awesomeers challenge! acknowledge your accomplishments!

[alexseanchai]

In the comments to this entry, either do the following exercise or say you have done it in your own space (you can access-lock or private-lock your journal entry if you like):

List as many things as you can to illustrate what a wonderful person you are: personality traits, accomplishments, friends you've made, children you've raised, bad habits you've kicked, adversity you've overcome, anything and everything you can think of to capture the success in your life. Don't hold back!

Try to list at least fifteen things. Then bookmark the comment or entry and, anytime you're having a down day, come back and look at it, for a confidence booster.

wording for the second paragraph lifted straight from the handout for the Leadership Skills for Women class I attended today

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[alexseanchai]

1) I am good at my job: I process work faster than anybody else in the division and without a correspondingly higher error rate.

2) I have a 3.01 GPA as I progress on my bachelor's degree. This despite several fail grades and even though I'm working full-time while studying full-time.

3) I have published a short-story collection with a collaborator and a poetry-and-flash-fiction collection on my own, plus a bunch of poems and flashfic on alexconall.

4) I'm friends with the marvelous Anne, the excellent kaberett, and a whole bunch of wonderful people that it would take too long to list all the names.

5) I have written nearly 200,000 words this year.

6) I finished my first knitting project yesterday.

7) I paid off my car loan.

8) I got my associate's degree.

9) I am going to archery with the local SCA on Sunday. (I can count this as an existing accomplishment even though I haven't actually done it yet because of the anxiety level involved in contacting the shire's chatelaine beforehand.)

10) I have written a lot of fanfic that made people happy.

11) I make pretty jewelry.

12) I do a mean single crochet.

13) I write good essays.

14) I square dance well.

15) I'm getting better about asking for what I want and/or need.

hey if a mod should happen by, it won't let me delete the 'goals' tag, halp

[randomling]

Removed! I'll have a look at tag settings so that hopefully you can edit tags on your own posts.

[alexseanchai]

Thanks

[kaberett]

(1) I am writing some seriously good poetry. (I am amused by how often, at the moment, I will find myself - as ever - muttering a few lines of poetry... only to realise that the lines I've reached for are by me.)

(2) I am still alive. I have survived and survived and survived some more, and I am mostly happy and mostly as healthy as I can be, and that's kind of staggering.

(3) I listen well, and I offer solid feedback when asked.

(4) I work to build community - the Grad Talks seminar series I'm trying to set up at work, the LGBT+ libraries I've been involved with or founded, the rep work I do, vaginapagina, Dreamwidth mentoring, signalboost, flower_of_justice...

(5) I am extremely proud of the work I do to raise visibility of mental illness, and make asking for help okay, even though it's on a more one-on-one/individual level than (4).

(6) I completed my MSci on the second attempt. I got accepted to a PhD programme. I'm alive and I am mostly sane.

(7) Friendpeople <333 Specifics would be long and difficult, but -- I have worked at learning how to people and one way or another I seem to have acquired some. Thank you all. <3

(8) I can still more-or-less sing and more-or-less play the horn.

(9) I have been instrumental in supporting a whole heap of people through comings out various.

(10) I write fanfiction intermittently but well, in ways that bring people joy.

(11) I channel knowledge. I know people to ask, and I have recs for you, whether you're after books or (admittedly my own subgenres of) music or food or perfume.

(12) I am not only kind.

(13) I have two published academic papers as co-author, and I have submitted my poetry/short original fiction to a number of places, in the expectation that it will get rejected, as good practice. (And am about to submit some more!)

(14) I have had difficult and painful conversations with any number of people (including my mother) that have resulted in our better understanding one another, and being better able to be kind to one another; and I am beginning to learn when the best thing I can do is say goodbye.

(15) And really, truly an accomplishment: I can say no.

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[fyreharper]

Do you have recs/advice for becoming better at how to people? (I know that is perhaps a bit unspecific...)

[kaberett]

Hmm. I will see if I can blog a blog.

