butt and took me 3 days, but I made it. haha
I applied for a great job that I’m definitely not qualified for, and I’m through the first two rounds of interviews. I didn’t even think I’d go to the first interview purely because of my agoraphobia, so I’m proud of myself for pushing through it.
Fing imposter syndrome! Good luck!
It is not as much as others, but:
- I actually submitted something that resembles a game, though, more of a prototype, to a lisp game jam that happened a while ago
- This time I pulled off in total, 60 hours of reading, books.
- I am still studying Japanese daily
- Still alive :D
Those are all nice things, the last one in particular deserves a lot of praise!
I started processing trauma memories and working on maladaptive survival behaviors in January. Running and dissociating always seemed better for some reason.
I guess I was afraid I’d learn that I deserved abuse growing up. It turns out that it wasn’t about me at all.
Mindfulness practice has brought more agency and intention to my life. Despite this being the hardest and most painful thing I’ve done, it’s also been one of the most rewarding.
I passed my cell and molecular biology paper (which was pretty hard and mostly irrelevant to my consumer food sci degree ) and found out that the one paper I managed to pass during the year I was fucked up by SSRIs means that I’ve already met all the requirements for my minor!
Everyone in this thread, you’re doing amazing things!
After years of yearning, I finally worked up the nerve to take a pottery class! And I think I nailed my first attempt, too.
I stayed calm and didn’t retaliate when someone went crazy road rage on me 😂
That’s a massive struggle for me. I love getting angry. lol
Wrote a short story I was really happy with. I mean, I’m always writing something, but I’m usually kind of ‘meh’ about what I come up with. Every once in a while, though, I write something and I just know that it’s good, like I can feel it, and I can say to myself, ‘yeah, this is really hitting the mark.’ As a writer, I’m always chasing that feeling. It’s like a drug. So last night I wrote 2,000 words of a new 3,500 word story that just came to me, all in one shot, like a vision, and I’m so enjoying how this one is coming together.
That sounds very rewarding (coming from someone who sometimes thinks about writing, though I lack the commitment).
Are there any Lemmy communities for short stories where you can share it?
WOW! That’s a pretty big undertaking to move by yourself. I’m teaching myself a new skill to change careers, although I haven’t gotten there yet, I’m proud that I’m taking myself seriously now.
Um, well, helping with Beehaw. Many projects I’ve seen to fruition that are pretty cool like docs.beehaw.org and the demographics survey.