[fyreharper]

:)

[elmyraemilie]

I made a couple wee changes to this so it was more of a meme when I put it up on my journal. More difficult than I imagined it would be!

[kaberett]

Thank you for reminding me that my delight in feeding people is pretty key to understanding me as a human :-)

[lilly_c]

1. When I was 15 I became my granddad's primary carer and did a lot for him throughout his illness up to his death in 2008.

2. Moving to Scotland is one of my greatest achievements. I've lived in the North East for five years now and can't see myself leaving because I'm settled for quite possible the first time.

3. My dream job is to be a Forensic Psychologist.

4. I have dyslexia and dyspraxia. I don't see them as barriers because they don't stop me doing anything.

5. I can still write songs. I recently started again after I'd stopped for a long time.

6. I got my BA in Social Sciences in 2012. I left a business degree in 2005 and retook my A-Levels between 2006-2009. I am currently applying to do post grad in 2015.

7. I recently completed a SafeTALK course on Suicide Alertness. I will be doing a public post about this course in the next few days, there's been a lot going on this week so my time has been limited.

8. I get up at 5am everyday and go running for at least an hour. It has been part of my routine for a long time and I find that it helps my mental health as well as my psychical health

9. I have PTSD, this from child abuse and neglect. I'm still here :)

10. I am doing the Scotland Mental Health First Aid course in January. I was originally going to Edinburgh for this in November but changed it when the trainer contacted me about a session in Elgin which is closer to me in terms of travel.

11. Living with my auntie saved my life when I was growing up.

12. Although I write fanfic for myself, I know that some of my work has made other people happy.

13. Haunted is the most difficult story that I have worked on.

14. I have been vegetarian since I was 17. I first tried it when I was 5.

15. I work in the care sector and am about to start a new job with a different organisation next month. I know that I am making a difference to people's lives, even if it is only a small one.

[alexseanchai]

Impressive!

[lilly_c]

Thanks :)

[dhampyresa]

1) I'm English/French bilingual.
2) I can draw pretty well.
3) My watercolour technique is unique.
4) I've written two novel first drafts and am half-way through a third.
5) I'm not dead.
6) I'm a decent writer.
7) I like making people happy.
8) I can read roughly 1k wpm.
9) I read Lord of the Rings before I was five.
10) I've written 350k+ words in 2014 so far.
11) My brother. I'm so proud of him I could burst.
12) I know a bunch of random shit. / I'm an information sponge.
13) I swim fast and have good technique.
14) I recently asked my best friend to go to Pride with me next year.
15) I've had friends for 12+ years.

[alexseanchai]

Excellent!

[shanaqui]

1. I pay a tithe from my pay every month proportional to what I've earned.
2. I've got two degrees and a dozen Coursera certificates in all sorts of subjects.
3. I've learned coping mechanisms for my anxiety disorder so that now I'm coming off my meds.
4. I volunteer five hours of my time at the local clinic every week, plus more informal volunteering time for other places.
5. My book blog has 500+ followers.
6. I wrote fics where Steve Rogers/Captain America was asexual and people liked them, and I get semi-regular messages from people saying how good it made them feel that such a thing was out there.
7. When I can, I do my best to talk about my anxiety, my asexuality, and everything else that might be considered a minority thing, to help in normalisation and so other people know that those things are out there and they're not alone.
8. I am a really quick transcriptionist.
9. I've been in a successful, happy long distance relationship for nine years.
10. I've posted in my LJ and now my DW every. single. day. since I was thirteen. I'm twenty-five.
11. I do the shit I have to, even when I'm scared stupid.
12. One of my favourite singers told me I was the person who convinced her that people in this country do appreciate her music.
13. I actually speak French passably well for a British person, despite a teacher who made me feel like a prize idiot.
14. I have fixed my trichotillomania, nail biting and dermatophagia in the past, and I'm on my way to stomping on the dermatillomania too. With very little professional help.
15. I can translate Anglo-Saxon and Old Icelandic. Given some time to get used to it again, anyway.

[alexseanchai]

Wow!